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Welcome to the annual Year in Review for WP Fusion 🎉 It feels like I just finished writing 2022 in Review, and here we are again 🎢 In case you’re new here– What is WP Fusion? WP Fusion is a WordPress plugin for deeply integrating your website with your CRM or
We cancelled Help Scout and switched to the free and open-source FreeScout— and it wasn’t even that scary!
Welcome to the annual Year in Review for WP Fusion 👋 2022 wraps up our eighth year in business. In the spirit of open-sourcey-ness, I’ve been publishing these Review posts for the last five of them. You can check out previous years below: 2021 in Review 2020 in Review 2019
It’s that time of year again, when we’re all looking to pick up a sweet deal on plugins and services for 2023. There are an endless number of roundup posts out there. This year I wanted to highlight just six plugins that are “friends of WP Fusion”. I’m in a
Welcome back to the annual WP Fusion year in review 👋 Quick summary in case you’re landing on our site for the first time: WP Fusion is a plugin that integrates WordPress with CRMs and marketing automation tools. For example Sync WooCommerce orders into HubSpot Follow up with FooEvents registrations in ActiveCampaign Use Mailchimp
I’m excited to announce the (beta) release of our newest extension, the Event Tracking Addon 🥳 It’s available now for download from your account for anyone with a Plus license or higher. It works with marketing automation platforms that have an activity feed or timeline component: ActiveCampaign Bento Brevo Drip
It’s that time again! The annual WP Fusion year in review 🥳 Quick summary in case you’re landing on our site for the first time: WP Fusion is a plugin that integrates WordPress with CRMs and marketing automation tools. i.e. Sync WooCommerce orders into HubSpot, follow up with FooEvents registrations
Update, January 7th, 2022: We’ve updated this post to indicate which features do and don’t work with the app. Update, March 16th, 2021: As of WP Fusion v3.37 the BuddyBoss app is supported! Check out the details in the documentation. In case you haven’t heard, BuddyBoss is launching an app 🥳. The
Wow, another year has already come and gone. The first version of WP Fusion was released in January of 2015, so as of this month we’ve been in business for five years. We created WP Fusion as a simple utility to synchronize UserPro membership data with Infusionsoft, and now it’s
Another year has come and gone, and it’s time again for our yearly review! We launched WP Fusion in January of 2015, so this month marks our 5th year in business (🎂!). Not only is WP Fusion open source software, but we try to bring an “open source” mentality to our
MailChimp is one of the most popular marketing automation platforms around, and ever since WP Fusion first came out we’ve been asked about MailChimp support. Unfortunately MailChimp was a bit different from our other supported CRMs and didn’t have an intuitive way for tagging contacts. This all changed a couple
Sometimes the best way to understand how something works is to check out a demo. This was difficult with WP Fusion, however, because WP Fusion only runs in the WordPress admin— so there’s not much to look at on a demo site. Just last week we came across WPSandbox. This
I’ve always appreciated open source projects that do a year end summary. Before launching WP Fusion, it was posts like Pippin Williamson’s year end reviews that gave us a lot of insight into how to start a WordPress plugin business, and also explained many of the challenges involved and how
Our development team took a (much needed) two months off this summer, to take a step back and spend some time focusing on the big picture concepts: what we’re doing well, what we could do better, and how we’d like to see WP Fusion evolve over the next year. We’ve
Every January (marking the anniversary of WP Fusion), we spend the month working on the next milestone release. This year we’re proud to announce WP Fusion 3.0. Overview Like version 2.0, 3.0 is a major rewrite of WP Fusion (while being fully backwards compatible). Almost all of our plugin integrations
Version 2.8 of WP Fusion brings full support for ConvertKit, an email marketing and automation tool built specifically for professional bloggers. We’ve really enjoyed working with ConvertKit while building this integration. It has an intuitive interface, powerful automation tools, and the team behind it is committed to customer satisfaction and
Since we launched WP Fusion we’ve had a lot of requests for features that fall outside of our goals for the core product. Some requests were for functionality that only applied to a specific CRM, others were applicable only to developers or pro users. We wanted to keep the core
We just released version 2.4 of WP Fusion, and we’re excited to announce we’ve expanded our CRM integrations to include ONTRAPORT. ONTRAPORT is a powerful all-in-one CRM system that supports ecommerce, marketing automation, and contact and list management. Setting up your WordPress site to connect to ONTRAPORT is just as easy as
Steve Woody from Online Mastery has put together a demo video showcasing a bunch of the new features and improvements coming in WP Fusion 2.0. Check out the video below for a sneak peek. We’re rigorously testing the new version and plan to release it to the public in the next few days!
This January we’re celebrating the first birthday of WP Fusion, and it’s been an exciting year! We started out quite simply… we just wanted to make it a little easier to run a membership site on WordPress, but we didn’t realize how much more was possible. Many people have written in with suggestions for new features and
