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Pier #152 – Evendeals at The Port, Unblock Launches, SureContact Adds Appointment Booking & Supademo Goes Offline
Stefan from Ahoi.dev | The Pier #152 | May 15, 2026Welcome to the 152nd issue of The Pier. LifterLMS 10.0 was officially released this week. It claims to set a new standard for online education. The new Focus Mode offers a distraction-free learning experience, which is designed to help students stay engaged and focused so that they are more likely to finish what they start. The all-new Cart Abandonment Recovery add-on works silently in the background to recover lost revenue around the clock. The Events add-on lets you deliver live, virtual and instructor-led training directly inside LifterLMS. The improved Course Builder lets you create, edit and manage your courses without switching tabs. There is also a new ‘Any’ engagement trigger that eliminates the need to create duplicate engagements across courses, lessons, and quizzes.
Milestone: As announced in March 2026, FluentCRM 3.0 has just officially been released.
Exciting: SureCart has announced that the release of Product Bundles is just around the corner!
Launch I: Loïc from WP Grid Builder has announced the upcoming release of Unblock, marking a new era for the WordPress block editor. Essentially, it’s a single block that can become any element. No nested wrappers! AI with BYOK.
Launch II: WowInvoice Early Bird LTD is now open! Get the PDF Invoices & Packing Slips plugin for WooCommerce.
Launch III: Uncanny Automator has released Uncanny Agent, an AI assistant for WordPress that can create content, build automations, provide business insights, complete tasks, and solve problems — all through plain-language conversation.
Milestone: Consensus has raised $30M to develop an AI OS for research.
Acquisition I: Apple acquired the colour grading tool Color.io in January.
Acquisition II: Relevanssi, a SearchWP alternative, has been acquired by comesio solutions GmbH.
New Arrival: We would also like to welcome Evendeals 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 more. Enjoy!
Bring Your Contacts To ©SureContact
👋 New: One-Click Migration, Companies, Gradual Send & Appointment Booking
In the past, moving contacts from one email marketing automation platform to another meant exporting CSV files, fixing the formatting and hoping that nothing would break during the import process.
The good news is that SureContact now supports one-click migration from Mailchimp, MailerLite, Kit, ActiveCampaign, Brevo and Drip. If you have contacts on another platform, you can connect it directly and SureContact will automatically pull over everything, including contacts, tags, lists and custom fields. It only takes about 60 seconds.
SureContact has announced that a new Companies feature will be available soon. This feature allows you to group contacts by the companies they work for. Each company has its own information and notes.
They are also developing a lightweight appointment booking form that can be used with the landing page feature, similar to Calendy. This will enable you to use its landing page feature for appointment booking quickly and easily, with all the contact information going seamlessly into the marketing CRM.
Finally, they have also introduced a new feature called ‘Gradual Send’. Rather than sending all emails at once, you can now control the pace at which your campaign is sent, starting at a lower rate and gradually increasing over time.
🗞️ Bites & Pieces
WordPress
Amelia 9.5 adds a new ‘By Employees’ daily display option to the calendar. This shows appointments and events in side-by-side employee columns, with scrollable overflow and full filtering support. New features include support for AI-powered booking management via the WordPress Abilities API and MCP adapter, and a new booking CTA for Gutenberg, Elementor, and Divi 5.
Voxel releases the new Dialog (VX) widget, which enables you to quickly create pop-up dialogs and modals. As it is a nested widget, other widgets can be placed within it.
Elementor introduces a new, professional workflow in Angie: The Cloud Library allows you to save and reuse any custom snippet across your sites.
Element Studio is designed for scalability-oriented workflows. Start building your own component system for Oxygen today (video).
ProfilePress releases a new Brevo add-on that allows you to subscribe WordPress users and members to your Brevo groups and email lists. The new Auto-Renewal Checkbox add-on provides users with a simple way to opt in or out of automatic renewals.
FormGent 1.8.1 introduces conditional confirmation, a redesigned quiz experience and REGEX support for conditional logic to the form builder.
WPForms now natively integrates with Klaviyo.
Eventin now supports the migration of events from The Events Calendar. Facebook events can also be imported directly into Eventin. Waitlist signups are now automatically captured, ensuring that every interested attendee stays in the loop.
WP Umbrella 2.23.0 introduces an on-demand activity log.
Activity Log Pro 1.0.7 introduces new logging levels. ‘Severity’ has been added to every activity entry — ‘Critical’, ‘High’, ‘Medium’, ‘Low’ and ‘Info’ — making it easier to quickly identify important events.
E-Commerce
SureCart 4.3.0 now allows you to import products from WooCommerce.
FluentCart 1.3.27 introduces a new ‘Sites’ section to its Licensing module. This provides a top-level list of every activated site, each with its own dedicated detail page and advanced filters. This allows you to see where the licence is actually running at a glance. In addition, Bricks comes with a range of serious catalog tools. These include a list/grid view switcher, customizable category filter names, a partial-match search, live filtering and out-of-stock control.
Fluently Toolkit 1.5 introduces ‘Already purchased’ notices on product pages. It also introduces a mini cart in navigation menus and user switching across Fluent plugins.
Conversion Bridge 1.14 adds new Bit Form and FunnelKit Automations (Contacts) integrations as well as a native, per-form Fluent Forms settings. Custom tracking scripts can now be integrated directly with consent banners. Simply paste the snippet and select a consent category and where it loads.
Growfund 1.1.0 introduces a new Fundraiser Wallet and Withdrawal System, a Collaborator role for campaign management, and extended user management options. You can now also configure platform fees for admin earnings.
AI Chatbot
Chris from HeroThemes introduces HelpJet. This AI chatbot learns from your knowledge base or WordPress website content in order to provide real-time, conversational responses to customer queries directly on your site. A free forever plan is available!
Sales CRM
Breakcold V2 is now available! Watch this video to find out more.
User Onboarding
Flook launches a new Popups widget that enables you to display announcements, onboarding prompts, and calls to action in any part of your app. Any tooltip, highlight or popup can now trigger a tour. Next: User identification, analytics and reporting.
CMP
Biscotti is now officially TCF 2.3 certified and registered as CMP ID 497. It’s the IAB Europe standard on which the entire programmatic advertising ecosystem runs. With this certification, Biscotti now sits at the same table as Cookiebot, Usercentrics and every other enterprise CMP.
Email Marketing & Newsletters
Pabbly Email Marketing launches Campaign Analytics, which provides complete visibility of your email campaign performance. Track opens, clicks, bounces, unsubscribes, delivery reports and engagement metrics — all from one centralized dashboard.
Product Demos
WhatsApp Automation
The Pabbly Chatflow AI Assistant allows you to automate conversations, engage with visitors in real time and transform your website into a round-the-clock support and conversion engine.
Social Media
Mixpost Pro 5.3.0 now supports TikTok photo posts, while Mixpost Enterprise 6.2.0 adds Stripe tax configuration options and invoice PDF support.
Late rebrands as Zernio and simplifies its pricing structure. Pricing is now pay-per-account, with the first two social accounts free of charge.
Nuelink releases its new MCP server, which allows you to connect to AI assistants such as Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Manus, Codex and Cline, as well as other MCP-compatible tools.
Personalized Outreach
Sendr 3.0 introduces its video-first intelligent sequencer.
Job Boards
With Job Boardly, job boards can now collect data on visitors’ privacy preferences in order to comply with the EU/UK GDPR and other global data protection regulations. When this feature is enabled, a consent banner is displayed to relevant visitors before any analytics or marketing scripts load. To support cookie consent preferences, the third-party tools section has been updated with dedicated areas for analytics and marketing scripts. These scripts will only load once a visitor has consented to the relevant category in the cookie banner. Board owners can now disable their RSS and XML feeds. Job Boardly now also supports an external payment provider. When a job is posted to the draft board, the board owner will receive an email notification. Once the owner has verified receipt of the external payment and approved the job post, an email will be sent to the job poster to confirm that the job has been approved.
Server Management
Ploi introduces ‘The Scripts Update’, which provides a dedicated home for every script. With Ploi Pro, you can put any script on a recurring cron job and let Ploi handle the rest. There’s no need for crontab -e on every box or SSH — schedules live in Ploi and fire across as many servers as you like every matching minute. With the Unlimited plan, you can tie a script to a server event, and Ploi will run it automatically when that event occurs.
xCloud Mailbox is set to receive its most significant upgrade yet, incorporating world-class email infrastructure, AI-powered email features, and enhanced security and spam protection. You will be able to purchase the new mailboxes for both xCloud Managed Servers and Self-Managed Servers. For a limited time only, every unique domain hosted under an xCloud Managed Server will receive one free professional mailbox. Stay tuned!
Reputation Management
With EmbedMyReviews, you can send customers a tokenised link that allows them to log in with their Google or Facebook account and connect their business profile or page independently. They will never need to create or sign in to an account on the platform. Agencies can upload their own raw HTML email templates and use them in campaigns. Google Business Profile search keyword performance is now pulled in and displayed on both the customer and agency customer dashboards. This shows how many people found a location via branded versus non-branded searches each month and features a configurable list of brand aliases, allowing you to specify what counts as branded.
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
Elias from Breakdance has just announced version 2.8 of the visual website builder for WordPress, currently in beta. Meet multi-element selection, variable fonts, conditional form emails and a new Marquee Text element.
🏴☠️ Latest Port Arrivals
The following fine new tool has arrived at The Port.
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Brainstorm Force
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That’s all for this week. We hope you enjoyed the 152nd issue of The Pier. Until next week! Please tell your friends about The Pier if you like it.
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