The upcoming launch of FluentCart is creating all the good buzz! This week’s launches include PTC (Private Translation Cloud), GravityBoard, and SureBricks. Question of the week: Do you publish Accessibility Conformance Report?
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What’s Buzzing in WordPress 💖
- Private Translation Cloud… the team at WPML has launched PTC (Private Translation Cloud), promising better than human AI translation for WordPress Themes and Plugins. It reads PO and POT files from your GitLab, GitHub, or Bitbucket repo and delivers MO and JSON files for the backend and front-end.
- GravityBoard… the team at GravityKit has launched GravityBoard, an addon for Gravity Forms. It brings visual workflow management by transforming your form entries into collaborative boards, almost like Trello for Gravity Forms, with drag and drop management of tasks.
- FluentCart Buzz… I did a test drive of the upcoming FluentCart plugin – must say, it is impressive, out of the box! Check the first impression videos from various creators: Paul Charlton, David Risley, Pascal Claro, SiteKrafter, and Paal Joachim Romdahl.
- Greyd Suite + Global Content… the team at Greyd Suite has launched the Global Content feature, whereby you can store content globally and link that same content to multiple websites. For example, like displaying the same footer on multiple websites.
New Updates: Stackable, SureBricks, & FluentAuth
Stackable… 3.16.0v is a big update that focuses on the ease of use for building pages more efficiently. This update features Theme.json support, presets in slider controls, global value presets, and typography type scale.
SureCart + Bricks… Chinmoy Paul has released SureBricks, a SureCart addon for Bricks users. This adds cart counter and menu cart elements, a styler of SureCart Elements, and over 12 interaction actions.
FluentAuth… 100% free security plugin from Fluent family of products, the 2.0v update has introduced Login/Signup Page Customizer, WordPress core files integrity check, and login with Facebook option.
More Updates: BuddyBoss, SureFoms, & WP Rocket
BuddyBoss… promising to make organizing easy, BuddyBoss has introduced the Activity Topics feature. It allows you to categorize posts using topics created by admins or group organizers, control who posts to each topic, filter feeds by topic, and create custom group topics.
SureForms… 1.7.1v update has added rich text support for the textarea field, which allows rich text editing inside textarea fields. Also, a new 67% width option enables more control in the form layouts.
WP Rocket… 3.19v has improved the preload fonts feature, which prevents the issue of Flash of Unstyled Text (FOUT). Also, introduced preconnect to external domains feature for advanced loading of resources from external domains.
Extended WordPress Buzz 🔥
- Gutenberg Update… 21.0v makes the HTML Element selectable on Button and Separator blocks, allowing users to choose between a or button elements for better accessibility in the Advanced panel of the Button block.
- AspirePress Update… AspireUpdate 1.0 plugin is now available for download, enabling users to update their software from the repository of their choice. They have also launched AspireExplorer, an online repository to browse WordPress plugins.
- WP Engine Failover… promising to keep your site online during outages is the new WP Engine Failover service. It is an enterprise-grade disaster recovery solution that ensures 99.99% uptime by re-routing traffic to an alternate data center during a failure.
- WP Milestones… plugin to build an online social network community space, FluentCommunity has crossed the 5000 active installs milestone in the repository.
- WordCamps Action… WordCamp Canada is scheduled for October 16, 2025, in Ottawa, Ontario, tickets are available for this upcoming event. WordCamp Jinja 2025 was an impactful event, attracting over 250 attendees, including students, developers, designers, educators, and entrepreneurs from Uganda and East Africa.
Business of WP: Partnership & Acquisition
WP Rocket + GoDaddy Collaborate… a new collaboration has been announced between WP Rocket and GoDaddy Website Design Service. WP Rocket will be setup in the customers’ dashboards for website optimization by the GoDaddy Website Design Service team.
Automattic Acquires… Automattic has acquired Clay, a relationship management tool that automatically organizes and searches your entire network. “This partnership will help us further our vision for the future of connecting humans”.
Quick Bits 👍
- Two new Starter Sites for Interior Design & Acupuncture.
- SureCart 3.9v has added integration for Elementor Pro.
- Joe Youngblood noticed Yoast with ‘ai-optimized’ in HTML.
- Rino de Boer’s new Website Style Kit, color palette generator.
- WP Mayor now displays featured courses from Coursera.
- Automattic with 1,400+ people (Links X) from 82 countries.
- Let’s Learn
- Create dynamic Horizontal Posts Accordion with MB Views.
- Varun share setup of local AI WP assistant to analyze plugins.
- People + WordPress
- Leo Koo share lessons learnt as a WordCamp Organizer.
- Sam Alderson’s reflections on inclusivity in WordPress
- Carrie Dils on why FAIR project is a great start for WordPress.
- People + Thinking
- Aaron Bowie recap of loss, WP progress, & team’s outing.
- Robert DeVore is leaving WordPress, after 20 Years!
- Nathan Wrigley is concerned about AI in our lives & more.
Report: AI driven shift in SEO for 2025
Over 700 WordPress professionals participated in the ‘SEO in the age of AI’ report prepared by the teams at WP Rocket, Rank Math, and Weglot. Over 76% of respondents said they have integrated AI in their SEO workflows for the purpose of content planning (34%) and creative ideas (44%).
Interestingly, 57% of marketers reported a boost in organic traffic from AI use. The majority of people stick to 1 to 3 AI tools for SEO in their current stack. Also, 86% of users have already increased their AI usage compared to 2023!
Do you publish ‘Commitment to Accessibility’?
The team at LearnDash has officially published its Product Accessibility Conformance Report. It shows the current status, known accessibility issues, and the accessibility roadmap.
The question is, should more WordPress plugin and theme developers publish Accessibility Conformance Reports, prioritizing accessibility? Yes!
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