Pier #98 - FlyingPress, Descript, CartFlows, MailerPress, ThriveCart Pro+, Elementor, JetSloth, SureCart, Metorik, xCloud & Replug

Stefan from Ahoi.dev | The Pier #98 | May 2, 2025

Welcome to the 98th issue of The Pier. Convertful Flows is a powerful new feature that provides an intuitive, at-a-glance view of your widget performance. It’s designed to help you analyse engagement, optimize conversion strategies and fine-tune your on-site experience.

New: BricksSync revolutionizes the way you transfer Bricks templates, themes and settings between WordPress sites. Limited LTD available!

Exciting: GSAP, which was acquired by Webflow last year, is now completely free, including all previously paid Club plugins.

Congratulations: WPCodeBox IDE is now the default code editor for InstaWP.

Release Candidate: FlyingPress 5.0 RC is now available, introducing more cloud-based automatic optimizations, automatic detection and delay of third-party scripts, automatic above-the-fold exclusion for images, videos, iframes, automatic detection of lazy rendering of elements and more.

Form Finder: Fetcher for Gravity Forms offers a new way to quickly find the forms you’re looking for. The new Fetcher Bar works both in the WordPress admin area and in the front end of your WordPress site.

New AI Teammates: OttoKit AI Agents are finally here (video)!

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!

👋 MailerPress Launching Soon

The SEOPress team is about to launch MailerPress, currently in public beta. The email marketing plugin comes with a drag & drop email editor with Gutenberg blocks, advanced MJML template customization, and seamless WordPress content integration. MailerPress also integrates with popuplar email service providers, PHP Mail and custom SMTP (video).

🗞️ Bites & Pieces

WordPress

FluentCommunity introduces a new theme compatibility feature with full Gutenberg support for all popular themes. It’s also compatible with Elementor, Bricks, Beaver Builder, Oxygen and Breakdance.

Elementor 4 Alpha is now available, introducing a class-based workflow and seven new widgets (video).

With JetSloth’s Collapsible Sections add-on for Gravity Forms, you can now automatically open specific sections of your form on page load – all via a simple URL parameter. Also new: The Image Choices add-on now supports the Multiple Choice field!

Newsletter Glue 3.1.3 introduces an “Immediate” frequency option to fire automations immediately after saving.

Elegant Themes releases Module Groups for Divi 5, a new container element in Divi’s layout hierarchy that allows you to group modules within columns.

WP Umbrella extends the custom work feature to allow you to create recurring tasks and highlight the time spent on them. This can help you better demonstrate the value of your work to your client or better reflect what is included in their packages.

ThemeSwitcher Pro lets you run multiple themes on your WordPress website, based on customizable conditions (video).

FluentSnippets 10.50 introduces new export/import features to its code snippets plugin for WordPress (see The Pier #27).

Gato GraphQL 12.0 releases a new Elementor extension that allows you to fetch and mutate Elementor data, e.g. create Elementor pages in bulk using data from a CSV or translate all strings.

WowOptin 1.2.2 adds tag support for Kit (formerly ConvertKit).

E-Commerce

AB Split Test 1.9.2 brings AI to all paid plans, a new AI Insights tab in beta and a new Magic Tests click selector wizard for element click conversion.

SureCart 3.8 introduces a new Variation Dropdown Selector that allows you to optionally display your variations with a drop down list. There is also a new option to resend order confirmation and invoice emails (video).

WooCommerce now offers 20% off all products on its official marketplace when you purchase a new two-year subscription.

Metorik Engage introduces a handful of new templates for Order Receipt, Order Completed, Order Follow-up and Abandoned Cart emails. Also new in Metorik: AND/OR segmentation, nested dynamic segments, cost filters for order segments and more.

Paddle for WooCommerce 2.4.0 finally brings support for WooCommerce Subscriptions.

Patchstack 2.3.0 adds CAPTCHA and 2FA support for WooCommerce forms.

Lightfunnels announces that AI-built stores will be available in early May.

Sales CRM

Breakcold releases three new native integrations for Smartlead (video), Clay (video) and Instantly (video).

No-Code Website Builder

Ycode adds support for WOFF and WOFF2 formats for custom fonts. Also new: Tables in CMS Rich Text, making it easy to display structured content such as schedules, pricing or data.

Landing Page Builder

Swipe Pages releases a new native Google Sheets integration.

Bio Links

Replug adds engaging animation options, customization options and scheduling capabilities to Bio Link blocks.

AI

Descript introduces a new avatar feature that allows you to instantly create video from text. Create videos without a camera. Available to all users.

AudioPen releases new iOS lock screen widget and now lets you publish notes directly from the mobile app.

DigitalOcean‘s GenAI platform (see The Pier #85) now supports OpenAI models, allowing users to integrate GPT-4o, o1, and o3-mini into their AI agents using their own OpenAI API keys.

Social Media

ContentStudio releases a new enhanced analytics dashboard with Smarter AI-powered insights across all your social accounts. You also get tailored recommendations to optimize your content.

Publer has been given early access to the upcoming API analytics for personal LinkedIn profiles. New Google Business metrics include number of directions requests, number of call button clicks, number of message conversations and number of bookings through Reserve with Google.

Virtual Events

HeySummit introduces a new dark theme, streamlined ticket display and smarter bulk pricing, and more control over heading styles in the theme editor.

From the Editor: Biff.codes

We’ve launched a new side project called Biff.codes, a free job board for WordPress developers and more. Find out why Biff can get paid in burgers. 🍔

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