November Journal

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Partnerships

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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.

  • Bit Social – Schedule and Auto Post to Social Media From WordPress
  • Powerfolio – Highly Customizable Portfolio Widget for WordPress
  • FooBox – Responsive Media Lightboxes With Built-in Social Sharing
  • FormStatus – Effortlessly Test Your Website Forms

Quick Look Videos

These videos provide a brief introduction to solutions from our partners, where we walk through the associated website to highlight the features, key website pages, and more.

  • aDirectory – The All-in-One WordPress Directory Plugin

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.

  • Nag Me Not for WordPress – Easily Prevent Notices From Cluttering Your WordPress Dashboard
  • Novashare – WordPress Social Sharing at the Speed of Light
  • PDF Poster – Easily Embed PDF Files in WordPress
  • Bit Social – Schedule and Auto Post to Social Media From WordPress
  • Blocklayouts – Predesigned WordPress Patterns Library
  • CooWriter AI – Write SEO Content in Minutes with AI

Tutorials

WordPress Guides

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 will take care of the rest.

  • DLX Plugins – Deluxe Bundle (Ends 12/5): This MASSIVE giveaway gives winners the ‘500-For-5 license’ plan, which means 500 licenses for all of the plugins listed below, for 5 years! Archive Pages Pro, Comment Edit Pro, GB Extras for GenerateBlocks, HeyTodos (Gravity Forms and Todoist Add-on), QuotesDLX, and Tazker (Gravity Forms and Toggl Plan Add-on)
  • Amender is a next-generation WordPress editor that lets you instantly modify any content on your site, regardless of how it was created. You don’t need coding skills. Just click to edit visually or ask the built-in AI to make the changes for you in seconds.

Updates From Our Partners

  • WP Umbrella v2.19.0 (IWP Deal) brings a new feature for performing safe updates with themes and an improved backup process with infinite symlink detection.
  • WP Remote (IWP Deal) just launched single-site plans, which was a much-requested feature by all their agency customers, providing for flexible, sustainable agency growth.
  • Slim SEO v1.6.0 (IWP Deal) brings the ability to add a merchant return policy, which is now required by Google, as well as new reporting for linked external websites.
  • FooGallery (IWP Deal) now has a playground “Live Preview” on the WordPress repo, so you can spin up a new WordPress install with FooGallery and instantly be set up with demo content so you can play with the plugin.
  • aDirectory v3.0 (IWP Deal) brings a total revamp that makes directory building faster and more flexible, with an all-new ‘Multi Post Type Directory,’ — a truly game-changing feature that no other WordPress directory plugin offers today. You can now create multiple independent directories within a single site!
  • Activity Log Pro 1.0.3 (IWP Deal) brings the ability to select custom post types to exclude from activity logging, as well as other fixes and enhancements.
  • Ninja Tables 5.2.4 (IWP Deal) brings a FluentCart integration, a few fixes, better WooCommerce experiences, and some new features that make your tables more dynamic than ever.
  • Fluent Forms 6.1.5 (IWP Deal) brings Gutenberg styling, accordion/tab inputs, Authorize.net integration, and more.
  • Meta Box AIO 3.3.0 (IWP Deal) brings many key improvements for custom models, admin columns, the new View block in the editor, and custom post types.
  • Conversion Bridge 1.11 (IWP Deal) brings a brand-new Google Analytics dashboard right inside WordPress, smarter tracking under the hood, improved privacy tools, and new plugin and analytics platform integrations.
  • Independent Analytics 2.13.5 (IWP Deal) brings an integration with FluentCart.
  • Simple Points and Rewards for WooCommerce (IWP Link) is a new, powerful, and feature-rich plugin for WooCommerce offering a simple and easy way to reward your customers for being loyal and referring their friends.
  • Perfmatters 2.5.3 (IWP Deal) brings a new Code Snippets (BETA) feature — create and manage PHP, JS, CSS, and HTML code snippets that are stored and loaded using a flat-file method, with a direct integration with their existing optimization options.
  • FluentBoards 1.9 (IWP Deal) brings bulk actions in Table View, bulk restore and delete for archived tasks, additional webhook triggers, and more fixes and improvements.
  • Simply Static 2.0 (IWP Deal) is a significant milestone – while it doesn’t introduce that many big features, it includes a lot of polish for existing ones, making things easier, smarter, and nicer.
  • WPMissionControl (IWP Deal) has evolved! What began as a simple uptime tool has grown into a full Website Observability Platform â€” built for agencies, care professionals, and site owners who want to truly understand what’s happening on their WordPress websites.
  • WP Social Ninja v4.0 (IWP Deal)  isn’t just an update; it’s a fresh start, with a redesigned UI, user onboarding, a custom source for reviews, and more.
  • Directorist (IWP Listing) has a new extension, Directorist Analytics (Direct Link), to help directory owners gain valuable insights about their platforms and unlock data that typically you cannot find in any external tool – all within the WordPress Dashboard.
  • FluentCommunity (IWP Deal) Developer Docs (Direct Link) are here and include all the dev-related action and filter hooks, database design, REST API endpoints, Database Models, Query Builder, and more.
  • FluentBooking v1.10 (IWP Deal) brings several new features, improvements, security improvements, and most importantly, FluentCart integration.
  • SnipVault v1.1.10 (IWP Deal) brings Remote Site Management, allowing you to connect to and manage multiple remote WordPress sites from a single dashboard.
  • WP Fusion v3.47.3 (IWP Deal) brings an integration with SureForms Pro to sync form submissions to 50+ CRM or marketing automation systems.
  • FuseWP v2.1.24 (IWP Deal) brings a major upgrade to their HubSpot integration, along with important fixes and performance improvement.
  • WP Lighthouse v4.6.0 (IWP Deal) brings a new Performance Audit page to quickly discover performance issues for WordPress websites.
  • Bit Flows v1.11.0 (IWP Deal) brings 104 new actions (ex. FluentBoards), 35 new triggers (ex. FluentBoards), a new toBoolean() function, and more.

Other WordPressers Not to Be Overlooked

  • WP Interactions (X) is now simply “Interactions,” and with the new name comes a game-changing update. The Interaction Library is the newest and easiest way to add interactive elements to your WordPress website in just a few clicks.
  • Corey Maass (X) created img.express, a free web app to help with adding logo grids to your website, including the ability to resize and crop the images.
  • David Perez (X) announced Plugin Check v1.7.0 (WP.org) — a major update bringing smarter scans, better security, and improved compatibility for WordPress plugin developers.
  • Johanne Courtright (X) announced the Groundworx Gravity Forms plugin (GitHub) that provides seamless integration between Gravity Forms and modern WordPress block themes. Get professional form styling, visual color controls in the block editor, and native WordPress block buttons – all without fighting against Gravity Forms.
  • Naked Cat Plugins (X) launched their first plugin for FluentCart (Direct Link), giving them their first 3rd-party payment gateway! Now, Portuguese shop owners can receive Multibanco payments via ifthenpay (Direct Link) within their FluentCart shops.
  • Elliot Richmond (X) made a Full Site Editor Block Theme Cheat Sheet (Direct Link) for WordPress devs (or anyone dipping into theme development), covering core blocks, theme.json reference, hooks, and troubleshooting tips he wished he’d had when he started.
  • Advanced Custom Fields 6.7 Beta 1 (X) brings inline editing for ACF Blocks — live, instant, and intuitive. Jump in and test the future of block-based editing.
  • Naked Cat Plugins (X) released the Create User Account from WooCommerce Guest Order (Direct Link) plugin to convert your guest order users into WooCommerce customers with a click.
  • Justin Tadlock (X) quietly released v1.0 of his Media Data WordPress plugin (GitHub) that introduces powerful yet simple blocks for showing metadata from any WordPress media file. Whether you’re a photographer displaying EXIF details, a podcaster highlighting episode metadata, or an archivist cataloging digital assets, this plugin brings your media’s data to the forefront—right from the block editor.
  • Nathan Wrigley (X) and Dan Maby (X) released the PodcasterPlus (Direct Link) plugin as the fastest way to build a professional podcast website with WordPress.
  • Steve Jones (X) announced the release of ArchiveWP (Direct Link), a WordPress plugin to keep legacy content online for reference or recordkeeping in a clearly designated, searchable archive.
  • Mike McAllister (X) announced the release of Class Manager, a powerful and intuitive new way of working with CSS classes and styles in the WordPress editor. This super lightweight, native, and built-for-scale feature is now part of Ollie Pro (Direct Link).
  • Obi Juan (X) announced Newsletter Glue v4.0.4 (Direct Link), which is a big update that introduces important bug fixes, improvements, and numerous new features centered around automation and transactional emails while introducing the initial framework for the new Posts Nudge module.
  • Dave Grey (X) introduced “Something To Say,” a plugin (Direct Link) that provides an easy-to-use internal messaging system for WordPress users, with the ability to send a message to multiple users or roles, with optional email notifications.
  • Bunty (X) released UnserializedGuru (Direct Link), a tiny but super handy tool for devs who work with serialized data (PHP or JSON).
  • Ronald Huereca (X) announced Pattern Rangler 2.0 (WP.org), which brings an Enhanced Patterns View and Multisite support.

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  • Week 2: “XaaS” – X as a Service
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