Pier #124 - Sneak Peek: FluentCRM 3.0 with SMS Marketing Automation & First Look at Affinity

Stefan from Ahoi.dev | The Pier #124 | October 31, 2025

Welcome to the 124th issue of The Pier. AreaWP 2.0 is now available! It’s the world’s first WaaS and SaaS WordPress platform to offer a self-hosted option. With its official MainWP integration, you can now easily manage bulk updates, backups, syncing and security across all your client sites.

Sneak Peak: WPManageNinja has revealed what to expect in FluentCRM 3.0. You can look forward to a completely revamped UI/UX, an enhanced email editor, and SMS marketing automation featuring Twilio and Amazon SNS integrations, and more.

Coming Soon: SureCart announces Product Reviews, offering extensive customization options to control how they are displayed. They are not just for the Block Editor, but also for Elementor and Bricks Builder. Free Instant Starter Templates covering multiple niches will also be released soon. Stay tuned for dynamic pricing, too!

Milestone: Independent Analytics has reached 100,000 active installs on the WordPress repository.

WordPress Pop-ups: As announced last month, FireBox has released its new Revenue Attribution feature. This feature connects your pop-up campaigns with real sales on your WordPress site, showing exactly how each campaign contributes to revenue.

Food Blogs: Recipe Card Blocks has transformed its Recipe Analyzer from a basic tool into a sophisticated web application. It now includes premium features such as saving and organizing recipes, generating and saving nutrition facts labels, and creating meal planners. You can also analyze recipes from images and from other websites.

Price Increase: Claspo has announced a price increase, which will take effect on 3 November 2025. Subscribe now to lock in today’s rate!

Launch: The OneTap developers have just launched AltPilot in beta. This tool uses AI to automatically generate alt texts and image descriptions, boosting your SEO and accessibility. Get started with 25 free images.

Restructured: Document Library Pro has been split up into two plans, Essentials and Advanced.

Tutorial: Learn how to use Bitzit Reports to filter your data and interpret key insights such as hours worked, task statistics and punctuality.

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

FluentCRM 2.9.84 introduces complete purchase history to its Paid Membership Pro integration, as well as new conditional logic for FluentCart.

PostX 5.0 will feature a redesigned settings UI, a new image gallery block, a new tab block, improved icons, and enhanced performance.

Dynamic Shortcodes 1.6.1 introduces a new UI for Power Shortcodes. It adds a search bar for filtering shortcodes, as well as global expand/collapse buttons and a collapsible design with a summary view. Toast notifications have also been added for displaying success and error messages.

Next Bricks 2.2 for Bricks Builder, Dancepad 2.1 for Breakdance and Widgets Supply 1.1 for Elementor introduce new elements: a sticky footer, an expanding nav, video tabs, and looping lines v3.

OneTap Pro 6.10.0 enhances the ‘Bigger Text’ and ‘Line Height’ accessibility widget settings by enabling users to adjust values in 10% increments.

Admin Columns 7 introduces a new UI, global conditional formatting, and support for Rank Math & SEOPress. Nested filters will be introduced in v7.1.

With Groundhogg 4.2.6, you can now use the new Trigger Frequency Limit settings to control how many times a contact can enter or move through a flow.

WPForms adds a new Camera field, enabling users to instantly take a photo or video from their device’s camera without ever having to leave the form.

With Nested Modules for Divi 5, you can add modules inside other modules with infinite nestability. Build custom layouts with ease inside sliders, tabs, accordions and more.

Created by Joost de Valk at Progress Planner, Brand Assets is a new, free and lightweight WordPress block plugin that helps you to create a complete, professional brand assets page. Download from GitHub.

PersonalizeWP 3.2 consolidates all previous versions into a single plugin. Instead of having separate Lite and Pro versions, all features are now included free of charge, offering personalization options for your WordPress content.

UiCore Blocks is a free plugin offering responsive settings, customization options, and animation support. Pro widgets are available with the UiCore Pro theme.

Themefic launches Ultra Addons for WPForms.

New in Activity Log Pro 1.0.2: Automated Activity Digest Email Reports feature.

EventKoi announces two new upcoming blocks: The Event Data Block and the Event Query Block.

E-Commerce

FluentCart 1.2.5 now supports the Mollie payment gateway, and introduces built-in advanced UTM reports and native monetization options for FluentCommunity.

WPDeveloper introduces a brand-new NotificationX integration for FluentCart! It allows you to display live sales notifications, low-stock alerts and milestone pop-ups directly within your FluentCart-powered store. This helps you to build trust, create a sense of urgency and instantly boost your conversions.

WPFunnels now supports variable products as order bumps.

Shopify’s e-commerce platform is now available on WordPress.

Shopify merchants will be able to sell directly via ChatGPT conversations, without the need for links or redirects. Eligible products will be automatically discoverable, with orders flowing directly into merchants’ existing Shopify admin with clear attribution. Access is currently being rolled out to select US merchants.

With its new dedicated Shopify app, Convertful makes it easy to turn your store visitors into loyal customers.

Affiliate Marketing

FluentAffiliate 1.2.0 introduces new integrations with Tutor LMS and ProfilePress Pro. It also offers migration options for Solid Affiliate and Affiliate Manager.

With Post Affiliate Pro, you can now add campaign logos to QR codes to improve your branding. New features include enhanced bot and crawler protection for more accurate tracking, as well as improved connectivity and data accuracy across our Mailjet, Stripe, ECWID and ccBill plugins.

SEO

SEOPress 9.3 delivers significant performance improvements for XML sitemaps, achieving an average performance increase of 800%. This is great news for large websites with more than 30,000 posts, pages or products.

AIOSEO 4.8.8 introduces a new AI assistant that can turn prompts into content in seconds. There is also a new image generator and an LLMs.txt generator.

Republish AI is a WordPress SEO plugin that automatically increases traffic. Its AI agents research keywords, write optimized content, generate images, build internal links and publish content on autopilot.

Web & Product Analytics

Although we love Usermaven and Independent Analytics, it’s good to explore other options. ABC Stats is a free, lightweight, privacy-friendly WordPress analytics plugin that provides basic analytics such as daily views and per-URL breakdowns.

Laravel

NativePHP for Mobile v2 introduces native iOS and Android components, created directly from Laravel Blade components.

Job Boards

Job Boardly releases a new multi-language filter that enables you to add multiple supported languages to your job board, including Chinese.

Social Media

Say hello to the new Al-powered ContentStudio Home (video).

Nuelink releases a new Activepieces integration that allows you to use their AI agents to create automation flows with ease.

SocialBee‘s Copilot now scans your website for business insights and instantly creates ready-to-post content, complete with images and captions.

Screen Recording

Screen Studio 3.5.0 now supports iPhone mirroring.

Email & SMS Marketing

Jellyreach 2.0 is now available, offering MRR plans that include all features. Over the coming weeks and months, they will be rolling out a host of new and exciting features, including AI-powered tools that will make your campaigns smarter, faster and more effective.

Server Management

xCloud introduces Node.js hosting in version 1.9.9.

WhatsApp Automation

With Pabbly Chatflow, you can now select from a range of WhatsApp template types to suit your business communication needs, whether you’re looking to promote products or send transactional alerts.

Task & Project Management

The new Kitchen Mobile App is now available on the App Store (video). It allows you to chat with clients, manage tasks and stay up to date while on the go. Up Next: A new Android app and an optimized app-like browser view.

Virtual Events

HeySummit now lets you connect Razorpay, as well as Stripe and PayPal. This allows attendees from India, Malaysia, Singapore and the United States to select their preferred payment method during checkout. In addition, the Talks Report now shows exactly how many people watched each talk live or as a replay. This provides a clearer overview of audience engagement throughout your event, enabling you to swiftly identify the sessions that attracted the most attention and at what times.

Final Cut Pro

mSeries Classified contains intros, transitions, effects and cinematic titles, providing everything you need to create bold, atmospheric series. Now available in MotionVFX DesignStudio.

Customer Testimonials

Feedspace now supports the import of reviews from Apple Podcasts, ProvenExperts, and ImmoScout24.

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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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