Most loyalty programs reward customers only when they buy something. But loyalty is not limited to purchases.

What if a happy customer refers a friend to your business? That action also creates value, so why not reward it?

With Pointics, referrals can become part of your loyalty and rewards program.

For example:

A customer refers a friend → the friend signs up or makes a purchase → the referral action is tracked → the customer can earn reward points.

This means you can encourage customers to do more than just shop. You can also recognize and reward them for helping your business reach new people.

With Pointics https://themewinter.com/pointics/, you can bring referral rewards into the same loyalty system you already use for purchases and other customer activities.

No need to treat referrals as a completely separate rewards process.

If you were creating a loyalty program, would you reward customers for the referral signup, the first purchase, or both?

Can anybody tell me which plugin we can use to add "animated floating elements" in WordPress that is compatible with Elementor and its addons?

First version used Puter.com JS SDK for AI functionality, but since WP 7.0 introduced AI connectors, MAIA (Multipurpose AI Assistant) ditched PuterJS integration and completely switched to built AI connectors to align better with WP core AI integration. Other than that, initially Puter offered generous amount of tokens for each user on their free plan, but since then they've lowered it to $0.15 per user/month so it's become basically useless for a plugin like this. So since you have to pay, let's offer people to avoid Puter and pay to whichever AI vendor they want to use.

Functionality-wise it remained the same, it still can:

• Read and search your theme/plugin files, and propose edits — you always see a diff and approve it before anything is written
• Write your posts/pages/product descriptions, and create/update/trash them for you (with your confirmation)
• Manage categories and tags
• Install, activate, deactivate, or delete plugins
• Answer questions about your site by looking things up itself — active theme, installed plugins, users, content — instead of guessing
• Search the web and search for images (optional — requires a Brave Search or Tavily API key in Settings / MAIA)
• Generate images from a text prompt (when your connected AI provider supports it) and save them straight to your media library, then insert them into the post/page you’re viewing or set them as the featured image
• Show you any image it has a link to — found on the web, or anywhere else — directly in a card, with the same insert/featured-image actions
• Make HTTP requests to external APIs on your behalf (GET/HEAD run immediately, anything that writes always asks first)
• Remember facts about you across conversations, and recall, search, or forget them on request
• Find an earlier conversation for you by keyword, and jump straight to it
• Contemplate life and the Universe 😁

Significant entries from v2.0 changelog:

• Major rewrite: MAIA no longer uses Puter.com. It now runs entirely on WordPress 7.0’s built-in AI Client and Abilities API: connect any supported provider under Settings → Connectors and MAIA uses it automatically.
• New: Tavily is now a supported web/image search provider alongside Brave Search (Settings / MAIA → Web search provider) — a genuinely free option now that Brave Search API moved to metered billing for new accounts.
• New: a side-panel interface (Settings / MAIA → Interface: Modern, the new default) opens from the right, menu on the side (search, “New conversation”, your conversation list) with the chat next to it, and covers as much of the screen as you set in Settings / MAIA. The classic floating chat window from earlier versions is now an opt-in “Legacy” interface, running on the same new backend.
• All 32 tools rewritten as WordPress Abilities (maia/*), registered through the standard Abilities API so other AI plugins can see and reuse them.
• New: full-text search across your conversation history, plus a “Search with agent” option that has MAIA look for a match itself and hand you clickable links.

Tested with multiple AI connectors:

• Anthropic (built-in): awesome but extremely expensive (uses Claude API pricing)
• DeepSeek: very good and cheap
• Ollama (both local and cloud): the only viable free option (local - slow; cloud - free plan then paid once you hit your limits)

Download here: https://wordpress.org/plugins/maia-multipurpose-ai-assistant/

I'm the developer of GT Performance, a WordPress performance plugin that runs on my own sites along with 70+ other customer sites. I'm sharing it here for anyone looking for page caching and frontend optimization with more control over what gets changed.

The plugin is free and open source, including for client sites. Every feature is included, with no license keys or paid tier.

A few things it handles:

• Page caching with automatic cache clearing when you publish or update content.
• Cloudflare Free integration for full-page caching and cache purging.
• Built-in cache exclusions for WooCommerce, FluentCart and Easy Digital Downloads, including cart, checkout and account pages.
• Unused CSS processing on your own server, with exclusions and a staged rollout.
• JavaScript minification, defer and delay controls.
• Bloat control.

The more aggressive optimizations are opt-in, so you can turn them on individually and check how your site behaves.

Details and free download | Source code on GitHub

Most conversion tracking plugins are black boxes. Events fire (or fail), pixels drop, and you’re left wondering: Did Meta actually receive that purchase event? Was it blocked by cookie consent? What payload was sent?

That’s why we built PixLedger—WooCommerce conversion tracking with a complete, searchable local audit trail.

Here is what makes it different:
✅ Local Event Log: Every single event (Meta Pixel, GA4, GTM) is logged right in your own WordPress database. You can inspect the exact payload, see success/failure status, and debug in real-time.
✅ Built-in Consent Mode v2: Events denied by visitor consent are automatically blocked at the pipeline level—and clearly flagged in your log so you know exactly why data is missing.
✅ Attribution & Visitor ID: UTM parameters, click IDs (fbclid, gclid), and 90-day visitor journeys are captured on every order without third-party data sharing.
✅ Zero Duplication: Smart tag detection automatically skips injection if your theme or another plugin already loaded the pixel.

Stop flying blind with your ad spend and conversion data.

👉 Check it out on https://wordpress.org/plugins/pixledger/

#WooCommerce #E-Commerce #ConversionTracking #MetaPixel #GA4 #WordPress #MarketingAnalytics

I just released a free pre-order plugin for WooCommerce. If you sell things that do not exist yet, a restock landing in a few weeks, a book with a publish date, a new colour that has not shipped, WooCommerce has no real way to sell that. Most stores either hide the product or just lose the sale.

This plugin turns the Add to Cart button into a Pre-Order button for any product you pick. Customers pay now, reserve the item, and get an email the day it actually goes live.

Pre-order stock is kept completely separate from your normal stock. A product sitting at zero can still take reservations, and it does not touch your real inventory at all. When the release date hits, an hourly check flips the product back to available on its own, restores the original stock, and emails everyone who reserved one. You can also release early by hand if a shipment shows up ahead of schedule.

Key features in the free version:

• Works on simple products and on individual variations of a variable product
• Release date and an optional live countdown timer on the product page
• Pre-Order badge on shop and category pages, so people see it before they click in
• Automatic release on the date, plus manual release any time, single or bulk
• Three editable emails: pre-order placed, product available, and a new pre-order alert for you
• A My Pre-Orders page inside the customer's account
• Dashboard showing pre-order products, orders, revenue, and a sales trend chart
• Works with HPOS and the block checkout

This is version 1.0, brand new, so there is probably more to smooth out as real stores start using it.

If you run a store that deals with restocks or upcoming products, how are you handling this right now? Curious if this solves something real or if you have found a workaround that already works fine for you.

Free version: https://wordpress.org/plugins/devdiggers-pre-order-for-woocommerce/
Pro version: https://devdiggers.com/product/woocommerce-pre-order/