Pier #175 – FluentCart LTD Ends, Bit Connect & WowSubscription Launch, FluentCommunity Gets Insights & FleekDash Adds E-Commerce Integrations

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Stefan from Ahoi.dev   |   The Pier #175   |   October 23, 2026

Welcome to the 175th issue of The Pier. Better Stack, our all-time favourite for uptime monitoring, has rebuilt its mobile apps as fully native versions for iOS and Android. Incidents open more quickly, scrolling through the timeline is smoother, and AI SRE chats are updated in real time. Additionally, critical alerts cut through silent mode and Do Not Disturb and can override your system volume.

LTD End: FluentCart lifetime plans will end on 30 October! After this date, FluentCart Pro will only be available on yearly plans.

Launch: WPXPO has announced that WowSubscription will soon be available. Recurring revenue isn’t just for digital products. Stay tuned for a new way to manage all types of WooCommerce subscriptions, from physical products to digital downloads, memberships and online courses.

WordPress E-Commerce: FleekDash has introduced a complete game-changer to the way you manage your WordPress-based online stores. Version 2.7.0 features powerful native integration with WooCommerce, Voxel Commerce, Shopify and all the other major e-commerce systems. You can now manage orders, products and store data with lightning-fast synchronization, all within its modern, clean dashboard interface.

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!

Bit Connect
WordPress Community & Feedback Plugin ©Bit Connect

👋 Bit Connect is Now Live

As announced in The Pier #174, Bit Apps has just launched Bit Connect, which enables you to build your own Reddit-style community within WordPress. Users can ask questions, start discussions, submit feature requests, vote, follow your roadmap, report bugs and access support, all in one place.

The early bird offer is $99 for a one-time payment for unlimited sites.

Community Insights
Insights for Your Community ©FluentCommunity

👋 New: Community Insights

As the previous ‘Reports’ screen didn’t really show what was happening in your community, the FluentCommunity team rebuilt ‘Insights’ in version 2.12.0.

The new overview shows your activity trends, active and new members, your busiest spaces and a ‘Needs Attention’ list, so you can see what needs your attention today.

They have also added Engagement, Members, Spaces, Content and Moderation reports. These reports help you to see who’s active, which spaces are quiet, which content works well and how moderation is going.

Each number is compared with the previous period, so you can immediately see whether things are improving or declining. You can select a range of 7, 30 or 90 days, 12 months, or a custom range, and export any table to CSV.

Quiz Preview
Preview Quizzes Before Your Students See Them ©Klasio

👋 New: Quiz Preview & Math Formulas

Klasio has released three new updates to streamline the process of creating online courses: a quiz preview feature, the ability to include maths formulas in quiz answers, and direct YouTube and Vimeo links for video lessons.

Until now, viewing a quiz as a student would see it required setting up a test student account. Formulas like E = mc² had to be entered as plain text. Adding a video also meant finding the embed code every single time.

Now, however, you can take any quiz as a student would without recording an attempt, write real formulas in your answer options and simply paste a video link into a lesson.

Feedback Portal
SSO, Email Verifications & Kai PM Tidy-Up ©Gleap

👋 Gleap: Better Feedback Portal

In Gleap, feature requests now keep the requester’s thread private while enabling a public discussion on your feedback portal. Additionally, Kai PM cleans up new requests before they are visible to you, and your users can sign in to the portal using their existing account.

🗞️ Bites & Pieces

WordPress

Novamira Pro 1.13.0 now supports WPML. If you have a multilingual site, your agent can translate your pages, posts, categories, theme and plugin texts, and media themselves. They can also manage your languages and choose what WPML translates.

FlowMattic 7.3 introduces FlowMattic Cloud, an optional add-on that comes with a free plan. All schedules, delays and timings now run from FlowMattic’s job table, ensuring nothing runs twice. When you connect to the Cloud, it wakes your site the moment something is due: on the minute with the free plan and to the second with paid plans. There is no limit on schedules. If your site is down, Cloud will keep retrying for around five days, email you and allow you to replay failed events.

Elegant Themes introduces multi-select and bulk editing and a new icon manager for Divi 5.

WPForms 2.0.3 introduces a new Weekly Email Summary feature and an ‘Other’ option for checkboxes.

Modula 3.0.13 introduces a new Freeform gallery type. Place and stack images freely on the desktop canvas using the alignment guides. Tablet and mobile layouts are created automatically.

WordPress Analytics

Burst Statistics 3.7.3 adds custom event tracking and measures the weight and carbon footprint of your pages. It also gives goals their own tab with a step-by-step wizard and lets you choose whether alerts go to email, Slack, or both.

WordPress Management & Performance

With xSpeed Cache 1.4.3, tablets can obtain their own cached copy. Additionally, Markdown versions of a page can be cached alongside the HTML.

In WP Multitool 1.9.15, after selecting ‘Optimize what’s safe’, Site Doctor will load your homepage as if you were a logged-out visitor and compare it with how it looked before the clean-up. If the page has broken, it restores the previous settings and informs you of the changes.

Versions 2.6.8 and 2.6.9 of FleekDash introduce a new rollback system. You can now instantly roll back any plugin, theme or WordPress core update with a single click. There is also a new native updates page. This allows you to list and manage WordPress core, plugin, and theme updates on a single, clutter-free screen, eliminating the need to jump into the native WP Admin.

Created by the developers of Classic Monks, Warp Performance offers native LiteSpeed/OLS caching and integrations with bunny.net, Cloudflare and Redis Object Cache. It also provides file-based caching for Apache and Nginx, as well as an MCP server, and supports WooCommerce, SureCart, FluentCart and much more.

E-Commerce, Donations & A/B Testing

Confetti 2.0.2 introduces a new FluentCart integration. Confetti is triggered on the thank-you page after a purchase.

With SureCart 4.9.6, product variants can now appear as individual listings in Google rich results and Google Merchant Center.

WowRevenue 3.0 offers a completely redesigned bundle-building experience (video). With more than 10 bundle designs, you can create smarter product offers, such as product bundles, ‘Buy X Get Y’, ‘Frequently Bought Together’, ‘Mix & Match’, ‘Volume/Bulk Discounts’, and more. Get your WooCommerce store ready for Black Friday!

Would you like to create manual orders up to 90% faster? Get Advanced Manual Orders for WooCommerce!

Affiliate Marketing

Most partners need a nudge at some point. However, identifying the right partner and reaching out to them at the right moment is a full-time job. With Partnero‘s new Campaigns feature for affiliate engagement, you only need to build a sequence of emails, waits, conditions and tags once. Then, based on what they do in your program, Partnero will run it for every partner.

No-Code Website Builder

The official Framer MCP is now available. Connect ChatGPT, Claude, Cursor, Grok Bot or any other AI tool to Framer. Build pages, edit components and update your CMS using your favourite AI agent on desktop or mobile.

CMP

In SureCookie 1.7.0, the Preferences window includes links to your Cookie Policy, Privacy Policy and Legal Notice. There is also a Legal Notice (Imprint) page setting for countries that require it.

AI Video Generation

Poko Motion can now transform a motion template into a branded product video for you. The music now fades under the narration: Background music is lowered while the voice is speaking and then comes back during pauses, intros and endings.

Video Hosting

Gumlet is now available as a plugin on the ChatGPT Marketplace. Use it to upload, manage and query your video library directly inside ChatGPT. It also now has official SDKs for Python and JavaScript, which make it easier to integrate video upload, management and delivery directly into your codebase. Finally, lead forms are now fully customizable and you can set up recurring scheduled analytics reports and AV1 encoding support.

Uptime Monitoring

Pulsetic introduces AI monitoring. In other news, every domain that you already monitor now has its DNS monitored too.

AI Video Generation

The new Poko Motion template library features over 200 templates, all of which have been carefully curated by motion designers. These aren’t generic, AI-generated layouts. They are production-ready creative foundations for product launches, explainers, social content, announcements and much more besides.

Events

EventKoi 1.4.8.0 introduces native Divi 5 modules for calendars and individual events with live previews in the builder. Attendees can receive a reminder email the day before their event. Finally, the Events Calendar importer imports venues and organizers as taxonomies, with venues set up as the reusable location source.

Bazingaworld adds recurring events to The Events Calendar.

Link Management

The Replug dashboard, emails, in-app notifications and API messages are now available in 13 languages, including English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Arabic (with full right-to-left layout), Dutch, Turkish, Indonesian, Thai and Malay.

Food Blogs

With Recipe Card Blocks Pro 7.4.5, you can convert all your recipes to metric or US measurements at once. There is also new spam protection for recipe submissions. This includes a hidden honeypot field, a minimum completion time for the form, a per-visitor limit, and an optional Cloudflare Turnstile. There is also a Spam view that allows you to clear thousands of spam submissions in one click.

Social Media

The new Mixpost CLI allows you to use the self-hosted social media management tool directly from your terminal.

Partnership ads and collab posts are now available on Replient.ai. Comments on your creators’ posts are sent to your inbox, where you can respond to, hide and automate them as you would with your own posts (video).

With Larkpulse (by Giststack), you can now create stunning carousel posts for LinkedIn, Instagram and Threads in just one click. Choose from 50 trending carousel styles, let Larkpulse design a carousel based on your post’s context, or clone an existing style by providing reference images (video).

WhatsApp Automation

Pabbly Chatflow introduces a fairer credit system for sending WhatsApp campaigns. Previously, credits were deducted for messages sent, even if they failed to deliver. Now, however, credits are only deducted when your messages are successfully delivered. More value for money!

LinkedIn & Email Outreach

Weezly introduces A/B testing for sequences, a comprehensive split-testing dashboard and reply intelligence, which tells you exactly which messages are getting results. There is also time zone sending, so your leads always hear from you at the right time.

Email Marketing

Mailcoach now supports image uploads via the API and MCP.

Newsletter Glue 4.2 adds a Newsletter Analytics column and a report modal for NG ESP (see The Pier #167). You can view opens, clicks, bounces and more, and export to CSV right from the Campaigns list.

Browser Bookmarks

Tinypad 2.0 introduces a new sidebar layout and the ability to organize bookmark groups into spaces. It also features four work modes and colour highlights for bookmarks, as well as colour labels for subgroups.

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🚨 Latest Posts

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Customer Support

Gleap Rolls Out Sequences aka Automated Follow-Ups

Lukas from Gleap has just announced the release of the Sequences feature for their AI-native customer support platform. Put simply, it’s automated follow-ups that stop when people reply.

Job Boards, SaaS

Job Boardly: New Ultra Plan with Messaging & Headless API

Nelson from Job Boardly has just announced the release of a new Ultra plan for the no-code job board builder SaaS, which includes messaging and a Headless API.

Server Management

Ploi Releases ‘The Forgejo Update’

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

WordPress

Classic Monks Introduces Login Security, Plugin & Theme Rollback

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eCommerce, SaaS

ThriveCart Introduces ThrivePages, Advanced Adaptive Pricing & Subscription Bumps

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Web Analytics, WordPress

Independent Analytics: New Campaign Builder & QR Code Generator

The Independent Analytics team has introduced a new campaign builder and QR code generator to their privacy-friendly WordPress analytics plugin.

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