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Pier #139 – Pabbly Email Marketing LTD, Gleap Feedback Portal, Reports Galore for SureCart & SureContact
Welcome to the 139th issue of The Pier. Themefic has announced that Tourfic AI Studio, which will introduce AI-powered assistance directly within the booking plugin for WordPress, is currently in development. With the help of AI, you will be able to transform basic tour concepts into organized, editable, booking-ready content within WordPress. The first release, planned for March 2026, will support tour bookings only. Support for hotels, car rentals and apartments will be added gradually.
Customer Support: Gleap is currently rebuilding its Feedback Portal from scratch. Not only will it look better, it will also include public changelogs with built-in SEO.
CMP: Trustwards 2.1 offers multi-regulation support. Alongside GDPR, it now supports CCPA, LGPD and PIPEDA. Regulations also include geolocation rules; for example, the CCPA banner will only be shown to users in California, while the GDPR banner will be shown to users in the EU.
New: ElevenLabs has introduced Audiobooks – the complete toolkit for creating, refining and publishing audiobooks using lifelike AI voices, guiding you from the first draft to the final product (video).
Launch: Pabbly Email Marketing LTDs are now live! Connect your own SMTP such as Amazon SES, SendGrid or Mailgun and enjoy powerful automation tools for sending unlimited emails.
Currency Change: With SureCart 3.19.2, you no longer need to contact support if you want to change the currency of your active stores. You can now do so via the settings page.
Launch: Based on ACSS, Etch Menu Builder enables you to effortlessly design fully accessible navigation with simple drop-down menus, nested menus or mega menus for Etch.
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!
👋 Reports, Reports & More Reports
SureCart has released two new important reports for its WordPress e-commerce plugin.
The new Taxes Collected report, which was recently requested by an EU merchant, makes things much easier for accountants.
The new Email History report allows you to view the history of emails sent for your store and whether they were opened/viewed by the customer – a unique feature not available in WooCommerce or on other platforms! SureCart is going to add filtering by email to this report.
Shortly after its launch, SureContact added a comprehensive reporting system with flexible date filtering to its WordPress email marketing and CRM platform, helping you to make better, data-driven decisions without having to switch between tools.
Say hello to the Contact Growth, Email Delivery, Email Engagement, Link Activity, Unsubscribe, Bounce and Revenue reports. All reports can also be exported at any time as a CSV or Excel file.
🗞️ Bites & Pieces
WordPress
Elementor’s Atomic Editor 4.0 introduces a new CSS-first architectural foundation based on variables, classes and atomic building. Now in beta, version 4 is ready for use on production sites!
With PinkDocs 1.2.1, users can listen to your documentation using Google’s text-to-speech (TTS) technology.
SureForms announces support for dynamic data. You will soon be able to populate drop-down menus and multiple-choice fields with dynamic data.
Bricks 2.2 introduces a significant upgrade to the design system, offering powerful new features and substantial improvements to the workflow. Meet the new Style Manager, Colour Manager, Component Style Variants and more.
With Greyd.Forms, you can now use Cloudflare Turnstile to protect your forms against spam.
The Plus Addons for Elementor adds support for dynamic tags, enabling you to automatically pull post and site data into your designs without using Elementor. New features also include GSAP-based scroll, text and image animations.
Elegant Themes introduces new menu components, menu looping, selector-based targeting, and breakpoint triggers to the interaction builder in Divi 5.
ZoloBlocks 2.6.0 introduces a new Class Manager.
ZiziCache is a new, full-stack WordPress performance plugin with the potential to rival WP Rocket and LiteSpeed Cache (first mentioned in The Pier #119). It is now in open beta.
E-Commerce & A/B Testing
SureCart 3.20.0 allows you to display order bumps in the slide-out cart and reschedule existing subscription reminders when settings are changed.
AB Split Test 2.4.3 introduces Heatmap Hover Tooltips. When you hover over elements in the heatmap, a tooltip appears showing the click count, the percentage of total clicks and a human-readable description of the element. Matched elements are highlighted with a blue border overlay for easy identification.
StoreRadar provides AI-powered insights into your WooCommerce data and offers support for COGS and real profit visibility. The new StoreRadar Score provides an overview of store performance based on key metrics such as revenue trends, customer behaviour and operational indicators.
Email Marketing & Newsletters
MailerPress 1.4 now supports Amazon SES.
Newsletter Glue 4.0.6 adds support for BigMailer and HubSpot. It also introduces a new Single Recurring Cron system that significantly improves the reliability of automations.
Affiliate & Referral Marketing
With Partnero, promotion codes can now be automatically applied at checkout when customers use a partner’s referral link.
LMS / E-Learning
BricksMembers 0.9.6 introduces new WooCommerce and FluentCart integrations, allowing you to automatically assign user levels based on orders and subscriptions. There is also a new two-way sync between FluentCRM tags/lists and BricksMembers user levels, ensuring that your CRM and membership data stay in sync. Protected Downloads now work with cloud storage, and you can use Amazon S3, Bunny CDN, Cloudflare R2, and Google Cloud Storage.
Tutor LMS Enhancements 2.2.0 enables automatic notification of all enrolled students and instructors whenever a comment or reply is posted. Students can also now upvote and downvote comments in Tutor LMS. Finally, you can restrict image uploads to instructors only, while enabling students to still post text comments.
Uptime Monitoring
Pulsetic now supports the sending of status page emails via your own SMTP sender. Subscribers to your status page can now manage their subscriptions directly from the page itself.
WhatsApp Automation
With Pabbly Chatflow, you can now send catalog, single product and multi-product messages directly from the inbox using smart WhatsApp automation. You can share product details instantly, provide faster customer guidance, and close conversations without switching screens. Finally, you can now instantly generate complete WhatsApp templates using AI, including content, buttons, parameters and media.
Pabbly Chatflow now offers PayU as an additional payment gateway for WhatsApp payments. In other news, you can use AND/OR conditions within contact lists to create segments.
SEO
Slim SEO 4.9 (free version) now generates SEO-optimised meta titles and descriptions at the click of a button, thanks to its integration with OpenAI.
Laravel
Laravel announces a new official AI SDK, which provides a unified, Laravel-native API for integrating AI features from multiple providers.
Statamic 6 is now available, introducing a redesigned control panel, support for Vue 3 and Inertia.js, and Tailwind CSS v4, as well as new security features for Laravel developers.
Managed Cloud Hosting
Cloudways announces the addition of over 17 new data center locations for AWS, Google Cloud, DigitalOcean and Linode across North America, Europe, Asia, Africa and the Middle East.
Social Media
Giststack now supports Meta Threads as a content type (video). This means that you can now create posts tailored for X, Threads, LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, Reddit and for short- or long-form video scripts, newsletters and custom posts. You can also create your own ‘rundown’-style newsletters based on the latest industry insights in minutes (video).
Screen Recording
BetterCapture is a free, open-source, lightweight macOS screen recorder that looks and feels native.
AI
Contentpen introduces a new Analytics dashboard that enables you to connect the AI blog writer with Google Search Console, allowing you to view all your search performance data in one place. The new Opportunities dashboard analyzes your search performance data to identify areas for improvement. You can then use the Content Refresh option to apply the suggested improvements directly to the blog.
Link Management & Link in Bio
With Replug‘s new A/B testing stats visualization feature, it’s now faster and easier than ever to understand your campaigns.
Customer Support
Using your DeepL API key, HelpSpace can now automatically translate your help center articles into additional languages. This feature is available on Team plans and above.
Reputation Management
EmbedMyReviews adds support for nine new review platforms for businesses in the home services, healthcare, beauty, wellness and marketplace sectors: Zocdoc, Rated People, HomeStars, Thumbtack, hipages, Airtasker, Treatwell, Fresha and Jameda. Also new is support for Planity, Werkspot, Travaux, Instapro and MyHammer. The latest update introduces multilingual support for review request forms.
From the Editor: Biff.codes
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🚨 Latest Posts
The following highlighted articles have been published in the last 7 days. All posts can be found on our blog.
Mohit from SureRank has just introduced multilingual sitemap support, average position tracking and custom schema fields to its WordPress SEO plugin.
Adam from SureDash has just introduced a new portal layout template, leaderboards and gamification, as well as targeted post visibility, to the community plugin for WordPress.
Waqar from Replug has just released the latest update to its all-in-one branded link management platform, including Advanced Deep Linking, GPS Location Tracking and Enhanced Analytics.
Joe from Supademo has just released the January product recap for the interactive product demo platform. Say hello to Hotspots 2.0, AI data editing and workspace demo tags.
MailerPress has just introduced a new Fluent Forms integration, embeddable forms and auto-reminders to its email marketing plugin for WordPress.
Following the release of personal and focus rooms, the Cosmos Video team has just introduced room types. Cosmos is your team’s virtual office, and it now works more like a…
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That’s all for this week. We hope you enjoyed the 139th issue of The Pier. Until next week! Please tell your friends about The Pier if you like it.
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