Pier #89 - Droip, Oxygen, Directify, Swell, North Commerce, Bunny.net, Voxel, FleekDash, Missinglettr, Claspo, Userback & Dancepad

Stefan from Ahoi.dev | The Pier #89 | February 28, 2025

Welcome to the 89th issue of The Pier. This week, Directify has announced a new Google Sheets integration, allowing you to create directories directly from Google Sheets, sync listings between Google Sheets and Directify, and back up your data with automated and real-time updates.

Launches: WindPress, the new way to use Tailwind CSS with WordPress, and Builderius Free 1.0 (beta) are now available.

Surprise: Oxygen 6 is now available, a more powerful and innovative WordPress builder.

Last Chance: North Commerce is offering early access for $399. This window closes this Friday, 28 February. From Saturday, the price will move to $499.

Give it a Try: Bunny.net now offers up to $50 in free credits for free trials instead of the previous 1TB traffic cap.

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!

🤙 New: Google Indexing API integration

Job Boardly has just announced support for the Google Indexing API, allowing you to notify Google when jobs are published or removed from your no-code job board SaaS.

🗞️ Bites & Pieces

WordPress

Voxel 1.5.3 adds a new “Purge timeline & follow stats cache” action for the Timeline, an expanded list of dynamic tags for the Work Hours field, and a new “Post author” setting for CPTs. For GDPR compliance, a new “Personal data export requested” event is also available.

SureTriggers 1.0.74 adds new LatePoint Coupon Actions & Group Booking support in Booking Actions.

Starter Templates previously supported Gutenberg, Elementor, Beaver Builder and Brizy. However, they are now dropping support for Beaver Builder to focus on Elementor and Spectra only.

Speaking of which, the Beaver Builder team introduces new done-for-you web design and web development services.

WowOptin 1.0.5 now allows interactive canvas resizing in the builder.

Perfmatters 2.4.0 adds a new built-in stylesheet exclusion for Bricks post-specific CSS, a new Delay JS quick exclusion for WPBakery, a REST API exception for SureCart, and more.

Greyd improves its compatibility with Advanced Custom Fields, allowing you to dynamically display fields from ACF post types in a query loop.

Brian Gardner, creator of the Powder theme, announces the release of the Open Letter theme, a design and space for personal expression created to let your voice stand out.

SureMail 1.3.0 adds new option to send emails with PHP Mail.

ACPT is now fully integrated with the SEOPress dynamic snippet generator. You can also add ACPT meta fields to Slim SEO snippets with just a few clicks. Also new: a QR code field!

E-Commerce

Swell’s brand new visual editor and storefront, which makes customizing your online store easier and more intuitive than ever, is now in beta.

Woohoo 1.0.1.5 adds a new minicart element for Breakdance, allowing you to create a flexible off-canvas or dropdown cart. It also focuses on improving compatibility with popular plugins such as Germanized and the Stripe payment gateway. Also new: Email Customizer, currently in beta.

Sales Funnels

Lightfunnels now allows you to upload videos directly from your device and use them on your landing pages, stores, and funnels. Previously, you had to embed videos from YouTube or Vimeo.

Video Streaming

Bunny Stream Premium Encoding now supports H.265 (HEVC) and AV1, two next-generation codecs that deliver higher quality video using less bandwidth. This means smoother streams, smaller file sizes and a better experience for your viewers, all at no extra cost.

Cloud Computing

Anthropic’s Claude models and DeepSeek R1 are now part of the DigitalOcean GenAI (see The Pier #85) platform. Also new on DO: PostgreSQL 17 and Bare Metal NVIDIA HGX H200 GPUs.

Partnership Management

Partnero launches a new Anniversaries & Dates reward trigger for Refer-a-Friend programs, allowing you to automatically reward your customers on meaningful occasions such as joining date anniversaries and birthdays.

Social Media

ContentStudio now allows you to post to Instagram via push notifications on its iOS app. Also new: AI-powered insights for Instagram analytics with Claude 5.

Missinglettr releases new Bluesky integration, currently in beta.

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

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That’s all for this week. We hope you enjoyed the 89th issue of The Pier. Until next week! Please tell your friends about The Pier if you like it.

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