Pier #123 - Could This Be The CRM You've Been Waiting For? Sure Thing!

Stefan from Ahoi.dev | The Pier #123 | October 24, 2025

Welcome to the 123rd issue of The Pier. Adam from SureCart, OttoKit and SureMembers has left last week with a bang! Customers and users have continually suggested that a CRM would be a useful addition to the Sure family of products. Guess what? They’re currently developing an email marketing tool that will pull everything together. Whether it will be called SureCRM remains to be seen. It will have the same familiar interface for centrally managing your separate workspaces and inviting clients/teams to them. They will probably invite some beta testers at the end of the year.

Exciting: Themeisle has opened the presale of Fresh Rank, which uses AI-assisted content optimization to automatically find, analyze and update underperforming articles on your WordPress site.

Beta: Divi 5 has entered the public beta phase, meaning that sites can finally migrate all their legacy Divi 4 modules to the new system. Divi 5 is now available for both new and existing WordPress sites.

Soon: SureRank Pro is almost ready. The new Beta 2 introduces five new advanced schemas: Book, Claim Review, Job Posting, Recipe and Service.

New: StackWC has launched Quick Buy Now Button for WooCommerce, which allows your customers to skip the cart and go straight to the checkout. You can even redirect them to Amazon, eBay or any other custom URL.

Great: Voxel has announced that 2FA integration will be available soon.

Walkthrough: Free 90-minute master class on components in Etch.

Tutorial: Learn how to build an employee training platform using Tutor LMS.

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 BFCM deals. Enjoy!

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🗞️ Bites & Pieces

WordPress

Etch 1.0.0 Alpha-5 adds support for JetEngine Options Page and Term & User.

Novashare 1.6.3 adds new AI share buttons for Claude and Google AI.

Eventin Free 4.0.44 now offers free access to the Template Builder, enabling you to customize your event landing pages with custom layouts and blocks — no coding necessary (video)!

FlowMattic has added 12 new AI-focused integrations, expanding its library to over 350 integrations in total. Designed to help you automate complex tasks involving content creation, voice and audio generation (via ElevenLabs and Murf AI), image and video generation, and intelligent data processing, these tools are a valuable addition to any workflow.

Perfmatters 2.5.2 adds a delay JS quick exclusion for GenerateBlocks Pro.

wpRigel launches Pollify, which allows you to create engaging polls with Gutenberg. Features include unlimited polls, customisable designs, real-time analytics, multi-vote options and poll scheduling.

FanCoolo WP is a new plugin from DPlugins that enables you to create native Gutenberg blocks without having to learn React. An alternative to Blockstudio.

Motion.page 2.5 adds animation presets for animation nodes, offering 70+ premade presets across multiple categories, such as entrances & text reveals.

Simply Static completely overhauls its multisite integration by introducing a new network-level control system, a queue system and parallelisation. Also new is programmatic SEO integration (pSEO).

WPCafe 3.0 Beta 2 features a completely redesigned ‘Visual Table Reservation’ and ‘Reservation with Food Ordering System’.

E-Commerce

FluentCart 1.2.3 introduces new integrations with LifterLMS and LearnDash. The Mollie payment gateway integration will be available next week.

SurelyWP announces two new features for Services for SureCart: ‘Milestones’ and ‘Revisions’. These features allow you to add multiple custom milestones and set up revisions for each one. A new ‘Product Table’ feature will be added to B2B for SureCart, and a Save for Later feature will be added to Wishlist. Finally, ‘Discounts‘ will be renamed ‘Marketing’. New discount-related features will include a sitewide banner, a new coupon feature and a countdown feature. A new Scheduled Products feature is also coming soon.

Fluent Support 1.10.0 offers deep integration with FluentCart. Now, you can display your customers’ sales history in the ticket widget and add the support portal to the FluentCart customer portal. Fluent Support 2.0 will redesign the entire support ticketing interface with a focus on improving UX.

Merchant Pro 2.1.8 introduces WooCommerce Brands support across all campaign-based modules. This means that you can now use brand-based targeting and triggers across nine of your favourite Merchant modules: Frequently Bought Together, Bulk Discounts, Buy X Get Y, Complementary Products, Storewide Sale, Pre-Orders, Free Gifts, Product Labels, and Reasons To Buy List.

WowRevenue 2.0 introduces a new grid view for showcasing discounts and a new discount campaign builder. It also adds a new template system and support for variable products to the WooCommerce upsell and product bundles plugin.

The WooCommerce extension for Gato GraphQL is now available.

TrustMe is a new, customizable WooCommerce review plugin compatible with any page builder, including Breakdance, Bricks, and Elementor. It enables your customers to include photos and videos in their reviews.

Payhip now integrates with Paystack and Mercado Pago. You can now customize post-purchase pages using a content editor.

LMS / E-Learning

Tutor LMS 3.9.0 introduces a new feature for taking notes on lessons and videos, as well as certificate support for course bundles and two new price cards for the course details page. Admins and instructors can now reset individual students’ course progress.

Creator LMS releases its new Bricks integration. It includes dedicated Bricks widgets for Creator LMS, full compatibility with the Bricks theme, and the ability to freely design your course listing, checkout, and funnel pages.

Uxcel’s new online course, The Product Development Lifecycle & Methodologies, teaches you the frameworks and tools needed to guide a product from concept to launch with confidence.

Web & Product Analytics

With Usermaven, you can now export your event data directly to Amazon S3 or any other S3-compatible object storage solution. You can also analyze data across up to three dimensions with the redesigned Trend Builder to identify deeper trends and patterns. New features include improved AI-powered insights across all analytics modules.

Icons

Obra Icons is a simple and consistent set of 1,047 free, MIT-licensed icons that are perfect for use in user interfaces.

Job Boards

Job Boardly now offers Bulk Job Actions, enabling you to expire, publish, move to draft or delete multiple jobs at once. In related news, you can configure XML importers to delete jobs once they are no longer available in the XML feed.

Customer Support

ThriveDesk completely overhauls the live chat experience on mobile. You can now chat with customers in real time, manage conversations and respond to messages with ease — all from your Android device.

HelpSpace introduces article versioning in Docs, aka knowledge base. This feature automatically creates a new version of your article each time you save it. All previous versions remain accessible and can be restored at any time with a single click.

No-Code Website Builder

Siter introduces Loop, a brand-new animation feature that is designed to make your website more engaging and lively.

Digital Signage

Juuno releases a new AI-powered player assistant. The GPT Assistant can either check if your player is working, or find the perfect player for your country.

Final Cut Pro

mTransition Film Roll adds some extra energy to your edits with quick and dynamic transitions inspired by the unmistakable effects and distortions of film footage. Now available in MotionVFX DesignStudio!

Reputation Management

EmbedMyReviews announces a new Google Sheets integration that will allow you to automatically send review requests as soon as you add a new customer to your spreadsheet. The upcoming Google Calendar integration will automatically send review requests right after appointments end. Next up: Square, Stripe and Calendly integrations.

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That’s all for this week. We hope you enjoyed the 123rd issue of The Pier. Until next week! Please tell your friends about The Pier if you like it.

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