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It’s the first Wednesday of the new month and you know what time it is, It’s time for us once again to see what were some of the best free and paid for plugins and themes that you could find though the whole month of March.

Below for today’s WordPress Wednesday round up you will see what were some of the best plugins and themes that people have used to either build up or refresh an already existing WordPress site for either ourselves or for a client.

In this month’s plugins roundup you will find 10 free and premium plugins that does things like cleaning up unused, orphanded and duplicated data in your WordPress, a security plugin that will “bulletproof” your site, a plugin that you can create Android Apps for any exisiting WordPress powered site to a easy product documentation builder

and the second part of this roundup are the themes, the themes roundup you will find are 10 of the best themes that really suits any occasion such as themes that are great for publishers who want readers, a two column theme for bloggers to a fully customisable theme for WooCommerce users plus many other great themes right below (under the plugin roundup!)

Plugins – Free & Premium

1. WP-Sweep – Free

WP-Sweep

The new and free WP-Sweep uses WordPress delete functions, such as wp_delete_post_revision(), delete_post_meta(), wp_delete_comment(), etc .to clean up unused, orphaned and duplicated data in your WordPress. This plugin also optimises your database tables. to clean up the database.

2. Swifty Security Lite – Free

swift-security

Swift Security is an incredible WordPress security plugin, which turns your WordPress site into a secure, “bulletproof” website, without modification of any of your files or directory structure. The lite version of this plugin Hide the WordPress backend, and by default the plugin changes the ‘/wp-admin’ to ‘/administrator and will also setup a basic firewall which filters malicious requests (SQL injections, XSS attempts, file inclusion) in every GET requests, you can buy the Pro version for $26 by click this awesome link

3. Easy Featured Images – Free

Easy-Featured-Images

Easy Featured Images allows you to assign featured images to posts much more efficiently, especially if you have a number of posts to go through. Normally you have to visit the edit page of each post, launch the media window and upload/assign the image. With the plugin enabled you can do this from the post list screen. Everything works via AJAX so images are assigned instantly, without having to wait for pages to load. It uses the regular WordPress media box making the plugin 100% WordPress awesome.

4. CM On Demand Search and Replace – Free

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The CM On demand search and replace tool for WordPress allows you to easily change the content of posts, pages, comments, titles and excerpts just before they are displayed on the front end, without making changes in the WordPress database. This is a real-time find and replace tool that applies any number of pre-defined rules after a page is generated by WordPress, but before it is sent to a user’s browser. This creates dynamic rules that replace html and text generated by your theme and plugins before a page is delivered to a user’s browser.

5. WappPress – Free

WappPress

Wapppress is an easy to use and affordable WordPress Plugin to create Android Apps for any existing WordPress Website. It does not require any coding skills, you can design and customise your app with your already developed WordPress skills. WappPress is the easiest and the most cost-efficient way to build a customized mobile app for any WordPress website. It has a preview screen where you can see how your Android App would look in real. It has very easy to use options. Its simple and user friendly.

6. Easy Product Documentation Builder – Premium $21

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Easy Product Documentation Builder for WordPress is an application that helps present any product documentation well organises and easy for users to find the information they need. The plugin provides all typical for WordPress Add page/post content features.

FYou can Use Visual composer or any other page builder to prepare the pages from documentation you are going to present.The majority of Easy Product Documentation Builder for WordPress is that equip the product documentation with menu for easy and fast access to every particular part from the manual.

The most important thing is that you can customize the presentation style (menu position, colors, font styles), options available and functionality with easy on/off options.When install Easy Product Documentation Builder for WordPress you will get Easy Documentation Builder, included at your WordPress Settings list.

And new component will be added at your WordPress Dashboard panel, named Easy Docs. From these two places you can set the plugin work on your taste and manage the text content presented with it.

7. HBook – Premium $22

HBook

HBook is a plugin that will allow you to easily enable online reservation on your WordPress website. This plugin is perfectly suited for anybody owning an accommodation business (hotel, B&B, holiday apartment, campsite…) . Thanks to HBook you will be able to add availability calendars, table rates and booking forms on your website in seconds!

8. Scroll Popup – Premium $19

scroll-popups

Scroll Popup allows you to slide popups from all four corners of your website. You can choose in which corner you would like the popup to appear and also the direction you would like the popup to slide from. Display just about any type of content within popups: banners, adsense, contact forms, images, videos, shortcodes, newsletter forms, and anything WordPress editor allows.

9. WordPress Admin Theme – Premium $14

WordPress-Admin-Theme

WordPress Admin Theme (WAT) is a WordPress plugin to customize the entire look of your WordPress admin section and you can customize most of the admin elements as your wish.WAT comes with 43 in-built color themes which will help you to get started quickly on customization. WAT has Simple to use GUI to manage elements of the WordPress admin section.

10. Analytics Dashboard – Premium $20

Analytics-Dashboard

Analytics Dashboard displays in one place all essential metrics and statistics of your WordPress website, Twitter Profile and Facebook Fan Page. It allows you to monitor posts & comments statistics, authors activity, social media popularity and others.

Themes – Free & Premium

1. Author – Free

Author

The Author WordPress theme has been designed for publishers who want readers. That’s why Author is fast, responsive, accessibility-ready, and optimally designed for reading. All scripts and stylesheets are minified, concatenated, and conditionally loaded to maximize performance. The layout adaptsfluidly to all screen sizes to enhance usability. As one of few accessibility-ready themes, it performs well for users with wide ranges of disabilities. Lastly, based on the ancient Van de Graaf canon, Author is optimally designed for reading. Author is the theme your content deserves.

2. Maskitto Light – Free

maskitto-light

The Maskitto Light theme is a light weight clean and simple WordPress theme for everyday use. Bunch of useful features like, responsive design, united colour schemes, slider with lots of options, fast to learn administration panel layout, plus, clean and easy visual design and it’s all free.

3. Lovecraft – Free

lovecraft

Lovecraft is a beautiful two-column theme for bloggers. It features a responsive design, great typography, a full-width header image (which is replaced with the post thumbnail on single posts/pages), custom accent color support, custom logo support, editor style support, a Flickr widget, recent posts and recent comments widgets with thumbnails, and a full-width template. Included translations: Swedish/svenska.

4. Central – Free

central

Central is a sublime and unconventional theme, designed for dreamers – and doers all at once. This flexible theme will create an elegant bridge between your ideas and your readers, highlighting the content of your website delicately and unobtrusively. Thus, if you are a creative thinker, a photographer, for instance, who prefers to examine the world through camera lens, or a writer, who wishes their website to be an extension of their stories,

Central is definitely a theme for you. Apart from that, this theme is suited for Telephone networks, Clothing Stores, News Services, Arts Agencies, News Agencies, Industry reports, News Magazine, Industry news, Media news, Reviews & opinion, Movie reviews.

5. LeatherDiary – Free

leatherdiary

LeatherDiary is an easily customisable WordPress multipurpose theme. It is a fully responsive theme that allows for easy viewing on any device. LeatherDiary theme offers 7 pre-defined color schemes, 220 Google fonts, Theme Options Panel for easy adaptation to your needs, custom homepage widget for displaying the latest posts from the selected category, 2 menu areas, social networking icons, custom landing page template, theme documentation and much more.This also supports the popular plugins of WooCommerce and Breadcrumb NavXT

6. LifeMag – Premium $43

lifemag

Lifemag is a simple yet elegant, multipurpose theme. Following the new trends in design, this is an eye-catching and straightforward theme with flat design, 5 color presets, neat typography, smooth navigation and well-structured layout. Lifemag would be a perfect choice for any news, newspaper, magazine, publishing or review website and furthermore with this amazing theme is integrated with many plugins with lots of features, custom widgets, unlimited color schemes, Slider Resolution with smooth transition effects, Mega Menu with multiple column styles and advanced widgets… You are free to control this theme in order to make your store more friendly and adorable for your customers..

7. Elise – Premium $58

elise

Elise is a modern, fully responsive multi-purpose WordPress Theme. Designed with stunning attention to detail, suited for all kind websites – business, corporate, product, shop, creative, portfolio, photography, blog and many more… Build with modern tools and plenty of options which allows you to create fanstatic websites in minutes.

8. Share It – Premium $48

Share-It

Share It is a creative timeline is an elegant and progressive WordPress timeline theme. It is a perfect reel for your blog content, personal resume, corporate history timeline, photography, wedding, travel, gaming, culinary or musician blog.Equipped with over 300+ theme options and more than 30+ post options for customisation,

Share It is fully adjustable and very easy to work with. This probably one of the first timeline theme you can find for WordPress that allows you have full control on the customisation of the timeline boxes – you may adjust every aspect of the visual look and appearance of the boxes according to your needs and preferences. It comes with unlimited color options as well as the super trendy glass effect option for the appearance of the boxes, which makes the blog look so airy and modern.

9. Porto – Premium $58

Porto

Porto is an Ultimate WordPress and Woocommerce Theme that is extremely customisable and is easy to use and which is fully responsive. This theme is suitable for every type of business, portfolio, blog and eCommerce site and is a great as a starting point for your custom projects. Porto includes 10 homepage layouts and skins and it has huge variation to be suitable for any purpose.  Porto comes with Visual Composer that will save you tons of time when you are working on the site content, its also comes with the Master Slider that offers the capability to show images, video with captions and 3D transitions

10. iBlog – Premium $58

iBlog

iBlog is a Creative Responsive WordPress Blog Theme that is a clean, professional design and comes with modern scrolling effects, which will be a great solution for your business, portfolio, blog or any other purpose. As iBlog is a modern template it’s fully responsive and has a wide range of features and comes with popular isotope plugin.

It is very easy to customise and comes with detailed documentation and top notch support, this theme has four styles of homepage layout and other page templates you can use. With tons of layout possibilities, unlimited variations, multiple colours and a bunch of features you can create one variation in just a moment.

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WordPress Wednesday – The Best Plugins & Themes from March 2015