Two WordPress plugins got a big refresh this week: BookIt and Project Pages. Also, you can freshen up your dashboard or grab wireframes for front-end creations. Plus, follow-up on Woo Express and new AI tools in the WordPress space.
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What’s Buzzing in WordPress 💖
- New Booking Solution… the team at StellarWP acquired a booking plugin sometime back and has launched it as BookIt appointment and booking system. The base plugin is free with pro options for Google Calendar, Payments, and WooCommerce integrations.
- Refresh Admin Dash… give a fresh new look to your WordPress dashboard with newly released uiXpress Theme for WordPress admin dashboard. Beside looks, it focuses on productivity with global search and customizable WordPress login page.
- Showcase Projects… Woody Hayday has launched all new 2.0v of the Project Pages plugin that allows you to showcase your projects through beautiful project pages. The free version is also available, read the backstory highlighting the evolution of this project.
- Wireframes for Bricks… the team at Core Framework has released 300+ Minimalistic Wireframes for the Bricks Builder users, created with accessibility in mind and adhering to A11Y standards.
Updates: Dynamic Forms, Yubikey, SmartCrawl, FlyWP
Dynamic Forms… Fluent Forms 5.2.0v has added much requested dynamic field feature allowing you to populate form fields like radio, checkbox, select, multi-select from multiple sources like forms submissions, taxonomy terms, posts, CSV.
YubiKey + WP Login… WP 2FA plugin 2.8.0v from Melapress has added support for YubiKey, allowing you to use a YubiKey hardware key as the 2FA method when logging in to WordPress.
SmartCrawl Import… SEOPress 8.0v has added a SmartCrawl redirects import feature allowing you to automatically import your redirects created from SmartCrawl into SEOPress.
FlyWP… has added OpenLiteSpeed (OLS) support allowing you to easily use it to power your WordPress websites with LiteSpeed caching, fast loading, security, and resource efficiency.
Extended WordPress Buzz 🔥
- Webflow to WordPress Switch… with the recent Webflow price hike, many are looking for alternatives. Laura Coronado from WebDevStudios has published a detailed guide on what to consider while switching from Webflow to the WordPress platform.
- WP Services Milestone… Hostinger is celebrating the 3 million active clients (LinkedIn) milestone and 5 million domains. Aurelio Volle shared about WP Umbrella reaching $500K in annual recurring revenue and now being installed on over 30,000 websites.
- WP Plugins Milestone… Spectra, block builder addon from Brainstorm Force, has crossed an impressive 900K active installs milestone. The multi-step checkout plugin for WooCommerce, Fluid Checkout has crossed the 20,000+ installs milestone for the lite version.
- Woo Express Rebranded… WooCommerce .com had removed the Woo Express plan (Hosting with WooCommerce), as reported in the last issue. James Kemp has clarified (Links X) that Woo Express has been rebranded as a Commerce plan and moved to the WordPress .com website.
- Plugin Rebranded… the team at WPExperts has acquired the WP Change Admin plugin and rebranded it as the All in One Login (AIO Login) plugin. Also, launched a new AIO plugin website with the pro version listing.
- WordCamp Rescheduled… WordCamp Netherlands 2024 has been rescheduled from the earlier dates of September 27 and 28, 2024, to the new dates of November 29 and 30, 2024.
New Integrations: Gravatar + Clay & Salesforce + Woo
Gravatar Integration… Clay CRM solution has partnered with Automattic to bring Gravatar information (Links X) to their Clay profiles to automatically keep user profile information the latest and up to date.
Salesforce Integration… Abandoned Cart Pro for WooCommerce 9.9.0v by Tyche Softwares has added Salesforce integration allowing you to send abandoned cart data as leads in real time to the Salesforce CRM.
Quick Bits 👍
- New Directory: WordPress Launches of Plugins & Services.
- How Rocket .net plans to scale to $10mm ARR & beyond!
- Check out the first episode of ‘Web Creators Live’ by Paul.
- Cooking Websites Ep. 9 – Tools I install on every website.
- Automattic got featured (Links X) on the Nasdaq Tower.
- kamala Harris got a new website powered by WordPress.
- Me on Seriously Bud show, strictly non-WordPress talk!
New AI + WP: Yoast AI Optimize & Write Brief
Yoast + AI SEO… Yoast Premium has included the new Yoast AI Optimize, which instantly provides you with AI-powered suggestions to optimize your existing copy, promising better SEO performance.
Write Brief with AI… Automattic has a new AI tool in the Jetpack AI Assistant. Write Brief with AI tool works in the editor to estimate the readability of your content and give suggestions for improvement.
Community: WordCamp Marketing, Plugins Queue
$400 WordCamp Marketing… there is a proposal to allow a portion of the WordCamp budget may be allocated for marketing and advertising. For the start, the recommended minimum amount is $50, and the maximum amount is $400 – welcome first steps, for sure.
2700+ Plugins in Queue… Francisco Torres shared a few plugin review statistics, such as the fact there are over 2737 plugins in the queue (new and pending). Digging further, 577 plugins are new – not processed or replied to yet.
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