Pier #163 – Novamira Raises Prices, SureMembers Adds Team Accounts, Voxel Toolkit Gets AI Autofill & Larkpulse Launches

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Stefan from Ahoi.dev   |   The Pier #163   |   July 31, 2026

Welcome to the 163rd issue of The Pier. Hot on the heels of Laracon US 2026 and The Vibes comes the release of NativePHP for Mobile v4, which allows you to build real native apps from Blade with SuperNative. No WebView!

Last Chance: On the fence? Novamira Pro prices will increase on 1 August.

Launch: Chris from Giststack has launched Larkpulse, a new social media scheduling platform designed to help you improve your social media game, rather than just automating your posts. Watch this video to find out more.

Team Member Accounts: SureMembers 1.3.0 has introduced support for team (corporate) accounts, where one account owner can manage multiple members under one membership. Team registration and management is available on the front end. With membership variations for team accounts, you can offer different team sizes without creating multiple memberships.

AI Listing Builder: Voxel Toolkit 1.7.3 introduces the new AI Autofill feature, offering a new way to create listings without having to fill in a single field manually. Just paste a website URL, Google Maps link or business name and the AI will fill out a new Voxel listing draft, including the title, description, categories, location, opening hours and images, in one step. It’s an Elementor widget that you can add to your submission page.

Milestone: Slim SEO has reached 70,000 active users!

Tutorial: Learn how to create quizzes for online courses and membership communities using SureDash.

Birthday Sale: To celebrate its first birthday, SureRank Premium has reduced the price of its annual and lifetime plans by up to 20%. Offer expires 3 August.

CMP: With Trustwards 2.6, you can add as many custom sections as you need to the privacy policy, cookies policy or privacy notice of the WordPress consent management platform plugin. These will also be translated automatically into all your selected languages. You can also now see at a glance which regulation is applied per country and customize your Google Consent Mode.

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!

Query Builder
Visual WordPress Query Builder ©Unblock

👋 New: Unblock Query Builder

Unblock v1.0.0-beta.7 has introduced a new Query Builder for Loop and Variable blocks.

Previously, building a query meant writing the arguments by hand: the correct post type, the correct order and nested filters. Now, you simply select what to display, how to sort it and which filters to add, and Unblock builds the query for you. This works for posts, terms and users, each of which has its own fields.
The AND/OR filters use the same familiar builder as the Conditions.

By the way, Unblock is still offering 30% off its limited lifetime deal until the stable release. Don’t miss out!

FluentCommunity 2.7.5
Audio Posts for Your Community ©FluentCommunity

👋 New: Community Audio Posts

FluentCommunity 2.7.5 has introduced audio posts powered by FluentPlayer. This enables members of your community to share audio content, such as podcast clips, voice notes, recorded Q&As or music, directly in the feed alongside photos and videos. Each track can be renamed and cover art added to match your colour scheme.

In addition, there are two new lesson blocks for course creators. The first is a ‘Details’ block that allows you to hide hints or answers behind a click. The second is a Maths block that renders real LaTeX formulas as you type.

Finally, you can select a colour scheme and choose from Light, Dark or System. Members using a dark device will automatically get a dark portal.

🗞️ Bites & Pieces

WordPress

Meta Box releases Block Bindings, which allow you to connect custom fields directly to headings, paragraphs, images, buttons and other supported blocks without using PHP, shortcodes or custom blocks.

Following hot on the heels of FlowMattic 7.0 comes version 7.1. This focused follow-up is built around one idea: you decide what runs on your site. All new core modules in v7 now ship switched off by default. The FlowMattic LTD is now available again, with split payment options.

Novamira Pro 1.8.0 now supports Weglot. If your website uses Weglot for translation, the AI agent can interact with it via dedicated abilities and skills.

Directorist 8.9 introduces custom badges (video). Set your own criteria, such as rating, reviews, view count, listing age and featured status, and the badges will be applied automatically.

ITBoffins Live Opening Hours Banner & Table is a free plugin that displays a live open/closed notice bar and a dynamic opening hours table. It also supports public holidays and one-off changes.

Plugin Auditor is a free plugin that performs 72 automated checks on every WordPress plugin, covering security, performance and code quality. You can either drop in a ZIP file or search a WordPress dot org slug.

Before WordPress saves every CSS edit, CSS Guardrail scans it, blocking critical mistakes and warning you about risky changes. It also explains why a rule is dangerous, so you can fix it with confidence.

WordPress Performance

With WP Multitool 1.9.0, you can now restore a wp-config.php backup. There is also a new rescue command for sites that will not load. If the wp-config.php file contains incorrect database credentials, WordPress will not start, which affects both wp-admin and the normal CLI command.

WP Rocket releases OAuth support for WP Rocket MCP and Claude, enabling users to connect their WordPress sites to Claude in just a few clicks, without the need for application passwords, configuration files or technical setup.

With Scrutoscope, you can find out why your site is slow. It profiles every hook callback during a page request, attributing the time to its source. This allows you to identify which plugin is the most costly, which queries are the most demanding, and which HTTP calls are blocking the response.

E-Commerce, A/B Testing & PPP

AB Split Test 2.6.5 introduces bot protection detection for AI analysis. If Cloudflare, Sucuri or a similar service blocks CROAssist from reading your pages, the Optimization Hub will now explain exactly what happened. It will provide a two-minute whitelist guide and a re-run button, so no credits will be wasted on blocked runs. The new AI Analyzer whitelist key provides a unique key for each site, which the analyzer sends back in an X-ABST-Analyzer request header. This allows you to whitelist the site in your firewall using a private rule.

GT Extensions for FluentCart adds exact local prices, automatic checkout currency conversion and a currency-aware payment gateway routing system to FluentCart, as well as six storefront modules.

CartCubes for SureCart is a new mobile app for Android that helps SureCart store owners manage their stores on the go. An iOS version is coming soon, as is an app for FluentCart.

WPPool introduces Multi-Store Sync for FlexStock, its latest add-on which allows you to synchronize products across multiple WooCommerce stores from a single Google spreadsheet.

Merchant by aThemes introduces AI Abilities, enabling AI agents to manage your WooCommerce store. They can manage your modules, build and edit campaigns, read your analytics, provide recommendations and update settings for individual products. Additionally, it can build product bundles, assign size charts, manage your restock waitlist and set swatches.

With Evendeals, you can now create marketing banners to accompany your regular purchasing power parity (PPP) deals. Marketing campaigns are available on the Pro plan and above. Additionally, you can now create a product for each item you sell, such as an online course or a Notion template. Each product has its own deals, payment integrations, base currency and settings. In other news, Arif from Evendeals has launched Locale Parrot, a new platform that uses AI to translate your website into any language.

Appointment Bookings

With LatePoint‘s new PayPal v6 integration, your customers can now pay online with PayPal, Pay Later and debit/credit cards, without ever leaving your booking page. There is also an improved Razorpay integration, a white label option, and a new ‘Limit Daily Bookings’ option. Set a maximum number of bookings per day for each service or agent to prevent overbooking, balance workloads and ensure an excellent customer experience.

CRO

With the new branching flow feature, Claspo now allows pop-up steps to branch. Each answer determines the next step, meaning a single pop-up can qualify a lead, offer a personalised discount, or direct the visitor to the appropriate product. Any answer can be linked to any step – paths can split and rejoin, and end on different offers, all within one pop-up and one lead record.

CRM

FluentCRM 3.1.9 brings significant performance and MCP improvements.

Customer Support

With Gleap, you can now copy and paste HTML and Markdown into the article editor of your knowledge base.

Affiliate Marketing

Partnero releases Themes, a library of professionally designed templates that you can apply to your affiliate portal with a single click. You can use it as a starting point and instantly update your colours, fonts, layout and login/sign-up style.

Voice to Text

AudioPen now supports voice typing on Android devices. Simply tap the bubble, speak into it and clean text will appear in the style of your choice in whichever app you are using. This also works for messages, emails, notes and search bars.

Food Blogs

The Recipe Card Blocks plugin adds a new search form, an ingredients filter and multi-select functionality to all filters in the Recipe Index block.

Experience Management

Formbricks 5.1 introduces an AI survey builder, an MCP server, person attributes in exports and more.

Marketing Attribution

Usermaven introduces Event Sources, a new feature that brings conversion events from payment providers, CRMs, spreadsheets and other tools directly into the analytics and marketing attribution platform. No custom code is required.

Project Management

Your favourite AI assistant, whether it’s Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini or Copilot, can now create projects, tasks and documents directly in Nifty, eliminating the need for constant copying and pasting between chat windows and your board.

Fonts

RightFont 10.0 features a completely redesigned app core to deliver a faster, more flexible and refined font management experience. With the new ‘Add Folders’ feature, you can browse and organize fonts directly from existing folders. Please check the changelog for more details.

AI Audio

ElevenLabs launches Characters in Audiobooks, a new feature built around your cast. Now, you can turn a manuscript into a fully cast audiobook before generating a single line. Watch this video to find out more.

Social Media

Mixpost Pro 6.3.0 introduces Single Sign-On (SSO) authentication via OpenID Connect (OIDC).

WhatsApp Automation

Pabbly Chatflow introduces a new Automatic Retry for Failed Contacts feature, ensuring that your broadcasts continue to work even after you have clicked the ‘Send’ button.

Automation

With Pabbly Connect, you can now select, copy and paste multiple workflow steps at once, while preserving their sequence and connections. This makes creating and editing workflows faster than ever.

Email Marketing

With Mailercloud, you can now customize your unsubscribe page and find out exactly why people are leaving your mailing list.

EmailOctopus now supports multiple automation triggers. A trigger is the event that adds someone to an automation. Until now, each automation had just one trigger. For example, if you wanted the same welcome series to start from both a form sign-up and a contact added through the API, you had to build two nearly identical automations and keep them both in sync. With the Pro plan, you can now add up to three triggers to a single automation.

Transactional Email

Using MailerSend, you can now create and manage multiple language versions of each email template. They currently support nine languages, including Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Lithuanian, Polish, Brazilian Portuguese and Spanish. Translations of templates are available with Professional plans, which include 50 translation credits every month.

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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.

WordPress

SureMembers Launches Team Accounts

Adam from SureMembers has just announced the release of team accounts aka corporate accounts for the WordPress membership plugin, which makes it easy to sell team memberships — hence the…

WordPress

Conversion Bridge: New Automatic Form Tracking, OpenAI Ads & FluentBooking Support

Derek from Conversion Bridge has just released version 1.15 of his WordPress analytics and conversion tracking plugin. This update introduces automatic form tracking, support for OpenAI Ads and FluentBooking.

WordPress

BuddyBoss Introduces Member Blogging, Bookmarking & Blog Subscriptions

Graham from BuddyBoss has just announced the release of a new feature called Member Blogging. It allows members of your community to write and publish posts from the front end…

WordPress

FluentPlayer Now Supports Audio, Private Media & Elementor

Jewel from FluentPlayer has just released version 1.3.0 of the next-generation video player for WordPress. It features Elementor and Divi integration, an audio player, private media and FluentCRM tracking.

Web Analytics, WordPress

Independent Analytics Rolls Out Real-Time Analytics 2.0

The Independent Analytics developers have just introduced a Real-Time Analytics 2.0, which includes filtering, city data and UTM campaign parameters, to their privacy-friendly WordPress analytics plugin.

WordPress

Amelia Business App – Easily Manage Appointments & Events While On The Go

Kristina from Amelia has just announced that the new Amelia Business App is now available on iOS and Android. The mobile app can be used to manage appointment and event…

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