Discover a selection of standout WordPress plugins and themes released in December 2025.

This month’s roundup is split into two sections. First, we highlight a carefully curated mix of free and premium plugins.

Including plugins that give site owners and agencies full visibility into updates across WordPress core, plugins, and themes; an SMTP plugin designed to fix email delivery problems and keep WordPress emails out of spam. A plugin that safely helps troubleshoot WordPress sites while minimizing risk when handing them over to clients or non-technical users;and a Bus and Train Booking system for WordPress and WooCommerce, offering a flexible way to manage routes, schedules, seat layouts, and pricing directly from WordPress.

Next, we explore a diverse range of WordPress themes, from clean business templates and modern blog layouts to Gutenberg-ready designs and flexible WooCommerce solutions. Whether you’re building your own website or working on a client project, these themes offer professional layouts with strong customization options.

Let’s dive in.

Plugins – Free & Premium

1. Site Update Logger

Site Update Logger provides site owners and agencies with complete visibility into update activity across WordPress core, plugins, and themes. It tracks version changes, installations and removals, activations, deactivations, and theme switches, while also recording PHP errors that occur during update processes.

All logs are neatly organized by month, downloadable for record keeping, and can be annotated with custom notes. This makes it easy to maintain a clear, searchable, and shareable audit trail of every change made to a WordPress site.

Price: Free

2. Authority Mailer SMTP

Authority Mailer SMTP is a WordPress SMTP plugin built to fix email delivery issues and prevent WordPress emails from landing in spam.

By default, WordPress relies on PHP mail, which is unreliable and often blocked by hosting providers. Authority Mailer SMTP replaces PHP mail with secure SMTP or API-based delivery, ensuring emails from WordPress core, WooCommerce, contact forms, and membership plugins reach inboxes consistently.

Whether you run a WooCommerce store, a membership site, or a business website, the plugin helps ensure important notifications and transactional emails are delivered without fail. Lightweight and purpose-driven, Authority Mailer SMTP focuses on reliable email delivery without the unnecessary bloat found in many all-in-one email plugins.

Price: Free

3. Quill CRM

Quill CRM is a comprehensive customer relationship management solution built natively for WordPress. It allows you to manage contacts, track deals through customizable pipelines, automate workflows with powerful automation tools, and run email and SMS campaigns directly from your WordPress dashboard.

With built-in reporting and insights, Quill CRM helps you monitor performance, understand customer behavior, and make informed business decisions without relying on external platforms.

Price: Free

4. BrenWP Client Safe Mode

BrenWP Client Safe Mode helps you troubleshoot WordPress sites safely while reducing risk when handing a site over to clients or non-technical users.

Safe Mode works on a per-user basis and applies only to the currently logged-in user who enables it. Other users and site visitors remain completely unaffected, ensuring the live site continues to function normally.

Price: Free

5. Qunzo Payment Gateway Extension for WooCommerce

Qunzo Payment Gateway Extension is a WooCommerce plugin that enables merchants to integrate a secure and reliable payment system into their WordPress stores. Designed specifically for WooCommerce, Qunzo makes it simple and safe to accept payments from your customers, ensuring a seamless checkout experience.

Price: $29.00

6. Video Gallery for WooCommerce

The Video Gallery for WooCommerce plugin is an ideal solution for businesses looking to enhance product pages with engaging video content. With this powerful plugin, adding videos from your WordPress library is quick and easy, and they are showcased beautifully on your product pages.

The plugin offers a range of customization options, including the ability to reposition videos, change video icons and colors to match your brand, and control playback settings such as autoplay, sound, and looping. You can also choose to show or hide video controls for a tailored viewing experience.

Please note: WooCommerce must be activated for this plugin to function.

Price: From $49.00

7. BricksSync

BricksSync ensures your Bricks templates, settings, and components stay fully synchronized.

Convert them into clean, Git-friendly JSON for version control and easy migrations—or transfer them directly from another site using built-in Direct Transfers.

Reliable, transparent, and designed for every type of Bricks user, BricksSync simplifies workflow and keeps your projects perfectly aligned.

Price: From $99.00 per year

8. Seat Reservation

Seat Reservation is a Bus and Train Booking for WordPress and WooCommerce is a powerful, flexible ticket booking system that lets you manage buses, trains, routes, schedules, seat layouts, and pricing rules directly within WordPress.

Fully integrated with WooCommerce, the plugin offers passengers a seamless seat selection and checkout experience, while giving administrators complete control over bookings and operations.

Price: $29.00

Themes – Free & Premium

1. Sales Landing Page

Sales Landing Page is a powerful, conversion driven theme designed to help businesses create professional, high-impact landing pages that turn visitors into customers.

Featuring clean layouts, bold visuals, and strategically optimized content sections, the theme provides everything needed to promote products, services, offers and campaigns.

It also includes pre-designed landing page templates along with hero sections featuring strong calls to action, offer highlights, service blocks, pricing tables, testimonials, feature showcases, FAQs, and contact forms. Each section is crafted to meet modern sales page standards and guide users toward conversion.

The theme also offers lead-generation-focused layouts, making it ideal for sales funnels, product launches, marketing campaigns, and conversion-optimized landing pages. Fully compatible with Elementor, Gutenberg, WooCommerce, and popular marketing plugins, Sales Landing Page allows complete customization of colors, typography, layouts, and button styles.

Price: Free

2. h4x0r

h4x0r is a hacker-inspired WordPress theme featuring a terminal-style aesthetic built for a bold, tech-focused presence. It comes with multiple color schemes, including Cyberpunk, Dracula, and Solarized Dark, allowing you to switch styles with ease.

The theme uses carefully selected monospace fonts such as Fira Code, JetBrains Mono, and Source Code Pro, reinforcing its authentic command-line look while maintaining readability across layouts.

Price: Free

3. Demolition Contractor

Demolition Contractor is a modern, multipurpose WordPress theme designed for demolition specialists, construction companies, and industrial service providers.

The theme features an eye-catching homepage banner that creates a strong first impression, along with interactive and elegantly animated sections to showcase services, highlight completed projects, and present your expertise. A built-in testimonials area helps build credibility, while the dedicated team section introduces your professionals in a polished way.

Strategically placed call-to-action buttons guide visitors toward bookings, quote requests, or consultations, helping improve conversions naturally. Both developers and beginners can take advantage of the theme’s extensive customization options, allowing you to adjust layouts, colors, typography, and shortcodes without working with complex code. The Bootstrap-based framework ensures flexibility, stability, and ease of customization.

With sophisticated animations and premium design elements, Demolition Contractor enhances your brand presence while maintaining a clean, professional aesthetic suited for industrial businesses.

Price: Free

4. CV Resume Portfolio

CV Resume Portfolio is a clean, modern, and professional free WordPress theme built for individuals looking to establish a strong personal presence online.

Ideal for job seekers, designers, developers, freelancers, consultants, and creative professionals, the theme offers a well-structured layout to showcase skills, experience, and accomplishments clearly and effectively.

With simple customization options, you can easily adjust colors, typography, and content to reflect your personal brand. The theme includes dedicated sections for About Me, Education, Experience, Skills, Portfolio, and Contact details, helping you present everything employers and potential clients want to see at a glance.

Drag-and-drop editing, clean formatting, and compatibility with popular WordPress plugins ensure flexibility, ease of use, and a smooth editing experience for users of all skill levels.

Price: Free

5. Saasive

Saasive is a modern WordPress theme designed for SaaS products, tech startups, and digital businesses. It comes with predefined web elements that make it easy to build a professional website tailored to your product or service.

The theme is highly customizable and includes a powerful admin panel, allowing users of any skill level to create a polished, high-quality website. With flexible layout options, design controls, and carefully crafted components, Saasive helps deliver a strong and professional visual presence.

Saasive features a fully responsive layout that adapts seamlessly across all screen sizes, from desktop monitors to tablets and mobile devices, ensuring a consistent experience on every platform.

Price: $29.00

6. Gardeno

Gardeno is a modern, fully responsive WordPress theme crafted for gardening, landscaping, lawn care, and outdoor service businesses.

With powerful features, flexible layouts, and easy customization options, Gardeno helps your website look professional, load quickly, and convert visitors into customers.

Its fresh design, balanced typography, and nature-inspired aesthetics set it apart, offering more than just a gardening template — it’s a complete digital solution for businesses aiming to grow online as beautifully as their gardens thrive offline.

Whether you specialize in landscaping, garden maintenance, or eco-friendly services, Gardeno provides a visually appealing, highly functional, and easy-to-manage foundation for your website.

Price: $15.00

7. Cruv

Cruv is a modern, stylish, and highly flexible WordPress theme designed for creative agencies, freelancers, designers, and portfolio-focused professionals. With its striking visuals, clean design, and smooth interactions, Cruv helps you create an online presence that truly showcases your creativity.

Fully compatible with Elementor, featuring one-click demo import and extensive customization options, Cruv makes building your site simple—no coding required. Highlight projects, services, team members, and your brand identity with a polished, professional presentation. Its lightweight framework, responsive layout, and SEO-friendly structure ensure your portfolio looks stunning and performs flawlessly on every device.

Whether showcasing your best work or elevating your agency’s brand, Cruv provides the perfect digital canvas to make an impact.

Price: $13.00

8. PowerFlow

PowerFlow is a premium, dynamic WordPress theme designed for gyms, fitness centers, yoga studios, personal trainers, and wellness brands. Built entirely with Elementor, it allows you to create stunning pages visually, without any coding.

Created by an elite ThemeForest author with over 10 years of experience, PowerFlow combines modern design, high performance, and intuitive customization. Featuring energetic hero sections, fitness program showcases, class schedules, trainer profiles, pricing tables, and membership forms, it provides everything you need to launch a professional fitness website quickly and effortlessly.

Price: $19.00