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Pier #103 – FluentCart & Klasio’s AI-Powered LMS Make Their Debut
Plan Change: The free Patchstack Personal (formerly Community) plan now covers up to three websites, while the new Developer plan starts from 25 protected sites for $79 per month.
New: The Cypher is a new community for Breakdance users, offering co-working spaces, Q&As, and a comprehensive learning system.
New UI/UX: The EmbedMyReviews team has been working behind the scenes on a complete redesign of the online reputation platform, including your agency dashboard and your clients’ experience – and it’s nearly ready. Stay tuned!
Exciting: Next Bricks 2.0 is now available in beta. This version comes with lots of new elements, including arrow buttons, image reveals and interactive lines.
Here is a selection of the latest and greatest blog posts we published this week on Ahoi.dev. You will also find some interesting industry news, the latest directory listings on The Port, job openings, and deals. Enjoy!
👋 Tutorial: Collapsible Sections
JetSloth has released a new tutorial for the Collapsible Sections add-on for Gravity Forms. You can now easily add user-displayed completion tracking. The script monitors each collapsible section, checking whether the fields within it have a value. Once a section is complete, it is marked as such with a visual indicator.
🗞️ Bites & Pieces
WordPress
Blocksy 2.1.0 introduces support for the Newsletter Subscribe tool in EmailOctopus.
In version 3.16.0, Stackable adds support for WP Interactions and Theme.json. Additionally, the video pop-up block now outputs video schema.
Ally, Elementor‘s accessibility plugin, adds new customization options, including widget corner radius control, a custom accessibility icon and widget activation from anywhere in Elementor or Gutenberg. Coming soon: A new accessibility scanner!
Elementor introduces Cloud Templates, your personal design library. Save any section, container or full page once and access it from any of your Pro sites.
Speaking of which, Tutor LMS 3.6.0 introduces a new Droip integration, giving you complete visual control over your LMS site. You can design core pages such as course details pages, listings, course bundles, instructor profiles and more. In addition, you can now also import and export online courses.
WebPress Solutions releases a new BuddyBoss Marketplace plugin that adds a Facebook-style marketplace to your BuddyBoss groups.
FluentCommunity 1.7.0 enhances online courses by adding quizzes, making them more engaging and interactive.
Droip introduces new visibility conditions, enabling you to create personalized, user-focused experiences. For example, you could show an exclusive deal to users who signed up during a special promotional campaign.
WP Grid Builder 2.2.0 is now compatible with the GenerateBlocks Query block.
WowOptin 1.4.0 introduces an A/B testing feature that allows you to determine which opt-in version is more effective.
Newsletter Glue 3.2.0 adds a new offset feature to the Latest Posts block.
Fluent Forms 6.0.4 adds a new frontend entry view, enabling form submitters and admins to access a submission page via a unique, hash-based URL.
FluentBoards 1.65 introduces pinned boards and direct task creation from image drops or pastes, among other features.
Nectarblocks 2.1 introduces the ability to create off-canvas menus directly within the page builder using its template system. Also new: Drafted, a modern journal template designed for writers, thinkers, and storytellers.
Mike from OllieWP launches a comprehensive 150+ video course on modern WordPress theme development. Meet the Ollie Theme Academy, the new home of Frank Klein’s block theme development course.
E-Commerce
ThriveCart now allows you to filter sales reports data on top sellers, refunds, and coupons by time period.
Hydra Booking announces that it will soon be offering unified booking availability for hosts, as well as a new SureCart integration.
Web & Mobile Development
Filament is now running natively on mobile.
LaravelDaily introduces a new Blade-only starter kit designed for Laravel 12 applications.
Referral Marketing
Viral Loops now offers Stripe Conversion Tracking, which allows you to automatically track purchases and only trigger rewards after a referred customer has made a payment via Stripe — and all without any coding required!
Pabbly Chatflow now supports WhatsApp web forms, making it easy to collect data such as names and order IDs.
Digital Signage
Juuno releases Zones in beta. You can now split your screen to run different content in different areas. For example, you could show a leaderboard on one side and a promotional video on the other. Or combine a welcome message with a social wall.
Email Marketing
Mailcoach introduces permissions, allowing you to choose which team members can access which lists and related email campaigns and automations.
Social Media
With Nuelink, you can now connect your Instagram account directly to the social media management platform, bypassing the need to link it to a Facebook page first.
Virtual Events
HeySummit now enables you to showcase brand logos directly within your event schedule and discussion pages. For instance, you can feature a company-presented workshop or a branded session.
Audio & Video Editing
Descript rebuilds the timeline, replacing the scene rail with scene thumbnails in both the timeline and the script editor. Markers are now clearer, and it is easier to split scenes, add empty scenes, edit transitions, work with layers, and work with scriptless media. In addition, the new screen recorder is now out of beta.
Final Cut Pro
DesignStudio now includes over 100 top-quality video templates from MotionVFX.
Screen Recording
Screen Studio 3.3.0 introduces mouse click sound effects. Say goodbye to manual shuffling in post production with SFX sounds.
AI Voices
ElevenLabs introduces Eleven v3 in alpha, its most expressive model yet, offering emotional depth and rich delivery.
From the Editor: Biff.codes
We’ve launched a new side project called Biff.codes, a free job board for WordPress developers and more. Find out why Biff can get paid in burgers. 🍔
🚨 Latest Posts
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