Pier #145 – SureCookie Now In Alpha, Ycode Goes Open Source, toSend In Early Access & Rest Pro Tools Debuts

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Stefan from Ahoi.dev   |   The Pier #145   |   March 27, 2026

Welcome to the 145th issue of The Pier. Bricksfusion Studio is out of beta. It can be found inside Bricks Builder as a panel. Simply describe what you need and the AI will generate production-ready Bricks JSON using your framework variables, colours, and spacing. You can generate the JSON from a description, a screenshot, or wireframe templates. Alternatively, you can describe an entire page and let the AI build every section at once. Studio supports five AI providers (BYOK).

Tutorial: How to automatically send coupons to first-time buyers using SureCart and OttoKit.

Awesome: SureCookie has entered alpha and already features automatic cookie detection, headscript blocking and self-hosted consent logs. It also comes with developer-friendly controls and a performance-first approach. and accessibility readiness.

Early Access (Invite-Only): WPManageNinja, the developers of FluentCart, FluentCRM, FluentCommunity and Fluent Forms, have just launched toSend. Powered by AWS and FluentSMTP, it is a transactional and marketing email service offering high email deliverability, automatic spam protection and a user-friendly interface. Pricing is set at $3 per 10,000 emails.

⏰ LTD Ending: Etch has announced that its Freelancer and Agency LTDs will no longer be available after 31 March. The Agency Elite LTD will be the only LTD available after this date, and the number of installs has been increased from 250 to unlimited.

Ending soon: The Motion.page lifetime deal ends on 1 April. Also new is the Motion.page SDK, which is their own lightweight 2D and 3D animation engine. Motion.page Canvas is a new, standalone canvas editor built using ThreeJS and a WebGPU renderer. It allows you to design 2D/3D scenes for the web, displays and social media. It will be available on the desktop app next month!

🚀 Launch I: Jeff from Plugin Planet has launched REST Pro Tools, which allows you to manage and test the WP REST API. It features one-click disabling of all routes, all /users routes and the entire API.

🚀 Launch II: Mosaic has officially been launched. Get the Early Bird LTD!

🚀 Launch III: Elementor 4.0 is set to launch next week. Coming soon: Atomic Elements, Variables and Classes, Components, Pro Interactions and Atomic Forms.

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 more. Enjoy!

Ycode

👋 Ycode Is Now Open Source

As mentioned in The Pier #126, Ycode has just launched an entirely new version of its visual website builder and CMS, which is now open source. Going open source means development moves faster. The community can contribute to shaping the product, whether by submitting ideas, reporting issues or contributing code directly. Ultimately, the more people who build with Ycode, the better it gets for everyone.

If you prefer a fully managed experience, check out Ycode Cloud — no servers, no setup, no stress.

🗞️ Bites & Pieces

WordPress

Meta Box AIO 3.6 introduces support for Block API v3, predefined allowed block lists and more.

SureForms 2.6.0 introduces MCP settings and the Abilities API, enabling AI-powered form management. Also new: Interactive quizzes.

LatePoint 5.3.0 adds foundational support for upcoming pro features related to location-based agent schedules.

Gato AI Translations for Polylang 17.1 adds support for self-hosted LLMs.

BricksSync 1.4.6-alpha introduces a new selective sync feature. You can now push only the items you want to a remote site and run workflows on selected items, rather than processing everything.This release also introduces the initial Builder Panel, enabling you to manage workflow-on-save directly within the Bricks Builder, eliminating the need to switch back to the main plugin screens.

E-Commerce

With SureCart 4.1.0, you can now create Shipping parcels for shipping with standardized boxes. There is also a new ‘Review Product’ button on the order view screen in the customer dashboard.

Marketing for SureCart 1.9 adds floating notifications for recent sales activity indicators with full content, placement, criteria and timing options. Also new are Stock FOMO and Recent Sales Activity Indicators, as well as Discount Support for SureCart‘s Instant Checkout Pages.

WP Simple Pay adds a new ‘Form Style’ tab to the form editor. Begin by selecting one of the eight ready-made theme presets to seamlessly blend your payment form into your website.

Food Blogs

Foodica Pro 5.0 features a new minimalist layout with a clean design and warm, neutral tones. It is built entirely using Gutenberg blocks. There are also more than 20 new block patterns.

Image Optimization

ShortPixel 6.4.4 now allows you to exclude images from optimization based on their file size.

Transactional Email

MailerSend now offers blocklist monitoring. This new deliverability tool automatically checks your sending domains and IP addresses against major blocklists.

CRO

Claspo releases ‘Break the Egg’, a gamified format designed for Easter campaigns. Visitors select an egg and instantly find out what’s inside.

LMS / E-Learning

Created with product leader Paulo Garcia, Uxcel’s new online course, Product Discovery, shows you how to uncover real user needs and make evidence-based decisions.

WhatsApp Automation

With Pabbly Chatflow, you can now view the language of the template before sending, whether you’re messaging from the inbox or using the broadcast feature.

Laravel & Tailwind CSS

Laravel 13 is now available!

SlideWire is a Laravel package that enables you to create browser-based presentation slides using Livewire components and Blade templates. It has built-in navigation, transitions, syntax highlighting and Mermaid diagrams.

Customer Support

Gleap releases a new Telegram integration as a support channel.

Social Media

ContentStudio 4.0 introduces a new AI video generator that brings together premium AI video models, such as Kling, Sora, OpenAI, Wan, and Minimax.

You can now connect your Canva account to SocialBee directly and import your designs into your social posts with just a few clicks.

Nuelink introduces ‘Bulk Create’ — no CSV required! This feature allows you to upload multiple images or videos and instantly turn them into posts, Shorts or Stories. You can either write captions manually or generate them with AI, and automatically schedule everything in your queue.

AI Music

ElevenLabs launches Music Finetunes, which allows creators and businesses to customize its Music model for their own tracks and generate new music that maintains stylistic consistency.

Email Marketing

With EmailOctopus, you can now use data from multiple-choice fields as dynamic content in your campaigns and automation processes. This feature allows you to personalize emails even further.

Personalized Outreach

Sendr releases a new Calendly integration that lets you track meetings booked via your landing pages, remove booked leads from sequences or trigger follow-ups, and get accurate reporting on your campaigns.

Reputation Management

EmbedMyReviews releases Mason, its new in-house AI sales coach.
He’s here to help you refine your sales pitch, handle objections, consider pricing strategies and clarify how to promote reputation management to local businesses.

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

Elementor Rolls Out Angie Code – Agentic AI for WordPress

Originally announced in August 2025, Elementor has just officially launched Angie Code, your AI-powered WordPress developer, right inside WordPress.

WordPress

SureForms Adds Support For Interactive Quizzes

Aditya from SureForms has just added support for interactive quizzes, role-based access control, and AI-powered form management to the AI form builder plugin for WordPress.

Server Management

Ploi Introduces NGINX Config Version History

Have you ever changed your NGINX configuration and wished you could undo it? Now you can! Ploi has just introduced a new NGINX Config Version History feature to its user-friendly…

Job Boards, SaaS

Job Boardly Introduces Native Blog & US State-Level Remote Role Restrictions

Nelson from Job Boardly has just introduced a native blog, a weekly summary schedule and US state-level remote role restrictions to its no-code job board builder SaaS.

WordPress

WP Rocket Transforms Rocket Insights Into A Performance Hub

WP Rocket 3.21 has just arrived in orbit. The latest version of the WordPress caching plugin transforms Rocket Insights into a fully integrated performance hub, which is now included in every…

AI Music

ElevenLabs Launches New Music Marketplace

The ElevenLabs team has just launched a new music marketplace, enabling creators to publish and monetize music tracks generated using ElevenCreative.

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That’s all for this week. We hope you enjoyed the 145th issue of The Pier. Until next week! Please tell your friends about The Pier if you like it.

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