Hacker News with Generative AI: Plugins

Leaving Wordpress.org: Here's Why and What It Means for Paid Memberships Pro (paidmembershipspro.com)
On October 17, 2024 we emailed [email protected] and asked them to close the Paid Memberships Pro listing in the WordPress.org Plugins Repository. They complied.

WordPress, Plugins, Paid Memberships, Business

12 points by ceejayoz 23 days ago | 2 comments

Leaving Wordpress.org (paidmembershipspro.com)
On October 17, 2024 we emailed [email protected] and asked them to close the Paid Memberships Pro listing in the WordPress.org Plugins Repository. They complied.

WordPress, Plugins, Open Source

13 points by hooverd 24 days ago | 3 comments

Ask HN: Why does Chrome Android not support extensions/plugins? (ycombinator.com)
Chrome on Android certainly has its own code paths but it's also got shared DNA with Chrome for windows/osx both of which support plugins.

Chrome, Android, Web Browsers, Extensions, Plugins

11 points by ggm 27 days ago | 14 comments

Developers Remove Plugins from Wordpress.org Repository After ACF Controversy (wptavern.com)
Following the recent ban and ACF to Secure Custom Fields fork/takeover incident, some plugin authors have announced their decision to remove their plugins from the WordPress.org repository.

WordPress, Plugins, Open Source, Controversy

5 points by bookofjoe 34 days ago | 0 comments

Wordpress.org locks out developer of Pods, plugin similar to ACF (twitter.com)

Wordpress, Plugins, Development, Open Source

16 points by partiallypro 34 days ago | 1 comments

ActivityPub Plugin v2.0 took Mastodon federation from "good" to "amazing" (wordpress.org)
Version 2.0 takes this plugin from “good” to “amazing,” with full reply federation, which means:

Social Media, Mastodon, Plugins, Open Source, Federation

5 points by walterbell 36 days ago | 0 comments

In latest move against WP Engine, WordPress takes control of ACF plugin (techcrunch.com)
The dispute between WordPress founder Matt Mullenweg and hosting provider WP Engine continues, with Mullenweg announcing that WordPress is “forking” a plugin developed by WP Engine.

WordPress, Plugins, Business Disputes, Web Development

14 points by smsm42 38 days ago | 0 comments

ACF Plugin no longer available on WordPress.org (advancedcustomfields.com)
We were saddened and appalled by Matt Mullenweg’s actions this morning appropriating the Advanced Custom Fields plugin that our ACF team has been actively developing for the WordPress community since 2011.

WordPress, Plugins, Open Source, Controversy

221 points by michaelcampbell 39 days ago | 142 comments

Good Plugins send C&D to WP.com (twitter.com)

WordPress, Plugins, Legal Disputes

3 points by marconey 39 days ago | 2 comments

WordPress.org's latest move involves taking control of a WP Engine plugin (theverge.com)
WordPress.org has taken over a popular WP Engine plugin in order “to remove commercial upsells and fix a security problem,” WordPress cofounder and Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg announced today.

WordPress, Plugins, Security, Open Source

273 points by lsaferite 39 days ago | 208 comments

The ACF plugin on the WordPress directory has been taken over by WordPress.org (twitter.com)

WordPress, Plugins, Security

409 points by endtwist 40 days ago | 224 comments

Secure Custom Fields (wordpress.org)
On behalf of the WordPress security team, I am announcing that we are invoking point 18 of the plugin directory guidelines and are forking Advanced Custom Fields (ACF) into a new plugin, Secure Custom Fields. SCF has been updated to remove commercial upsells and fix a security problem.

WordPress, Security, Plugins

14 points by markx2 40 days ago | 4 comments

"Please consider my plugins hosted on wordpress.org to be abandoned." (twitter.com)

WordPress, Plugins, Open Source, Software

25 points by forgingahead 42 days ago | 4 comments

WPGraphQL Becomes a Canonical Plugin: My Move to Automattic (wpgraphql.com)

WordPress, Web Development, Open Source, Plugins

27 points by markx2 45 days ago | 1 comments

WordPress Plugin Mirror Downloader (Proof of Concept) (github.com/centminmod)
This commit does not belong to any branch on this repository, and may belong to a fork outside of the repository.

WordPress, Plugins, Open Source, Software

83 points by rob 47 days ago | 39 comments

DJP: A Plugin System for Django (simonwillison.net)
DJP is a new plugin mechanism for Django, built on top of Pluggy. I announced the first version of DJP during my talk yesterday at DjangoCon US 2024, How to design and implement extensible software with plugins. I’ll post a full write-up of that talk once the video becomes available—this post describes DJP and how to use what I’ve built so far.

Django, Plugins, Software Development, Open Source

16 points by Ch00k 56 days ago | 2 comments

Automattic blocks WordPress plugin repository on WP Engine-hosted websites (reddit.com)

WordPress, Web Development, Security, Plugins

6 points by rob 56 days ago | 0 comments

Malware infiltrates Pidgin messenger's official plugin repository (bleepingcomputer.com)

Malware, Security, Messaging, Software, Plugins

174 points by mikece 86 days ago | 34 comments

Avante.nvim: Use Your Neovim Like Using Cursor AI IDE (github.com/yetone)

Neovim, Programming, Software, AI, Plugins

300 points by simonpure 87 days ago | 87 comments

Gato GraphQL: Released v4.1 with better integration with Polylang (WordPress) (gatographql.com)