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WP Weekly 312 - Plugins - New CPT Plugin, Compare AI & WP Made, WP In Europe Stats

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WP Weekly 312 / Plugins

This week brings many new plugins like Rox Dynamic CPT Fields Engine, Warp Performance, EasyLink Automations, Kiln for Bricks, and more. Digging into stats of WordPress in Europe and Woo vs Shopify numbers. Also, Matt Mullenweg removes a community member from WordPress contributions.

The WP Awards 2026 – Voting opens this week – watch out! Supported by WPManageNinja (Enter Fluent ecosystem that powers up over 1 million websites), & Infinite Uploads (Faster Sites, Lower Costs, and WordPress Media That Runs Itself). Also, by Crocoblock, WinRocket, and WPO365.

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What’s Buzzing in WordPress 💖
  • Vibe Coded + or WP Built… WebDevStudios has launched It Looks Done, comparing two identical websites. One website is vibe-coded in four minutes, while the other is built on WordPress. “AI is genuinely great at the top 20%. The other 80%. Fourteen things a production website has to do that never show up in a screenshot. The deeper you go, the more expensive they are to miss. WordPress has spent two decades building all of them. A fresh prompt starts at zero”.
  • Zantastic Amplified + Builders Community… Kathy Zant has launched a community space for builders, called Zantastic Amplified. It would feature live workshops, weekly office hours, community boards, post-event discussion boards for each workshop, and access to courses. Kicking off with two workshops: Spacefast for WP Pros and WordPress MCPs: Let the Bots In (Do It Safely).
  • CrawlBrain + AI Site Search… Calin Vingan, from the team behind WP Ghost and Squirrly, shared about the launch of the CrawlBrain tool. It is an AI Site Search that replaces a store’s search box on WooCommerce, WordPress, Shopify, PrestaShop, and Magento. It answers buying questions like “do you have this jacket in size M?” from the store’s own pages, with a link to the source, in the shopper’s own language.
  • CrawlWP + Now SEO plugin… CrawlWP started as an indexing plugin, but now has transitioned into a complete SEO plugin for WordPress. Version 3.1 has introduced meta titles, schema, redirects, sitemaps, and more features – one would expect from an SEO plugin.
New Plugins: Rox Dynamic, Warp, EasyLink, & Kiln

Rox Dynamic Fields Engine… the team at Wpmet has released the all-new Rox Dynamic CPT Fields Engine plugin. It enables you to create custom post types, add custom fields, set up taxonomies, display listings in grids and templates, and connect related content like properties and agents, courses and instructors, or jobs and companies.

Warp Performance + WP Speed… Saurabh Guttedar shared about the Warp Performance plugin for WordPress users. It features native LiteSpeed and OpenLiteSpeed caching, file-based caching for Apache and Nginx, cloud-powered Remove Unused CSS, and a tuned Redis object cache for dynamic and logged-in pages. Also includes JavaScript delay and defer, a Script Manager, media and font optimization, and commerce-aware caching for Woo, SureCart, and FluentCart.

EasyLink Automations… Niloy Das shared the EasyLink Automations plugin (free version), which enables users to automate repetitive tasks and connect WordPress with external tools through a visual, no-code workflow builder. It features 578 triggers and 813 actions across 160+ platforms, a visual drag-and-drop workflow builder, self-hosted automation that runs on the user’s own server, and more.

Kiln for Bricks… Oleg Chystieiev has launched Kiln for Bricks, a premium add-on for the Bricks builder users with 39 small modules. “Each one answers a voted request from the Bricks ideas board, 16,283 votes in total. The top three are image focus point with 2,590, Google reviews as a query loop with 1,005 and a page loader with 856. Modules you leave off load nothing on the front end”.

More Plugins: Voice Posts, PHP Checker, Recurring Events

Codeep Voice for Posts… Vladimir Grigoryan shared about the new Codeep Voice for Posts plugin, free version available on the repository. It turns posts into MP3s using Kokoro text-to-speech in the site owner’s browser, inside WP Admin. The audio is saved to the media library; readers listen to an ordinary file served by the site. No API key or per-character fees, and the article text isn’t sent to a speech API.

CompatNav PHP Upgrade Checker… with PHP 8.2’s security support ending on 31 December 2026, many hosts will start moving WordPress sites to newer PHP versions. The free CompatNav plugin checks every installed plugin and theme (custom code included) and lists what will break vs. what only shows deprecation notices, for PHP 8.0 to 8.5.

Bazingaworld Recurring Events… Egor shared the new free addon in the repository, Bazingaworld Recurring Events for The Events Calendar, which brings recurring events to the free The Events Calendar plugin. Daily and weekly rules with exception dates are free; monthly and yearly rules are in the $49/year Pro.

WooCommerce Plugins: Orders, Organize, Statuses

Advanced Manual Orders for Woo… Rodolfo Melogli has released a free Business Bloomer Advanced Manual Orders for WooCommerce plugin in the repository. It promises to speed up the process of creating a manual order in the WooCommerce admin of your store.

Order Workspace for WooCommerce… MasWP has released Order Workspace for WooCommerce, which enables store owners and teams organize internal order information directly within the native WooCommerce Orders interface. The free plugin lets users create custom internal fields for priorities, production stages, supplier references, and expected dates, with configurable colors, order columns, search, and filtering.

OrderHue for WooCommerce… brought to notice newly released OrderHue Custom Order Statuses for WooCommerce plugin in the repository. It allows store owners to add statuses such as “Awaiting stock” or “Ready for collection”, each with a colour, filter link, and an optional email to the customer and/or admin.

Extended WordPress Buzz 🔥
  1. Matt remove WP Contributor… Matt Mullenweg’s removal of Andrea Fercia, Accessibility specialist, from WordPress contribution, kept community members in discussion mode. Matt wrote, “Please revert all of this. ‘afercia’ you no longer hold any WordPress Org positions or titles or authority, and are invited to contribute your talents to another project”. He later added, “Please whoever turned off ‘afercia’s’ account undo that. That wasn’t what I asked for and isn’t needed”.
  2. WordPress AI Agent… WordPress .com users can make use of the latest WordPress Agent features, which promise a faster way to create a site and give you more control over what happens next. It can build a custom theme for you, simpler editor, and faster website generation process.
  3. Gutenberg Changes… 24.2v update brings a new place for notes, now they float in a margin next to the content, so collaborating no longer means closing the Settings sidebar. Also, one search for every link in a navigation menu, the ability to sort any gallery and tint all of its images, and design tools expanded to more blocks.
  4. WP Milestones… Syed Balkhi shared (Links X) about WPVibe AI crossing the 80,000+ users, only the last week 20,000 new users were added. While FluentCRM has crossed the 80,000 active installs milestone in the repository.
  5. CMS Conf & Enqueue… CMS Conf 2026, the full agenda of three days (November 12 – 14, 2026) of tech conference is now available. Also, Enqueue 2026, “The event for people who build WordPress professionally return”, has announced invited speakers for the event scheduled on December 9, 2026, in Sydney, Australia.
Updates: FluentCart, Bit CRM, FunnelKit, & JetEngine

FluentCart + RTL stores… 2.2.0v update brings improved (RTL) right-to-left language support for the checkout, cart, shop, product pages, customer portal, and receipts – on websites in Arabic, Hebrew, Persian, and Urdu languages. Also, now Receipts can also show your company registration, VAT and tax IDs, which many countries require on invoices.

Bit CRM + SureCart… 1.3.0v update of Bit CRM has added support for SureCart, where in SureCart buyers sync as CRM contacts as purchases come in, with product and coupon tags, optional tag prefixes and a background backfill of earlier purchases, and SureCart products can be added as deal and invoice line items from a new SureCart settings page.

FunnelKit + Customer Journey… 3.17v update to FunnelKit Funnel Builder has introduced customer journey feature, where every order now shows the exact pages the buyer visited before checking out, how long they stayed on each one, where they came from and what device they used. You can even filter orders by the pages they went through.

JetEngine + Nested Repeaters… 3.9.0v brings new ways to work (YouTube) with structured data, dynamic listings, and WordPress admin interfaces. It added Nested Repeaters functionality, additional dynamic tags to get the repeater data, Async Listings module, Admin Pages module, & Query Builder with file query type.

Updates: Divi, FluentCommunity, Edge Images, SmartPay

Divi 5 + Multi-Select… the new Multi-Select and Bulk Editing feature should help make changes faster and easier. You can select individual elements with Cmd/Ctrl-click, select a range with Shift-click, and edit your selection from one settings panel. Selection also extends into the Layers panel, right-click actions, keyboard shortcuts, the Inspector, and the Divi AI Agent.

FluentCommunity + Insights… 2.12.0v brings Insights reporting section, which is built from scratch to replace the old Reports screen. Also, now you can put your spaces and courses in the order you want rather than the order they were created, and makes the unread badges in the sidebar update while you watch.

Edge Images + Performant Markup… Jono Alderson shared (Links X) about updating the free Edge Images plugin, available in the repository. Now it automatically transforms image URLs and HTML markup to be ultra-performant, sized to fit, and avoid Cloudflare’s unique-trandforms-per-month billing model (by localizing generated variants).

WP SmartPay + Donation Campaigns & Donor Management… WP SmartPay introduces native fundraising campaigns with dedicated public pages, flexible goal targets (amount, donation count, or donor count), and recurring giving schedules. Also includes purpose-built donation form blocks, multi-step forms, a moderated public donor wall, and campaign progress Gutenberg blocks and shortcodes.

Quick Bits
Shopify vs WooCommerce Market Share: Winner?

Katie Keith over at Barn2, published insights into understanding the market share of two dominant eCommerce players: Shopify and WooCommerce. “When you look at all the data, neither platform wins outright: Shopify is winning with the world’s biggest stores, while WooCommerce leads across the whole web (probably)”.

“W3Techs surveys the top 10 million sites and puts WooCommerce on 7.9% of all websites against Shopify’s 5.4%, a lead of about 1.5 to 1. Among the sites it identifies as ecommerce systems, WooCommerce takes 47.7% and Shopify 32.1%”.

Stats & Insights: WordPress in Europe!

The team at Nettingale has published a report looking into WordPress sites in 32 European countries. It shows the share of WordPress, the hosting companies, the WordPress and PHP versions and the plugins in each country. Like, “47.6% of the homepages in the 32 countries use WordPress. This is 1,949,558 of 4,096,194 homepages”.

“In the countries with at least 3,500 WordPress sites, the share is highest in Estonia (59.4%) and lowest in Czechia (34.5%). In Lithuania, one host serves 74.3% of the WordPress sites. In the Netherlands, the largest host serves only 8.8%”.

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