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Pier #90 – SleekView, AnalyticsWP, ElevenLabs, PassiveWP, SureCart, Dancepad, Claspo, Descript, PersonalizeWP & Usermaven
Welcome to the 90th issue of The Pier. This week AnalyticsWP launched its new Agency Mode add-on for the WordPress analytics plugin, which allows agencies to track and manage multiple client sites from a single dashboard with reports and insights. Included at no extra cost with the AnalyticsWP Unlimited Lifetime plan.
Exciting: Oxygen 6 is now free for all current Breakdance customers
Milestone: FluentCommunity celebrates 3,000 active installations.
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!
👋 Meet Scribe
ElevenLabs has just launched Scribe, its first speech-to-text model. It allows you to transcribe speech to text using the world’s most accurate ASR model and supports 99 languages, timestamps, speaker diarization and audio event tagging.
Best of all, it consistently outperforms leading models such as Gemini 2.0 Flash, Whisper Large V3 and Deepgram Nova-3.
🗞️ Bites & Pieces
WordPress
Gravity SMTP 1.7 adds support for Elastic Email, MailerSend and SMTP2GO.
WP ULike 4.7.9 adds global engagement insights with world map and device type charts in the stats panel to the Pro version.
Spencer from Fluent Community Customizer releases Fluent Community Manager for FluentCommunity, allowing you to share WordPress posts directly into your community feed along with dynamic CTAs.
Inspiro Premium 9.0 is packed with exciting new features including a new dark mode, 10 fresh new demos and performance enhancements.
PassiveWP launches a new AI-generated article feature to generate content for affiliate marketing.
Novashare 1.5.9 brings a new location follow button and adds support for image pin buttons to appear on images within Bricks Editor content.
FluentBoards 1.45 adds new CSV export and import, custom colour support in labels, RTL support and a new FluentCRM integration in the Roadmap add-on.
E-Commerce
SureCart announces the long-awaited Multi-Currency feature to be released next week. Also coming soon: The new Agency Partner program.
Dancepad announces new WooCommerce and SureCart elements, a new site loader, link preview and audio player for version 2.0.
AB Split Test introduces new monthly, annual & lifetime plans, including new Solo & Teams plans.
Sales Funnels
Lightfunnels introduces a new Button Variants feature that allows you to instantly change styles and keep funnels engaging.
No-Code Website Builder
Framer introduces the new Scale tool, which lets you scale layers by a factor or to any size, taking into account all styles such as radius, border and font size. Also new: Revamed image export in macOS and Windows apps, and a new Editor Bar UI.
Brizy introduces new LinkedIn element and adds stock photos to media library.
Design Tools
Penpot 2.5 adds more than 10 exciting new features, including a redesigned gradient UI, shareable board links, copy CSS properties, comment and mention notifications and more.
UI/UX Design
The new Uxcel Slack app delivers lessons directly to your Slack workspace.
Virtual Events
HeySummit introduces smarter live polling with scheduled start times, Zoom recording support for replays, and a new option to notify attendees when a new talk is added.
Uptime Monitoring
Pulsetic is now officially verified by Cloudflare, ensuring better compatibility with Cloudflare services. This verification helps to improve the accuracy and reliability of monitoring.
Customer Support
HelpSpace now supports multilingual documentation pages, available in Team and Business plans.
Audiobooks
Spotify now accepts audiobooks narrated by ElevenLabs. ElevenReader Publishing is a new, fast and free way to create and distribute audiobooks worldwide.
Partnership Management
Partnero introduces a new customizable Lead Submission Page for affiliate programs, allowing anyone to submit leads and drive conversions. You can use your existing commission structure or set up a custom reward per lead submitted.
Edge Computing
Bunny dot net introduces Magic Containers, which includes everything you need to deploy, monitor, secure and optimize your application.
Reputation Management
EmbedMyReviews now allows agencies to offer unlimited WhatsApp review requests to their customers using its free WhatsApp provider.
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.
Dennis from Blockstudio has just added SleekView to SleekWP, a growing suite of products for WordPress. It’s an innovative plugin that changes the way you interact with and organize your…
FluentCommunity has just released version 1.2.0 of the community plugin for WordPress, introducing a new content moderation feature, a Bunny CDN integration, incoming webhooks, and more.
Advanced Ads has just announced the upcoming release of version 2.0 of their ad management plugin for WordPress, introducing advanced placement options, IP-based ad hiding, new ad blocker suite and…
Following the recent launch of its new data layer feature, the Claspo team has just released NPS survey widgets for its pop-up builder and CRO platform.
Tutor LMS has just announced the release of version 3.3.0 of the WordPress LMS plugin, introducing guest checkout, a membership only option, Verifone support and more.
Andrew from Descript has just published the February release roundup for the audio and video editing tool, which includes new layout packs, automatic smart transitions and an AI video maker.
Andrei from Modula has just released a brand new Modula AI feature for the WordPress image and video gallery plugin, allowing you to easily edit image details.
Louis from Breakdance has just announced version 2.4 of the visual website builder for WordPress, currently in beta. You will soon have access to ACF Flexible Content integration, a new…
Following the recent launch of its Google Ads integration, Waqar from Usermaven has just released two ong-awaited features for the privacy-friendly web and product analytics platform. Meet the new WooCommerce…
Paul from PersonalizeWP has just added content variations, support for multiple segments, data retentions settings and more to the no-code personalization plugin for WordPress.
🔥 Quayside Deals
A few irresistible offers that might be of interest to you, don’t you think?
- Exclusive: Save 15% on PassiveWP with code AHOIDEV.
- Spring Sale: Breakdance Pro + AI for just $249.99 (Expires 31 Mar).
- Extended LTD: Don’t miss out on the Bit Flows lifetime deals.
- Bundle Deal: Save €250 on the SleekWP Bundle, which includes SleekPixel, SleekAI, SleekMotion & SleekView.
- Save 10% on Figma to WordPress.
- Save 10% on Publer, the #1 social media management platform.
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That’s all for this week. We hope you enjoyed the 90th issue of The Pier. Until next week! Please tell your friends about The Pier if you like it.
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