The focus is back on WordPress Plugins with brand new releases this week, like: Popupkit, Voice Feedback, MailerPress, and Dynamic Toolbox for Bricks. Also, make layouts cool with scroll animations and liquid glass toggle.
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What’s Buzzing in WordPress 💖
- Wapuu Card Game… Marcus Burnette has designed and created a Wapuu themed card game for WordPress people. Every set consists of 108 cards, like plugin cards, malware cards, function & interrupt cards. Grab it during the pre-sale period until August 8, 2025.
- New SEOPress Price Plans… SEOPress is introducing new plans from August 1, 2025, with no change for current users. Two plans of 5 sites ($49/yr) and unlimited sites ($149/yr), will be replaced by three plans of 1 site ($49/yr), 5 sites ($59/yr), and unlimited sites ($149/yr).
- Finding WordCamp Buddies… Michelle Frechette has introduced the WP Trail Buddies initiative to make it easy for new WordCamp attendees. It helps pair up newer attendees with veteran attendees for flagship WordCamps.
Brand New Plugins: Popupkit & Voice Feedback
New Popupkit… the team at wpmet has released a new Popupkit plugin, which allows you to capture leads through variety of popups. It supports lightbox popups, countdown timers, gamified wheels, WooCommerce popups, and more.
Voice Feedback… Abu Hayat from bPlugins shared about the launch of their latest plugin called Voice Feedback for WordPress (also has a free version). It allows users to leave voice-recorded feedback directly from any WordPress site. No logins or setup – just hit the record button and speak.
Plugins Brewing: Dynamic Toolbox & MailerPress
Dynamic Toolbox for Bricks… the team at Dynamic ooo has released the first stable version (1.0.0) of the Dynamic Toolbox for Bricks plugin, ready for use on the Bricks Builder made websites. This promises to be a complete toolbox of dynamic elements, advanced integrations, and smart form fields.
Upcoming MailerPress… the team behind SEOPress is building a new MailerPress plugin, which is now available in the repository at WordPress org website. It promises to make email marketing easy with the ability to create and send email campaigns from within the WordPress dashboard.
Extended WordPress Buzz 🔥
- Admin Redesign… Matias Ventura shared for discussion on the next iteration of the Admin Design, defining Materials, Concepts, and Screens. “Materials are the places where Concepts are rendered; Concepts are the interfaces for the various items a site needs to represent; and Screens are the dedicated routes that bring them all together and construct the various user flows”.
- Gato AI Translations… 13.2v now allows you to translate post, media, tags, and categories IDs stored in meta fields to their corresponding IDs in the target language. Also, openRouter Integration for accessing various AI models has been added.
- Responsible AI for Docs… Jenni McKinnon shared about the proposal to establish the workflow for responsibly using AI to assist in drafting new WordPress org end-user documentation articles for the WordPress 6.9 release.
- WordCamps Keynote… WordCamp Canada 2025 has announced 17 speakers for the event, with Dave Winer as a keynote speaker. While WordCamp US 2025 will have Danny Sullivan, Google’s Search Liaison, as the keynote speaker – along with other speakers (first set and second set).
- WP Milestones… MD Zakaria Islam shared (LinkedIn) about the Google Map Gutenberg Block plugin crossing the 7,000 active installs milestone.
Product Updates: SureForms, Divi, StoreEngine
SureForms + PDFs… SureForms has added a new PDF generation feature, which allows you to create and download styled PDF documents from form submissions. This is useful for confirmations, receipts, reports, and records.
Divi 5 Loop Builder… now you can loop post-based and term-based content in Divi5 with a new Loop Builder feature. With this, you can create a custom blog feed, featured WooCommerce products, events calendar, LMS course slider, and more.
StoreEngine… 1.3.0v introduced the migration addon for WooCommerce to StoreEngine data migration. While the 1.3.2v added subscription details view & action buttons, order details view, cart, and checkout settings tab.
Quick Bits 👍
- Jeff Starr updated the AI Bots Block List with 75+ new bots.
- 75+ Booking Form Examples using Amelia Booking plugin.
- New Conference and Invest starter sites from MaxiBlocks.
- Simon Cooke compares, Full Site Editing & top Page Builders!
- Let’s Learn
- Wes Theron published (YouTube) on how to use Group Block.
- Matt Cromwell on building plugin with Cursor AI & the results!
- Extracting data from WordPress org with Meltano, by Mahangu.
- Vova Feldman’s insights on (LinkedIn) early stage makers mindset.
- People of WordPress
- Ionut is looking to acquire plugins (Links X), $60K–$150K revenue.
- Imran Siddiq on the lack of diversity (YouTube) in WP promotions.
- Justin Ferriman dig deeper (LinkedIn) into selling LearnDash plugin.
New Plugins: Wishlist, Instant Navigation, Woo Table
Wishlist for Woo… the team at Elicus has released WPMozo Wishlist for WooCommerce (free version). It allows you to add the Wishlist feature to your Woo store, supporting wishlist for logged out users, and multiple wishlists.
Instant Back/Forward Navigation… Weston Ruter has released a free No-cache BFCache plugin that enables instant back/forward navigation via the browser’s bfcache. Check this article for more information and a demo.
Woo Product Table… Tableberg has introduced the WooCommerce Product Table Plugin for Gutenberg. It allows you to create an interactive table featuring WooCommerce store products with product filters, and add to cart button.
Cool Effects: Scroll Animations & Liquid Glass Toggle
WP Interactions… 1.2.0v has added the much requested scroll strength interaction, which triggers animations on user page scroll up and down actions. Also, added is the animation of the play/pause video action.
Liquid Glass Switch… 5.2.13v of the Dark Mode plugin has introduced Liquid Glass Switch, a modern glossy dark mode toggle inspired by the upcoming design trend from Apple’s latest iOS 26 beta.
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