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Pier #146 – Power Coupons Pro, Motion.page 3.0, Ecamm Dual Mode & SureContact Email Sequences Now Available
Welcome to the 146th issue of The Pier. RightPlace 1.0.0-RC5 is now available for Windows. It now also comes with WooCommerce support. There are Products, Orders, and Customers menus. You can now create and edit products, and manage product images and orders. In addition, you can view and browse customers.
Launch LTD: CartFlows has released Power Coupons Pro for WooCommerce, enabling you to create advanced discount rules for your WooCommerce store quickly and easily. BOGO, flexible discount types, cart progress bar and more.
Milestone: With Motion.page 3.0, the builder is now powered by its own animation SDK.
Controversial: EmDash – Could this be a potential WordPress killer?
Acquisition: Contentpen has acquired Unhide, bringing AI visibility tracking directly into the AI blog writer.
Preview: SureContact is currently working on an A/B testing feature (video) as well as landing pages (video). Also new: Email sequences (drip automation)!
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!

👋 Candidate Products & Offer Badges
Job Boardly adds a new feature that enables users to add a strikethrough price and an offer badge. Job board owners can now rearrange the position of products on the pricing page by dragging and dropping them. They can also upload an llms.txt file.
The new ‘Candidate products (Pro)’ feature enables job board owners to offer custom products to candidates, such as pinned candidate profiles, profile-view alerts, profile analytics, read receipts and priority applications.
🗞️ Bites & Pieces
WordPress
Etch 1.4.8 introduces Condition Props, a new component property type for conditionally showing or hiding groups of props. It also enables Etch Intelligence for all users during the beta period.
Amelia 9.3 adds the ability to quickly block one or more time slots directly from the calendar. This prevents new bookings for the selected staff member and keeps the blocked periods distinct from regular appointments. Key event booking details can also be exported directly from the Events tab.
Droip 3.0.0 Beta 8 introduces device-wise guides to make building responsive layouts easier than ever before. It also supports CDN for elements and pre-built sections. Beta 9 introduces new built-in image cropping functionality, multi-element colour control and variable font support in text styles.
With LatePoint 5.3.2, the calendar URL remembers your selected view, date and filters. After refreshing a page, everything stays in place.
Presto Player 4.1.2 introduces new filters that can be used to disable or modify the output of the video SEO schema.
With the addition of a database layer, server functions, scheduled tasks and a CLI, Blockstudio 7.1 takes Gutenberg blocks to the next level. A block folder can now be a full application in itself.
WebberZone releases Code Block Highlighting, a free plugin that will soon be available on the WordPress repository. Link Warnings is another new, free plugin offering accessible external link warnings, modal confirmations and much more.
Enhanced Pattern Manager offers a completely new way to browse patterns, providing a visual card grid, custom preview images, drag-and-drop ordering, admin visibility controls, category management and much more.
MapSwap for The Events Calendar replaces Google Maps with OpenStreetMap (OSM) on your event pages. No API key required!
Tourfic 2.21.4 features apartment deposit settings with partial payment support, apartment bookings without a payment option, and dynamic front-end availability for services.
CRM
SureContact 1.4 introduces RTL support and the ability to segment contacts based on their visits to specific WordPress pages or posts. Use case: When someone visits a ‘Sale Offer’ page, they are automatically tagged as ‘Sale – Interested’, added to a short follow-up sequence and sent a reminder email before the offer expires.
Groundhogg 4.4 introduces a new Contact Peek feature. This allows you to view contact details on any non-Groundhogg admin screen where an email address is detected.
Cookie Consent
SureCookie Alpha 2 introduces Scanning Progress Logs, enabling you to monitor the progress of the scan in real time while it searches your site for cookies and scripts. Content detection is now powered by an advanced configuration that automatically blocks resources. It is also WordPress MCP-ready.
Client Feedback
Userback MCP enables you to connect AI and developer tools, such as Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, VS Code and Windsurf, directly to Userback. This allows you to work with real user feedback context without ever leaving your development environment. You can pull full feedback details, console logs, network logs and comments straight into your prompt flow, enabling you to debug, triage and respond faster than ever before (video).
Email Marketing & Newsletters
MailOptin 2.2.77.0 introduces two new email marketing integrations: SendPulse and Bento.
Newsletter Glue Pro 4.0.7 significantly expands its transactional email capabilities by introducing native integrations for WordPress Core, WooCommerce, WooCommerce Subscriptions, Wishlist Member, Memberful and more. It also adds two new ESP integrations — SparkPost and Kit (formerly ConvertKit) — and makes significant improvements to the reliability of Automations, including adding double-send protection for slow sites and nearest valid date scheduling logic.
Affiliate & Referral Marketing
Partnero now lets you automatically clean up inactive customers. A new automation trigger allows you to set a threshold, whereby any customer who has made no purchases for X days will be deleted on a daily basis. You can also create leads automatically from incoming webhooks.
LMS / E-Learning
Develop your UX design and product management skills with over 50 online courses for all roles and levels with Uxcel!
Live Streaming
SEO
Following the addition of an AI integration for generating SEO-friendly meta titles and descriptions in version 4.9.0, Slim SEO 4.9.3 now supports Anthropic (Claude), Google (Gemini), OpenAI, and OpenRouter.
Web Security
Bunny Shield introduces JA4 fingerprinting.
Laravel & Tailwind CSS
Liminal is a browser-based IDE that runs PHP 8.4 in WebAssembly. This lets you build and preview Laravel apps without the need for a server or local installation.
Uptime Monitoring
Pulsetic now supports domain monitoring to help you avoid outages caused by expired or invalid domains. The new MCP Server makes it possible to connect Pulsetic directly to AI agents and MCP-compatible tools.
Social Media
Publer now integrates with Zapier. This allows you to connect Publer with thousands of apps and automate your social media workflow without writing any code.
With Nuelink, you can now tag collaborators in Facebook Shorts.
AI Blog Writer
Contentpen releases a new article and outline regeneration feature. With custom instructions, file support (PDFs and Docs) and link support, you can give the AI richer context and receive more tailored content from the first draft.
Email Marketing
You can now connect Mailercloud to any MCP-compatible AI tool, such as Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor. Once connected, you can use your AI to pull campaign reports, create and schedule email campaigns, and manage contacts and lists.
Personalized Outreach
Sendr adds new animation options to the videos on your landing pages, making personalized outreach feel more natural and engaging. In addition, you can now automatically capture LinkedIn profile screenshots to use in videos on your Sendr landing pages.
Digital Signage
Juuno introduces a new Secured/Private Dashboard app, which is now available in beta. Unlike most signage apps, which are built for public content such as promotions, announcements and schedules, this app is designed for private use. It gets internal dashboards, sales data or business metrics onto a screen without exposing them to passers-by.
Event Platform
HeySummit now lets you choose how to handle sales tax for paid tickets: no tax, tax included in ticket prices, or tax added at checkout. In other news, you can now select a particular ticket for each talk’s ‘Register’ CTA. Once this has been set up, visitors clicking ‘Register’ on that talk page will be taken to the checkout with the relevant ticket already selected, rather than being taken to the general ticket list.
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.
xCloud has introduced Site Rules, Bulk NGINX Customization and Site-Level Cron Job Management to its managed cloud hosting and server management platform.
The SureContact team has just announced the release of a range of new features for its AI-powered email marketing and automation platform, including email sequences, WordPress page visit automation and…
Benjamin from SEOPress has just announced the release of version 9.7 of their SEO plugin for WordPress, introducing a new React-based settings UI, better redirects, and support for Seznam.
Following the recent launch of Modern Cart and Cart Abandonment Recovery, Adam from CartFlows has just announced the release of Power Coupons Pro for WooCommerce.
Lukas from Gleap has just announced the release of a new Telegram integration for the customer support platform. Connect a Telegram bot to Gleap to start receiving and replying to…
Mannie from EmbedMyReviews has just introduced onboarding blueprint packages and two new blueprint types to the white-label online reputation management platform.
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That’s all for this week. We hope you enjoyed the 146th issue of The Pier. Until next week! Please tell your friends about The Pier if you like it.
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