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Pier #45 – Advanced Columns, JetSloth, Greenshift, FunnelKit, Patreon, ACSS & ZoloBlocks
Hi there,
Welcome to the 45th issue of The Pier. This week Igor from Greenshift announced beta access to the upcoming Figma to Greenshift conversion plugin, which will initially be available only to All in One plan customers. They have also started work on the HTML to WordPress conversion.
Kevin from Automatic.css has announced the official beta release of ACSS 3.0 for Bricks users. It’s a massive step forward in development power, efficiency and maintainability for web designers building with the CSS framework for WordPress.
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 deals. Enjoy!
🤙 New: Advanced Columns Pro
The Advanced Columns team set out to change the way layouts are created in the WordPress Site Editor. This week they have released the Pro version, which comes with unlimited media queries, a boxed mode, CSS grid fluid mode, WordPress fluid spacing support, responsive block visibility controls, global presets and user role-based visibility controls.
For the first week after launch, you can get 30% off your first payment by using the code UXMDI4MQ at checkout.
🗞️ Bites & Pieces
WordPress
- AB Split Test 1.6.17 introduces a new page conversion quality rating and now only supports GPT4 Turbo and JSON mode for Conversion AI.
- SEOPress 7.7 adds support for GPT-4-Turbo to its OpenAI integration. You can now also export your SEO metadata to a CSV file.
- Brave Conversion Engine 0.6.8 now integrates with Weglot, the website translation solution.
- Uncanny Automator introduces new GetResponse and SliceWP integrations in the free version. You can now also schedule your automations. Simply set your recipes to repeat automatically with the new Schedule integration, which includes a new report that shows upcoming scheduled recipes.
- ZoloBlocks 1.0.0 is now available for free on the WordPress repository.
- Kadence Blocks Pro 2.3.6 adds dynamic content support for The Events Calendar plugin.
- Thrive Architect now integrates with Smash Balloon, allowing you to embed social media feeds from Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, TikTok and more directly into your website.
- ACF Multilingual (ACFML) 2.1.0 allows you to translate labels for custom post types, taxonomies and options pages created with Advanced Custom Fields.
- Tutor LMS 2.7.0 is jam-packed with new APIs and WordPress 6.5 compatibility.
- ACPT adds support for Elementor Pro dynamic tags, nestable repeater and flexible fields.
Automation
- Milestone: SureTriggers now powers 20,000 websites and comes with 500 integrations. Stay tuned for a new UI to be released next month.
Live Streaming & Video Delivery
- OneStream Live introduces Live Studio Browser Extensions that allow you to go live directly from Microsoft Edge, Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox and Brave.
- Ecamm for Zoom is now in public beta and allows you to automatically send the audio and video output of Ecamm Live to a Zoom Meeting, Zoom Webinar or Zoom Event. You can also add Zoom participants as camera sources in your broadcast or recording.
- Creators can now embed Bunny Stream videos directly into Patreon.
Performance Marketing Analytics
- Weberlo announces the launch of AI-driven attribution.
Visual Website Builder
- Webflow acquires Intellimize, a website personalization & conversion rate optimization platform.
Social Media
- ContentStudio introduces a new AI toolkit for effortless content creation that includes an AI writing assistant, AI caption generator, AI image generator and AI hashtag generator. You can now also post to Facebook Groups via mobile app notifications.
- By the way, Publer also allows you to post to FB Groups via reminders or push notifications on your phone.
Interactive Animations
- Rive releases Audio Events powered by Soundly’s free library of over 3,000 sounds, perfect for playing short sound effects triggered by animations.
AI
- TypingMind now allows you to use Stable Diffusion v2 and Stable Diffusion v3.
Hosting
- xCloud now allows you to easily migrate WordPress sites from cPanel.
- DigitalOcean rolls out early availability of daily backups in the Singapore datacenter. Daily Droplet backups are also available in NYC1, NYC3, SFO3, and AMS3. Premium CPUs are now also available for memory-optimized Droplets in NYC1, NYC3, SFO2, TOR1, FRA1, BLR1, and SYD1.
From the Editor
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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.
🔥 Quayside Deals
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That’s all for this week. We hope you enjoyed the 45th issue of The Pier. Until next week!
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