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Pier #85 – Bricksforge, SureDash, A2 Hosting, Streamline, DigitalOcean, Publer, Better Stack, Descript, Posts Table Pro & Elementor
Welcome to the 85th issue of The Pier. SureDash 0.0.2 adds performance improvements, font customization and Hindi, German, Spanish and Dutch language support to the WordPress community plugin. Also new: Set the portal as your site’s homepage, utility CSS classes and inline comments.
Launch: Bricksforge 3.0 has been officially released to the public (video)!
Milestone: SureForms has officially reached 50,000+ active users in just 3 months for its WordPress AI form builder.
Sneak Peek: FluentBooking announces recurring events and a new Embed Booking via HTML feature coming soon.
Acquisitions: Joost and Marieke have acquired Post Status from Cory and Lindsey Miller, which will now become a non-profit organisation. In other news, World Host Group has acquired A2 Hosting.
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!
🤩 Streamline Lifetime Plans are back
Streamline is our one stop shop for icons and illustrations. Vincent has just announced the return of Lifetime licences! These sets are obsessively improved over time by their in-house design team and come with unlimited future updates. Check out Core, Flex, Plump and UX, Milano and Seoul.
🗞️ Bites & Pieces
WordPress
Novashare 1.5.8 adds a new Show Labels control to the Follow Buttons block.
Headspin UI 1.4 for Breakdance will introduce Context Menu 2.0, available soon. Watch the video to learn more.
List User Entries for Gravity Forms displays up to 20 recent form submissions for each user directly on their WordPress profile page.
Uncanny Automator 6.2 brings new Threads, Duplicator, Everest Forms and Thrive Theme Builder integrations.
E-Commerce
Kadence Shop Kit introduces a new Quick View feature that provides a smooth and intuitive browsing experience for your customers.
North Commerce now supports the cash on delivery payment option and adds a new quick “Add new product” button directly from the product edit screen.
Independent Analytics 2.10 adds ecommerce sales tracking for Easy Digital Downloads and Paid Memberships Pro.
WooCommerce Brands is now part of the core platform and available for free since WooCommerce 9.6! It allows you to create dedicated pages for each brand you sell, add brands to product pages, and help shoppers find them faster with brand-specific search.
No-Code Website Builder
Every Monday, Ycode gives away one of its premium website templates for free. Some are worth over $100.
CRO
Convertful now integrates directly with Bento and Google reCAPTCHA.
Cloud Hosting & Cloud Computing
Cloudways introduces Client Reporting, the latest addition to its client management tools, allowing you to generate white-labelled reports on security updates and performance metrics.
DigitalOcean introduces the GenAI Platform, an all-in-one solution for building and deploying AI-powered applications.
Social Media
Publer releases three new integrations: Dub for automatically shortening links, PostNitro for scheduling AI-powered carousels and Contentdrips for scheduling viral posts from hundreds of ready-made templates.
Private Podcasting
Hiro now allows your listeners to keep a show forever if they complete it before their access expires.
Reputation Management
EmbedMyReviews introduces a completely free unlimited email & SMS service. In addition, you can now respond to private feedback directly within the platform and also use AI.
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.
Elementor has just released version 3.27 of its website builder for WordPress, introducing custom grid container layouts, DOM optimizations, YouTube Shorts support and more.
The Better Stack team has just announced two new integrations for its infrastructure monitoring platform to help streamline your incident management workflows, including Jira and Elastic.
The Descript team has just announced an exciting new feature for Underlord, the audio/video editing tool’s AI assistant. It can now dub your audio and create accurate translated captions in…
Katie from Barn2 has just released Posts Table Pro version 3.3, which introduces pre-built design templates, column merging, numeric sorting and more.
Jonathan from Userback has just released an update to the browser extension for the visual user feedback and bug reporting tool, adding support for inbox notifications.
Elementor has just launched the new AI Site Planner for the WordPress website builder, which allows you to plan and launch customized sites faster than ever before.
🔥 Quayside Deals
A few irresistible offers that might be of interest to you, don’t you think?
- SleekWP Bundle: Save €100 on SleekPixel, SleekAI & SleekMotion.
- Save 10% on Figma to WordPress.
- Save 10% on Publer, the #1 social media management platform.
- It’s Back! Get the FlowMattic LTD. Split payment options available.
That’s all for this week. We hope you enjoyed the 85th issue of The Pier. Until next week! Please tell your friends about The Pier if you like it.
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