Pier #105 - SureDash 1.0.0 Is Finally Here, With A Fresh New Look

Stefan from Ahoi.dev | The Pier #105 | June 20, 2025

Welcome to the 105th issue of The Pier. MagicChecklists 2.0 Beta 2 is now available, featuring a brand new UI and codebase. New features include a Tour Creator, Publisher Checklists, a MagicChecklists Dashboard widget, an item locking mechanism, and checklist analytics. The price will increase one week after the release of version 2.0!

Launch: SureCart has launched its new Agency Partner Program! Watch the launch event replay for more details.

Great: We asked for this integration, and now it’s here! Promo Amp now integrates with MailerLite, allowing you to grow email lists via viral giveaways.

Milestone: FluentCommunity now powers more than 5,000 online communities in WordPress.

Premiere: The first offical Etch training video walks you through its modular UI.

Milestone: Since its launch, WP Umbrella‘s Site Protect has blocked over 144,000 attacks. These were real attacks that were stopped before they could affect WordPress sites like yours.

Acquisition: Figma acquires Payload, the open-source Next.js headless CMS.

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!

👋 Meet SureDash 1.0.0

The wait is finally over! Adam from SureDash has just announced the release of version 1.0.0 of the WordPress community plugin. This new version comes with a completely revamped admin dashboard with a better UI/UX, onboarding screens, a new ‘SureDash user’ role and a new ‘Feeds’ community setting to showcase your latest posts.

They have also improved the SureMembers integration, among other things.

🗞️ Bites & Pieces

WordPress

WPML launches PTC (Private Translation Cloud), a Better Than Human AI translation service for WordPress themes and plugins as well as software and apps. It reads PO and POT files directly from your GitLab, GitHub or Bitbucket repository and provides MO and JSON files for your backend and frontend.

SEOPress 8.9 integrates a new AI chatbot directly into the settings pages of the Pro version to provide faster support. Google User Consent Mode v2 now also works with Microsoft Clarity and Admin Columns Pro 7.0 will include direct integration with the SEO plugin.

Business Hours Indicator 3.4 adds four new Gutenberg blocks, including Opening Hours Overview, Opening Hours Indicator, Show Only When Open and Show Only When Closed.

Phox Elements 3.9.0 introduces three new elements for Breakdance: CTA Box, Hotspot Links, and Sliding Mobile Menu.

Perfmatters 2.4.6 introduces an advanced preload feature that enables Cloudflare Early Hints for Perfmatters preloads. It also provides controls that allow you to limit the file types for which early hint link headers are sent. Also new is the delay JS quick exclusion feature for SureCart.

Tutor LMS releases a new Import/Export toolkit, which makes it easy to transfer data between WordPress sites powered by Tutor LMS. This is useful for site migrations, creating reliable course backups, and resetting sites. The toolkit supports courses, lessons, quizzes, assignments, course bundles, global Tutor LMS settings, media files, and more.

Groundhogg 4.2 enables you to customize the appearance of the default blocks in the email editor and add custom CSS.

Elegant Themes introduces relative colours and HSL for Divi 5.

E-Commerce

SureBricks is a new SureCart add-on for Bricks, introducing new elements and interactions, as well as a styler for SureCart elements.

Recipe Card Blocks releases a new WooCommerce integration that will allow your users to purchase recipe ingredients in your online store. This feature is called ‘Shoppable Recipes’ and is available with the Business plan. Are you ready to turn your recipes into mini stores?

Laravel

Filament v4 Beta – A feature overview.

GuacPanel is a new opinionated Laravel starter kit, built using Vue.js, Inertia.js, and Tailwind CSS. It includes authentication, admin dashboard, and essential features for building modern web applications.

Server Management

xCloud now integrates with pCloud, meaning you can seamlessly connect your pCloud storage. pCloud joins a growing list of supported storage providers on xCloud, including AWS, Google Drive, DigitalOcean Spaces, Hetzner and Backblaze. Also new: Korean language support.

Design Tools

VistaCreate introduces a new AI Object Remover. Simply brush away the clutter, click ‘Remove’, and let the AI take care of the rest, while preserving your layout and style!

Community SaaS

Heartbeat announces upcoming event ticketing features, as well as white-label iOS and Android apps (video).

Link Management

Replug offers a free dot link domain for a full year to all users of its paid plans.

Screen Recordings

Screen Studio 3.4.0 introduces background audio to projects, as well as macOS Tahoe wallpapers.

WhatsApp Automation

With Pabbly Chatflow, you can now use authentication templates to verify users before sharing sensitive content. You can also send secure login or registration prompts and enable OTP-like validation on WhatsApp.

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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That’s all for this week. We hope you enjoyed the 105th issue of The Pier. Until next week! Please tell your friends about The Pier if you like it.

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