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What’s Buzzing in WordPress 💖
- WPAmelia + eTickets QR… promising to make event tickets management easy is the new QR code scanning for events feature. Every ticket will have a unique QR code, and event organizers and employees can quickly verify attendees at on-site events by scanning the QR code at the entrance to allow secure admission.
- New WPChat… the team at Smash Balloon, from Awesome Motive, has launched WPChat plugin for customer support. It lets you offer live chat support using familiar platforms like WhatsApp, Messenger, and Telegram. It includes features like chat funnels, sales analytics, and AI-powered FAQs.
- AreaWP + MainWP… 2.0v of AreaWP is a significant update bringing integration with MainWP. This makes AreaWP the first WordPress WaaS + SaaS platform to also offer a self-hosted option, enabling developers and agencies full control over their infrastructure without sacrificing convenience.
- Sales Analytics in Burst Pro… the team at Burst Statistics has introduced Sales analytics for WooCommerce, accessible within the Burst Pro Dashboard. The new sales tab in the dashboard will display store performance metrics such as conversion rate, abandoned carts, average order value, revenue, and more.
New Addons: Pie Calendar, Directorist, & Fluent Products
Pie Calendar + New Addon… Jonathan Jernigan over at Pie Calendar has released a new connector addon for Pie Calendar. The Connector Addon provides a framework for integrating additional event sources from outside of WordPress site, like Eventbrite Integration for Ticketed Events and External Event Feeds (via ICS).
Directorist Advanced Review… the team at Directorist has released a new Advanced Review addon that promises to turn simple star ratings into meaningful insights. It allows custom rating criteria, text feedback, and average scores across all criteria.
Fluently Toolkit… Nelson Miller from Pee-Aye Creative has launched Fluently Toolkit, the first add-on for the Fluent products ecosystem. It aims to extend the feature set of FluentCRM, FluentCommunity, and FluentCart.
Free Plugins: Dynamic Visibility, User Roles, & for Gravity
Dynamic Visibility for Elementor… 6.0.0v of this free plugin for Elementor users takes the product vision further with many new features. Like ‘Deselect All Triggers’ button, JS Events are now compatible with anchor links, new PHP filter for trigger lists, enhanced IP detection for CDN and proxy setups.
Melapress Role Editor… brought to attention the free Melapress Role Editor plugin from the team at Melapress. It allows you to create, edit, and delete custom user roles. You can backup and restore user role configurations, add users to multiple roles, and support Easy Digital Downloads, WooCommerce, and Yoast SEO.
Groundworx Gravity Plugin… want to make Gravity Forms inputs play nice with Block Themes? Johanne Courtright has released a free Groundworx Gravity Forms Plugin that comes with a custom Gutenberg block with 9 visual color controls, form styling with CSS custom properties, and theme .json integration.
New Plugin Launches: YS LeadGen & Beaver XML Loop
New YS LeadGen… the team at YS Innovations has released a new YS LeadGen plugin for lead generation. It features a popup and form builder for WordPress websites, enabling you to capture leads, recover carts, and increase conversions.
Beaver Builder XML (RSS) Loop… Zack Pyle has released the XML (RSS) Loop Plugin for Beaver Builder users. This allows you to pull data from external websites via RSS and display it through the loop module in your own custom display formats.
Extended WordPress Buzz 🔥
- WordPress Core Update… WordPress 6.9 Beta 3 is now available for download and testing. It comes with more than 80 updates and fixes since the Beta 2 release. The final release of WordPress 6.9 is scheduled for December 2, 2025.
- New in Gutenberg… 22.0v update has introduced real-time synchronization for post meta, enhancing the collaborative editing experience with your custom post meta or footnotes. Also available is the new package of design tokens, which will serve as the new foundation for Gutenberg’s design system.
- Phase 3 Update + Collaboration… Anne McCarthy shared an update on phase 3 that focuses on collaboration and user experience. Like real-time collaboration enabling multiple authors to edit content simultaneously, and Block Notes allowing users to add comments directly on content blocks.
- Test WooCommerce MCP… the WooCommerce MCP integration is in beta now and ready for your testing. This allows AI assistants like Claude, Cursor, VS Code, or any other MCP-compatible client to interact directly with your WooCommerce store for AI assisted store management and other tasks.
- Sponsorship Guidelines Updated… Isotta Peira shared about WordPress Credits updating the sponsorship guidelines with the focus on meaningful engagement and impact. “Companies can no longer sponsor tools or resources alone; they must also sponsor one or more mentors to align with the program’s educational goals”.
- State of the Word 2025… the annual keynote by Matt Mullenweg, State of the Word, 2025 edition will take place in San Francisco, USA. Making it this edition special, WordPress 6.9 will release on the same day, as the event. You can watch SOTW live on YouTube on December 2, 2025, 11:00 AM – 5:00 PM PST.
- WordCamp Asia 2026 Tickets… the first batch of passes (tickets) were sold out in 55 minutes. Here is the release schedule with 600 passes going live on each date – 300 at 10 AM IST (4:30 AM UTC) and 300 at 10 PM IST (4:30 PM UTC): 2nd Batch: 11 November 2025, 3rd Batch: 21 November 2025, and final batch: 29 November 2025.
New Features: MemberPress & Breakdance
MemberPress + ClubSuite… now MemberPress users can turn their membership site into a networking hub with the launch of ClubSuite. This adds new addons like ClubDirectory and ClubCircles, which add features like: profiles, member directories, and private discussion boards in your existing MemberPress site.
New Breakdance Release… 2.6v of Breakdance builder is now available bringing many new features. Like button presets for buttons, improved code editor powered by CodeMirror 6, fewer HTTP requests with smarter CSS loading, and all new version control for your design presets.
Quick Bits 👍
- WPRemote has introduced single website plans, from $1.99 /mon.
- Ross teased (Links X) 18 new block types coming to Search & Filter.
- 20i Hosting awarded ‘Best Web Host’ at the PC Pro Awards 2025.
- Letters of protest fail to Stop ‘Managed WordPress’ trademark bids.
- Watch 1st dev/ai/nyc event (YT), Matt Mullenweg & John Borthwick.
- Automattic Creed got the first ever update, a minor point upgrade.
- Let’s Learn
- Code snippet to limit allowed blocks without breaking the Site Editor.
- Ben Word on WordPress REST API vs admin-ajax .php, choose which?
- How WP 6.9 gives forms a theme .json makeover, by Justin Tadlock.
- WordPress on Youtube
- How WordPress Core keeps getting faster, Weston Ruter, WPEngine.
- Learning about WordPress Speed, Remkus de Vries & Rino de Boer.
- Pascal Claro on taking WP Automation to next level with Bit Flows.
- How WP 6.9 fixes Navigation Links automatically, by Dave Smith.
- Kevin Powell explains the use of CSS Combinators in a simple way.
- People of WordPress
- Dave Grey on switching to pay once LTD from subscription model.
- Reflections from organizer of WordCamp Canada, by Troy Chaplin.
Hosting Buzz: InMotion, Kinsta, Unity Pro, & Vector
InMotion Hosting + Eco-Friendly… the team at InMotion Hosting has announced a new line of eco-friendly dedicated servers. This promises sustainable servers without compromise, and delivers enterprise-grade performance. There are many hosting plans from 32GB to 192GB of memory.
Kinsta Bandwidth Pricing… Kinsta has announced new bandwidth based hosting plans, enabling more hosting control for website owners and agencies. Now you can choose either ‘Visits’ or ‘Bandwidth’ while selecting any hosting plan at Kinsta.
Unity Pro + Google Cloud’s C4D… Nick Bryant from Wordify, a managed WordPress hosting provider, shared about the launch of Unity Pro plan powered by Google Cloud’s new C4D processors. It promises to deliver up to 80% better performance than Google’s previous C3D generation, according to Google’s benchmarks.
New Vector Hosting… the team at BuiltFast has announced Vector and Vector Pro, scalable hosting for WordPress users. This is the result of BuiltFast’s strategic partnership with Ymir, a pioneer in serverless infrastructure for WordPress.
Community & Biz: Trademark & PeachPay Acquisition
Automatic + Automattic Trademark… Kevin Geary runs Automatic CSS, a CSS framework tool for WordPress, shared a letter received (Links X) from Automattic regarding a trademark violation. A lot of comments and views from community folks on that thread. To this Matt replied (Links X), “We also own automatic .com. You had to know this was a fraught naming area”.
PeachPay to ConvesioPay… Thomas M Fanelli shared about (LinkedIn) PeachPay becoming a part of Convesio. Moving forward, ConvesioPay will be powered and delivered through PeachPay’s all-in-one payments and checkout experience for WooCommerce users.
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