Pier #74 - PMPro, SureCart, North Commerce, FigPress, Gravity Forms, Nuelink, Poptics, xCloud & Usermaven

Stefan from Ahoi.dev | The Pier #74 | November 15, 2024

Welcome to the 74th issue of The Pier. This week, Paid Memberships Pro has released a step-by-step Giving Tuesday plan for your membership site and is offering the Goals Progress Bar and Donations add-ons for free for the month of November. Offer ends 30 November 2024.

After an extensive Beta and Release Candidate (RC) testing period, Tutor LMS 3.0 is finally launching on 20 November!

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!

🤙 SureCart 3 & North Commerce Now Available

After months of hard work, SureCart 3 is officially out of beta and ready to supercharge your online store. The new Bricks Builder integration gives you access to pre-designed layouts and SureCart elements for seamless store customization. They have also released support for unlimited custom fields, improved product variations as well as completely redesigned shop, product and cart systems. Check out the upgrade guide for more details.

In other news, today finally marks the official launch of North Commerce 1.0, the new e-commerce plugin for WordPress – an alternative to WooCommerce.

🗞️ Bites & Pieces

WordPress

FigPress 0.1 adds support for Figma variables, support for figures, vectors and icons by exporting as SVG, and support for hidden layers.

Gravity SMTP 1.5 adds support for Mailchimp Transactional Email (formerly Mandrill) and a new email open tracking feature.

Directorist 8.0 introduces a new AI directory builder for creating directory websites and classifieds listings, 14 ready-made templates, support for Bricks, Elementor and Gutenberg, and more.

Amelia 7.9 adds a new invoicing feature that allows you to automatically generate invoices for your bookings. Available in Standard, Pro and Elite.

Poptics is a new pop-up builder plugin that helps you create stunning pop-ups to increase conversions and sales (similar to WowOptin).

Newsletter Glue Pro 3.0.9 adds X embed support to the embed block and support for including UTM content parameters in newsletter links.

Groundhogg 3.7.1 improves the funnel step flow interface and releases Conditional Logic 3.0, introducing a new way to visualize your conditional logic settings for steps within the step flow using yes/no paths, similar to other marketing automation tools.

The LifterLMS Groups add-on now gives you automated e-commerce for group checkout and automated group page setup (video).

Block Usage Tracker is a free plugin that lists each block type used in posts, counts the total number of times it appears, and provides direct links to each post where a block appears.

The WordPress Design Team announces the new WordPress Design System Figma library.

E-Commerce & Sales Funnels

Wooping Shop Health is the first plugin of a full plugin suite for WooCommerce, available for free in early access.

Gift Cards for WooCommerce is a free plugin that seamlessly integrates gift card functionality into your online store.

YITH WooCommerce Role Based Prices now supports pricing rules for specific users and fixed prices for different roles.

Social Media Management

Nue.bio, Nuelink‘s Link In Bio feature, gets a massive upgrade, including a redesigned desktop experience, a new shop section for products, new image and video buttons, custom fonts and theme colours, Google Analytics and Facebook Pixel integrations, new custom footer options, and more.

Web & Product Analytics

Usermaven adds two new user activity metrics to its trend analysis feature, including Weekly Active Users (WAU) and Monthly Active Users (MAU). They help you to better track and understand user engagement with the product over time.

Cloud Computing

DigitalOcean announces scalable storage for Managed MongoDB.

Referral Marketing

Viral Loops releases new HubSpot + The Newsletter Referral integration that allows you to launch referral programs directly from your email newsletters.

Customer Support

ThriveDesk launches a full suite of app integrations for knowledge bases.

Product Demos

Similar to traditional screenshot and video-based product demos, Supademo will soon allow you to clone the HTML/CSS of your web-based product by simply clicking through your screen. Collaborative commenting is now available to all workspace viewers. Finally, you can programmatically trigger an in-app Supademo or Showcase modal overlay using JavaScript events.

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.

👋 Latest Jobs

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

Bryntum AB

Growth Engineer (Full Stack) (m/f/d)

Xfive

Lead E-Commerce Developer (m/f/d)

🔥 Quayside Deals

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That’s all for this week. We hope you enjoyed the 74th issue of The Pier. Until next week! Please tell your friends about The Pier if you like it.

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