Pier #84 – Meta Box, FluentCommunity, Spectra, SureTriggers, WP Umbrella, WP Coupons, Conversion Bridge, Cloudways, Woohoo & Bricks

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Stefan from Ahoi.dev   |   The Pier #84   |   January 24, 2025

Welcome to the 84th issue of The Pier. Tutor LMS 3.2.0 has added integrated memberships, a responsive course builder and new Authorize dot net integration. In the first phase, you can now create and manage both site-wide and course-specific memberships, with automated expiration handling and re-subscription options. Also new: Subscriptions for course bundles.

Spectra Pro has introduced the new Advanced Loop Builder, allowing you to display content in even more engaging ways. It comes with instant search, flexible sorting, powerful filters and Ajax pagination.

Bricks 1.12 has introduced new Components that allow you to create scalable and maintainable WordPress sites.

Tutorial: Learn how to create and style author boxes using Advanced Ads to showcase your authors’ experience and expertise, in line with Google’s E-E-A-T (Experience, Expertise, Authoritativeness, Trustworthiness) principles to improve search rankings.

Acquisition: Brian from Perfmatters and Novashare has announced (X) that WP Coupons has finally been acquired.

New Arrival: We would also like to welcome Woohoo to The Port.

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!

🤩 Enhanced Conversions Galore

Conversion Bridge 1.6 has added support for Enhanced Conversions for 19 WordPress plugins, Google Ads and Meta Ads, aka improved methods of tracking and attributing conversions. You can now securely send customer data when it is available for all purchases, donations, form submissions or other tracked events.

They have also added support for EchoDash, which helps you track and visualize key metrics in real-time in one central place.

🗞️ Bites & Pieces

WordPress

AB Split Test 1.8.10 adds cache clear and JS exclude support for a wide range of caching plugins, including NitroPack, FlyingPress, Autoptimize, Breeze, Kinsta Cache, Litespeed Cache and W3 Total Cache. Also new: 14-day free Agency trial on free plans.

SureForms 1.3.0 now allows you to edit form entries, resend email notifications and add notes to individual form entries. Coming soon: Conversational AI forms, welcome screens for instant forms and a new calculation field.

SEOPress 8.5 now shows the list of URLs that use the same target keyword to quickly edit them from the Content Analysis metabox. Also new: Performance improvements on both backend and frontend.

The ZipWP Whitelabel AI Builder is now fully translatable and supports French, Dutch, German and Estonian out of the box.

Next Bricks 1.10 will ship with tons of new elements, including multiple corners at inverted corner, bounce state at next cursor, links to physics objects, FAQ schema at expanders, a halo at fluid gradient, individual CSS loading and more. All this will be included in the next version of Dancepad for Breakdance.

SearchWP 4.3.18 adds support for quoted/phrase searches in Multisite searches.

Greyd.Suite introduces a new Theme Adaptor that ensures consistent styling for key CSS elements such as accordions, buttons and tabs, even when the Greyd Theme is not active. 

Phox Elements 2.9.9 introduces a new price slider for Breakdance, allowing you to create custom price calculators for products and services.

FluentCRM 2.9.40 adds quick search in automation actions, benchmarks and goals, import/export of email campaigns and contacts, and improved Brevo integration with bounce handling. You can also manage MemberPress subscriptions with a new dedicated widget.

FluentBoards 1.4 adds support for Backblaze and DigitalOcean as new storage options. You can now also create stages between existing ones for more flexible workflows, and add images and custom colours to task covers.

Elementor web.fwrd 2025 has teased a major overhaul of the editor coming in Q2 2025 with support for classes and more in version 4.0.

Groundhogg 3.7.4 adds task reassignment, bulk task editing, task templates and task activity, allowing you to track results, emails, call attempts and more.

E-Commerce

SureCart 3.3.0 brings a new sidebar layout with checkbox filters to shop pages and a new lightbox for product media on product pages.

Coming to WooCommerce (9.6): Order Fulfillment, Order DataStore Caching within the HPOS data store layer for improved performance and Brands.

Automation & AI

SureTriggers is now integrated with DeepSeek, a new open source AI reasoning model that is 97% cheaper than OpenAI. It provides intelligent, context-aware responses and support for a wide range of tasks.

Sales CRM

Breakcold launches a new CRM MAX plan that includes all the Pro features and the new Telegram inbox. Soon to include the WhatsApp inbox, advanced analytics and other premium sales pipeline automation features.

Image Editor

BrandBird now allows you to save backgrounds and save all your previous assets such as images, backgrounds, watermarks and more to reuse in your designs. Also new: More options for background overlays and realistic post preview.

Marketing Attribution

Weberlo introduces a new Tracking Concierge service, a dedicated expert to set up and optimize your ad tracking. Also new: Currency conversions.

Managed Cloud Hosting

Cloudways launches Copilot Al in public preview. It comes with a suite of intelligent tools designed to transform the way you manage and optimise your websites, including AI-powered issue diagnostics.

SaaS

Job Boardly introduces custom URL paths for creating blogs for your job board or more complex site structures.

With Trafft you can now buy monthly recurring SMS credits for the appointment scheduling platform and receive bonus credits every month.

Social Media

Nuelink now integrates with Mastodon, allowing you to easily post, auto-post and analyze your posts.

Project Management

Nifty introduces a new Agenda view in Calendar that lets you plan your projects and schedule with a new tabled Agenda view in My Work, All Tasks and Project Calendars.

AI Translator & Writing Assistant

DeepL API for Write is now generally available.

No-Code Website Builder

Webstudio introduces Head Slot, a new component that allows you to visually customize the head on a per-page basis (video). It’s particularly useful for setting canonical URLs, alternate links for RSS feeds and more. 

Reputation Management

EmbedMyReviews now supports Bird, an SMS service provider with competitive rates for Europe, Australia and New Zealand.

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.

Woo

Woohoo – Revolutionizing WooCommerce Store Development for Breakdance

Woohoo uses Breakdance to change the way we build WooCommerce stores. No more spending weeks wrestling with custom cart and checkout pages.

WordPress

FluentCommunity Introduces BuddyBoss & BuddyPress Migration

Jewel from FluentCommunity has just released version 1.1.20 of the community plugin for WordPress, introducing a one-click migration feature from BuddyPress and BuddyBoss.

WordPress

Meta Box Announces New Modern, Intuitive Builder UI

Anh from Meta Box has just announced a new builder interface for the custom fields plugin for WordPress aka the “Framework for Dynamic Websites”.

Reputation Management

EmbedMyReviews Now Supports Email Image Personalization & OpenRouter

Mannie from EmbedMyReviews has just added support for email image personalization and OpenRouter to the white label online reputation management platform.

WordPress

WP Rocket Now Supports Local Google Fonts

WP Rocket 3.18 has just arrived in orbit. The latest version of the popular WordPress caching plugin introduces support for self-hosted Google Fonts, an enhanced Delay JavaScript UI and automatic…

Automation

SureTriggers Introduces Organizations & Workspaces

Sujay from SureTriggers has just introduced Organizations and Workspaces as well as a new Business Plus plan to the automation platform.

WordPress

WP Umbrella Launches Domain & SSL Monitoring

Aurelio from WP Umbrella has just announced the launch of SSL and domain monitoring as well as a new Public API for the WordPress management and maintenance platform.

eCommerce, WordPress

Services for SureCart 1.4 Brings Requirements Form to Product Pages

Nelson from SurelyWP has just released Services for SureCart 1.4, which adds a new feature for customers to enter service requirement details directly on the product page.

🏴‍☠️ Latest Port Arrivals

The following fine new tool has arrived at The Port.

WooCommerce

Woohoo

Woohoo comes with all the features you need to build an e-commerce store with WooCommerce and Breakdance.

👋 Latest Jobs

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

Patchstack

Senior Backend Developer PHP/Laravel (m/f/d)

WPMU DEV

WordPress Support Specialist (m/f/d)

Extendify

Senior Full Stack Developer (m/f/d)

🔥 Quayside Deals

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

That’s all for this week. We hope you enjoyed the 84th issue of The Pier. Until next week! Please tell your friends about The Pier if you like it.

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