Pier #166 – FluentCommunity PWA, Markdown for AI, WowRecommend Preps Launch, Maven AI Builds Advanced Reports & FluentCart Adds WooCommerce Migration

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Stefan from Ahoi.dev   |   The Pier #166   |   August 21, 2026

Welcome to the 166th issue of The Pier. Usermaven has released a significant update to Maven AI. Do you need an acquisition dashboard? Or a closer look at product engagement? Or a way to track retention? Just ask Maven AI. It figures out which reports you need, adds them to your dashboard and builds them live right before your eyes. We’re not just talking about basic charts here. Maven can also build more advanced reports, such as marketing attribution and retention reports, without you having to configure them yourself. The result is a complete, organized dashboard built around the specific question you wanted answered.

Exciting: With FluentCommunity, your members can now install your community as a progressive web app (PWA).

Launch: Pointics is an AI-powered loyalty and rewards plugin for WordPress. Designed to work with Eventin, WPCafe, WPTimetics, Booktics and WooCommerce, Pointics helps you reward your customers and encourage them to come back. The Early Bird LTD is now up and running!

Coming Soon: Designed for WooCommerce stores, WowRecommend offers AI-powered product recommendations to help you display more relevant products at the right moment and create more opportunities to increase AOV. Available from 24 August.

New Arrival: We would also like to welcome Uplads 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!

Markdown for AI
Serve Post Content as Clean Markdown to AI ©Slim SEO

👋 New: Markdown for AI

Did you know that AI agents such as Claude, Code, and Cursor can now read websites?

When they visit your page, they have to dig through menus, scripts and adverts to find the actual content. This slows them down, makes them expensive to run and increases the likelihood of them providing incorrect answers.

Slim SEO Pro has a new feature called ‘Markdown for AI’. When activated, AI agents receive a clean Markdown copy of your post, while human readers continue to see the standard HTML page. There are no URL changes and no SEO impact.

The benefits are clear: fewer tokens, faster and more accurate responses, and a better chance of your content being cited as a source.

WooCommerce Migrator
Migrate WooCommerce Stores to ©FluentCart

👋 FluentCart WooCommerce Migrator

FluentCart 1.6.2 now offers a guided wizard to help you migrate your entire WooCommerce store to FluentCart. This includes products, orders, customers, coupons, tax rates and even WooCommerce Subscriptions. All data is transferred with its history intact.

Order numbers remain unchanged. Stripe and PayPal transaction IDs are carried over. The same applies to refunds, tax breakdowns, shipping and order notes. Variable products become advanced variations. Grouped products and WC Product Bundles become FluentCart bundles. Categories keep their hierarchy.

🗞️ Bites & Pieces

WordPress

SureMembers 1.4.0 introduces a new SureForms integration. This allows you to automatically grant or revoke memberships when a SureForms payment is made or cancelled, or when a full refund is issued.

Unblock 1.0.0-beta 9 adds a new ‘Settings’ tab, which can be used to configure the editor and its generated front-end output. From here, you can also enable or disable the AI assistant and MCP sessions, as well as choosing how the generated CSS is delivered to the front end (automatically, in-line, or via an external file).

With Stackable 3.20.0, you can now save and manage your own patterns in the design library.

Presto Player 4.4.0 now supports AI Abilities. Simply connect to Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, or any other MCP client to work with your videos and analytics using plain language.

Voxel Calendar 1.4.0 for Voxel introduces a new Search Form Linking feature, connecting the calendar to the Search Form widget. When a visitor searches or filters, the calendar updates in real time — there is no need to reload the page or set up a post feed.

FlowMattic 7.2 introduces multi-trigger workflows. Each workflow can start from any of its triggers, and each webhook gets its own URL. Task history shows which one fired. There is also a new join step and AI-built workflows (video).

ACPT 2.0.67 adds dynamic data support for Gallery, Video, Audio and Image Slider fields for GenerateBlocks users.

Hyve 2.0 introduces a host of new features to the AI-powered WordPress chatbot. These include document imports, lead capture with webhooks, proactive message triggers, suggested follow-up questions, page-aware answers, custom instructions and a redesigned dashboard with live usage statistics. With Hyve Connect, the OpenAI key is optional. The free plan includes 500 chat messages per month. Hyve Pro increases this limit to 10,000.

Frontman is an AI editor for WordPress. Simply describe the result you want to achieve. Frontman can then inspect the supported WordPress structures, make the changes and refresh the preview for you to review.

Migro is a selective WordPress content migration plugin that transfers content between environments. Simply select a post or page, click ‘Push’, and Migro will transfer only that content and its dependencies.

Hafenstudios Ads is a new ad management plugin for WordPress. Use it to place banner ads, AdSense units, and any other ad code. You can also rotate them, target your audience and monitor impressions, clicks and CTR, all without sending any analytics to an external server.

uiXpress 1.4.4 adds per-role redirects, drill-down menus and CSS layering.

WordPress Hosting

FlyingHost has officially launched. It offers high-performance managed WordPress hosting. Each site is given an isolated container with dedicated resources, high-frequency CPUs, NVMe storage, a dedicated database and Redis. FlyingPress and FlyingCDN, which is powered by Cloudflare Enterprise, as well as Patchstack security, are also included. Note that FlyingPress will continue to work with all hosting providers.

E-Commerce

SureCart 4.6.4 introduces new filters that enable developers to customize the checkout success redirect and disable Google tracking.

WPSmartPay Pro 3.3.2 allows you to enable and disable coupons directly in the Gutenberg form editor. The new Coupon panel can be found in the editor sidebar.

A/B Testing

Sigmize introduces a new Server-Side Heatmap Background Capture feature. Heatmap background images are now captured by a real browser on its servers, rather than being rebuilt inside your visitors’ browsers. Also, turning cookie consent off now genuinely turns it off for all tracking.

AB Split Test 2.6.8 releases Page Analytics in beta. This provides page-level data on traffic, engagement time, scroll depth, click behaviour, acquisition sources, and visitor journey flow. It is built from existing heatmap journey data.

CRM

With Bit CRM 1.0.8, you can create invoices on a recurring schedule, send reminder emails and enable cancellations from either party. Tasks, meetings and calls are also available in month, week and day calendar views. You can also use AI directly inside Bit CRM to read and update CRM records with your own Claude, OpenAI or Gemini API key.

Groundhogg 4.7 introduces new Flow Reroute logic, which enables you to redirect a contact to any point in the flow or branch. New custom sender profiles and email preview links have also been added.

Appointment Bookings

Amelia 9.8 introduces new white label features, enabling agencies to fully rebrand the appointment booking plugin. These features include a new SuperAdmin role, centralized branding settings and hidden Amelia-specific links and shortcodes. Additionally, booking form shortcodes now display a visual preview directly within the Gutenberg, Elementor and Divi 5 editors, rather than displaying the raw shortcode text.

Ad Management

Uplads introduces a new MCP server that enables you to upload your ads directly via your preferred AI agent. The Google Ads integration is currently in a closed alpha version, while the Snapchat integration will be available in a few weeks’ time. The Creative Dashboard lets you analyze which ad formats deliver the best ROAS and why, so you can focus on those.

Communities

As previously mentioned, both BuddyBoss Courses and BuddyBoss Memberships are now included in every plan. On that note, they are now offering a new ‘Start’ plan. The BuddyBoss App has been completely redesigned using Flutter instead of React Native. Until now, all BuddyBoss App plans included both iOS and Android. The new App Solo Plan costs $99 per month or $499 for the first year. You can choose between iOS and Android.

Directories

Voxel Toolkit 1.8 for Voxel introduces push notifications, a new split view for listings, an anonymous timeline, listing analytics and booking reminders.

CRM

You can now open any record in Breakcold to get an instant summary of the entire relationship. This information is pulled from emails, LinkedIn, meetings, WhatsApp and Telegram, and is presented in four different formats.

SEO

Developed by rankingCoach, BeyondSEO is a plugin that combines content optimization, technical SEO tools, local visibility features, review management, social media workflows, ads, and connected marketing tools.

AI Video & Audio

The new Descript API provides video teams with programmable access to Descript’s editing tools, including rough cuts, filler removal and brand-aware variants, without the need for anyone to be logged into the app. You can wire it into a CMS, an asset library or an existing pipeline.

Customer Support

Heroic introduces Inbox Workflows, which allow you to automate repetitive tasks such as prioritizing tickets from VIP customers, closing tickets after a set number of days and sending feedback forms to customers.

LMS / E-Learning

Tutor LMS Migration Tool 2.5.0 simplifies the management of large-scale migrations by offering batch-based course migration. It also provides greater control over enrolments and improved migration support from LearnDash and LearnPress to Tutor LMS.

Mobile Apps

The new Bifrost Apprentice plan includes one user, one app and 50 monthly builds. It’s the simplest way to start releasing native apps for iOS and Android that have been developed using NativePHP.

Social Media & Link in Bio

With Smart Links, Linkie by Publer allows you to send visitors to the right destination based on their country, operating system and browser. This ensures that your links work for them, encouraging them to keep coming back to your profile.

SEOPress Insights 3.1 introduces a completely redesigned interface, WordPress Abilities API support and guided tours. You can also compare periods, competitors and segments.

WhatsApp Automation

With Pabbly Chatflow, you can now upload contacts via CSV while creating a broadcast, so there’s no need for a separate contact list.

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

FluentCommunity Introduces PWA Support

Jewel from FluentCommunity has released version 2.8.0 of the WordPress community plugin. New features include support for progressive web apps (PWAs), unlisted posts and the ability to sort member lists….

Server Management

Ploi Introduces ‘The SSL & Tenant Update’

Following The WordPress Update and The Debian Update, the Ploi team has just rolled out the so-called ‘SSL & Tenant Update’ to its user-friendly server management tool.

Video Hosting

Gumlet Introduces One-Click Mux Migration & DRM Usage Graph

Gumlet introduced a host of new features to its video hosting platform, including 1-click Mux migration, a DRM usage graph and smarter watermarks.

WordPress

WPForms Adds New Ranking Field To Surveys & Polls Add-On

Syed from WPForms has just announced the release of a new Ranking field for the Surveys & Polls add-on of the WordPress form builder plugin.

Ad Management

Uplads – Bulk Ad Management for Meta & TikTok, Without the Spreadsheet Chaos

Thomas, the co-founder of Replient, has just announced the launch of Uplads. It is a new platform for bulk launching and managing ads on Meta and TikTok.

Customer Support

Gleap Introduces Pipelines For A Lightweight CRM

Lukas from Gleap has just released Pipelines, which introduce lightweight CRM boards to the customer support platform. They have also introduced reactions and threads.

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That’s all for this week. We hope you enjoyed the 166th issue of The Pier. Until next week! Please tell your friends about The Pier if you like it.

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