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Pier #106 – A New WordPress Form Builder Plugin Is In Town
Welcome to the 106th issue of The Pier. Jack Arturo from WP Fusion has released has released on GitHub a free plugin in beta that can automatically generate posts and pages based on the 404 URL path using your preferred large language model (LLM).. It extracts the path elements and then searches your posts, pages and SEO keywords to find relevant fragments, which it feeds into either ChatGPT or Claude in order to generate a new landing page on your site in real time. To top it all off, it also generates SEO tags for Yoast SEO, Rank Math, SEOPress and AIOSEO.
Nice: ElevenLabs has announced 11AI, a new voice-first personal AI assistant that supports MCP (see X post).
Exciting: Klaviyo Omnichannel is here! It allows you to plan, launch and measure campaigns across channels, messages and times, all in one place.
Great: Publer now supports scheduling posts to X Communities.
Wow: PersonalizeWP Pro is now completely free and open source!
Last Call: The launch pricing for WP Umbrella‘s Site Protect add-on, which is powered by Patchstack, ends on 30 June.
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!
🚀 WPZOOM Forms Pro Now Available
After carefully listening to the feedback from its community of over 10,000 users of the free version, WPZOOM Forms Pro is officially here!
The first version was built around the three most requested features, including custom email notifications, AJAX form submissions and a file upload field.
To celebrate the launch, they are offering up to 30% off WPZOOM Forms Pro for the first two weeks only.
🗞️ Bites & Pieces
WordPress
In response to feedback on version 5.0, FlyingPress 5.0.3 introduces a new ‘Defer Loading’ option to delay all JavaScript for enhanced reliability. You can also delay selected scripts until user interaction, and there is now a significant reduction in CPU usage when preloading the cache.
The Performance Monitoring tab in WP Umbrella now includes Google PageSpeed scores for mobile. You can either include this data in your email reports using variables or access it via the public API. Version 2.18.3 adds LiteSpeed, WP Fastest Cache and WP Super Cache to the cache control.
Bricksforge releases a major update to the Node Editor introduced in version 3.0, which essentially enables any animation to react to custom variables created visually within the builder.
Kadence Blocks 3.5.11 introduces screen reader text styles for the Advanced Text block. This allows you to add text for screen readers that isn’t visible on your page, improving accessibility.
MB Builder 5.0.0 RC1 is now available, introducing faster saving with AJAX, a floating structure panel, and live preview for columns.
WowOptin 1.4.2 introduces AI integration with ChatGPT, Gemini and Grok for text generation.
The entire Brixies library of 700 layouts is now fully compatible with the Advanced Themer Framework (ATF). You’ll get the same clean, accessible, BEM-based structure as before, now tailored for ATF users too. You can now choose between ACSS, Core Framework or AT Framework.
Interactions for Divi 5 is a new system that allows you to create interactive elements, such as pop-ups and toggles, as well as creative scroll- and mouse-movement-based effects.
The Bricks extension for Gato GraphQL is now available.
WPML SEO 2.2.0 now makes sure that translated meta titles and descriptions stay within the recommended length for each language when using automatic translation. Now available for Yoast SEO, Rank Math and AIOSEO! It will soon be available for Slim SEO and SEOPress.
You can now find new official Etch videos on its YouTube channel. They are designed to help you get started with ease.
Like other form builder plugins, SureForms introduces admin notifications with version 1.7.3.
E-Commerce
SureCart introduces Connection Links, which offer clients a better way to connect payment gateways to the ecommerce platform (video). They are also working on four exciting features, including workflow boosters to duplicate products and prices, smarter subscription reminders, and a new order revenue-driving feature.
Easy Digital Downloads 2.13 introduces a no-login, one-click payment update feature for Recurring Payments. Also new are enhanced revenue tracking reports and a new subscriptions block for frontend management.
Orderable Free improves its receipt printing feature with the addition of an onboarding widget, live receipt previews, more editable labels, and global layout settings.
Tyche Softwares launches Flexi Archiver, which automatically archives old WooCommerce orders in the cloud. These orders remain visible to customers in the ‘My Account’ section. This tool reduces the load on your WordPress site, thereby improving performance.
Orca WP is a new collection of WooCommerce plugins developed by Rynaldo, who was a long-term employee of Automattic.
Brizy Shops is now live! It’s an easy-to-use ecommerce website builder.
Lightfunnels introduces a new COD Sheets app that syncs your orders directly to Google Sheets in real time.
WPManageNinja is working on a native Voxel and FluentAffiliate integration.
Laravel
Laravel Nightwatch is now officially released and provides insights into your application’s performance.
Server Management
Mautic is now available on xCloud, enabling you to install the open-source marketing automation tool with just one click. With xCloud 1.8.5, you can manually upload your WordPress websites using SFTP.
LMS
Klasio offers a custom-branded student mobile app that is published on both the App Store and the Google Play Store.
Screen Recordings & Screen Capturing
CleanShot X 4.8 introduces a new colour picker and editable window screenshots. It also supports horizontal scrolling capture and the WebP and HEIC file formats (video).
Social Media
Publer now supports photos with a 3:4 aspect ratio for Instagram. You can also use the real-time preview feature to see how your photos will appear once published. In related news, you can now search for and mention your LinkedIn connections, followers of your company pages, company pages by their name and vanity name.
Job Boards
Jobboardly now lets you edit subscriber emails and easily see who is subscribed to your paywall. You can also now export all your subscribers to a CSV file with one click.
Cookie Consent & Accessibility
Complianz for Shopify is now available.
WayWidget is the new name for iubenda‘s accessibility widget. You can now embed both the cookie banner and the accessibility widget with just one script.
Viral Giveaways
Promo Amp launches a new real-time leaderboard to help build trust. Participants can now see exactly how many entries they have earned, track their live chances of winning and view the top participants.
Icons
Streamline update adds 3,400 new Sharp icons across various themes, such as AI, business, project management, healthcare and travel, as well as other essential interface elements. They have added 850 icons in four styles.
Final Cut Pro
With MotionVFX’s new Ease In-N-Out collection, you can add motion to elements without having to animate them from scratch. Simply drag & drop from a selection of eye-catching effects to achieve immediate results (video).
No-Code Website Builder
Ycode now supports the LLMS.txt file, giving you greater control over how AI models such as ChatGPT and Perplexity access your website content.
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 106th issue of The Pier. Until next week! Please tell your friends about The Pier if you like it.
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