Pier #114 - A Host of New Features for Creating Interactive Product Demos

Stefan from Ahoi.dev | The Pier #114 | August 22, 2025

Welcome to the 114th issue of The Pier. Elegant Themes has released WooCommerce Product Modules for Divi 5. This includes 17 of Divi’s 25 existing WooCommerce modules and provides everything you need to build custom product and category pages. The remaining cart and checkout modules will be finished over the next couple of weeks, with the public beta launch shortly afterwards.

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Milestone: ZipWP has just hit a huge milestone with 1 million users! To celebrate, they are offering up to 30% off all plans for the first time ever.

Exciting: MB Builder 5.0.0, announced in January, is now officially available for Meta Box AIO.

Wow: While it is in alpha, you can try out SureRank Pro for free. This gives you access to the Redirection Manager, the Extended Meta Templates, the HTML Sitemap and the FAQ Schema, as well as the option to exclude post types from the sitemap.

AI: Hostinger has released its new Hostinger Reach plugin on the WordPress repository, which offers AI-powered email marketing for WordPress. A free plan is available for up to 100 subscribers.

Massive: Watch Supademo‘s monthly recap video to see a whopping 15 new features introduced to the interactive product demo platform.

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!

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🗞️ Bites & Pieces

WordPress

Voxel 1.7 will focus on payments and monetization in general, with a particular focus on a new Paddle integration, membership plans and listing plans. Following two beta releases, the final launch will take place in September.

WowOptin 1.4.7 features a new ActiveCampaign integration, cookie-based display rules, and conversion tracking of third-party forms.

Jack from WP Fusion releases WP Admin Menu Cleaner, a lightweight Chrome extension that tidies up the WordPress admin menu by hiding non-core items while retaining the menu item for the current page. It’s great!

Smart Crawl will transform the way you work with Simply Static by using native WordPress functions to locate all the pages and files relevant to your WordPress website.

Groundhogg 4.2.5 introduces a new Cloudflare Turnstile integration to protect your forms. This is a replacement for Google reCAPTCHA.

With Database Reset Pro by SeedProd, you can safely reset your WordPress database to its default state while preserving your files, uploads and admin credentials. Available for free.

The free BlaBlaBlocks Tabs Block plugin enables you to effortlessly create responsive and accessible tabs.

Messaging 5.0 offers seamless LifterLMS support, a streamlined UI and shortcodes that allow you to create advanced layouts without using custom code.

Messaging 5.0 is a private messaging plugin built for LearnDash and now also for LifterLMS. It offers a streamlined UI, as well as shortcodes that enable advanced layouts without the need for custom code.

TransferForge is about to launch a new feature that will allow you to migrate your Oxygen Classic designs to Breakdance with just one click, saving you hours of rebuild time.

LaunchGuard WP is a new site readiness checker that offers automated fixes and comprehensive reporting.

Greenshift 12.1.1 adds a new YouTube Inline element.

E-Commerce & Sales CRM

SureCart 3.13.0 introduces a new ‘Sticky Purchase Button’ feature designed to boost conversions on product pages. There are also new subscription reminder settings with configurable minimum intervals between reminders to prevent excessive notifications.

AB Split Test 2.0.6 provides split testing suggestions based on conversion rate optimisation (CRO) principles to help you achieve better results and gain more insight. You can also send a screenshot of the page to CROassist for more tailored suggestions.

Woohoo 1.0.3 for Breakdance adds the following new elements to the new Account Builder: Extra navigation and extra content route. These elements handle all the custom endpoints added via third-party plugins, so if a plugin uses the correct hook to add a custom endpoint to the WooCommerce My Account navigation, it will be able to render and display it. Coming up next: Variation swatches and wishlist elements, a surprise element and demo templates. Stay tuned!

AI Music

With ElevenLabs, you can now create music for vlogs, documentaries and more simply by uploading it to the Video to Music feature (video). There is also a new Eleven Music API (video).

Figma

Angelo from Supa Palette releases Supa Design Tokens, the “ultimate Figma plugin for creating, syncing and managing design tokens” in no time.

Digital Adoption

Usetiful introduces localization for banners, enabling you to display important messages and announcements in your end users’ language. Sneak peek video: new survey editor.

User Feedback

With custom event triggers, you can now launch surveys in Userback based on the actual behaviour of users in your app.

Automation

OttoKit launches a new Google Workspace Admin integration that enables you to manage users and organizational units directly from the automation platform, eliminating the need to switch between dashboards. Another new feature is the Google Looker Studio integration.

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.

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That’s all for this week. We hope you enjoyed the 114th issue of The Pier. Until next week! Please tell your friends about The Pier if you like it.

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