March 2026 Newsletter

Monthly journals are updated weekly, as each InfluenceWP Weekly newsletter drops.

Partner Spotlight

FooPlugins

Since 2004, FooPlugins has been dedicated to creating high-quality, developer-friendly solutions for WordPress, with a focus on gallery and lightbox plugins built for performance and growth.

You can try FooPlugins solutions for free and enjoy top-notch support, thorough documentation, developer-friendliness, and a refund guarantee.

Visit FooPlugins on InfluenceWP to learn about their brand and plugins, watch first look videos, read video companion posts, get exclusive deals, and more.

InfluenceWP Updates

IWP 2.0

Over the past week, I have been diligently revamping IWP’s approach to partnerships with product creators. It’s a much-needed move for the sustainability of the project, and as a byproduct, I’ll be able to go deeper when it comes to helping product creators.

Some people have mentioned they thought IWP was just a place to get WordPress and WordPress-adjacent deals. It stings to hear that because IWP is about much more than that.

Behind the scenes, I’ve helped product creators change the direction of their products, quite literally. Behind the scenes, I’ve had virtual coffees with partners to discuss product ideas that aren’t even a part of IWP (i.e., there’s nothing in it for me, other than wanting to help). Behind the scenes, I’m doing a laundry list of things.

In addition to all the behind-the-scenes stuff, there are the things that you can see, like on the IWP website, for example. But this is where a big part of the problem is was.

Insufficient emphasis was placed on the product creators. This has been addressed.

• NEW Home Page: Completely redesigned to put the focus on IWP partners.
• NEW Home Page Takeover: Partners will be able to take over the IWP home page for a time to increase their exposure.
• NEW Home Page Featured Listings: As new listings are added to IWP, they will appear on the home page for a time to increase their exposure.
• NEW Brand Listings: A starting point to learn about the partner and find everything associated with them on the IWP platform (deal listings, non-deal listings, posts, guides, videos, etc.).
• NEW Newsletter Takeover: Partners will get a featured section in the IWP newsletter for a time to increase their exposure.

Partnerships

Exclusive Deal. No Affiliation. Just Savings. 👇

• Revise—AI Content Creator That Lives Inside Your WordPress Editor

First Look Videos

These videos are our first look at products from our partners. We will experience them for the first time, just as a new customer would.

• Publishing soon…

YouTube Companion Posts

Any videos we produce for our partners, such as First Looks and Extended Looks, are accompanied by posts that direct viewers back to their listings on our platform. We optimize these posts to respond to AI-generated questions, enabling partners to expand their reach even further.

• Confetti—Add More Excitement to Your WordPress Site

FREE Giveaways 🎉

InfluenceWP ran viral giveaways for the following partners. Want to do the same? Great! Please submit your giveaway using our simple form, and we’ll take care of the rest.

• NeetoRecord, a Loom alternative, is a screen and webcam recording tool that helps you avoid unnecessary meetings. You can record your screen to create demos, presentations, tutorials, feedback, and more.

Updates From Our Partners

• Changelog as a Service v1.2 (Changelog) brings a new global setting, shortcode setting, and block setting to show a “Get notified of updates” link within changelogs so users can easily subscribe to them on ChangelogWP.com, a new filter that allows you to change the final HTML however you’d like right before it is displayed, and other fixes.
• Perfmatters v2.5.8 (IWP Deal) is a massive update that brings the code snippets feature out of beta and includes many performance improvements, along with several other new features, fixes, and enhancements.
• Coupon Affiliates for WooCommerce v7.5 (IWP Deal) is a massive update that brings an option to set per-group and per-user MLA commission rates, an option to display a “Rates” tab on the MLA affiliate dashboard, an “MLA Users” admin page listing all users who are part of the multi-level affiliate system with their affiliate details and stats, lots more details and statistics about the affiliates’ sub-affiliates within the “View Affiliate” page, as well as more new features, and numerous improvements, tweaks, and fixes.
• Conversion Bridge v1.13 (IWP Deal) is packed with changes that’ll make conversion data more accurate, consent handling more reliable, and checkout tracking more complete with a rebuilt consent system, phone support for Enhanced Matching in 30+ integrations, and integrations for CheckoutWC (IWP Deal), Termageddon (IWP Deal), Tutor LMS, and Usercentrics, new Gravity Forms power features, and much more.
• Hoverify v4.6.8 (IWP Deal) brings new features to “Site Stack,” including a rebuilt detection engine, PDF report generation, and caching, while the “Color Eyedropper” gets added support for the OKLCH color space, “SEO” gets a button to clear the cache and refetch data and a button to change the position of the SEO panel, “Capture” gets added support for smooth scrolling libraries like GSAP, and the extension gets numerous overall improvements and bug fixes.
• Scripts Organizer v4 (IWP Deal) brings defer, async, etc., options for JavaScript scripts and WP Core scripts added in the code block scripts manager field, plus a Bricks color names notice fix.
• UiPress v1.2.18 (IWP Deal) brings several improvements—dashboard layout, style layering and CSS scoping, WordPress toolbar integration, and global search keyboard handling, and several fixes—Activity Log timestamp timezone display and four fixes raised by the community, as well as other improvements.
• GB Query Enhancements v1.2 (IWP Deal) brings new term queries: “Include terms from this post” (i.e., object_id) param support and new Term & User Queries: {{post_id}} placeholder support for all meta_value params, multiple improvements, and fixes.
• OOPSpam Anti-Spam (IWP Deal) is bringing you OOPVulns, a new WordPress vulnerability scanner plugin that works with your existing OOPSpam account, so there’s no need for a new subscription. You can download the beta via a link on this page.
• PatternsWP (IWP Deal) brings you February 2026 Pattern Day with 26 fresh designs, including patterns for hero sections, feature sections, pricing, customer logos, and essential components like testimonials, galleries, FAQs, stats, and team sections.
• SiteSkite (IWP Deal) is evolving beyond routine maintenance into a full control layer for WordPress operations—teams can safely experiment, clone, recover, and manage environments through intelligent sandboxing and streamlined backup workflows. This evolution includes the ability to launch sandboxes in seconds, use blueprints to save and reuse proven site structures, create sandboxes from blueprints, extremely powerful and multi-layered backups, pretty error logs, domain expiry tracking, and a ton more.
• FluentSupport v2.0.5 (IWP Deal) brings dark mode to the admin dashboard, OpenAI GPT-5.2 support for workflows, view tickets (read-only) permission, faster ticket list loading, optimized Zendesk migrations, and a handful of bug fixes across permissions, attachments, formatting, and UI.

Other WordPressers Not to Be Overlooked

• MailerPress v1.5 (Changelog Post) brings new webhooks: support for both incoming and outgoing webhooks to integrate external systems and receive real-time events and flexible click and open tracking to choose between Yes, No, or Anonymously in the Review & Send modal, as well as numerous improvements and fixes.
• Virtual Media Folders v1.8.0 (Changelog) brings server-side sidebar preference (user meta), server-side grid/list/folder view switching, a new REST endpoint for preferences, and fixes for sidebar/cache + view-switch race conditions.
• FluentCart v1.3.11 (Changelog Post) brings Elementor blocks such as Add to Cart, Buy Now, Mini Cart, Products Grid, Carousel, Category List, and Checkout; Razorpay subscription support; product SKUs; new Gutenberg blocks such as Related Products, Media Carousel, Customer Dashboard Button, and Store Logo; and several other new features.
• WP Rollback Plugins & Themes v3.0.12 (Changelog) brings the ability to reinstall the currently installed version of a plugin or theme, with the rollback button now adapting its label based on the selected version—“Reinstall” when selecting the current version, “Rollback” when selecting an older version, and “Update” when selecting a newer version. Confirmation messaging updates accordingly for each action type.

WordPress Tidbits

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