Pier #122 - The Wait Is Over: The Launch of FluentCart Brings Next-Level E-Commerce to WordPress

Stefan from Ahoi.dev | The Pier #122 | October 17, 2025

Welcome to the 122nd issue of The Pier. This week, CodingBunny has released its free LLMs Generator plugin, which automatically creates an llms.txt file in the root directory of your WordPress site. This file helps AI crawlers to discover, understand and enhance your content.

Exciting: FlowMattic now offers full integration with FluentCart, providing 92 automation points. Connect your FluentCart store to 350+ apps using 49 triggers and 43 actions, including the new License Management suite.

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Launch I: Created by the team behind Ycode and Partnero, Outchat enables creators and professionals to launch their own branded AI chatbots, trained using their own content. You can customzse your AI using your files, text or website to fit your brand and earn money through monthly subscriptions.

Launch II: BreakColorUI is a new design system for Breakdance and Oxygen 6. It allows you to generate CSS variables, colour palettes, fluid typography and responsive spacing.

Launch III: Soflyy has launched a new product line called Elevated Extensions, offering world-class WordPress and WooCommerce extensions that focus on simplicity.

Tutorial: Learn how to add a liquid glass effect (video) to your WordPress website using Elementor and Spectra.

Tutorial: Learn how to make your online courses more profitable with Tutor LMS memberships. By the way, they are also offering membership trials. Watch this video to find out more.

Price Increase: Directify has announced that prices for its no-code directory builder will double on 31 October. However, existing customers will be grandfathered into today’s prices for as long as they remain subscribed.

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!

👋 Say Hello to FluentCart + LTD

A New Era of WordPress E-Commerce ©FluentCart

FluentCart, the highly anticipated WordPress e-commerce plugin from WPManageNinja, has officially launched this week, delivering a fast, lightweight, and scalable solution for online stores.

Designed to simplify selling physical, digital, and subscription products, FluentCart combines a lightning-fast checkout experience with robust features like multi-currency support, integrated payment gateways, and seamless inventory management – all without the need for multiple extensions.

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With built-in analytics and full integration with popular WPManageNinja tools like FluentCRM and Fluent Forms, it empowers entrepreneurs and businesses to efficiently manage sales and marketing in one platform. This launch marks a new era in WordPress e-commerce by offering a user-friendly, high-performance alternative to traditional plugins and solutions, optimized to grow with any business.

FluentCart is now available to help creators take their online stores to the next level with unmatched speed and flexibility. Watch the launch party replay!

🗞️ Bites & Pieces

WordPress

SureForms releases native integrations (video), while the highly anticipated Events feature is now available for SureDash. With the new Events Space feature, you can now easily organize and manage events for your community.

Kadence Blocks Pro and Kadence Theme Pro now support Dynamic Infinite Scroll with full post content, providing a smoother and more engaging experience for blogs, news sites and any other content-heavy pages.

You can now purchase domains directly inside ZipWP and instantly connect them to your WordPress site. Incidentally, every ZipWP Cloud plan now comes with a free .com domain.

EventKoi Lite is now available in the WordPress repository. First featured in The Pier #113, it is a modern, performance-first WordPress events calendar plugin.

Stackable 3.19 introduces new Full Page Templates, a Design System Style Guide and Interactive Onboarding Tours.

Ollie Pro Extensions is a new suite of eight powerful enhancements that will take your WordPress blocks to the next level. These include Advanced Grid Controls, Animation Designer, Button Icons and Advanced Group Controls. Shortly after Ollie Menu Designer is published on the WordPress repository (see The Pier #120), it may be added to the WordPress core.

With Droip 2.4.2, you can copy, paste and reuse element interactions anywhere on your website – whether that’s sections, components or pages.

WowOptin 1.4.12 introduces the ability to reset the statistics for any opt-in.

Tutor LMS Migration Tool 2.4.0 allows you to migrate all your essential WooCommerce data, including orders, subscriptions and coupons, directly to Tutor LMS Native eCommerce with just one click.

Multicollab 5.1 introduces Instant Comment Sync and Live Activity Alerts, as well as Guest Mode Control, which allows you to decide who can join your collaboration boards.

LoginPress has become an official LifterLMS partner, helping online course creators to enhance the login experience for their students with ease. Version 6.0 introduces a new React-based admin interface, additional background options, a limit on concurrent logins, a LifterLMS redirects tab and Microsoft tenant ID support.

Beaver Builder 2.10 introduces Components (dynamic global templates), Cloud integration, 60+ new Box module templates, a Star Rating module, major accessibility enhancements and more efficient workflows.

E-Commerce

SureCart introduces two new reports to its e-commerce platform for WordPress to help you better understand your revenue: The Booked Sales report shows how much revenue has been booked each month, whether from one-off purchases, subscriptions or instalments. This shows all new revenue, even if payment hasn’t been received yet. The Customers with Purchases report is useful when customers switch between pricing options, such as moving from a subscription to a one-off purchase. It gives you a clear view of how customer behaviour is changing.

FluentCart 1.2.1 adds support for custom fields plugins for products, as well as a terms & conditions checkbox to the checkout page.

WowShipping 1.0.5 introduces live rate support for Sendle and Australia Post in beta, along with a new ZIP/postcode condition.

Swell announces that Storefronts V2 is now available (but still in beta).

Managed WordPress Hosting

Rocket dot net introduces a completely redesigned control panel and framework featuring a new dark mode, improved WAF reporting, global search and a task management system. All manually created backups are now stored in S3-compatible storage. Next: Multi-account management, site cloning and self-service Redis and Object Cache Pro.

CRO

Claspo introduces a new ‘Slot Machine’ component that allows you to boost engagement and conversions by offering interactive rewards.

Emails

Postcards launches a new Gmail app, which allows you to access beautifully designed email templates instantly, customize them on the go and send polished emails without ever leaving your inbox. Postcards now also connects directly with Outlook Web, making it easier than ever to export, manage and send your email designs with just a few clicks.

Directory Builder

Directify introduces two new directory templates: The Aurora template is ideal for tech directories, SaaS listings, startup hubs and modern business directories, while the Stellar template is perfect for professional services, consultant directories, local business listings and resource hubs.

Social Media

The new ContentStudio MCP allows you to plan, generate and schedule social posts without leaving your AI workspace (video).

LMS / E-Learning

In Uxcel’s new Building Content Design Systems online course, you will learn how to make your content more structured, clear and scalable by turning scattered copy into a cohesive system that supports your entire product ecosystem.

Virtual Events

HeySummit introduces greater control with talk-level interactive settings. You can now enable or disable chat, Q&A and polling for individual talks independently of the event-level settings.

Digital Signage

Juuno‘s new ‘Days of the World’ app displays one fascinating, fun or meaningful fact every day, ranging from global holidays to bizarre and wonderful events from around the world.

Final Cut Pro

MotionVFX announces the release of mUpscalerAI, an AI-powered video upscaler that will soon be joining CineStudio, making your footage sharper than ever. Join the waiting list! New in DesignStudio Professional: mMessage 3 provides 70+ expertly animated UI elements from iOS, Instagram, ChatGPT, YouTube and more.

Testimonial Collection

Feedspace now allows you to import Reddit comments and posts, as well as YouTube videos. The review form supports 11 languages, and you can now ask users to leave a review on other platforms using the Thank You screen. Breakdance is now supported as well.

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. 🍔

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