December Journal

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  • NeetoCal Pro—The Calendly Alternative (Ended 12/20): Makes scheduling simple. It’s easy enough for individual users and powerful enough to meet the needs of enterprise organizations.
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Updates From Our Partners

  • LinkCentral v1.5.1 (IWP Deal) brings the ability to import short links from ‘URL Shortener by MyThemeShop,’ a new global option to automatically prefix slugs with the selected category when creating/editing a link, and the ability to add custom rel-attributes (such as noreferrer and noopener) to your links with both global and per-link options, and numerous improvements and fixes.
  • Rightblogger (IWP Deal) now integrates with BlogMaker, giving BlogMaker customers a way to create articles on autopilot without lifting a finger.
  • FlowMattic v5.5.0 (IWP Deal) brings many new features, including a Horizontal Workflow Builder option, Download Workflows as PNG for easy sharing, a Share Secrets Module to securely share sensitive information using various methods and custom settings, WordPress Multisite Integration, and the ability to Create MCP Tools From Integrations, as well as more features, settings, and bug fixes.
  • JetEngine v3.8.0 (IWP Deal) brings one of their most powerful updates yet, packed with AI-driven workflows, smarter queries, a redesigned multi-day calendar, and new styling tools.
  • FluentCommunity v2.1.02 (IWP Deal) brings a Join Space Option for Public Posts, a Flagged Post Edit Option, a Space Settings Navbar UI improvement, and numerous fixes.
  • WPMissionControl v1.2.0 (IWP Deal) brings true system-level observability to WordPress—shining light on failures that normally stay invisible with Fatal Error Logging, Cron Issue Detection, REST and AJAX Error Reporting, and Database Failure Monitoring.
  • Slim SEO Pro v1.7.0 (IWP Deal) brings Brand, CreativeWork, and VisualArt Schemas, Organization Subtypes, and numerous fixes.
  • EventKoi v1.0.0 (IWP Deal) brings a new Event Query Loop block with templating, layout controls, and live editor previews; a new Event Series page/template with automatic instance listings and proper permalink routing; as well as numerous improvements and fixes.
  • Perfmatters v2.5.5 (IWP Deal) brings new code settings options to import and export code snippets, support to export individual snippets, a subset of snippets through a bulk action, or all stored snippets from a new code settings export button, a code snippets admin bar option, and numerous other improvements and fixes.
  • RightBlogger (IWP Deal) now has an official WordPress plugin, allowing you to easily connect RightBlogger to your WordPress site, send metadata to Yoast SEO, Rank Math, AIOSEO, and SEOPress, and create AI-generated meta descriptions.
  • The plugin adds new features like sending metadata to Yoast SEO, Rank Math, AIOSEO, and SEOPress.
  • It also creates AI-generated meta descriptions, with more features coming soon.
  • DevKit v2.0 (IWP Deal) brings a new Delete Transients Option, a Backup and Restore Feature, and a Country Block Panel, as well as some bug fixes.
  • MailPoet v5.17.3 (IWP Deal) brings the ability to cancel an automation run for a single subscriber.
  • Coupon Affiliates for WooCommerce v7.2.2 (IWP Deal) brings the ability to use an [affiliate_qrcode] shortcode to display the QR code for the affiliate’s referral URL on any page.
  • Hoverify v4.5.8 (IWP Deal) brings the new Library feature (Beta)—your personal asset vault, right inside the extension that connects to Google Drive for saving images, SVGs, videos, PDFs, etc., as well as other additions and numerous bug fixes.
  • WP Lighthouse v4.6.2 (IWP Deal) brings a new wp-config.php injection system—a unified system for injecting constants, WP-Cron lock timeout, alternate WP-Cron method, skip bundled themes during upgrades, disable file editor, improved image size removal, and numerous improvements.
  • aDirectory v3.1 (IWP Deal) brings an all-new, smoother onboarding experience and the ability to import listing tags via CSV.
  • SEOPress v9.4 (IWP Deal) brings a tighter integration with the WordPress block editor as part of a bigger push to offer a more user-friendly solution that is compatible with all page editors and builders, as well as other improvements and fixes.
  • Coupon Affiliates for WooCommerce v7.2.3 (IWP Deal) brings an alternative method of creating the cookies for referral link tracking (using JavaScript) for times when headers have already been sent, as well as other improvements and fixes.
  • WP 2FA v3.1 (IWP Deal) brings passkeys for secure, passwordless WordPress logins. No passwords, no phishing, no hassle.
  • Modular DS (IWP Deal) closed out 2025 with a special update and probably one of their most complete releases so far, with 15+ improvements and new features designed to make managing your WordPress sites easier and more efficient.
  • Slim SEO Pro v1.8 (IWP Deal) brings support for Podcast schema, so if you have a podcast and want to improve its SEO, now you can.

Other WordPressers Not to Be Overlooked

  • FluentCart v1.3.2 (Direct Link) brings New Payment Options, Private Products, Checkout Flexibility, Subscription Enhancements and more!
  • ACF v6.7.0 (Direct Link) brings Inline Editing, a groundbreaking feature for ACF Blocks, allowing content editors to edit block field data by clicking directly on what they want to edit in the block preview area, without requiring any extra code or JavaScript by the block creator.
  • SiteSkite v1.0.5 (Direct Link) brings platform enhancements, including the Reports Dashboard, BirdEye Monitor (Real-time monitoring for uptime and site health), Performance Metrics (Core Web Vitals breakdowns), and Bring-Your-Own-Cloud Storage (Google Drive, Dropbox, AWS S3, pCloud, and BackBlaze B2.)
  • Per Søderlind (X) announced his new Virtual Media Folders plugin (WP.org) to organize your Media Library with virtual folders—no file moves, no broken URLs, just a clean structure, faster workflows, and happier admins.
  • MailerPress (X) has been very active in December (Direct Link), with multiple notable releases that include a new universal shortcode for adding new contacts (compatible with page builders), the availability of custom fields in segmentation and the editor’s merge tags, a completely redesigned dashboard, and enhanced contact management featuring built-in statistics and support for custom fields in the contact manager, along with numerous improvements and fixes.
  • RemindMeWP (Direct Link) is here to help you keep on track of your renewals/premium plugin usage, all from your WordPress dashboard.
  • AesirX v1.0.1 (X) brings Tag Event Value Mapping, so actions tracked in your Tag Manager can carry metric and engagement values, not just labels.
  • Hide AI v0.4 (WP.org) now hides AI options for SeedProd and WPCode and provides a broader hiding of AI options for Elementor.
  • Sybre Waaijer (X) furthers his commitment to open source, releasing the Troy platform (Direct Link) for distributing and managing WordPress plugins through self-hosted repositories.
  • wpRigel’s Commandify v.1.0.3 (X) brings new integrations for Contact Form 7, Bricks Builder, and Flamingo, with upcoming integrations for Fluent Forms (IWP Deal), LearnDash (IWP Deal), and more.
  • ThemeGrill (X) released the Customize My Account Page For WooCommerce plugin (WP.org) to help store owners to add tabs, reorder menus, personalize content for customers, and more.
  • Yoast v26.6 (ChangelogWP) brings a task list for reminding site admins about relevant SEO tasks and further improves the llms.txt structure, as well as other improvements and fixes.
  • AesirX Analytics v1.2.0 (X) brings Real-Time Visitors—a live view of who’s on your site right now and how much value their session is generating.
  • Falcon—WordPress Optimizations & Tweaks v2.9 (ChangelogWP) brings the ability to export/import settings and a lightweight yet powerful HTML caching module.
  • Craig Gomes (X) mentioned his free Classic Menus for Block Themes plugin (ChangelogWP), which I’m shocked doesn’t have more installations. Many struggle with the new Nav approach in WordPress and this is a great option for those folks.

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