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Pier #67 – PMPro LTD, Automattic ⚔️ WP Engine, ClickWhale, Tutor LMS & Solid Mail
Stefan from Ahoi.dev | The Pier #67 | September 27, 2024Welcome to the 67th issue of The Pier. Limited to the first 1,000, students can now get a free website on WordPress.com for one year, including a free custom domain name, premium themes, 13GB of storage, an SSL certificate and an ad-free experience.
Automattic ⚔️ WP Engine
At WordCamp US in Portland, Automattic CEO and WordPress co-founder Matt Mullenweg launched an attack on WP Engine, calling it a “cancer to WordPress”. Well, we didn’t have to wait too long for a response from WP Engine. Automattic’s response to WP Engine’s cease and desist letter was also swift. After WP Engine removed the news feed from the WordPress admin dashboard. WordPress.org has now banned WP Engine and Flywheel from using any of its resources, including the plugin repository. Pressable is now offering WP Engine customers the option of buying out their contract and crediting their account. To be continued. 🍿
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!
🤙 Paid Memberships Pro LTD
For the first time ever, Paid Memberships Pro is offering a Lifetime Plus license for its WordPress membership plugin, but only for the next 4 days.
The sale is available to new and existing premium members and ends on 30 September 2024. Don’t miss out on a PMPro Lifetime Plus license.
Jason, one of the co-founders, shared his thoughts on why they are now offering a lifetime deal.
🗞️ Bites & Pieces
WordPress
After discontinuing the sale of Tutor LMS Pro Lifetime plans in March 2024, Themeum announces their return due to overwhelming customer demand.
Fluent Support 1.8.2 revamps workflow actions with an intuitive drag-and-drop feature and allows you to copy and paste images when creating or responding to a ticket.
SolidWP acquires the popular WP-SMTP plugin and rebrands it as Solid Mail.
Divi 5 Public Alpha is now available for download.
Event Calendar 2.0, a redesigned and streamlined event booking experience for your customers, is introduced in Amelia 7.8. The new Event Waiting List allows customers to join a waiting list and hold their place until vacancies become available.
Rich Tabor is back with the new Kanso theme, “my best blogging theme yet”. It is a minimalist theme with a focus on writing, publishing and reading.
Bricks Extended comes with over 35 elements for creating LearnDash websites with Bricks.
MemberPress launches new Done for You membership site services.
E-Commerce & Affiliate Marketing
Email Reports for SureCart automatically delivers SureCart sales reports straight to your inbox, providing a quick and clear summary of your store’s performance. Version 1.0.1 adds a new TinyMCE Rich Text Editor and HTML support in the email body, as well as improved compatibility with SureCart 3.
WooCommerce Bulk Variations 2.4 now integrates with YITH Request A Quote.
Sales CRM
Breakcold releases new Make integration for more CRM automation. It’s a popular alternative to Zapier. Next Monday the price of the annual plan will increase. Your savings will be 30% off the monthly plan price. Previously you saved 40%.
User Onboarding
Usetiful finally releases A/B testing to improve user onboarding. Test and measure which version of your content is better received by your users.
Social Media
SocialBee introduces Analytics for Threads and a new Engage module that allows you to set up a social inbox and manage your comments, DMs and mentions.
Digital Signage
Juuno increases video upload limits on all accounts from 200MB to 1.2GB.
Reputation Management
EmbedMyReviews now allows agencies and their clients to save AI prompts when responding to reviews. While agencies can set global prompts, clients can set their own prompts to speed up their workflow. In other news, agencies can now also hide the settings page via custom plans.
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
The following highlighted articles have been published in the last 7 days. All posts can be found on our blog.
🔥 Quayside Deals
A few irresistible offers that might be of interest to you, don’t you think?
- Birthday Sale: Get the Breakdance Pro + AI Bundle for just $249.99/year. This offer ends on September 30th.
- It’s Back! Get the FlowMattic LTD. Split payment options available.
- Fall Season Sale: Get 30% off for the first 3 months for new MailerLite customers (Ends October 1st).
- Save $100 on Job Boardly LTD with code SUMMER100 (Expires soon).
- Save 50% on ClickWhale Pro plans, a link shortener & click tracker for WordPress.
- Save $100 on the Voxel LTD, the dynamic WordPress directory theme with multi-vendor functionality.
- Get the Automatic.css (ACSS) Lifetime plan for the CSS framework that works with Gutenberg, Bricks, and Oxygen.
- 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 Business plan 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 67th issue of The Pier. Until next week! Please tell your friends about The Pier if you like it.
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