Pier #108 - A New Al-Powered Way to Design & Build Websites

Stefan from Ahoi.dev | The Pier #108 | July 11, 2025

Welcome to the 108th issue of The Pier. InstaWP v3 is switching from a fixed pricing model to a ‘pay as you go’ pricing model. Existing paid users can either continue using InstaWP as before or switch to the new PAYG model.

Launch: OttoKit‘s MCP server is officially live! For a limited time only, it’s completely free for everyone, including those with free accounts! Watch this video to learn how to create a Voice AI Agent with OttoKit MCP & ElevenLabs.

Early Bird: Booktics is a new WordPress booking plugin designed for service-based businesses such as salons, clinics, fitness studios and coaching services. It is also ideal for any time-based business.

Exciting: Elementor 3.30 brings Editor V4 Alpha to a whole new level, offering powerful new features such as user-defined class names. In addition, there is a new YouTube element, as well as core editing tools that have been completely overhauled for V4. You can also now save full website templates to the cloud and reuse them across all your sites.

Milestone: FireBox has now been installed on 9,000 WordPress sites.

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!

👋 Motion.page 2.3

Motion.page has introduced new user-requested features in version 2.3, currently in beta. These include undo/redo, multi-select nodes, and the implementation of the Flip and Observer plugins. Custom toggles have also been added for presentation mode and more. Watch the video for more details.

🗞️ Bites & Pieces

WordPress

FluentCommunity 1.7.7 introduces a new ‘Lesson Completed’ trigger for FluentCRM, a self-deactivation option for users, and dynamic URLs for user profiles. There is also a new course schema for public and private courses.

BetterDocs now lets you build a more secure internal knowledge base with granular user permissions and role-based document access.

SearchWP introduces new multiple results templates and a new results block.

Nexter Blocks 4.4.1 introduces two new blocks: a Glassmorphism Effects block and a Dynamic Repeater block that supports ACF and JetEngine.

ACPT 2.0.29 is now fully integrated with GenerateBlocks and introduces a new Barcode Generator field.

WP Travel Engine 6.6.0 introduces a new search bar for easy trip discovery, modern trip cards with itinerary download, and an advanced analytics add-on.

Hydra Booking 1.1.16 now allows you to import and export booking data.

Flexbox for Divi 5 is now available.

Better Loop is a new, premium plugin featuring an advanced query loop block with filters and a search function.

E-Commerce

Amasty announces that its Blog Pro extension for Magento 2 now comes with the Amasty AI Content Generator built in. This allows you to effortlessly generate titles, short texts, full posts and meta tags.

Address Autocomplete 1.6 for WooCommerce, Gravity Forms, LifterLMS and other plugins enables you to set multiple fallback values to be used if the primary value is unavailable.

Cloud Computing

GradientAI (formerly DigitalOcean’s GenAI Platform) unites all its AI products and services under one roof, including GPU-powered model training, serverless inference and production-ready agents. Now generally available!

WhatsApp Automation

Pabbly Chatflow now lets you assign credit limits to individual WhatsApp numbers.

E-Learning

Uxcel will soon be launching Product Management and AI skill tracks to help product and design teams develop their skills more quickly.

With Klasio, you can now choose the video resolution and add watermarks to protect your content.

Social Media Comment Management

Replient now supports YouTube, LinkedIn Pages and Google Reviews. This allows you to easily manage and reply to comments from multiple platforms in one place. You can use templates for comments and direct messages (DMs).

Social Media

ContentStudio now allows you to hide media thumbnails and switch to a more compact calendar view. Also new: Support for LinkedIn polls.

Project & Task Management

Kitchen releases a major update to its API, adding 48 new and extended endpoints to help you build faster, more flexible workflows and integrations. Reactions are now live in Kitchen for both agencies and clients, allowing them to react to conversation messages, internal notes and thread replies.

Viral Giveaways

Promo Amp now supports Arabic (with RTL support) and Bosnian, as well as social login. You can also use Threads for entry actions and limit giveaway entrants to business email addresses only. Entrants can now see the people they have referred in real time in the giveaway widget.

Reputation Management

EmbedMyReviews now offers enhanced support for rich snippets on widgets, enabling you to include more detailed information in the rich snippets for businesses when creating a widget. They will also include additional schema markup for the reviews loaded into the widget.

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

The following highlighted articles have been published in the last 7 days. All posts can be found on our blog.

👋 Latest Jobs

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That’s all for this week. We hope you enjoyed the 108th issue of The Pier. Until next week! Please tell your friends about The Pier if you like it.

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