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October Journal

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  • NeetoRecord (IWP Deal) is a complete Loom replacement for recording videos, providing transcripts, generating chapters and timestamps with AI, and more.
  • Media Library Essentials (IWP Deal) is a utility plugin designed to add powerful time-saving features to WordPress’s media library.
  • Administrator Toolkit provides security monitoring, admin oversight, and plugin management tools specifically designed for agencies managing multiple client sites on WordPress.
  • GoPublish allows you to move content effortlessly from Google Docs to WordPress in a single click, saving you a ton of time and eliminating copying and pasting, SEO challenges, and formatting problems.

Updates From Our Partners

  • ChangelogWP is now accepting premium plugin submissions to help product creators get more visibility in the WordPress space and offers new filtering and sorting options to help you discover WordPress solutions: filter plugins by their Business Model and by the WordPress versions they are tested up to, as well as sort them by Active Installs.
  • FlowMattic v2.0 (IWP Deal) is a massive update that brings 53 new features – 23 new triggers and 30 new actions for Abandoned Cart Recovery, Smart Inventory Management, Customer Intelligence, and Advanced Reporting.
  • Mike McAlister announced the free Ollie Menu Designer plugin for creating stunning, content-rich dropdown, mobile, and mega menus using the WordPress block editor and full site editing.
  • OllieWP launched the Ollie Pro Extensions to power up the WordPress block editor, and these extensions are included in your Ollie Pro account.
  • FluentCommunity v1.8 (IWP Deal) is here, and it’s a major update, bringing a Follower Module, Full BuddyBoss Migration, Course Email Notifications, and tons of various improvements to performance, UI/UX, email, media handling, and a ton more.
  • FluentCart v1.0.2 (Beta Release) is here, and this release was one of the team’s longest sprints, brining Tax/VAT calculation, Order Bumps, New Reports UI, Bricks Elements Support, Gutenberg-based templating, and more.
  • PatternsWP (IWP Deal) dropped 22 fresh designs to their Cloud Library as part of their monthly “Patterns Day,” including Hero, Statistics, Features, Full Page Layouts, and Essential Components patterns.
  • MagicAssistant v1.2 (IWP Deal) dropped with NEW Custom AI Agents, Chatbots for End Users, and more AI Model Integrations.
  • FuseWP v2.1.23 (IWP Deal) dropped with new integrations for FluentCommunity, WS Form, SureForms, SliceWP, and AffiliateWP plugins.
  • WP Security Ninja 5.255 (IWP Deal) brings a new XML-RPC protection feature and improved malware signatures.
  • Meta Box v5.10.15 (IWP Deal) brings support for hierarchical taxonomies with their reordering terms feature.
  • Bit Flows 1.7.0 (IWP Deal) brings 215 new actions for FluentCommunity (IWP Deal). MailPoet (IWP Deal), and more, as well as 67 new triggers for WPSubscription (IWP Deal), Mail Mint (IWP Deal), and more,
  • EventKoi Lite (WP.org), which is the free version of the EventKoi (IWP Deal) events plugin, is now available.
  • Active Analytics v2.9.1 (IWP Deal) brings new features, including events, real-time statistics to the dashboard, and email reporting.
  • ChangelogWP now accommodates WordPress hosting changelogs. Hosting companies can submit their changelog for free, and users can add them to their watchlist to easily stay up-to-date.
  • Modular DS (IWP Deal) has two new features that will change the way you update your WordPress plugins — Safe Updates and Update Copilot. One protects your site during the update; the other helps you anticipate risks beforehand with the power of AI.
  • FluentCRM v2.9.80 (IWP Deal) brings Fluent Cart order and subscription triggers, Fluent Cart purchase history in contact profiles, the ability to import Fluent Cart customers, listing export/import, and growth reports for Tags and Lists.
  • Bit Flows v1.8.0 (IWP Deal) brings Fluent Cart triggers.
  • Nag Me Not v2.1 (Browser Extension) is now available in the Chrome web store and you can try it for free on 2 domains at a time to help eliminate pesky notices in the WordPress Dashboard.
  • FluentCart has arrived, ushering in “A New Era of eCommerce with WordPress.” InfluenceWP members will hopefully be seeing a discount for it soon. Until then, they are offering (at the time of this writing) an Early Access Deal for lifetime licenses.
  • FluentCart has just published their Developer Documentation, listing all the hooks, actions, functions, and tutorials, giving you an overall idea about the data attributes, data models, and database design concepts. FluentCart says its API will be one of the easiest to build custom add-ons or extend functionalities with.
  • ThemeSwitcher Pro v1.4 (IWP Deal) brings one-click LifterLMS switching, deeper WooCommerce theme control, smarter detection, and a powerful new add-on system.
  • Simple CAPTCHA Alternative for Cloudflare Turnstile (WP.org) turns 3! What started as a quick and simple plugin developed in response to a new free service offered by Cloudflare has grown exponentially and is now used by over 100k WordPress websites.
  • ThemeSwitcher Pro v1.4 (IWP Deal) is a monumental update focused on enhancing the plugin’s core architecture, ensuring faster performance, rock-solid stability, and the most robust third-party plugin integrations yet.
  • Creator LMS (IWP Deal) now officially integrates with the Bricks site builder plugin.
  • FluentCart v1.2.3 brings a LifterLMS integration, a LearnDash (IWP Deal) integration, and additional enhancements and fixes.
  • FluentSupport v1.10.0 (IWP Deal) brings performance enhancements to make the dashboard faster and more responsive, as well as smarter, faster, and more connected eCommerce support than ever before with FluentCart integration.
  • Activity Log Pro v1.0.2 (IWP Deal) brings automated Activity Digest Email Reports so you never miss important site activity again. Now you can receive automated email summaries of your site’s activity delivered straight to your inbox on a schedule.
  • ChangelogWP has new advertising opportunities for WordPress product creators and service providers, a new partner directory, the ability to submit hosting changelogs, and more!
  • FluentCRM v2.9.84 (IWP Deal) brings FluentCart filters added to ‘Check Condition’ in Automations, Paid Memberships Pro purchase history in contact profiles, and more.
  • Bit Flows v1.9.0 (IWP Deal) brings the ability to insert nodes between workflow steps for greater flexibility, automatic node arrangement in the visual builder, an advanced scheduling tool for time-based automation, and more.
  • FooGallery v3 (IWP Deal) makes modern galleries easier with a visual layout selector, updated styling, device previews, dropdown filters, and a new Spotlight PRO layout.
  • aDirectory v3 (IWP Deal) is faster, stronger, and smarter with a full revamp, lighter and scalable performance, Multi Post Type (MPT), and an optimized search system.
  • Coupon Affiliates for WooCommerce v7.1.0 (IWP Deal) brings new admin filters, order and payout exports, and dashboard improvements.
  • FluentCommunity v2.0 (IWP Deal) brings native monetization features for courses and spaces with FluentCart, multiple pricing plans for courses and spaces, the ability to duplicate a course with all settings, and many more.
  • Modular DS (IWP Deal) has partnered with Patchstack, providing a new add-on with virtual patching to block vulnerabilities before updates are applied and additional security hardening features.

Other WordPressers Not to Be Overlooked

  • Nick Hamze (X Link) shared a free WordPress Readme Generator for visually creating perfect WordPress.org plugin readme files.
  • Nick Hamze (X Link) is back at it again, with a suggested experiment (that I love) for plugins listed in the WordPress repository — “Let’s feature 8 different plugins for one week and track what happens to their install numbers.”
  • Umesh Ghimire (X Link) announced his free Easy Invoice plugin for generating invoices, PDFs, sending quotes, tracking payments, and automating your business workflow.
  • Tyche Software (X Link) announced v1.18.0 for their Currency Per Product for WooCommerce plugin, allowing customers to choose their preferred currency on the frontend and automatically see prices in their local currency.
  • Ian Svoboda (X Link) announced his WordPress Local Development Basics course. You can sign up for free, and no credit card is needed.
  • WPMozo Blocks and Addons v1.4.0 (WP.org) brings an Image Accordion block, multiple Facebook blocks, and multiple Twitter blocks.
  • Sunshine Photo Cart v3.5 (Direct) brings a big under-the-hood update, with a focus on a smoother, more reliable checkout flow.
  • Ollie’s Menu Designer (WP.org) is so good that Automattic is considering adding it to WordPress Core.
  • Simple CAPTCHA Alternative with Cloudflare Turnstile (WP.org) v1.34.0 brings the ability to define the “Site Key” and “Secret Key” in the wp-config.php file and an added export/import tool to the settings page.
  • ACF (Advanced Custom Fields) v6.6 (Direct) brings the all-new ACF Blocks V3 with a dedicated editing sidebar, the ability to clarify field groups with display titles, and custom palettes for the color picker.
  • Nick Hamze (Direct) created a cheat sheet that lets AI write the perfect WordPress plugin readme in no time.
  • Ben Word created the Post Content to Markdown (GitHub) WordPress plugin that serves post content as markdown via accept headers or query parameters and also includes WP feeds and comments support.
  • MetaSlider Lightbox v2.11.1 (WP.org) is a huge release, allowing users to move the “Close” button and “Open in Lightbox” buttons, change the “Open in Lightbox” button text, switch to include or exclude, and more.
  • Stackable v3.19 (X Link) brings great new features, including Full Page Template, Design System Style Guide, and Interactive Onboarding Tours.
  • Gato GraphQL (X Link) now has a WooCommerce integration, allowing you to fetch data from products, orders, customers, coupons, etc.
  • Chris Ocen’s (X Link) Exit Link Manager (WP.org) has been approved, bringing a lightweight plugin to easily manage links to external websites.
  • WooCommerce 10.3 (WP.org) dropped, bringing Address Autocomplete functionality in both the block and shortcode-based checkout, streamlining the checkout experience by enabling predictive address search, reducing customer friction, and improving data accuracy. Note: Requires a plugin with predictive address search support (e.g., WooPayments).
  • WooCommerce 10.3 also makes the Cost of Goods Sold (COGS) feature officially available. This feature enables merchants to track the true cost of products sold, calculate precise profit margins at both product and order levels, and make data-driven decisions about pricing, inventory management, and business strategy
  • Varun Dubey (X) announced BuddyX Theme v4.9.0 (Direct Link) and Reign Theme v7.9.0 (Direct Link), which bring FluentCart integration as well as other enhancements and fixes.
  • Felix Arntz (X) announced PHP AI Client SDK v0.20, which brings several key enhancements and fixes for more developer convenience. If you haven’t yet, give it a try to build your invisible AI features, agents, and workflows in a model-agnostic way.
  • David Allsop (X) announced Plugin Boilerplate for WordPress (GitHub), a lightweight, best-practice boilerplate for building WordPress plugins quickly and cleanly.
  • Nagesh Pai (X) announced Free Shipping Excluder for WooCommerce (WP.org), a plugin that gives you granular control over which products count towards your free shipping minimum amount.
  • Harish Chouhan (X) made SVG Ready (Direct Link), a small tool to quickly convert SVG icons into clean CSS data URIs.
  • Joost de Valk (X) announced Brand Assets (GitHub), a lightweight WordPress block plugin that helps you create and maintain a complete, professional-looking brand assets page directly on your website.
  • Simple CAPTCHA Alternative with Cloudflare Turnstile v1.35.0 (WP.org) brings Elementor integration improvements to work better with Elementor element caching, a new “Integration Method” for the Elementor integration where the “Load Scripts Globally” option may work better for certain types of caching, and more.
  • FluentAffiliate v1.2.0 (Release Notes) brings integration with TutorLMS and ProfilePress Pro, migration from Solid Affiliate and Affiliate Manager, RTL Compatibility, and more.
  • Mike Valera (X) announced Helm (Direct Link), which gives you one dashboard where you can see clients, projects, payments, and pipelines — all in one clean view.
  • FluentCart v1.2.5 (Direct Link) brings the Mollie Payment gateway, Advanced UTM reports, compound Taxes, and many new features.
  • David Allsop (X) shared that the Plugin Check Plugin (WP.org) now creates automatic security reports after each plugin update, which is a big win for all in WordPress.
  • Blocksy v2.1.18 (X) brings a better EventKoi (IWP Deal) integration.

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