It was a busy week. Here is everything that shipped since October 16, with the things you will actually notice first. Update from your WordPress dashboard; the details and the discussion live in each product's space.
GT Extensions for FluentCart 2.16.0
- Dodo Payments gateway. Dodo is a merchant of record that handles GST, VAT and sales tax, and buyers can pay by UPI, card, Apple Pay or Google Pay. Setup guide
- Pay What You Like. Buyers name their price, and your FluentCart price becomes the minimum.
- New checkout options. Modal Checkout opens checkout from any button, On-page Checkout puts plans and the checkout form on any page, and Paddle is a new gateway.
- Second accounts. Polar, Paddle and Dodo can each be duplicated, so one store can take payments into a second account.
- Coupon Affiliates and FluentCart Optimizer are new modules.
- Free digital products check out with just a name and email, and Sold Count badges now count real orders.
- Scheduled coupons start on their start date, and a GTFC label marks every gateway the plugin adds.
Core Support 1.0.0
- Public roadmaps with votes and a "Suggest a feature" form.
- Changelogs sync from GitLab, Bitbucket, Gitea and Forgejo as well as GitHub.
- Support Manager role. Chat no longer learns password-protected or members-only content.
Stackless for WooCommerce 1.5.3
- Woo Redesign module. It restyles the WooCommerce admin to match Stackless and adds a store-at-a-glance strip above orders and products.
- Coupon Affiliates comes over from GT Extensions.
- Staging and local copies of your store no longer charge or email customers.
- Software Licensing customers can roll back to an older version, and downloads can stop working once a license ends.
- Renewals and webhooks. Renewals work on stores with HPOS off, and webhooks that arrive while an order is busy are retried instead of dropped.
MailerHive 1.4.7
- Share links on every issue for X, LinkedIn, Bluesky, Threads, WhatsApp and more, with no third-party scripts.
- Paid tiers. A failed FluentCart lookup no longer wipes paid access. If your checkout has a newsletter checkbox, set the checkout disclosure under Settings → FluentCart.
- Fresh installs no longer publish every newsletter MailerPress already sent.
- Reading time is right for Hindi and Russian issues.
GT Performance 1.3.5
- "Updating failed" on OpenLiteSpeed is fixed. A save that purged hundreds of cached pages no longer drops the editor's response.
- Query Monitor no longer causes a fatal error.
- Unused CSS now works on pages with TranslatePress or Fluent Forms.
GT ACF Blocks 2.13.1
- 4 new landing-page blocks: Pricing, Logo Cloud, Steps and Trust Bar.
- Hero layouts and CTAs. Heroes get 4 image layouts and CTAs get a second button. Webhook credentials now stay on the server.
Core Bookings 1.0.0 beta 3
- 1.0.0 is in beta, with PayPal, Polar and Paddle payments, 19 optional modules and AI agent support.
- Try it on staging first. Updating from 0.20.0 upgrades the database. You can also try it on the demo site.
If something breaks after an update, post it in that product's space and I'll get on it.
Stackless for WooCommerce 1.1.0 is out with a new WooCommerce Optimizer module that stops about 50 checkout script prefetches on every page, plus fixes for multi-currency order bumps. There's also a free Stackless theme now.
Stackless for WooCommerce now has its own community space for releases and setup questions, and a full Stackless for WooCommerce Training course that works as the documentation, 39 lessons covering every module.
1.0.2 (block theme styling) and 1.0.3 (the license client now updates themes as well as plugins) are both out. Release notes are in the space.
GT Extensions for FluentCart 2.9.0 adds recurring invoices, deposits with an automatic balance invoice, and reminders before and after the due date. It also fixes a 2.8.x bug where only one unpaid invoice at a time got its automatic reminder.
MailerHive now has its own space. It turns a MailerPress newsletter into a publication on your WordPress site, with issue pages, an archive, a newsletter page and paid tiers that live as MailerPress lists.
Everything it does, and how to set it up, is in the MailerHive space.
Three releases today, all for AI agents. Site Agent now connects through OAuth by default, and GT Page Blocks Builder and GT Link Manager each give a connected agent its own skill.
I've updated the Marketers Delight build on gauravtiwari.org to 9.6.6. FluentCart's product Builder now shows MD Layout, Featured Image Extras, Featured Video and the applicable Dropin panels. Saving those settings keeps Scripts and unrelated product metadata intact.
The preceding 9.6.5 release also added a per-page transparent header for the PBB template, with separate light and dark contrast controls. It starts off on existing pages and stays out of other templates. That release included schema, media and privacy fixes across the theme.
This is a custom build for this site. Existing page headers keep their settings; the new controls apply when I edit products or PBB pages here.
Core Forms now handles software licensing end to end: products, plans, releases, orders, licenses, and a customer dashboard, native to WordPress. Seven new blocks, four shortcodes, and a stack of security fixes came with it.
Caches now clear themselves when you publish, with four policies to pick from, and nine analytics plugins got automatic JavaScript exclusions. Full notes and what I want tested are in the GT Performance space.
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