WPManageNinja Roundup February 2025: Great Month for WordPress

We’ll try to keep you in the loop with our monthly digest. We do a lot of tasks across our plugins, from adding new features to fixing bugs.

Now we’re thinking we give you a summary of what we have done last month so as a trusted user you can know what we are up to.

At the same time, we’ll try to pick the most significant news around WordPress and present that so you may get a vibe of the world of WordPress.

Updates from WPManageNinja products

FluentCommunity

FluentCommunity is growing fast and now has a family of 3000+ users worldwide. And they are rolling out updates on a regular basis! Last month, they added—

• Paymattic Integration for seamless payments
• Community Analytics for tracking engagement
• Multiple media uploads for comments.
• Users can now leave and rejoin group chats easily! 

You can read the full release note here. 

FluentCRM

FluentCRM’s consistently rolling out features every month, and more businesses are starting to rely on this plugin. Now it hit 60K active installations milestone last month!

• Users can now see who sent an email campaign
• Users can also filter failed emails from campaigns
• It’s possible to bulk-update custom fields —taking manual work out of your workflow
• Fluent Forms users can now run customer appreciation campaigns, thanks to the new Subscription Payment Received trigger
• Both Fluent Forms and Woo Subscription users can now create win-back automation funnels using the Subscription Cancelled trigger
• Fluent Forms users will now get a subscription payment widget to see their customers’ subscriptions

Plus, there are several more feature updates to get excited about! You can read the release note to get more details.

WP Social Ninja

WP Social Ninja 3.16.0 brings exciting upgrades designed with you in mind. Here’s what’s new:

• Import & export custom social feeds, reviews, notification pop-ups, chat widgets, and more!
• Import & export your testimonials, saves time when setting up new sites.
• Display your Facebook timeline as a stunning photo feed.
• Instagram Feed Upgrade – Added 4:5 aspect ratio for Instagram images, perfect for a polished look.
• A new platform data deletion option ensures better user control and compliance with privacy standards.
• Fixed: size rendering issues for custom review images and YouTube thumbnails.

Beyond these big wins, we’ve spotted other user-requested features, squashed bugs, and fine-tuned WP Social Ninja as your ultimate social media plugin. Read the full release notes to know more.

Fluent Forms (Upcoming Release)

Fluent Forms is going to release a major update this week. Here’s a sneak peek of what’s coming—

• Fluent Forms 6.0 will introduce payment fields in the Fluent Forms free version. The free users will be able to accept payments with Stripe.
• The team will also roll out Conditional Logic Group under the conditional logic setting, meaning users can set up a set of logic to show or hide fields based on user inputs.
• Fluent Forms 6.0 will also include a Save and Resume button on Conversational Forms.
• Fluent Forms 6.0 will expand its accessibility by adding Italian and Hungarian language translations.

FluentBoards

Team FluentBoards has released another important update packed with some of the user-requested features. Here’s what’s new in this update:

• CSV Export and Import – Effortlessly migrate boards
• Custom color support in Labels – Personalize task labels with any color
• RTL(Right-to-Left) Support: Manage projects in any language
• A Couple of New Features for FluentRoadmap
• Added Frontend Portal Link in admin bar for quick access
• Plus, lots of bug fixes & improvements

See the detailed changelog here.

Paymattic

The Paymattic team prioritizes user experience, and we’ve launched some serious updates in the last couple of months that include both new features updates and bug fixes.

• Integration with FluentCommunity: Users can now create paid courses and spaces inside FluentCommunity while taking payments with Paymattic.
• Customers can now view their enrolled spaces and courses on Paymattic’s customer dashboard.

What’s next for Paymattic?

We don’t want to jinx it, but we can assure you that two major updates are coming very soon.

• A feature that will enable you to create calculations within specific payments and numeric fields (Hello, dynamic tax amount).
• A payment gateway that will blow your mind! You’ve been requesting this payment gateway for over two years now, and we’ve cracked both single transactions and subscription payments for it. And it’s coming very very soon.

Ninja Tables

Ninja Tables is one of the most popular table builder plugins in the WordPress arena. Let’s see what they’re up to:

• Team Ninja Tables happily and successfully celebrated its 7th anniversary on February 26th
• Crossed 390+ mark of 5-star user reviews in wordpress.org
• We’re working on a new module of Ninja Tables that will make table creation even better and easier for you. Keep your eye on our socials, emails, and blogs. 

WordPress News

You can now register a domain for 100 years with WordPress.com 

Here’s something very interesting from WordPress. Now you can secure a domain for 100 years. With 100-year domains, you can register .com, .org, .net, or .blog domains.

WordPress.com now allows a full century to keep your domain with a one-time purchase.

Similarly, they relaunched (initially introduced in 2023) the 100-year plan with a long-term hosting solution where your data will be protected.

The cost for a 100-year domain is $2000. And, you have to pay $38000 for the 100-year plan that includes domain, hosting, and other tools.

WordPress 6.7.2 Maintenance Release

WordPress 6.7.2 is a short-cycle maintenance release. It comes with 35 bug fixes that include issues with components like block editor, HTML API, and Customize.

Well, if you’re curious to know when will be the next major release available the version 6.8 is set for April 15, 2025.

WordCamp Asia 2025

WordCamp Asia 2025 happened in Manila with over 1400 attendees. This is the third chapter of this flagship WordCamp.

There are severals new programs introduced this year to engage users. For example, Solutions Spotlight was a series of 10-minute lightning talks to discuss leading innvoations.

YouthCamp is another event that’s dedicated for teens (ages 8-17) where they can hands-on building things with creativity. Also, they get the quickest flavor of WordPress in an interactive session.

The contributor day was a great event where 800 contributors and 37 table leads meet together and made the day successful with significant contributions.

Finally, Matt joined in an AMA sessions and answered questions from WordPress enthusiasts. This is an interesting session, you can find and watch it from YouTube.

One last thing. The next WordCamp Asia is going to happen in Mumbai, India.

WordPress in 2025 Report

The “WordPress in 2025” report highlights significant opportunities for WordPress this year. If you want to understand where WordPress is headed, you may want to take a look at this report.

WordPress was popular among bloggers who wanted to publish small-scale websites with minimal time frame. But the scenario is changed now. WordPress is more mature and flexible for your long-term strategy.

Let’s have a quick scan of what this report holds. The most significant part is the Block Editor has received a substantial amount of over 34,000 commits. New inventions like Full Site Editing (FSE) empower users to build sites without coding.

Artificial intelligence (AI) presents new growth opportunities the way WordPress achieved growth with its user-friendly publishing tool. The WordPress community can develop an ecosystem of intelligent content tools, not just AI features.

While some headless CMS vendors are trying backwards to add no-code editing, WordPress already integrates robust headless capabilities with its mature editor. For complex sites, combining both approaches is practical.

To explore these developments further, consider attending WP:25, a virtual event discussing WordPress’s future.