WPManageNinja February 2026 Roundup: Short Month, Full Sprint

We just came back from AuthLab Connect with the kind of energy that makes you want to ship things immediately. And February didn’t disappoint.

From back-to-back releases (and a few important security hardening updates), to a strong publishing run across our sites, to an office celebration with our families, this month had a little bit of everything. Here’s the full roundup.

Key Takeaways

• Multiple releases + hardening work: Feature upgrades landed across the ecosystem, alongside important security and sanitization improvements.
• FluentPlayer progress: The waitlist site is live, and the product is moving closer to launch with a focus on speed, stability, and analytics.
• A big FluentCart milestone: FluentCart crossed 4,000+ active installations in under four months.
• February was a rapid-fire shipping month: 17 updates shipped across our products by the development team.
• Releasing helpful resources without a pause: 97 blog posts, 4 email broadcasts, 8 newsletters, and 192+ social posts kept releases and education circulating.
• Team culture matters too: Spring Celebration 2026 gave the whole team (and families) a well-timed reset.

Product Releases & Milestones

February was a solid shipping month for WPManageNinja. We rolled out multiple updates across the ecosystem, a mix of feature improvements, bug fixes, performance polish, and security hardening.

FluentPlayer is Coming, and the Waitlist is Live

We’re releasing FluentPlayer soon, and February was an important step toward that launch: we officially launched the FluentPlayer waitlist website.

FluentPlayer is a product we’re building to beautify video on WordPress websites, but the real focus goes beyond looks. Our priority is keeping it glitch-free, fast, and reliable… while giving you the kind of useful, robust video reports and analytics that actually help you understand performance and engagement.

If video is a serious part of your site, FluentPlayer is being built to make it feel smooth, measurable, and fully “WordPress-native.”

FluentCart Hit 4,000+ Active Installations

One milestone we’re especially proud of: FluentCart crossed 4,000+ active installs.

That’s 4K+ ecommerce websites actively running stores with FluentCart and we reached this within just 6 months of the product release. It’s a massive signal that the product is solving real problems for real businesses, and we’re grateful to everyone building with it.

Product Updates

Some product updates were “big and visible,” others were the quiet kind that matter just as much: tightening permissions, improving sanitization, and fixing those edge-case bugs you only find when thousands of real sites are using your products daily.

1) FluentCart — v1.3.10, v1.3.11, v1.3.12

FluentCart moved fast this month. We shipped improvements, tightened up the experience, and fixed an upgrade-related caching issue so updates stay smooth for store owners.

FluentCart v1.3.10 — Store Building Gets a Big Upgrade this February 04

v1.3.10 was a major step forward for modern WordPress storefront design. The highlight was FSE (Full Site Editing) block theme support, plus stronger blocks/shortcodes so you can build store layouts more flexibly without fighting your theme.

What shipped:

• FSE block theme support for smoother storefront building with modern themes
• New blocks + shortcodes: Mini Cart, Product Carousel, Product Title, Product Image
• Product categories shortcode for easier catalog navigation in custom layouts
• Gutenberg blocks updated to the latest version (v3) for better editor consistency
• Fixes for renewal emails (tax breakdown + VAT info)
• UI fixes like dark/light theme conflicts for add-ons promo and modal checkout responsiveness

FluentCart v1.3.11 — Custom Storefronts, Subscriptions, and Ops tooling

v1.3.11 was a bigger, multi-layer release: it expanded design freedom, improved subscription capability, and added practical store operations tools. If v1.3.10 laid the foundation for better layouts, v1.3.11 doubled down with Elementor support and workflow improvements.

What shipped:

• New Gutenberg blocks: Related Products, Customer Dashboard Button, Store Logo
• Media Carousel block for richer product previews and galleries
• Elementor widgets (via dedicated widgets/extension): Checkout, Add to Cart, Buy Now, Mini Cart, Products, Product Carousel, Product Categories List
• Razorpay subscription support for recurring billing (huge for Razorpay-first markets)
• Product SKU feature to keep orders, exports, and inventory workflows consistent
• New actions: Customer LTV recalculation + Sync order statuses (better accuracy for reporting and automations)
• Test Data Cleanup Tool to remove dummy orders after setup/testing
• First/Last name field settings to control checkout friction vs structured customer data
• Improvement: Inventory Manager is now free (previously Pro)
• Improvement: New Settings UI for cleaner navigation and setup
• Fixes: Gallery image overflow, subscription validity expiration events, plus minor stability fixes
• Internal: Schedule security audit for all modules

Other Minor Updates and fixes

• FluentCart v1.3.12 — Fixed a caching issue during new version upgrades
• FluentCart v1.3.13 —
  • Adds SKU Gutenberg block
  • Fixes SKU sanitization issue
  • Fixes Manual payment checkout instruction issue
  • Fixes Payment method settings customization issue
  • Fixes Zero decimal amount issue for Japanese currency

2) FluentCommunity — v2.2.0 + follow-up updates

FluentCommunity shipped a major release and then quickly followed up with hotfixes and improvements, the goal being simple: keep everything feeling smooth day-to-day for community owners and members.

FluentCommunity v2.2.0 — Chat, Privacy, and a More Flexible Portal Experience

v2.2.0 is a big “daily experience” release. It adds real-time communication, gives users more control over their profiles, improves how content looks and loads, and upgrades courses + lessons so communities feel more modern and easier to run.

What shipped:

• New layout options: Card Layout View (plus better layout controls across the portal)
• Real-time Chat: Live chat functionality, plus a chat widget inside the portal
• Video uploads with Fluent Player: Upload and share videos more natively inside the community
• Comment improvements: Comment pinning, default comment sorting, filtering for course comments
• Privacy upgrades: Profile Page Privacy Settings for better member control
• Better space/course management: Add users to Spaces/Courses directly from a profile
• Feed + editor upgrades: Inline images in Feed, Draft Guard to prevent accidental content loss
• Smarter mentions: Mentioned user profile popover, plus improvements to mention behavior
• Portal performance: Faster loading and smoother day-to-day navigation
• UI/UX polish: A broad pass across the portal for cleaner, more consistent interactions
• Rate limiting: Media upload rate limiting for stability and abuse prevention
• Lesson + bookmarks improvements:
  • Lesson Editor redesigned for easier editing
  • Bookmark listing enhanced with filtering, layout view, and search

Follow-up releases (hotfixes + stability wins)

v2.2.01

• Hotfix: Template page styling issue
• Hotfix: Mentioning users in comments issue

v2.2.05

• Added: Disable Feed/Space layout switching
• Fixed: Vote casting issue
• Fixed: Lesson content update issue
• Fixed: Child comments appearing as parent comments
• Fixed: Minor UI issue

v2.2.07

• Fixed: Notification system issues
• Fixed: Duplicate posts for pinned posts

3) Fluent Forms — v6.1.17, v6.1.18, v6.1.19

Fluent Forms had one of those “high impact, low drama” months with lots of fixes, and a serious round of security and hardening work that keeps things safer at scale.

v6.1.17

• Fixed conversational form subscription plan not showing in payment summary when the first option is selected
• Fixed Custom JS disappearing after reload
• Fixed “Other Option” field not appearing for radio buttons using Button Style

v6.1.18 (Security + hardening)

• Improved file delete endpoint security
• Added sanitization to reporting + receipt parameters
• Fixed SQL wildcard injection risk in uniqueness validation
• Strengthened output escaping in receipt templates
• Tightened permissions around entry updates, cleanup, and notification resends
• Expanded entry editor sanitization with field-aware handling

v6.1.19

• Added backward-compatibility for deprecated classes

4) FluentSupport — v2.0.0, v2.0.1, v2.0.2

FluentSupport shipped a major release and then followed up fast with improvements and fixes based on real usage, especially around onboarding and ticket workflows.

FluentSupport v2.0.0 — A full UI overhaul + Faster Ticket Operations (Feb 05, 2026)

v2.0.0 is a major milestone release. It modernizes the entire admin experience, improves mobile and RTL support, upgrades the customer portal, and adds workflow improvements that make high-volume ticket handling faster and cleaner.

What shipped:

• Complete admin UI redesign with a modern, cleaner layout
• Full RTL support across the interface
• Fully mobile-responsive UI across modules (admin + portal)
• Revamped navigation: dropdown-based menus + responsive hamburger menus for Main Menu, Settings, and Reports
• Ticket workflow upgrades:
  • Drag & drop image upload in tickets
  • Ticket List Display Settings to control layout + visible elements
  • Compact ticket list layout for faster scanning
  • Keyboard shortcuts for power users (enabled from Global Settings)
• Better frontend support portal: improved responsiveness + theme compatibility
• Dark mode readiness: refactored Customer Portal SCSS variables for easier dark mode implementation
• Platform + performance upgrades:
  • Core PHP framework update + PHP 8.4 compatibility fixes
  • Improved sanitization + validation across inputs
  • Components migrated to Options API + Vue refactors for better performance
  • Reduced unnecessary API calls in the Reports module
• Reports improvements:
  • Separated personal reports from agent performance reports
  • Added a Reports Stats API for business/product insights
  • Date range now persists when switching report tabs
• Fixes + stability:
  • Enter key no longer reloads pages instead of submitting forms
  • Block Editor styles fixed for the Customer Portal
  • WordPress 6.9 admin editor toolbar compatibility fix
  • Activity Log disabled → database table error resolved
  • Auto password generation issue fixed for new users with empty password fields

Follow-up releases (quick polish after the big launch)

v2.0.1

• Improved onboarding completion UI + smoother post-onboarding navigation
• Improved sanitization and validation handling
• Fixed: Saved Replies modal showing stale content when editing

v2.0.2

• Fixed: Watchers not displaying in the ticket list
• Fixed: Ticket merging failure from the ticket view page
• Fixed: reCAPTCHA settings not saving properly
• Fixed: Bulk actions bar responsiveness issue
• Fixed: Ticket migration-related issues
• Fixed: Customer profile update issue (IP fields treated as strings)
• Fixed: Styling issue with Ticket Merge dialog buttons

5) Other Releases we Shipped

A few more products shipped updates in February:

FluentAffiliate — v1.3.0 (Feb 03, 2026)

FluentAffiliate shipped a major update focused on making affiliate programs more flexible, especially for subscription businesses, while also improving payouts and tightening up a few important edge-case bugs.

What shipped:

• Affiliate commission on subscriptions — Enables recurring commission models for membership and subscription-based products, so affiliate earnings can follow recurring revenue.
• Dynamic affiliate QR code — Generates scannable QR codes for offline sharing, events, printed promos, or quick mobile referrals.
• Bank details payout method — Adds bank transfer as a payout option for smoother, more practical affiliate payments.
• Decimal number support (manual referrals) — Allows precise referral values and commissions where amounts aren’t whole numbers.
• Fixes + stability:
  • Fixed login option showing for already logged-in users
  • Fixed Tutor LMS integration issue
  • Fixed affiliate manager migration issue
  • Fixed data unserialization issue

Ninja Tables Pro — v5.2.7

• Fixed conditional formatting issue
• Fixed Google Sheets column key issue for HTML tag

FluentBooking — v2.0.05

• Added: File Upload option in Admin Booking
• Added: Rate limit in meeting scheduling
• Fixed: Data import/export security vulnerability
• Fixed: User phone + address security vulnerability
• Fixed: Multi-field not showing in manual booking
• Fixed: Coupon issue with multi-duration events
• Fixed: Event time not showing in one-off event landing
• Fixed: Cancelled booking report
• Improved: Minor UI/UX and dark mode

Some products were quieter this month, mostly because bigger things are in motion.
And yes, it’s worth repeating: FluentCRM 3.0 is coming soon.

Knowledge & Resources: February in Numbers

February wasn’t just a month full of features shipped, it was a full-on resource sprint across WPManageNinja. Alongside product updates and announcements, we focused on creating content people can actually use: guides, tutorials, documentation improvements, and videos that help customers move faster.

Blog Content shipped

We published 97 blog posts across our ecosystem. The biggest publishing pushes came from our flagship products, while the rest of the lineup stayed consistent with weekly (and sometimes more-than-weekly) posts.

Email + newsletters

We also stayed active in emails and newsletters in total. That means we didn’t just publish updates… We made sure people actually saw them.

Video Resources Shipped

We published 14 professionally curated videos this month,  highly designed, easy to follow, and built around real customer workflows so you can learn faster and implement with confidence.

Team Moment: Spring Celebration 2026

February wasn’t only about shipping.

We celebrated Spring 2026 at our office, a yearly tradition for our team and our families. All the AuthLabians joined with their family members, and the whole place felt like a proper festival.

It was loud, joyful, and the best kind of reset in the middle of a busy month, with hundreds of traditional cakes brought by our colleagues. Because we’re not just building products; we’re building a workplace that adds to our happiness too.

Whats Next

We’re heading into March with momentum: more updates, more content, and the same customer-first pace we’ve been pushing all year.

Thanks for reading, and thanks for being part of the WPManageNinja journey, whether you’re building stores, collecting leads, running communities, or supporting customers with our plugins.

See you in next month’s roundup.