2025 brought a great selection of resources for designers and developers. In this sixth roundup, “What’s New for Designers & Developers from 2025,” we’re diving into some of the most useful WordPress plugins we came across—new releases and updated favorites alike.

The list includes a WordPress plugin that streamlines the creation and management of glossaries, a powerful, intuitive popup builder designed to generate leads, boost conversions, and engage visitors with smart popups, a plugin that seamlessly integrates ACF repeater fields, gallery fields, and dynamic content into Elementor, Readabler Accessibility Assistant, a plugin that enhances website accessibility with AI-driven features, and a feature-rich plugin that adds advanced blog widgets and tools to Elementor.

It also features a WordPress optimization tool that improves performance by generating manifest files for all scripts and styles your site loads, LocalDev Switcher, which lets you toggle effortlessly between production plugins and their local development versions, and an experimental AI tool from WordPress that creates custom Gutenberg blocks from simple prompts.

With 2026 on the horizon, let’s take a moment to revisit the WordPress plugins that stood out in 2025. Enjoy the look back. 

January

Lexilink – Plugin

LexiLink is a WordPress plugin that streamlines the creation and management of glossaries. Featuring an intuitive interface and customizable options, it allows you to display definitions in a stylish and user-friendly format. Whether for educational glossaries, industry-specific terms, or website FAQs, LexiLink offers the ideal solution.

Price: Free

DBlocks Finder – Plugin

DBlocks Finder is a versatile and intuitive plugin for WordPress, making it easy to locate and manage Gutenberg blocks and synced patterns across your site. Its user-friendly interface allows you to quickly navigate registered blocks and track their usage within posts and templates, streamlining your content management workflow.

Price: Free

February

AI Chatbot – Plugin

Jotform AI Chatbot enables you to create interactive, AI-driven chatbots for personalized customer support. It guides visitors through forms, boosting lead generation. Ideal for e-commerce, event organizers, and anyone looking to automate customer service—no coding required!

Price: Free

Modern Audio Player Amazon Add On – Plugin

The Amazon AddOn for Modern Audio Player enables playback of audio files stored in Amazon S3, utilizing presigned URLs. It supports both private and public buckets, allowing secure playback. By using Amazon S3 with Amazon CloudFront, you can host and deliver audio files securely.

Price: $49.00

Kivo Search – Plugin

Kivo Search is the ultimate WooCommerce search plugin, powered by advanced technology, including a fast JavaScript-based search engine and AI capabilities. It revolutionizes how customers find products, providing fast, accurate, and relevant results with every query.

Price: $99.00

March

Update Press – Plugin

UpdatePress is a powerful WordPress plugin that simplifies update notifications with a floating widget and sidebar drawer. It dynamically fetches and displays the latest updates, making it ideal for businesses managing software, SaaS, or digital products—keeping users informed without the need to scroll or search.

Price: Free

Poptics Pro – Plugin

Poptics is a powerful and intuitive WordPress popup builder designed to generate leads, boost conversions, and engage visitors with smart popups. Whether you’re collecting emails, promoting offers, or driving sales, Poptics makes it easy with drag-and-drop customization, pre-designed templates, and advanced targeting options.

Show popups to the right audience at the right time—without slowing down your site. Design eye-catching popups, control their appearance, integrate with your favorite marketing tools, and run A/B tests to optimize performance.

Price: $99.00

April

Entries Display for WPForms – Plugin

WPForms Entries Display lets you showcase WPForms submissions as beautifully styled comments on any page or post. It seamlessly connects form collection with public display, making it ideal for testimonials, reviews, feedback, and other user-generated content.

Price: Free

Repeaterly – Plugin

Repeaterly is a powerful plugin that seamlessly integrates ACF repeater fields, gallery fields, and dynamic content into Elementor—no coding required.

Price: Free

May

Readabler – Plugin

The Readabler Accessibility Assistant WordPress plugin is a powerful tool designed to enhance website accessibility with AI-driven features. Seamlessly integrated into your WordPress site, it helps ensure compliance with key accessibility standards, including WCAG 2.1, ADA, Section 508, EAA, and more.

As part of the broader Readabler platform, it enables website owners to create more inclusive digital experiences, especially for users with visual impairments, cognitive challenges, reading difficulties, and other accessibility needs. Reviewed and approved by the Readabler team, this plugin is a valuable addition to any WordPress site.

Price: Free

WPEye – Plugin

This plugin checks the security of your WordPress installation by evaluating basic rules inspired by Wazuh policies. If any issues are flagged, your WordPress site is insecure. If everything is green, while no website can be 100% guaranteed hack-proof, it will be extremely difficult to compromise.

Price: Free

Mailchimp Add-on: Chauffeur Taxi Booking System – Plugin

The Mailchimp Add-On for the Chauffeur Taxi Booking System lets you seamlessly connect your booking form with Mailchimp, automatically adding customers to your mailing list.

Price: $39.00

June

LegalPages Pro – Plugin

LegalPages Pro makes it easy to generate essential legal pages in WordPress, including GDPR, DMCA, Privacy Policy, Terms, and Cookie pages. It features admin controls, multilingual support, auto-insertion, a cookie banner, and trust badges—all in a lightweight, fast, and fully customizable package.

Price: Free

BlogKit – Plugin

BlogKit is a feature-rich WordPress plugin that enhances Elementor with advanced blog widgets and tools. Easily design beautiful blog layouts with a variety of styles, customization options, and seamless integration.

Price: Free

Duos Product Tabs – Plugin

Enhance your WooCommerce product pages with Duos Product Tabs which is a powerful plugin that lets you add fully customizable tabs for FAQs, downloadable files, image galleries, videos, Google Maps, related products, and more.

Price: $18.00

July

FYP Table of Contents – Plugin

FYP Table of Contents automatically creates a clean, customizable table of contents for your WordPress posts and pages. It enhances user experience by allowing readers to quickly jump between sections, while also boosting SEO through improved content structure and internal linking.

Price: Free

Social Publisher – Plugin

Social Publisher is a GDPR-compliant WordPress plugin that automatically publishes your posts to LinkedIn the moment they go live. Designed for agencies, editorial teams, and B2B marketers, it helps save time and maintain a professional online presence.

To ensure privacy, the plugin routes LinkedIn OAuth connections through a neutral, tracking-free proxy domain—eliminating direct browser requests to LinkedIn and preventing personal data exposure.

Price: Free

Forever Grid – Plugin

Forever Grid is a unique, endlessly scrolling grid built with GLSL and Three.js. It features smooth zooming and leverages shader-powered distortion effects to deliver a fluid, organic experience that feels both immersive and dynamic.

Price: $69.00

August

Prefetch Manifests – Plugin

Prefetch Manifests is a WordPress optimization tool that boosts performance by generating manifest files of all scripts and styles your site loads. It adds HTTP Link headers that point to these manifests, enabling Cloudflare and modern browsers to prefetch critical assets in advance. The result? Faster page loads and a smoother experience for your visitors.

Price: Free

LocalDev Switcher – Plugin

LocalDev Switcher is a plugin that allows you to seamlessly toggle between production plugins and their local development versions.

Price: Free

PassiveWP – Plugin

PassiveWP is a premium plugin tailored for affiliate marketers, especially Amazon Associates. It automates product research, content creation, link cloaking, and performance tracking. Right within the WordPress dashboard which makes it easier to grow and manage your affiliate site with minimal effort.

Price: Plans starting at $39.00 per year

September

Telex

Telex is an experimental AI tool from WordPress that generates custom Gutenberg blocks from a simple prompt. Describe the block you need, and Telex creates a plugin-ready ZIP file. It’s vibe coding—tailored for WordPress.

Seline Analytics – Plugin

Seline Analytics is a privacy-first website analytics tool built for WordPress. With no complex setup, no cookie banners, and no data exploitation, it delivers simple, trustworthy insights. A Seline Analytics account is required to start tracking.

Price: Free

Additional Variation Gallery for WooCommerce – Plugin

Additional Variation Gallery for WooCommerce lets store owners showcase a custom image gallery for each product variation—whether it’s a different color, size, or style. Instead of a single image per variation, customers see a full gallery tailored to the option they select.

Price: $10.00

PaddlePay – Plugin

PaddlePay connects WooCommerce with Paddle to offer seamless global payments, subscriptions and software licensing directly inside WordPress. Sell one-time products or recurring subscriptions, issue and validate license keys, and access detailed analytics right in your dashboard.

No more switching between platforms or managing taxes and invoices manually—Paddle handles the heavy lifting, while PaddlePay integrates it all into WooCommerce.

Price: $19.00

October

Authors List Block – Plugin

Authors is a block that lets you display a simple list of post authors for your site. This is especially useful if you’re coming over from using a classic WordPress theme and need a block that’s similar to the old wp_list_authors() template tag.

Price: Free

QA Assistant – Plugin

QA Assistant is a WordPress plugin built for Software Quality Assurance Engineers. It adds advanced Git branch management directly into the WordPress admin bar, making it simple to test different plugin versions and streamline development workflows.

Price: Free

Draggable Grid for Elementor – Plugin

Fullscale is a flexible grid system with draggable navigation and smooth scroll-based movement, complete with video support. In just minutes, you can add unique image hover effects to your website—quickly and effortlessly!

Price: $26.00

November

Comments Firewall – Plugin

Comments Firewall is a robust anti-spam plugin that delivers enterprise grade firewall protection for WordPress comments. It blocks spam before it enters your database which remove the needs for manual moderation. All while staying fully compatible with your theme and existing comment system.

Price: Free

Spark SMTP – Free

Spark SMTP is a free, lightweight, and easy-to-use WordPress plugin for sending and logging emails. Built for speed and performance, it ensures every message reaches the inbox by providing reliable SMTP connections—boosting email deliverability without slowing down your site.

Price: Free

Public Roadmap & Feedback Board – Plugin

Public Roadmap & Feedback Board is a WordPress plugin that lets you collect, manage, and display user feedback right on your website. Ideal for SaaS businesses, startups, and product teams, it helps engage users, prioritize feature requests, and publicly showcase development progress.

Price: $19.00

December

Internet Archive Wayback Machine Link Fixer – Plugin

Internet Archive Wayback Machine Link Fixer is a WordPress plugin built to combat link rot—the slow decay of web links as pages move or disappear. It automatically scans your post content, both on save and across existing posts, detects outbound links, checks the Wayback Machine for archived versions, and creates a snapshot if one doesn’t already exist.

Price: Free

Animation Builder – Plugin

Animation Builder lets you create everything from subtle transitions to complex, multi-stage scroll-triggered animations—all within a clean, modern interface.

With intuitive controls and powerful logic tools, you can build animations that react to triggers, follow defined rules, and work together seamlessly to create rich interactive experiences on your site—without the usual heavy setup or effort.

Price: Free