Pier #171 – AB Split Test Ditches WordPress, Amelia Adds AI Website Builder, Novamira HQ, Confetti 2.0 & LatePoint Events Now Available

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Stefan from Ahoi.dev   |   The Pier #171   |   September 25, 2026

Welcome to the 171st issue of The Pier. Builderius has released Sense AI 2.0, which adds MCP support, allowing you to use the AI client you already have.

One Connection: Novamira HQ is a free, open-source desktop app available for macOS, Windows and Linux. It allows you to connect a hosting account or a single WordPress site directly. You can then connect it to your AI. All your sites are now available to it. Save 10% on Novamira Pro Agency (first year) and Agency Lifetime plans with code AHOIDEV10.

AB Split Test Server: With version 2.6.12, AB Split Test can now be used on non-WordPress sites, such as Shopify and Webflow. Simply paste one snippet to access point-and-click tests, heatmaps, session replays and page analytics. New features also include AI summaries of your test results and built-in page analytics. Finally, heatmaps now display segmented conversion rates.

Appointment Bookings: Amelia has launched a new AI-powered WordPress website builder with built-in booking functionality. It creates a matching theme and sets up your entire booking system, including services, staff, branding and payments, in minutes.

Ending Soon: This is your last chance to purchase Voxel Points at the Founders’ price! The price for the points economy for Voxel is going up this weekend!

GTM: As the Google team is supporting the development of Sendr, access to SendrAI is free until 1 November.

Tutorial: How to Turn Your Webinars into Paid Offers with SureCart.

Launch: WPAcquire is officially live! It’s a marketplace for WordPress plugins, themes, stores, and websites. Every listing shows revenue and profit publicly.

Podcasting: Show.fm is a modern PodOps platform featuring guest booking, show notes generation, social media posting, team collaboration and hosting.

Time Saver: Affinity has announced the release of a new Blend Tool.

Milestone: DevKit 3.0 has just arrived, featuring sync between two sites and a command line inside WP admin.

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!

LatePoint Events
WordPress Event Booking System ©LatePoint

👋 New: LatePoint Events

As announced in The Pier #168, the new Events feature is now finally live on LatePoint. This new feature allows you to host and manage workshops, classes, group sessions and ticketed events alongside the appointments you already manage. The free version comes with a dedicated events section, flexible event pages, categories, and automatic emails. Every event booking is also tracked as an order, just like your appointment bookings.

With LatePoint Pro, you can offer multiple ticket types, such as general, VIP or early bird, depending on your event. You can also give every attendee a unique QR code for quick and easy check-in.

FluentCommunity 2.11
© FluentCommunity 2.11

👋 New: Quiz Builder & Custom Menu

FluentCommunity 2.11 has released the biggest update to quizzes since courses were launched. The Advanced Quiz Builder in Pro now includes six new question types, including True/False, Written Answer, Fill in the Blank, Ordering, Matching and Image Matching. All are graded on the server, so answers never reach the student’s browser.

There is a new one-by-one layout with a progress bar, so long quizzes no longer feel overwhelming. You can also add an explanation to any question. Students can see this after submitting their answer, whether they got it right or wrong. A score shows how they did and the explanation tells them what to learn from it.

Finally, they have introduced a new Space Menu Manager that allows you to order, rename, hide and add to every tab in a space.

Confetti 2.0
Add Confetti Effect to WordPress ©WP Sunshine

👋 New: Meet Confetti 2.0

Confetti 2.0 introduces a redesigned settings screen with a live preview. With instances, you can save an unlimited number of separate confetti effects and choose from 29 styles, including fireworks, piñata, cursor trail, meteor shower, curtain drop and countdown. There is also a new overlay message feature that covers the screen with your own text while the confetti falls. You can also use emojis or your own SVG images as confetti and select a confetti effect for any core button block. This will fire when the button is clicked.

Finally, there are integrations for 58 plugins, up from 17. The new ones include SureCart, MemberPress, Tutor LMS, Kadence, Bricks, Divi, Beaver Builder, MailPoet, Groundhogg and AffiliateWP, among others.

🗞️ Bites & Pieces

WordPress

With xSpeed Cache 1.3.5, YouTube and Vimeo players injected with JavaScript by a theme or plugin after page load now have the same click-to-load functionality as regular embeds. This means that no player code loads until a visitor presses play. Get 50% off during launch week!

Classic Monks 2.4.0 introduces a conditional action builder for login and registration forms, as well as full white-label branding with custom colours and logos for client sites. It also offers one-click plugin upload with overwrite and an SMTP provider search.

With the FormGent MCP, you can connect FormGent to an AI client and perform many of these tasks via a simple conversation (video).

SchemaDance 2.0 for Breakdance is now available! This update includes more data types to use, detection on what schema types on each page, plain text output, and more. Watch this video for more details.

With WP Shipyard, site admins can browse the site in a different installed theme, while visitors and other logged-in users continue to see the live version.

Handoverdesk turns your WordPress Site Health into a professional handover or work completion record.

WordPress Analytics

Burst Statistics 3.7.1 introduces a guided tour of your dashboard, as well as the ability to import and export statistics. It also features a lighter tracking script.

E-Commerce & A/B Testing

FluentCart 1.6.5 introduces new Storefront Appearance options.

Wannacheckout 1.1.1 for SureCart makes the summary column sticky while you are scrolling through the two-column checkout layout.

FunnelKode adds a complete funnel-building layer to FluentCart, enabling you to create conversion-driven sales funnels without altering how FluentCart manages products, pricing, checkout or payments.

Katapic is an SEO and AI search optimizer for WooCommerce product catalogs. It allows you to scan, diagnoze and optimize your product catalog for Google, AI search and other channels.

Merchant Pro introduces a new Delivery & Pickup module for WooCommerce.

CataLord provides store managers with a fast, modern interface that replaces the default WooCommerce product editing experience.

Video Hosting

Gumlet releases a new tool to simplify Vimeo migrations. Head to takeout.video, connect your account and transfer your library. It carries over your folders, metadata and privacy settings with no manual work required, and ensures that no embeds are broken. Additionally, you can also download your analytics charts as images or PDFs directly from the Insights dashboard.

Appointment Bookings

With LatePoint 1.7.1, recurring appointments can now be created from the backend. The ‘New Order’ screen now has a ‘Recurring’ option, which adds each occurrence to the order as its own appointment and provides a preview of the generated slots.

Amelia 9.9 introduces full two-way synchronization with Google Calendar and Outlook Calendar.

With FluentBooking 2.5.0, you can now reschedule appointments in the admin area by choosing a new time from the booking details or calendar view. Private booking notes are also available.

Booktics introduces Round Robin Scheduling, which allows you to automatically distribute bookings among available team members. This makes it easier to manage schedules and ensure balanced workloads. You can also accept booking payments seamlessly through your WooCommerce checkout, and connect Booktics with MailPoet to build smarter email marketing workflows. Watch this video to find out more.

WPTimetics introduces new FlowMattic and Uncanny Automator integrations. With Visual Email Automation, you can create booking email workflows with ease using ready-to-use automation templates for confirmations, reminders, follow-ups and much more.

Client Portals

Kitchen.co releases one of its most requested customization features yet: Say hello to the brand new Login Customizer! Watch this video to find out more.

Laravel

Super Stack is an open source starter kit from NativePHP. It contains a Filament admin, a native mobile app, Sanctum and a Laravel MCP server, all in one repository.

Vacuum checks your PostgreSQL database for bloat and wraparound issues, as well as unused indexes. It also flags unindexed foreign keys in your migrations during CI.

Web Development

Bunny Storage is now available in the bunny.net CLI in public preview.
You can now use it to create and manage Storage Zones, upload and download files, connect Pull Zones, configure custom domains and retrieve S3-compatible credentials, all without switching between tools. This also makes Bunny Storage easier to integrate with scripts, CI/CD pipelines and other automated workflows.

User Feedback

In Userback, your feedback widget, ideas portal and surveys are all in different projects. It’s like piecing together a story with feedback here, survey responses there, and ideas somewhere else. They are changing that with Sites, which will be available soon. Watch this interactive demo to find out more!

Customer Support

With Gleap, you can now select an EU or US data center when creating your account. This means that your customer databases, uploaded files and backups will stay in your selected region. In other news, GPT-6 Astra, GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna are now available, as is Claude Opus 5.5. Select them for Kai or Kai Code sessions in Gleam Cloud.

Social Media & Listening

Publer now allows you to increase the visibility of your Threads posts by automatically sharing them to your Instagram Story.

Social listening is now available in Planable. It provides one feed for your brand, topics and competitor mentions from social media and the web.

WhatsApp

MailerSend now offers a new WhatsApp API for fast transactional messaging.

Email Marketing

MailerLite adds two-way sync to its Shopify integration, meaning that subscriber updates and new subscribers created in MailerLite are also reflected in Shopify.

The new Mailviews MCP server provides your AI agent with access to the entire library. It browses the components and template kits, selects the most suitable options for your requirements and returns finished HTML emails that render properly in every email client. Ask it to create a launch email for the spring drop based on Monarch or a 30% off coupon in Santos style, for example, and it will return the final email with inline CSS, Outlook-safe markup and testing across clients. It also understands Mailviews and Maizzle rules, enabling it to safely modify copy, links, logos, colours and markup. It works with Claude Code, Claude.ai, ChatGPT, Cursor, VS Code and any other MCP client that supports OAuth.

Sender launches an all-new email builder with nestable containers, smart mobile sync and more.

The new Countdown element is the first in a series of dynamic elements designed for the Postcards email builder. Nine new integrations have also been added, including Moosend, Mailercloud, Sender, Mailjet, GetResponse, Postmark, Sendy, Mailgun and Kit.

Customer Testimonials

Feedspace introduces a new Review badge that allows you to bring ratings from multiple review platforms, such as Google, G2, Trustpilot and Product Hunt, together into one badge on your website.

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

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WordPress

BuddyBoss Releases New Email Digest Feature

Following the Universally integration earlier this month, Sakil from BuddyBoss introduced a new Email Digest feature that allows members of your community to choose how often they want to receive…

WordPress

Confetti 2.0 Adds Instances, Overlay Messages & More Styles

Derek from WP Sunshine has just announced the release of Confetti 2.0. This update introduces instances, additional styles and new integrations to the celebration effects plugin for WordPress.

WordPress

ACPT Introduces Custom Content Types, Canvas UI & Full Data Framework

Mauro from ACPT has just released the most significant update to the dynamic data framework for WordPress yet. Meet CCT, a new Canvas UI and full data framework.

WordPress

Recipe Card Blocks Introduces New AI Cooking Assistant

Pavel from Recipe Card Blocks Pro has just announced the launch of a new AI cooking assistant for the WordPress recipe plugin.

LMS, SaaS

Klasio Introduces Built-In Affiliate Management

The Klasio team has built a complete affiliate program inside its AI-powered SaaS LMS platform. Now, your students, past buyers and anyone with an audience can sell your courses and receive a share…

WordPress

Bricksforge 4.0 Introduces Rebuilt Animation Panel, Backend & Email Designer

Daniele has just announced the release of Bricksforge 4.0 — the biggest update yet. Every screen has been rebuilt from scratch with a brand new design language, and much more…

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