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A lot of running a online store is small admin work, like checking last month's numbers or setting up a sale.
Now Easy Digital Downloads lets you hand that stuff off to your AI assistant.
I wrote about this update in our latest announcement post: easydigitaldownloads.com/blo…
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WPVibe.ai just passed 90,000+ users 😍🚀
Just at the beginning of October, we were at 50k users. I'm incredibly grateful for the kind words and support from our community.
For those that are new, WPVibe lets you connect your WordPress site with ChatGPT, Claude, Cursor, Grok, and other AI tools to unlock a whole new way of building & managing websites.
If you've not tried it, you're really missing out. WPVibe is a game changer!!
One of our new users, Scott Hendison said in his testimonial yesterday: "it left me speechless ... absolutely phenomenal".
AI + WordPress unlocks a NEW LEVEL of flexibility and power that no other platform can match.
You can start for free at WPVibe.ai
Huge shout out to the work @johnturner and team are doing in implementing user feedback and continuing to make WPVibe even better. He's a true practitioner and I'm always amazed with the ideas he has ... he's working on some really cool things 😁
Also once again a huge thank you to all our users who're sending us feedback and ideas so we can continue improving WPVibe to make your workflow even easier.
The codes with no end date are the sneaky ones. This finds them for you before anything gets archived.
Old discount codes pile up, and some of them still work.
This WPVibe.ai recipe has your AI sort every Easy Digital Downloads discount into groups: expired, never used, maxed out, and active with no end date. It changes nothing while it sorts.
Casey Cavanagh retweeted
Woke up to a wonderful news - WPVibe.ai passed 60k installs 🤩🚀
It's been an incredible journey as just 1 month ago, we were at 20k installs.
WPVibe lets you connect your WordPress site with ChatGPT, Claude, Cursor, and other AI tools to unlock a whole new way of building & managing websites.
If you've not tried it yet, you're really missing out. WPVibe is a game changer!!
AI + WordPress unlocks a NEW LEVEL of flexibility and power that no other platform can match.
You can start for free at WPVibe.ai
Huge props to the amazing work @johnturner and team are doing in implementing user feedback and continuing to make WPVibe better every day.
I'm truly grateful for the kind words and support from our community.
And a special thank you to all users who're sending us feedback + ideas, so we can keep improving WPVibe to make your workflow easier.
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This FREE AI Plugin Changes WordPress Web Design Forever: WPVibe Review youtu.be/m8VmCnYLFMY?si=CkZU… via @YouTube
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Organise WordPress Content with WPVibe + ChatGPT youtu.be/vATi-pbJgNY?si=kTRl… via @YouTube
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Sales report, discount code, order lookup. Each one used to mean a login screen and three clicks minimum.
Easy Digital Downloads (@eddwp) now works with AI assistants like Claude and ChatGPT, reading your store's real data through the WordPress Abilities API:
📊 Ask for a sales report for any period, broken down by product
🏷️ Describe a sale in one sentence and get the discount code built for you
🔎 Look up a customer's order, receipt history, and download log in seconds
Nothing changes in your store until you flip the switch yourself.
easydigitaldownloads.com/blo…
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What an incredible week this has been across @awesomemotive teams and WPVibe.ai shipping things.
We passed 40k active installs on WPVibe 🚀😍
- Launched integration with AIOSEO (@aioseopack) so you can manage your SEO settings and details from your favorite AI tool.
- Improved integration with WPCode (@wpcodelibrary), so your AI can debut your code snippets, not just write them.
- Improved integration with WPForms (@easywpforms), so you can build & manage forms, surveys, etc directly from ChatGPT, Claude, etc.
- Launched integration with Easy Digital Downloads (@eddwp), so you can manage your WordPress eCommerce store from a single AI chat. Get sales reports, create new products, add discounts, etc.
- Launched integration with PushEngage (@PushEngage), so you can easily send push notifications without leaving your preferred AI workflow.
- Improved integration with WooCommerce, so store owners can easily manage their store inside ChatGPT, Claude, etc.
- Made it easy to securely upload SVGs via your AI agent without any extra plugins.
... and so much more in the works.
If you haven't given WPVibe.ai a try, you're missing out.
Casey Cavanagh retweeted
The most important thing we found building AI recipes for Easy Digital Downloads was a switch that ships in the off position.
EDD 3.7.1 now tells AI assistants what it can do. 25 operations across orders, customers, products, discounts, reports, logs and settings.
Connect Claude or ChatGPT to your WordPress store and it can read all of it on day one. It can't change a thing.
Our first attempt to create a product was refused, and it took us a minute to work out why. There's a toggle under Downloads > Tools > AI, "Allow AI to change store data," and it stays off until the store owner turns it on.
I think that's the right default. Reading is where you should start anyway. A sales report or a pre-launch audit changes nothing, so there's nothing to undo. When you want the AI building discount codes or resending receipts, you flip it on. You can flip it back.
The EDD team didn't stop at the switch:
• Creating an order, changing an order's status, or deleting a discount makes WPVibe stop and ask you to approve in your browser
• New discount codes are saved inactive
• Refunds aren't available to AI at all
We built six tested recipes on top of it and checked them against a store with known data. When the sales report said 8 orders and $213 for the last 30 days, that was right to the dollar.
If you sell downloads on WordPress, start with the sales report.
Link below 👇
Casey Cavanagh retweeted
WPVibe.ai just passed 40k installs 😍
I'm truly humbled by the kind words and support from our community.
If you've been following the journey, just 2 weeks ago, we were at 20k installs!!
WPVibe lets you connect your WordPress site with ChatGPT, Claude, Cursor, and other AI tools to unlock a whole new way of building & managing websites.
If you've not given it a try yet, you're seriously missing out. WPVibe is a game changer!!
AI + WordPress unlocks a new level of flexibility and power that no other platform can match.
You can start for free at WPVibe.ai
Huge shout out to the work @johnturner and team are doing in implementing user feedback and continuing to make WPVibe even better.
Casey Cavanagh retweeted
WPVibe.ai has passed 30k active installs 🚀
This is exactly 1 week after we passed 20k.
It's really cool to see users connecting their WordPress site with ChatGPT, Claude, Cursor, and other AI tools to unlock a whole new way of building & managing websites.
If you've not given it a try yet, you're seriously missing out. It's a game changer!!
AI + WordPress unlocks a new level of flexibility and power that no other platform can match.
You can start for free at WPVibe.ai
None of this would be possible without the incredible work @johnturner and team are doing. We've shipped 78 out of last 101 days!
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This is exactly why self-hosted WordPress stores powered by Easy Digital Downloads are in such a strong position right now.
AI tools like ChatGPT and Perplexity aren’t just sending traffic to marketplaces anymore. They’re reading real product pages, FAQs, reviews, changelogs, and docs directly.
With WordPress + EDD you control everything:
- Your product structure
- Your schema
- Your content
- Your discoverability
The stores that win in AI search are the ones that own their own platform instead of renting space on someone else’s.
Worth reading and saving.
Casey Cavanagh retweeted
The Allowed Products addon makes this easy when it's on. No product earns a referral until you allow it.
Works with WooCommerce, EDD, and MemberPress. Set it once, change it anytime 🥳
Step-by-step guide 👉affiliatewp.com/docs/allowed…
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WordPress 7.0 is officially here. 🎉
We have been testing 7.0 since the early beta. Here is everything that's new and what it means for your site.
Here are the standout new features:
🤖 New AI Connectors Screen: A central place to connect your site to AI services without third-party plugins. Choose your provider (OpenAI, Google, or Anthropic), enter credentials once, and every plugin or theme that supports the AI API can tap into that connection.
✨ Refreshed Admin Experience: Cleaner typography, updated colors, and smoother transitions between screens (no more full page reloads when jumping between Posts, Settings, and the editor).
⌘ Command Palette Everywhere: Previously editor-only, now accessible from anywhere with ⌘K (Mac) or Ctrl+K (Windows/Linux). Navigate, search, and run actions without touching the mouse.
📱 Responsive Block Visibility: Show or hide any block on desktop, tablet, or mobile without writing a single line of CSS. A feature page builders have offered for years, now built into core.
🕓 Smarter Visual Revisions: Compare two revisions side by side with color-coded overlays. Green = added, Red = removed, Yellow = modified settings. A game-changer for multi-author teams.
✏️ Custom CSS for Individual Blocks: A new Custom CSS field in the block inspector lets you style one specific block without affecting anything else. Live preview included.
🎨 Three New Native Blocks: Icons (with the full WordPress icon library built in), Breadcrumbs (auto-generated trails plus SEO benefits), and a consolidated Headings block (all 6 levels in one).
🖼️ Gallery Lightbox Navigation: Back and next buttons (and arrow key support) finally added to the gallery lightbox.
⚙️ Under the Hood: PHP-only block registration, pseudo-element support in theme.json, WP-CLI 3.0 with new wp block and wp ability commands, Font Library now works on classic themes, and minimum PHP is now 7.4.
⚠️ One Quick Note: Real-time collaboration (RTC) was pulled before release. The core team wasn't confident the current approach was robust enough. Still in active development.
Before you update, back up your WordPress site first. If you run a busy or mission-critical site, test on staging first.
Ready to explore WordPress 7.0's new features? Read the full deep-dive with screenshots 👇
(Link is in the comments below)
Built a WordPress plugin? The case for selling direct instead of through a marketplace is pretty clear once you do the math.
If you've built a WordPress plugin, you're already sitting on something people will pay for.
Selling it yourself means keeping more profit and owning your customer relationships. No marketplace fees, no rules you didn't write.
Here's how to get started: easydigitaldownloads.com/blo…
Exiting new launch: ActiveLayer
(@activelayerapi) - an AI-powered spam detection that runs invisibly in the background and gives you a confidence score for every decision it makes.
Worth checking out if you're running contact forms on WordPress. Plus it's free!
I hate CAPTCHAs.
And so do your customers ... up to 40% of them abandon a form the moment they see one.
But the alternative used to be worse.
At one point, my @wpbeginner forms got 18,000 spam requests in a single night.
So I tried everything. Honeypots, rate limiting, etc -- they worked for a while until they didn't.
There are premium spam tools, but they're often slow & expensive. They flag real people without telling me why.
So I asked my team to build something better.
It's called ActiveLayer (@activelayerapi) - an AI-powered spam protection that blocks bots without ever asking your real customers to prove they're human.
No CAPTCHAs. No tracking scripts. No friction.
It runs server-side in milliseconds and returns a verdict with a confidence score, so you can actually see why something was flagged.
It works with every WordPress form plugin you already use including WPForms (@easywpforms), @gravityforms, Contact Form 7, Elementor (@elemntor), etc.
There's also a clean REST API for everything else, so you can use it on any application platform, not just WordPress.
Think of it as a smart security guard for your forms. It welcomes real people, blocks the bots, and never asks anyone to prove they are human.
Let's make the web a little less spammy together.
Try it free → activelayer.com
Casey Cavanagh retweeted
After next month, all authors on Envato will keep just 50% of every sale.
With Easy Digital Downloads, you keep 100% of your revenue. No platform fees. No commission cuts.
Your work, your money.
Make the switch to sell direct → easydigitaldownloads.com/sel…
Casey Cavanagh retweeted
My team @eddwp just shipped a real win for store owners.
🚩The quiet reason returning customers abandon checkout isn't the checkout itself, but getting caught in the login or password reset process.
🔓That's what magic login links solve, and they're available to all EDD users now.
Casey Cavanagh retweeted
Easy Digital Downloads just shipped Magic Login Links.
Returning customers can now enter their email at checkout and instantly get a secure one-time login link.
No password. No reset flow. Straight back into checkout.
This removes one of the biggest drop-off points in WordPress stores: forgotten passwords killing repeat purchases.
Setup is simple:
Downloads → Settings → Payments → Checkout
Links are single-use and expire for security.
This is a quiet but meaningful conversion win for anyone running an EDD store @eddwp