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Pier #66 – Spatie, Tailwind, Swell, Gravity Forms, FlyingPress, HeyReach & Conditional Blocks
Stefan from Ahoi.dev | The Pier #66 | September 20, 2024Welcome to the 66th issue of The Pier. This week, Conditional Blocks Pro 3.1.4 has introduced a new geolocation feature to detect visitor countries and a new option to bypass conditions on HTML blocks to the content visibility plugin for WordPress.
For the first time ever, Paid Memberships Pro has announced a lifetime deal for the WordPress membership plugin coming soon. Stay tuned!
Estonian company Patchstack has raised $5 million in Series A funding round. In addition, Joost de Valk, co-founder of Yoast SEO, has joined Patchstack’s board of directors.
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 FlyingPress Pricing
Gijo from FlyingPress has announced that they have simplified the plans for their lightweight speed optimization plugin for WordPress. Although the renewal discounts for new customers have been removed, in most cases the new prices are cheaper than before, especially the new Unlimited Sites plan. Existing customers will be grandfathered into their special pricing.
🗞️ Bites & Pieces
WordPress
Tutorial: How to easily add pricing tables to Gravity Forms with Enhanced Choices.
Food aficionados, a free online recipe calorie and nutrition calculator is now available on the Recipe Card Blocks website.
Beaver Builder adds a new Code app to Assistant Pro that lets you create, edit and manage CSS and JavaScript code snippets for your WordPress site.
Conversion Bridge 1.3.8 adds a new option to enable/disable console logging.
Kadence offers early access to new Advanced Header and Navigation Builder through beta participation.
WP Rocket 3.17 will be released soon and will focus on improving Interaction to Next Paint (INP), the new Core Web Vital.
WP Social Ninja 3.14.0 adds GDPR compliance for Facebook and TikTok feeds and support for the Tripadvisor API.
AIOSEO 4.7.0 introduces a new Keyword Rank Tracker to the Search Statistics module, allowing you to track your keyword performance directly from your WordPress dashboard.
Posts Table Pro 3.2.0 adds advanced column settings to the table builder.
TrustedLogin Connector is a new free WordPress plugin developed by Zachary Katz, the founder of GravityKit. It finally allows support team members to log into client sites securely and easily.
Droip brings a brand new dynamic filtering functionality to WordPress posts.
WP Armour Extended 1.32 and 1.33 add support for Beaver Builder, UserWP, Brevo and Youzify.
Really Simple SSL rebrands to Really Simple Security in version 9.0.
Ollie Pro introduces dynamic patterns.
E-Commerce & Affiliate Marketing
SureCart announces its upcoming new Agency Partner Program, which will allow you to add multiple recurring revenue streams to your business, e.g. add a service fee for each transaction to clients’ stores.
Swell announces a new storefront editor designed to help merchants customise and launch an online store in minutes. You’ll be able to customise the default theme, create your own, or even upload a Shopify 2.0 theme. Early access opens in November 2024.
Tailwind & Laravel
Tailwind UI releases Radiant, a beautiful new SaaS marketing site template built with Tailwind CSS and Next.js.
Headless UI 2.0 for React adds built-in anchor positioning, HTML form components, combobox list virtualization, and more.
Laravel Comments 2.0 introduces the much requested Mention feature. Simply type @ to mention another user in a comment and they’ll receive a notification.
Landing Page & Email Builders
Swipe Pages launches Genie 2.0 with contextual images and improved styling, making it as easy as possible to create landing pages using AI.
Postcards introduces new real-time, multi-user editing features and brand presets for its email builder.
Icons & Motion Graphics
GriddyIcons 2.2 adds 50 new icons to the Files, Social & Brands, Editor and Hospitality categories and introduces a new Figma plugin.
Rive is now a native format in Webflow, allowing you to drag and drop production-ready graphics into a Webflow project and connect them to interactions.
Step-by-Step Guides
Dubble releases a major update to its Chrome extension, allowing you to record screen recordings across multiple tabs.
AI Speech-to-Text
AudioPen finally launches its iOS app. An Android app will follow soon.
Uptime Monitoring
Better Stack now allows your users to subscribe to updates only for their selected services on your status page, making incident communication easier for everyone.
Reputation Management
EmbedMyReviews allows your customers to optionally enter their phone number when registering on the platform, which now also includes flexible configuration options for GDPR, terms & conditions and newsletter checkboxes on the registration page. Finally, you can also upload an Open Graph image for social media.
From the Editor: Biff.codes
We’ve just launched a new side project called Biff.codes, a new free job board for WordPress developers. Find out why Biff can get paid in burgers. 🍔
🚨 Latest Posts
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That’s all for this week. We hope you enjoyed the 66th issue of The Pier. Until next week! Please tell your friends about The Pier if you like it.
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