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Billy has been published in a new, major release, with a focus on refactoring and code cleanup. This offers many benefits to users and developers.

In case you didn’t know, Billy is an invoice and project management Plugin for WordPress that seamlessly integrates into your existing web stack. There are no external dependencies and you can rest assured that no critical information will be shared with third parties, and that you will always retain full control of your your sensitive data within your WordPress instance.

You can install the free version from the WordPress Plugin Directory. The Pro add-on offers additional features like Contact management, To dos and more. You can buy it for a reasonable one-time fee from our website. There are no hidden costs, and you will not be tied to any ongoing contracts or incur any recurring charges.

Best of all: Customers who have previously purchased a valid v1 license can upgrade to v2 free of charge.

What has changed in Billy v2.0?

• There are lots of improvements under the hood – in particular, all blocks have been migrated to the latest Blocks API v3
  • This improves stability, performance and compatibility with the upcoming WordPress version which will be released next week on December 2, 2025
  • Backwards compatibility of existing posts should be fully maintained
• New option to define a custom financial year instead of the default “01 January – 31 December”
• Invoice and quote numbers can now be auto-reset to 0 on an annual basis
• WordPress users can be assigned to To do checklists – open and due assignments will be output in the user’s dashboard widget
• Generated PDFs now support Emojis via a fallback that loads the respective images from the w.org CDN – this is optional and can be disabled
• Support for the new Notes feature has been added in all custom post types
• Numerous long-standing front-end issues have now been resolved
• The PHP codebase has been optimized and outdated bloat and deprecations have been removed
• The minimum supported WordPress version has been bumped to v6.6 – nevertheless, it’s always best to use the latest stable version
• Billy has been tested with the RC version of the upcoming WordPress v6.9 release

Please help us test the new release

Bugs can always occur during major refactoring, so we would be very grateful if you could help us test the new release. If you notice a bug, please create a new support request on this site to let us know. Of course you can also open a new issue on WordPress.org (or even create a pull request on GitHub) if the bug affects the free version.

Don’t forget to inform us about your WordPress configuration and provide any necessary information, such as screenshots and error logs, to help resolve the issue quickly and easily.

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To celebrate our 10^th anniversary, we decided to give them.es a makeover. Our goal was to maintain a sense of familiarity while refining some elements, refreshing the color scheme and replacing the default font. We also reviewed web accessibility and fixed some contrast errors to improve readability.

Many technical features have been upgraded code-wise, with the aim of improving the user experience and ensuring compatibility with the upcoming WordPress v6.9 release. In addition, a cool and useful Product filter has been added to the front page.

We would love to hear your thoughts on the new, fresh look and feel. You can either leave your comments below or submit the feedback form anonymously.

Are you managing an online community around a 🏢 business, ⚽ hobby or 🎗️ cause where users can discuss topics with others? Or are you in the technical evaluation phase because you are not satisfied with the current setup of your online forum? And do you ❤️ WordPress?

Look no further. We are now offering a slick, flexible and well-crafted WordPress Theme for that very purpose. By the way. It has also been used as base of the site you’re browsing right now.

What you’ll get…

• them.es Support is a Block Theme powered by WordPress 6.5+ making use of the new Interactivity API, so all the standard features from WordPress, like enhanced query pagination, posts, comments, user profiles, categories, tags are available out of the box
• Convenient Community and effective User management features
  • Users can Mark topics as (un)resolved
  • Users can Like posts/comments
  • Users can Report posts/comments for admin review
  • Users can Search with an autocomplete feature
  • @user mentions
  • Unresolved topics widget
  • Markdown syntax
  • Users can upload an Avatar
  • Users can request a data export from the profile
  • Frontend editing experience powered by the new Interactivity API
• The design with two built-in styles (Light/Dark) can be fully customized in the Site Editor
• Alternatively it can be extended with a Child Theme, like we did here by integrating a unique design and adding several internal add-ons like a file uploader or widgets connecting to external services or APIs
• All customers purchasing a license will get continuous Support with future updates

How to purchase…

• As usual we offer a fair deal with a lifetime license here: https://them.es/themes/support-theme

How to customize…

• Smaller adjustments like style updates, adding a custom webfont or editing existing templates can be performed directly in the Site Editor
• For deeper modifications or if the code needs to be extended with new features, it’s recommended to develop a Child Theme or a Plugin
• If there is a translation missing in your language, you can help out. Contributing translations is really easy (login required!): https://them.es/themes/support-theme/docs

It would be great to have your interest and we’re confident that you and your Community will love working with this Theme.

Feel free to ask any (presale) questions in the comments section below.

We’re keeping a good pace and just released v1.9.0 of our free and v1.5.0 v1.5.1 of our premium billing and project management plugin for WordPress.

Finally a highly requested feature – the ability to send invoices and quotes as email attachments via a webform – has been implemented in the Pro version. Default values like email subject and email body can be defined globally. But it’s also possible to add a personal touch to the email and change the values individually per post.

As a consequence this makes sharelinks more or less obsolete and we decided to deprecate this feature without hard feelings. Password protected sharelinks lacked some important abilities (like downloading PDFs) and according to our knowledge and feedback from the community they were not used very often. In the end the email webforms are more convenient and even more secure because no passwords need to be sent to customers in cleartext anymore.

Existing links will continue to work for the time being but it will not be possible to create new sharelinks anymore.

Incorporating e-invoices is another important milestone in this release. Although PDF invoices are just fine if both contracting parties agreed on accepting them, the future belongs to transmitting documents in an electronic data interchange format. Heads up: E-invoices may even be required by law in your country sooner or later in a B2B or B2G context…

That’s why Billy invoices can now also be generated in the UBL XML format which is an open standard for electronic business documents. This feature is optional, needs to be explicitly enabled in the Customizer and has been marked as “beta”. Your help in testing the implementation is more than welcome.

Please be informed that an upgrade to at least WordPress v6.5 is mandatory if you want to use all new features as we developed with state-of-the-art technology like the Interactivity API to give you the look and feel you deserve. Falling back to an old approach was a no go. So if you’re still on an old WordPress version you can update the plugin but won’t be able to benefit from some of the cool new stuff.

Meanwhile WordPress is already in the 6.6 prerelease phase and since we thoroughly tested Billy with the current beta version, no compatibility issues are expected when WordPress 6.6 gets released in less than a month.

Billy – our Billing suite for WordPress – has received some useful updates in the latest release and even comes with new premium features in the Pro version.

Quote numbers can now be auto-incremented, similar to invoices. This is optional and the old default “Ymd” number format is still available. An useful addition to invoice and quote number prefixes are the placeholder variables {YEAR}, {MONTH} and {DAY} which means that you are now able to define number formats like INV-2024-05-13-12345678910 or similar.

A highly requested feature was having a fully customizable PDF footer layout. That’s why a reusable block pattern, similar to the PDF header, has been added in the block editor.

In addition, the PDF table output has been improved and inner borders are now enabled by default. Note that in the Pro version the PDF styles (of the table design and even more) can still be modified using custom CSS.

Speaking about the Billy Pro add-on. This release has received a major upgrade with two completely new enhancements and is available for all existing customers, having a lifetime license, with no additional costs. And best of all, the price for new users has not been raised.

After you update the plugin you’ll get cool project management features like checklists in Kanban-style boards and a simple time tracking tool.

By ensuring a smooth workflow and using a modular approach with full WordPress block editor compatibility, the editing experience should be an easy ride.

With the addition of two new Billy admin pages, the time had come to restructure and combine all pages in a single dashboard menu in order to keep the WordPress admin sidebar tidy.

An important advice as this can’t be said often enough: Your WordPress data will never leave your server and guarding against data corruption, breach or loss should be a matter of course. That’s even more important after Billy’s evolvement to a full project management suite.

First of all it’s vital to care about your site’s health and keep your system up-to-date. In addition a proper backup strategy should not be neglected – and in this case the WordPress ecosystem can provide lots of mature backup and restoration solutions that get the job done easily.

When was the last time you reviewed and improved this process?

Many thanks 👋 to the engaged community for the valuable feedback that initiated the work on some of these features und bug fixes. There are still some requests and ideas in the pipeline, so stay tuned for more!

Our WordPress invoicing plugin Billy and its companion Billy Pro have been refactored and finally make use of the Block API v2, resulting in a lighter DOM tree and an overall improved editor load time. Full backwards compatibility has been considered but if you’re using Billy Pro, it’s strongly advised to keep both plugins in sync and update each to the latest version.

In addition, the Pro add-on received new features for contacts. The contact selector in the post template has been rebuilt with an improved combobox selector and should help you finding the right contact quicker and easier. Furthermore it’s possible to upload a photo or logo to contacts for better identification.

In the edit post screen, invoices and quotes with status “overdue” and “pending” now show an eye-catching icon, indicating that the due date has been passed.

All in all we’re confident that this new release makes Billy (Pro) one of the best invoicing products currently available on the market – in particular for freelancers and small companies that are looking for a simple and uncomplicated solution with zero dependencies.

Did you know that the integration of this plugin in an existing WordPress website is a no-brainer and that you have total privacy control over your invoicing as no data every leaves the server or is shared with third-parties?