Pier #112 - Self-Hosted Social Media Management Now With GBP Support

Stefan from Ahoi.dev | The Pier #112 | August 8, 2025

Welcome to the 112th issue of The Pier. This week, ZipWP has introduced new managed WordPress hosting plans, allowing you to easily build and host your WordPress sites. These plans come with free SSL, automated backups, staging sites and an AI-powered website builder.

Exciting: Mixpost Pro 4.0.0 finally supports Google Business Profile and three URL shorteners, including Bitly, YOURLS and Shlink. It also now integrates with Pexels and Adobe Express. In related news, Mixpost Enterprise 5.0.0 now supports the Dutch language and the VAT field in Stripe payments.

Must-see: Kevin from Etch: ‘Is this the end of custom block development in WordPress?’ Find out in this video.

New: Creative Themes has released its latest Blocksy starter site, Web Studio. Designed for agencies, creative professionals and digital studios looking to make a bold entrance, it features a modern dark aesthetic with subtle colour accents. It has everything you need to present your services professionally.

Acquisition: SE Ranking acquires Planable!

Acquisition: Publer has acquired Tweet Shot, the #1 screenshot tool on X! It will continue to work as it does now: free of charge and independently of the social media management platform.

New Arrival: We would also like to welcome Independent Analytics to The Port.

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!

👋 Attention, Food Bloggers!

Recipe Card Blocks Pro 6.0 not only comes with a major redesign of the settings page, but also introduces a global colour system that can be used across all recipe cards. There is also a new global recipe template and Grow.me button integration for saving recipes, as well as new colour options for ‘Jump to Recipe’ buttons.

🗞️ Bites & Pieces

WordPress

Stackable 3.18.0 introduces Global Block Styles, allowing you to reuse block styles across your entire site.

SureForms 1.10.0 now allows you to create posts, pages, products or any other custom post type (CPT), such as job or real estate listings, event listings and blog posts, directly from form submissions.

FluentCRM 2.9.65 now enables you to export and import tags, and allows recipients to edit custom fields in email preference forms.

The alpha version of SureRank Pro will soon be released. It is a more powerful version of the plugin designed for users who want advanced SEO tools without the complexity.

Hostinger launches Kodee, an AI site manager that enables you to manage and grow your WordPress website — including WooCommerce stores — using natural language.

Tutor LMS 3.7.1 allows you to import existing course content directly into the Content Bank (see The Pier #110). You can now also add or remove courses from a bundle at any time, and cancelled subscriptions will remain active until the end of the billing period.

New free Slider and Gallery blocks: BlaBlaBlocks Slider Block and Image Gallery by GalleryBerg.

WP Timetics adds a new Buffer Time feature.

Droip introduces Comments to make teamwork easier and Versions to allow you to jump back to any page instance (video).

Winden 2.8.0 Beta is compatible with Bricks 2.0 (including its components) and Oxygen 6 (including its templates, header, footer and code blocks).

With Filter AI, you can now generate custom images using simple prompts. Also new are dynamic alt text updates.

Logify is a new, free real-time WordPress activity logging plugin that enhances your website’s security. It provides detailed, real-time logs of all key activities on your site.

Aggregator 5.0 is finally here, offering a new interface and streamlined workflows that make content aggregation simpler and smarter than ever before.

E-Commerce & Sales CRM

StoreRadar by FunnelKit is out of beta (see The Pier #96). The new analytics solution for WooCommerce provides insights into sales trends and repeat orders, product-level conversion rates, subscription analytics, geographic and UTM breakdowns, and order journeys and attribution. It’s an an alternative to Metorik.

Product Input Fields Pro for WooCommerce 2.15.0 adds new conditional logic support, enabling you to show or hide input fields based on the products, categories, tags or variations selected, or even the values of other fields.

No-Code Website Builder

With full support for decoration properties, Framer‘s redesigned Link Styles give you complete control over how your links look and behave. Also new is support for Claude 4.0 in Workshop.

Events

HeySummit releases a new integration with Campaign Monitor. When someone registers for your event, their details are automatically synced with the email marketing platform. This makes it easier to segment, engage with and follow up with your audience. Also new: Support for conditional ticket availability.

Product Demos

With Supademo‘s automatic source parameter tracking, you can now track where your product demo viewers are coming from. In addition, you can set your showcases to play demos automatically, which is perfect for trade shows or conferences where you want continuous playback. Finally, you can also embed product demos directly in your Intercom knowledge base.

Customer Experience

Formbricks launches Personal Links to help you track responses to your surveys. Each contact can receive a unique link that can only be used once and attaches the response to the relevant contact in your contact list. You can also set an expiry date to control how long the personal link stays active for.

Laravel

Laravel Idea is now free for PhpStorm users.

Caleb Porzio presents Livewire 4 at Laracon US 2025.

Social Media Content

Giststack now integrates with Straico for AI processing and the generation of social posts and images.

Customer Support

LiveAgent introduces a new spoofing protection mechanism that flags suspicious emails. This feature raises awareness of potentially fraudulent emails by informing agents that the sender cannot be verified by the SPF record.

Project Management

Kitchen.co releases a facelift of its Milestones feature. Tasks under each milestone are organized and display all key details, and you can open any task directly from the milestone view. You can also share a single milestone with clients (video).

Server Management

xCloud now offers a new option that allows you to customize and whitelist rules in the 7G and 8G Web Application Firewalls (WAF) directly within the platform.

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 112th issue of The Pier. Until next week! Please tell your friends about The Pier if you like it.

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