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Pier #70 – Barn2, Motion.page, Cloudways, FlyingPress, GSAP, SureCart, Webstudio & MaxiBlocks
Stefan from Ahoi.dev | The Pier #70 | October 18, 2024Welcome to the 70th issue of The Pier. This week Katie at Barn2 announced a major expansion of their services. In addition to WordPress and WooCommerce plugins, they now offer web development services including web design, plugin customization, maintenance, performance optimization and website fixes.
According to real user data from the Chrome UX Report, FlyingPress is now officially #1 performer in Core Web Vitals!
Webflow has announced the acquisition of GreenSock, the company behind GSAP (GreenSock Animation Platform).
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!
🤙 Motion.page LTD
Motion.page 2.2 is now officially live and packed with features and improvements to enhance your motion game in WordPress, including a new Mouse Follower Builder, tooltips and a new Multi-Drag Timeline.
To celebrate its 3rd anniversary, Motion.page has brought back the unlimited LTD for a limited time. A split payment option is available.
🗞️ Bites & Pieces
WordPress
The new MaxiBlocks Go theme from MaxiBlocks is now available in the themes directory and comes with block patterns, full page templates, global style cards and customizable SVG icons.
MaxiBlocks also releases 26 new blog hero templates for stunning hero sections. Coming soon: More blog-focused templates, including story and comment layouts, pagination design options, and archive and single post templates.
FluentCRM 2.9.25 now allows you to export/import recurring campaigns and adds Smart Code support for custom email address fields as well as a new EDD Customer Profile button for quick access to customer details.
SearchWP 4.3.17 integrates with WPForms, allowing you to make form submissions on your site searchable. SearchWP Metrics 1.4.5 adds a new option to automatically delete metrics that are older than a specified interval.
WP Ulike Pro 1.8.8 adds detailed top items to the stats panel, showing engagement rate, like list and more comprehensive insights.
Bit Social 1.1.0 now integrates with Meta Box, ACF, Pods and JetEngine and adds a Google Business Profile CTA to the Share Now feature.
Solid Performance 1.3.0 introduces Intelligent Cache Purging. When a post is modified, all related pages, including home pages, taxonomy, author and date archives, are automatically cleared from the cache.
Recipe Card Blocks announces that its AI Recipe Generator, launched in August for the Pro version, is now also available in the free version. In related news, the GPT-4o model is now available and AI credits are now more affordable than before.
Snippet Nest is a new collection of 100+ snippets, tutorials, and plugins for ACF, Beaver Builder, Fluent Forms, Perfmatters, WP Grid Builder, Relevanssi, and more.
E-Commerce
WowRevenue for WooCommerce 1.0.3 adds a new multi-page campaign builder, allowing you to customize the look and feel of a campaign across multiple pages, all from the same campaign window.
FunnelKit 3.6.0 adds deep Bricks integration with 6 new elements and pre-built templates, including checkout form, mini cart, opt-in form, opt-in form popup, order details and customer details.
With the release of WooCommerce 9.4 on 21 October 2024, all the features previously offered by the WooCommerce Brands plugin will be included in the WooCommerce core.
WooCommerce Wholesale Pro 2.3 now allows you to set the visibility of individual products to Public, Wholesale or Both.
Social Media
Publer now allows you to upload and schedule videos up to 2GB on Facebook, LinkedIn, Pinterest, TikTok and YouTube.
Final Cut Pro
Released by MotionVFX, mStyle 8mm is a new collection of retro effects and elements for DesignStudio that will take your audience back in time with a unique 8mm tape look.
Managed Cloud Hosting
Cloudways introduces a new web application firewall with server-level security features such as IP & country blocking, automated threat detection and brute force protection powered by Imunify360 for all Cloudways Flexible servers.
No-Code Website Builder
Email Marketing
MailerLite adds new one-time and recurring purchase Stripe blocks to its landing page builder and allows you to include terms & conditions on your Stripe checkout page.
Pop-up Builder
Claspo now supports webhooks, allowing you to set up instant data transfers between the pop-up builder platform and third-party tools such as an ESP or CRM.
Reputation Management
EmbedMyReviews now supports Zillow for syncing reviews.
From the Editor: Biff.codes
We’ve recently 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 70th issue of The Pier. Until next week! Please tell your friends about The Pier if you like it.
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