Pier #129 – Classic Monks – The New Core Stack Plugin for WordPress, WooCommerce & Bricks Builder

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Stefan from Ahoi.dev   |   The Pier #129   |   December 5, 2025

Welcome to the 129th issue of The Pier. Donald from Code Wattz, the developer behind Voxel Toolkit, Review Widget (see The Pier #116), and the PayPal Payment Gateway for Voxel, has just launched his latest project. Fluent Extras is designed to extend the Fluent family, which includes Fluent Support, FluentBooking, FluentCommunity, FluentCart and FluentBoards. There are currently two add-ons: Fluent Cart Local Pickup and Fluent Board SMS.

Milestone: FluentCommunity has officially crossed 7,000+ active installations!

New Era: Find out why Amelia 9.0 marks the beginning of a new era for appointment bookings in WordPress.

Tutorial: Find out how Mosaic‘s Element, Utility and Custom classes can help you to style more quickly, maintain consistency and retain full control over your WordPress design (video). Milestone: 1,000 Mosaic beta testers!

Exciting: Wise has announced a new ecommerce payment gateway that will allow businesses to accept card payments on their website in multiple currencies at low rates. WooCommerce for Wise will be available soon!

New Name: SureCRM will most likely be named SureContact. Not only will it fulfil your email marketing needs, but we will also enable you to send SMS messages. You will be able to store your contacts, send email broadcasts and run automation campaigns. SureContact will also integrate deeply with your WordPress plugins.

All-New: Scanfully has completely overhauled its WordPress Site Health and Performance Monitoring platform to make it fully multi-tenant.

New Arrival: We would also like to welcome Classic Monks 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 BFCM deals. Enjoy!

👋 FlowMattic ❤️ MailerPress

FlowMattic has launched the following three new integrations:

  • Instagram: Publish photos, carousels, stories, reels and more.
  • Google Docs: Create, update, and manage documents with multiple powerful actions.
  • MailerPress: Automate your email marketing with full contact and list management.

PS: MailerPress is a new project from the behind SEOPress!

🗞️ Bites & Pieces

WordPress

SureForms 2.1.0 adds support for HubSpot, MailPoet and WP Fusion. It also features a refined UI and is compatible with WordPress 6.9.

Etch 1.0.0-beta-1 introduces the first iteration of the CSS toolbar, offering a new way to quickly insert commonly used CSS properties into your code.

Woohoo Filters introduces a proper Google Maps solution for Breakdance. Features include single and multiple locations, manual and dynamic locations, syncing with AJAX filters, and map customization. Next: Support for Mapbox and Leaflet.

With the new ‘Past Revisions‘ feature, PublishPress Revisions allows you to quickly roll back to a previous version of your post and fix any mistakes. The ‘New Revisions’ feature enables your users to safely make changes to published content.

EWWW Image Optimizer 8.3 adds support for background images in external CSS files to the lazy loader, as well as providing auto-scaling and WebP versions.

SureFeedback announces an upcoming new SaaS model that will connect client sites instantly without plugin friction.

WPMaven is a new AI assistant designed specifically for WordPress. Use simple prompts to create websites, manage content, install plugins and run marketing campaigns.

Voxel Calendar 1.2.0 introduces ICS, a new calendar feed integration for Voxel that allows you to import events from external ICS/iCal URLs. Also new: Two display modes for ICS events showing ‘Full Event Details’ or ‘Availability Only’ and customizable unavailable label and pattern colours.

E-Commerce

AB Split Test has launched a beta version of Session Replays, which is also available in Sigmize.

FluentCart 1.3.2 adds a new Authorize .net gateway integration, a recurring discount coupon and a customizable checkout block for Gutenberg. The new Private Product Status feature allows you to make any product private so that it can only be purchased via a direct checkout link.

In addition to WooCommerce, Peppol Commerce now supports FluentCart for fully automated Peppol e-invoicing.

Bit Assist 1.5.11 ensures that users need to be logged in to view order details via the WooCommerce channel.

Automation

OttoKit 1.1.14 introduces a new MailerPress integration.

Pabbly Connect now integrates with Publer, a social media management platform, and Supabase. It is an open-source backend platform providing everything needed to quickly build modern applications, including databases, authentication, storage and real-time APIs. In addition, there is also a new Meta Threads integration.

Web Accessibility

OneTap 6.11.0 adds support for British English, Hebrew (עברית), Thai (ไทย), Vietnamese (Tiếng Việt), Persian/Farsi (فارسی) and Macedonian (Македонски) to its accessibility plugin for WordPress.

LMS / E-Learning

With the new Live Events feature, Creator LMS now enables you to schedule and host a variety of live sessions, including workshops, Q&A calls, milestone discussions, mastermind groups and team training sessions, all within your community space (video).

SEO

WP Ultimate CSV Importer now supports Slim SEO, enabling you to import and export SEO metadata for posts, pages, custom post types and WooCommerce products.

Icons

Isocons is a beautiful, free collection of isometric icons spanning six categories for your next project. They also offer a Figma plugin.

Job Boards

Job Boardly changes the way expired job listings are handled on the platform. Rather than taking down expired job listings and displaying a ‘404 Not Found’ error message, they are now updated to show that the job has expired for one month. After this period, the listing is moved to ‘410 Gone’. In other news, you can now map salary schedules in the XML importer.

Social Media

ContentStudio is now multilingual, enabling you to manage your content in English, French, German, Spanish, Italian and Greek (video).

Publer releases an improved version of its Threads Composer and Comments Scheduler in beta. You can now build complete threads in the Create View without switching screens, and write threads for X, Threads App, Bluesky and Mastodon in a single workflow. You can also customize content for each platform or account by editing text, adding media and tailoring each thread without starting from scratch.

Hosting

Kinsta’s new Database Manager is now available. Available in MyKinsta, it enables you to run queries, view and edit data, add records and tables, and much more besides — all without the need for an external tool or database download.

Hostinger launches a new Docker Manager, which makes deploying Docker projects incredibly simple.

WhatsApp Automation

Pabbly Chatflow now includes over 300 pre-approved, ready-to-use WhatsApp templates across seven business categories.

Directory SaaS

Directify releases a new feature called Internal User Emails, which allows you to contact listing owners to share updates, promotions or important news. Users can now also install the directory as a PWA (progressive web app).

Sales CRM

Breakcold introduces a new built-in AI note taker that allows you to record your calls. You can choose whether the bot joins your calls automatically, and customize how the AI prepares your calls and generates meeting summaries.

Popup Builder

Claspo introduces memory cards that allow users to flip the cards, match the festive pairs and unlock a festive reward.

Server Management

xCloud reduces the price of Patchstack‘s Vulnerability Shield Pro from $5 per site to a more affordable $2.

Uptime Monitoring

Pulsetic now supports CRON (Heartbeat) monitoring, enabling you to verify that your background tasks, scripts and CRON jobs are functioning correctly. There is also a new Incidents page which brings together every event detected by your monitors in a single, easy-to-read timeline.

Experience Management

Formbricks 4.3.1 introduces multi-question blocks, finally allowing you to add multiple questions per card, page or block. The summary visualization for NPS and rating questions has also been optimized.

Affiliate & Referral Marketing

With the latest update, Partnero now lets you create and manage Paddle Billing coupons directly through its partnership platform.

Customer Testimonials

Feedspace now supports a wide range of new review platforme, including ThemeForest comments, Alibaba product reviews, AliExpress, BBB, CarGurus, Cars .com, Checkatrade, DealerRater, Foursquare, Google Shopping reviews, Google Workspace app reviews, Greatschools, OpenTable, Psychology Today, Thumbtack and Trip.

Video Hosting

Gumlet now integrates seamlessly with Bubble. Simply drop videos wherever you want and they will work straight away. There is also a new Magento image plugin for delivering high-speed, optimised images, which boosts store performance and product clarity with zero effort.

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.

WordPress

FlowMattic Introduces New Horizontal Workflow Builder

Nitin from FlowMattic has just released version 5.5.0 of its no-code automation plugin for WordPress, introducing a new horizontal workflow builder, a new Share Secrets module and more. 

WordPress

Classic Monks: The All‑In‑One Core Stack Plugin for Faster WordPress Builds

Classic Monks is an all‑in‑one “core stack” WordPress plugin designed to take a fresh install to a production‑ready, optimized site in minutes instead of hours. It targets agencies, publishers, and…

Customer Support

Gleap Announces Massive AI Upgrade & Upcoming Price Change

Following the launch of the new AI Chatbar, Lukas from Gleap has just announced a significant AI upgrade to the customer support platform, as well as an upcoming price increase….

WordPress

SnipVault Introduces Remote Sites To WordPress Code Snippets Plugin

Mark from SnipVault has just introduced a new Remote Sites feature. Essentially, it’s a centralized management hub for code snippets for all your WordPress sites.

WhatsApp

Pabbly Chatflow Announces WhatsApp Payments

The Pabbly Chatflow team has just announced that WhatsApp Payments will soon be available on the WhatsApp communication and automation platform.

LMS, SaaS

Klasio Rolls Out New No-Code Page Builder

Following hot on the heels of the guest checkout feature, Klasio has just announced a new no-code page builder for its AI-powered LMS SaaS.

eCommerce, WordPress

B2B for SureCart Introduces Product Tables

Nelson from SurelyWP has just announced the release of a new Product Table feature for B2B for SureCart. It is similar to Barn2’s WooCommerce Product Table, but for SureCart.

🏴‍☠️ Latest Port Arrivals

The following fine new tool has arrived at The Port.

WordPress

Classic Monks

Classic Monks is a new core stack plugin for WordPress, replacing dozens of tools and enabling you to build production-ready sites quickly and easily.

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Formbricks

Senior Frontend Engineer (m/f/d)

Formbricks

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