I remember seeing some sneaky peaks on Fluent Forms chatty-alike experience.
And after seeing that WPMN is still using Crips for chatbot I was wondering, (if) a chatbot solution may be coming any soon!
I finally gave FluentKit a try today.
Looks awesome. Great job to the team! 👏 ...but then I noticed something. Where's Fluent Snippets? 😂. It feels like the forgotten sibling standing outside the family photo.
"Mom said I was part of the Fluent ecosystem too..." 🥲
#JusticeForFluentSnippets ❤️
Just tried it for the first time...
Love it.
https://wpmanageninja.com/introducing-fluentkit/
Give it a try for a unified Fluent plugins experience
I wrote a few MainWP extensions, and the last one I said I would write about 7 months ago was one for FluentSMTP. My other open source projects got busy, and I ran out of time; a few weeks ago I started working on this project.
I am pleased to say that I have finally got to the point where I need others to test it for several reasons.
My MainWP dashboard blocks connections on SMTP ports, and FluentSMTP doesn’t support the Emailit API, which is what I use; this means when testing, I can not keep it active for long periods of time. I wrote an integration for Emailit this weekend and have submitted it as a PR and hopefully the team can add that https://github.com/WPManageNinja/fluent-smtp/pull/411
For the reason above, I am not currently using FluentSMTP, and this means my testing is limited to a handful of test sites. There is no real data or real usage; it's all simulated, and I think I am at the limits of this sort of testing.
I have chosen to do this differently from my other MainWP extensions because FluentSMTP is a true open source plugin, and this has changed how I have developed this, and I will go into more details below
So Naturally i feel I am at the limit of what I can test with this, and I can’t possibly release this without some form of real-world testing it wouldn’t be fair to the communities of Fluent and MainWP.
So without further ado, the following video shows you the extension in action and what it can do, etc
This is different than any of my other releases
If you're still interested, I need to talk about the philosophy here; my other extensions have all been standalone, requiring a different client and dashboard plugin because they have been for plugins which are not truely open source I can’t contribute the needed code to the code base and this means I’ve had to do this, I recently designed a universal dashboard/child plugin for my flowmattic patcher integration - https://youtu.be/x6pZcernr9U and this works well.
So with this one, I have built it to be bundled within the FluentSMTP plugin,
A bit like this
FluentSMTP
│
├── Existing plugin
│ ├── Mailers
│ ├── Logging
│ ├── Settings
│ ├── Notifications
│ └── API
│
└── MainWP Extension
├── Loader
├── Dashboard
├── Child
├── CSS
└── JavaScript
It is designed with a single included requirement being added to the core plugin and a single include to add it
In fluent-smtp.php, I add a single line of code:
require_once plugin_dir_path(FILE) . 'includes/mainwp/mainwp-loader.php';
Thats it - Why? My intentions for this code is to submit it as a PR once written and hopefully get it adopted into the main build. This means if you have Fluentsmtp installed on your dashboard and child site, you will have MainWP access.
I have designed it to be as unobtrusive as possible and as easy to update until we get there as possible.
So how will this work?
I am looking for a few people to test it out, initially you can show your interest here https://beta.techarticles.co.uk/fluentsmtp/ and I will be in contact when I work this out the next steps there will be a follow up survey once on the list to find out a little bit more about you as individuals, how many sites, what your stacks are, if you’ve ever given feedback before etc, from here I will select a few priority will be given to larger sites, developers of other plugins and the teams of MainWP and FluentSMTP
I am not looking to add new features; the community can do that once its PR is accepted. What I need to know is if this Minimal viable product version is enough and works well enough to be useful.
Why not just release to everyone at the same time?
I usually do this and get so little feedback it just doesn’t work; I need people who will actively test and will provide feedback. This is important, as per my intentions above, that this doesn’t cause issues I haven’t found in testing. This will likely be the biggest extension for MainWP I’ve built I know hundreds of people use my client note extension for MainWP, but FluentSMTP has over 600k users. I want to get this right.
Once you're in the beta.
You will get access to a modified version of FluentSMTP as above, with the MainWP drop-in available; these will be labelled the same as the current version with a -test suffix.
I.e 2.2.95-test-1: you need to install this on your dashboard and sites to get it to work.
I strongly recommend you test in a staging environment first; this is BETA
Thanks for reading, and all feedback is welcome
I've replied to many questions here before asking about how to do different types of functionality that isn't (or wasn't) included in whichever Fluent product by mentioning that we use FlowMattic in many of those instances. I just wanted to give a shout out to Nitin Yawalkar and the FlowMattic team as they have just released a new version of their software that has many new impressive features. Some of which that may be helpful for FluentCommunity specifically are the ability to create dynamic PDFs and images (maybe for course completions, etc.). FlowMattic already supports integration with most, if not all, Fluent products and they have been responsive in the past when I needed help or an additional integration feature added.
I encourage anyone looking for WordPress automation software to check out FlowMattic. Nitin Yawalkar may be able to answer questions or provide more details on how some of the new features could benefit users of Fluent products.
Disclaimer: I am not affiliated with FlowMattic except as a happy customer.
Thought I would share this complete build video I put together. Uses FluentCart, FluentCRM, and FluentForms.
Building a Complete Membership Site with Claude Code & WordPress (Start to Finish)
https://youtu.be/E0FYdIp9XRQ
A quick workflow tip for WordPress site owners using WP Social Ninja to display Instagram feeds. A common issue is that when you want to feature specific Instagram posts as static native images on your site rather than live embedded feed items, the original quality files are often no longer available locally. Instagram provides no built in export option which creates a gap in the workflow. I have been using snapinsta.ink to retrieve original quality files from public Instagram post URLs and then uploading them directly into the WordPress media library for use alongside the WP Social Ninja feed. This gives better page performance compared to relying entirely on embedded social feeds. Has anyone else found a clean way to combine native hosted Instagram assets with WP Social Ninja feed display on the same page.
MCP and others... Different names here and there.
I'm still living in the stone age of manual works.
I got a lot of learning and implementation to do...
I went ahead and made a video on this Sunday morning with Kommodo browser extension. Focus on comparing a lot of Fluent plugins and how they handle the left side WP menu compared to the top plugin menu.
Meant for the Fluent teams so this is a good place to share it.
I went through the video and see a few mistakes I made but it is likely better I share the video then just trash it....
(Btw FluentCart should have a better integrated menu structure. Having suitable top level menu items that then pack various things into it. 13 menu items become too overwhelming as can be seen in the left WP menu area. The more button in the top of the plugin also has a lot of areas in it.)
Review and UI Consistency Check of Fluent Plugins
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Hey FluentCommunity family! 👋
A few people have asked me to share the plugins I’ve been building for my own site, so I’ve decided to release the current public betas of SnapWeb and ShopiChain for free.
Neither brand nor its main website is properly ready yet. Normally I would wait longer, but these plugins already solve real problems for me and can be seen working on Cointacted.com. Since people asked, I thought it would be better to let others test and use them now.
SnapWeb
- SnapWeb Auth provides standalone login, registration, password recovery, account security, sessions, privacy tools and optional two-factor authentication. It can also integrate with FluentCommunity’s SPA experience.
- SnapWeb Cookies provides cookie consent, service classification, script and embed blocking, privacy signals and optional consent evidence. It works on regular WordPress and can adapt to FluentCommunity navigation.
Repository and documentation:
https://github.com/snapwebx/snapweb-wordpress-plugins
Download:
https://github.com/snapwebx/snapweb-wordpress-plugins/releases/tag/public-beta-2026-07-26
ShopiChain
- ShopiChain Core provides independent commerce contracts and an optional customer-dashboard foundation.
- ShopiChain Wishlist provides multiple private, link-only and public wishlists, including optional guest wishlists.
- ShopiChain FluentCommunity presents shops, products, carts, checkout, customer dashboards and wishlists inside the FluentCommunity experience. FluentCart is required for commerce functionality.
Repository and documentation:
https://github.com/ShopiChain/shopichain-wordpress-plugins
Download:
https://github.com/ShopiChain/shopichain-wordpress-plugins/releases/tag/public-beta-2026-07-26
You do not need to register with SnapWeb or ShopiChain, create an account, enter a license key or activate anything remotely. Download the plugins, test them and use them if everything works correctly on your setup.
They work for me, but these are still public betas. Please back up your site and ideally test on staging first. PHP 8.1–8.4 is currently validated; PHP 8.5 is not yet supported.
I’ll keep publishing updates, and you’ll be able to update your installations as the plugins improve. If you want to help, please collect bugs, error messages, compatibility findings or useful ideas and report them through the GitHub repositories.
I also plan to thank helpful contributors with license giveaways and perhaps some contests later. There is nothing additional to register for right now.
Tomorrow I’m looking forward to beginning work on the proper SnapWeb and ShopiChain sites—and, of course, continuing to nurture Cointacted itself.
Thanks a lot, and keep Fluenting! 🚀