Pier #48 - MailerGlue, Juuno, Blockstudio, LearnDash, FastPixel & WP Travel Engine

Stefan from Ahoi.dev | The Pier #48 | May 17, 2024

Hi there,

Welcome to the 48th issue of The Pier. MailerGlue, an upcoming new project from the developers of NewsletterGlue (see The Pier #31), pushes its launch to summer 2024 as it will no longer be a self-hosted plugin but a SaaS. It will allow you to send email campaigns from your WordPress admin and later plugin notifications from WooCommerce and LearnDash, for example.

Convesio, a managed WordPress hosting provider, has acquired Growmatik, an omni-channel marketing automation platform. Also, Permira takes WordPress rival Squarespace private in $6.9bn deal.

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!

🤙 Juuno Digital Signage

Juuno has released version 1.0 of the Media Library for its digital signage platform, which allows you to add assets to a workspace media library for easy access across playlists. Many improvements such as drag and drop, better thumbnail management, empty states and warnings are still in progress. Note that attaching external sources is not part of this launch.
You can access the media library from image, slideshow and video apps.

Juuno comes at an affordable price of just $5 per screen per month.

🗞️ Bites & Pieces

WordPress

Blockstudio 5.5 adds support for Tailwind CSS, allowing you to it within rendering templates when designing blocks in the editor. It also introduces a new Dynamic Selector that automatically assigns unique identifiers to block instances. Stay tuned for a Tailwind based page builder.
FlowMattic releases a new X/Twitter integration that allows you to create a new tweet or poll after publishing a new post or product in your WooCommerce store.
StellarWP acquires six LearnDash add-ons from WisdmLabs, including Instructor Role, Reports for LearnDash, Group Registration, Ratings, Reviews & Feedback, eLumine, and Content Cloner.
BuddyBoss adds the ability to schedule posts for advanced content planning and management. Currently, this feature allows site administrators, group owners and moderators to prepare posts in advance, streamlining engagement and ensuring timely updates (video).
WP Travel Engine 5.9 introduces Gutenberg blocks for tour and trip pages, pre-designed page patterns aka Pattern Engine and a new FSE theme called TravelVerse.
Voxel 1.4.0.3 adds support for phone number collection in Stripe checkout.
ACPT now integrates with WS Form.
Perfmatters 2.2.8 adds a new Defer JavaScript option to include inline scripts and a new option to separate block styles.
Formidable Forms introduces Map Views, allowing you to display form entries as pins on a map. You can now also create customizable calendars from form data in just a few clicks.

E-Commerce

FooSales releases the long awaited split payments support for its WooCommerce POS (Point of Sale).
YITH Advanced Reviews 2.0 introduces new Review Reminder and Review for Discount modules to encourage your customers to leave a review immediately. It also includes a product review overview and an option to define multiple rating criteria.

AI & Automation

SureTriggers now integrates with more than 30 new apps, including Tumblr, BigMailer, Bannerbear, Buy Me a Coffee, ServerAvatar, Campaign Monitor, AnnounceKit and Partnero.
TypingMind now supports GPT-4o and negative prompts for the Stable Diffusion v3 image plugin.
Castmagic now supports GPT-4o and is releasing pre-written prompts as well as new prompts specifically for LinkedIn.
Nifty Orbit AI creates project outlines, essential documentation, contracts and more. You can also easily convert messages from a project discussion or direct chat into a task. Orbit AI will then automatically assign due dates, assign people and fill in custom fields based on the content of the message.

Visual Website Builder

Webstudio launches headless CMS integrations, currently in beta.
Brizy officially launches White Label AI Builder.

Email Builder

Postcards modules can now be hidden for either desktop or mobile views, or both. You can also add borders to images, videos, text and grid elements. Public template previews are now mobile responsive, so you can preview both mobile and desktop versions.

Hosting

Vultr and Linode are back on Cloudways.

Icons, Stock Files, Music & Final Cut Pro

In addition to line icons, GriddyIcons 2.0 introduces a new solid icon pack.
With iStock, you can now easily customize iStock images directly from their website using generative AI.
MotionVFX releases mWorkout, a collection of 90 dynamic fitness presets for Final Cut Pro.
Audiio launches Elements, also known as stems, to give you more creative freedom in your edits.

Video Conferencing & Collaboration

Sessions enhances Book Me, allowing booking hosts to preview the booking flow from the customer’s perspective, as well as troubleshoot and see why a time slot or day is unavailable. There is also a new email template for member account activation and improved recording. Over the next few weeks, they will also be improving the quality of video streams for live sessions and events. The new Boardmix integration allows you to seamlessly integrate whiteboards into your sessions.
Bubbles Workspaces on Teams Pro plans can now mute in-meeting chat messages to keep your call uninterrupted and make Bubbles incognito by removing his graphic avatar. Now Bubbles can hide like any other participant with their camera off.

From the Editor

We are about to launch Ahoi.pro – The New Freelancer Marketplace as a companion project. Sign up now and win a free business profile for life.

🚨 Latest Posts

The following highlighted articles have been published in the last 7 days. All posts can be found on our blog.

👋 Latest Jobs

Looking for a new professional challenge? Find your new job.

🔥 Quayside Deals

A few irresistible offers that might be of interest to you, don’t you think?

To celebrate its 5th birthday and the launch of version 2, WP Grid Builder is offering a 50% discount on annual & LTD plans (13 – 22 May).
Save 30% on new CheckoutWC licenses and renewals with code SPRING24. Get a Shopify style cart and checkout page for your WooCommerce (Expires 21 May).
Save 50% on ClickWhale Pro plans, a link shortener & click tracker for WordPress.
Save up to 50% on ZoloBlocks Pro. Valid for annual and lifetime plans.
Save up to $100 on Voxel, the dynamic WordPress directory theme with multi-vendor functionality. Don’t miss out on the lifetime deal.
Save 30% on Widget Options with code GUTENBERG30 (Expires 1 Jun).
Get the limited Conversion Bridge LTD.
Get the Automatic.css (ACSS) Lifetime plan for the CSS framework that works with Gutenberg, Bricks, and Oxygen.
Save BIG with the WP Inbox LTD and view WordPress data in your Gmail.
Save 30% on Supademo, the AI-powered interactive product demo platform. Valid for first 3 months.
Save BIG with the SureTriggers LTD and the ZipWP Founders deal.
Get $20 or €18 in free MailerLite credits.
Save 25% on Tabular Pro with code 25FORYOU, the no-code email editor for various email marketing platforms.
Get €⁠20 in free credits for Hetzner Cloud and enjoy its new ARM64 CAX servers from as little as €4.51 per month.
Save $10 on Fathom Analytics, privacy-compliant web analytics.
Get 3 months free on a Framer Pro annual plan with code partner25proyearly.

That’s all for this week. We hope you enjoyed the 48th issue of The Pier. Until next week!

Curated and published with lots of ♥ by Ahoi.dev!
Powered by WordPress, Newsletter Glue & MailerLite
Here’s where you can find us online: https://ahoi.dev

FTC: Some of the links above may be affiliate links. Rest assured that they do not bite, but help support The Pier newsletter.

Unsubscribe to stop receiving these emails.