This is the sixth round of my end of the year round up of SomeWhat Creative’s Monthly HandPicked Goodies for Designers & Developers roundup, I really like these type of roundups as I like to research what’s new for Web Designers and Developers and both showcase them to you and remember these for myself. So Today’s post I will be focusing on showing all lovers of WordPress what new WordPress plugins both free and paid that been released during this year.

I would like to say that not every WordPress plugins that been added in each of the monthly roundups will be featured today… so lets start.

January

Super Custom CSS – Free Plugin

Super Custom CSS is a WordPress Plugin that allows to add custom CSS styles to override Plugin and Theme default styles. This plugin is built to allow administrators who would like to add their own CSS to their WordPress website.

Event WP – Free Plugin

Event WP is very useful WordPress Event Plugin. as it is easy to install and use and the Event plugin it self allows you to create an event quickly, you can set start and end time of an event. Besides that, Event WP also provide a widget that display all of event on website for you. Especially, this WordPress Event Plugin can count down time of event, therefore events can be easier to manage and perform. We will update this plugin to add more interesting features to it.

Social Pug – Free Plugin

With Social Plug plugin you can add social share buttons to your website to increase the interaction on your website. Place the buttons before and after the post content or have them follow your readers in the form of a floating sidebar.

Pixel Knowledge Base WordPress plugin allows you to create a simple, no-fuss knowledge base that reduces your inbound customer contacts instantly.

Hashtag WP brings hashtags to WordPress. Tags are built into WordPress and are used in a way. Hashtag WP makes using tags differently. You can now tag your post while writing it using hashtags that will be converted to tags when published.

Hashtags are displayed in-content and are ready to be clicked, compared to tags that are seperate from the post and often too far to generate a click. A widget is also included to show hashtags in the sidebar. It’s using the same styling as original tag cloud widget, so it will already work in every themes.

BetPress is a WordPress plugin that allow your users to place betting slips on sports events and compete against each others. In other words BetPress simulates the very basic functionality of a bookmaker’s website (like bwin, bet365, betfair etc) with the main differences that in the BetPress plugin bets are placed with points instead of real money and there are leaderboards.

February

Hugh – Free Plugin

Say hello to Hugh, first he is a widget and secondly Hugh will let your visitors change the color scheme of your website, and then it will let them push out their new color scheme to everyone else who happens to be viewing your site at that time. There is a history of recent colors, and visitors can even get into ‘color battles’ fighting over who gets to determine the color scheme.

WP JobHunt is an another handy product offering a complete job portal. It is a super easy-to-install & run plugin that has plenty of options. It offers User role, candidate and employer role separately.

Contact Form 7 Database is a plugin for WordPress allows you save all submitted from contact form 7 to database and display in Contact > Database menu, and you can view it anytime. This plugin have powerful options and I’m sure you will like it.

March

Restrict Password by Role – Free Plugin

If you have a WordPress website with multiple users and several User Roles defined, and you wish to prevent certain User Roles from altering their passwords, then this plugin is for you.

Retro Game Emulator – Free Plugin

Adds an NES player on your site via a shortcode [nes] in any post or page. Note that no roms are included with this plugin. You’ll need to upload them yourself on the settings page for them to be available to play.

Musli Social  Links – Free Plugin

Musli Social Links is user friendly WordPress plugin created to help you add social media icons to your webpage. It have no limits in number of links (icons) you can add and manage. It’s easy to use and very intuitive, but also offers pretty nice set of themes and customisation options.

The WooCommerce Vehicle Parts Finder – Year/Make/Model/Engine/Category/Keyword” is one of the best plugin for finding Vehicles or Vehicle Parts on the website based on Year/Make/Model/Engine/Category/Keyword. The plugin provides very easy interface to use for Admin. Admin can add filter widget anywhere on the website using either widget section or shortcode.

Off Page SEO plugin is a plugin developed to help you get better rankings and get control over your off-page SEO activities! You don’t need to use external service for getting your rankings or writing backlinks to your Excel Sheet any more. From now on, you can simply use your WordPress!

Frontend User Pro is an easy to use, feature rich, Drag and Drop WordPress Frontend Profile Manager + Form Builder that will enable you to create beautiful forms, login, register pages in minutes.

Use Support Case plugin to track and manage services related problems reported by your users or customers on your website.

April

Spambot – Free Plugin

Blocks spam signups by adding an invisible field to your registration and login forms, and switching its id with the real username or email form field.When spam bots blindly fill the “required” fake field in, WP will redirect them to an error message and not let them register or login.

deAdblocker – Free Plugin

The plugin detects the use of adblock and automatically creates banner notification asking users to turn it off.The text in the banner can be easily adjusted, so that you may demystify the side-effects of adblock use for the visitors.

Vulnerable Plugin Checker – Free Plugin

This plugin automatically checks installed plugins for known vulnerabilities utilizing WPScan’s API and provides optional email alerts.

Cornerstone is a 100% front-end WordPress page builder that will change the way you create pages. Gone are the days of having to click back and forth between a clunky admin panel and your site. Now you can see all of your work as you build the page, bringing fun back into the creative process.

Magic Shortcodes Builder is a very unique and powerful “Shortcode Builder”. You can easily create shortcodes from any HTML/CSS/JS or PHP code. You can also style and configure existing shortocdes. All Shortcodes are dynamically generated and you can easily add them to post.

Material Dashboard Theme – Premium Plugin $18

Custom WordPress Admin bar, menu, icons, colors and login page with material design style.

Theia – Premium Plugin $20

Theia Upload Cleaner is a plugin that deep-scans your entire database to check for any files that are not referenced any more in any page, post, 3rd-party plugin or the media library. Most of these files are images and their associated thumbnails. Before a clean-up, a backup is always made so that you can safely check your website to ensure everything is working properly.

May

Version Press – Free Plugin

VersionPress is a free and open source version control plugin for WordPress built on Git, where you can undo changes, create staging sites, merge databases.

Simply update your sites with confidence.

WPSiteSync for Content – Free Plugin

WPSiteSync for Content is a tool that allows you to synchronise content between WordPress installs. This allows you to have a development or staging site where you can create content and have it approved, then synchronise that content to another live install. When Syncing content, all meta data, attachments, taxonomy and other information for the the Content is moved.

Shopify eCommerce – Free Plugin

The most powerful way to sell products on your WordPress website—display products, add a shopping cart, and a secure checkout.

Let’s Review – Premium Plugin $22

Let’s Review is a WordPress review plugin that adds a beautiful responsive and modern review boxes to your posts. Let’s review is powerful but ridiculously easy to use, thanks to a logical and well designed backend system.

Inside you will find lots of illustrated options and speedy drag and drop options that allow you to add unlimited criterias, positives and negatives.

And you can even monetize your reviews thanks to the ability of adding unlimited modern affiliate buttons with unique animations to your reviews.

The 360 Virtual Tour WP is a WordPress plugin for displaying 360 degree virtual tours directly in the Browser. Now there is no need to segregate the 6 side of panoramic photo. Using 360 Virtual Tour WP you can use just One 360×180 panoramic photo for making a virtual tour.

360 Virtual Tour WP is simple to use, you just need to paste shortcodes and change panoramic photo URL.

June

Elementor Page Builder – Free Plugin

Elementor is a drag and drop frontend page builder that gives you the power to design stunning page designs in an intuitive & lightweight interface. The developers of Elementor set out to create a unique page builder, that offers 3 features we consider crucial, and which no other page builder such as instant drag & drop, advanced design effects and responsive design.

Compact MCE – Free Plugin

A simple plugin that reorganize your WordPress editor TinyMCE controls. We removed WordPress’s default editor useless controls and added more useful controls.

The Advance Extra Cost for WooCommerce allow store owners to add extra fixed charges/cost to the customers order based on different conditions. You can configure product specific, category specific, country specific or order amount specific extra charges and it will be applicable to entire order. The charges will be added to the cart total.

Offline Writer – Premium Plugin $30

Offline Writer lets you easily generates posts based on the documents created with your favorite desktop applications.

WP Sortable – Premium Plugin $15

WP Sortable is a unique plugin for reordering every aspect of your WordPress site from the admin point of view.

This plugin isn’t focused only on post such as Posts, Pages, WooCommerce products, Taxonomies such as Tags and Categories but admin menu as well. Just click on the menu item and drag it.

DW TinyMCE Imgur Upload – Premium Plugin $17

DW Tinymce Imgur Upload is a plugin, which helps you directly upload the image you want to the WordPress Editor with just one click.

So instead of uploading your images to a third party such as imgur.com then pasting the image’s URL to the WordPress Editor, now with this awesome plugin all you will have to do is to press Imgur Icon, choose the photo you like.

July

Live Vote – Free Plugin

Live Vote is a global sentiment platform that gathers consumer sentiment in an agile environment while bringing your content to life.

Maintenance Mode – Free Plugin

Maintenance mode is a plugin for coming soon style messages. You can still work with your website while users get the “coming soon” message. You just enable it from your dashboard and you can safely work on developing your website.

Giftable for WooCommerce – Free Plugin

This WooCommerce plugin enables you to offer free gifts to your customers on checkout, depending on any number of conditions you set up.

WP Coupons – Premium Plugin from $34 to $175

WP Coupons was developed by affiliate marketers for affiliate marketers to help increase your CTR and conversions!

LoftBuilder is a drag & drop WordPress page builder. Where you can build responsive layouts, add text and media, and create engaging animations and interactions. Build your site page in minutes. Without coding.

Massive Addons for Visual Composer – Collections Pack is the most complete extensions package. Over 480 presets, more then 18 shortcodes & additions, easy to use.

August

WordPress Compare – Free Plugin

Use this plugin to create custom post types which can be compared against each other by the end users.

FB Page Feed – Free Plugin

Add Facebook Page Feed to your website to enhance the experience of your website’s visitors. Facebook Page Feed provides immediate access to your Facebook page

WP Suite Worker – Free Plugin

This is an easy to use WordPress Monitoring, Security and Backup plugin. It’s a all-in-one solution for everyday WordPress users.

WP Fancy Title Plugin – Premium Plugin $16

WP Fancy Title Plugin is a very simple and light weight WordPress plugin for any type of WordPress sites. It will allow you to animate your WordPress site title and change site title when you are in other tab. It will help you to keep users much time in your site what can be a good idea for your site SEO. It’s very easy to use and have lot’s of multiple features for site title. We will recommend you to use this plugin.

Reader View – Premium Plugin $16

Reader View provides the best reading experience with changing font typeface, font size, interface colors (light/dark) based on your user preferences. Reader View contains fast, simple and powerful interface. You can integrate it with your blog easily without changing any settings. Only step to run it is activating the plugin. Apart from the content you want to read, anything else is away from you.

Lana Editor – Premium Plugin $20

Lana Editor is a unique drag and drop page builder optimised for bootstrap.

Instant Domain Checker – Premium Plugin $16

Instant Domain Checkeris a WordPress plugin which “allows you to easily check” the domain name availability from your wordpress site instantly.Find domain names as fast as you can type. Search .com and other extensions in real time. Suggestions and names for sale appear immediately.Instant Domain Checker is made with AJAX and easily to use with Shortcode or Widget also integrated with WHMCS & WooCommerce

September

Live CSS – Free Plugin

This WordPress plugin allows you to edit CSS and LESS with auto-complete live on the front-end and on any page using this easy to use plugin. All changes are saved and if LESS is present it will be compiled automatically.

WooSocial – Free Plugin

Make your online store a thriving social community and increase exposure of your products with this new add-on for WooCommerce.

WooSocial been created to encourage customers to like products and connect with friends to view their activity; all within your online store. Customers will be given a user profiles to keep track of the products they love and check out the things their friends are loving, too.

WP Hosting Performance Check – Free Plugin

This plugin records the performance of your hosting server, display graphs of the server response, and end user web page load speeds.

Divi 3.0 – Premium Plugin

Divi 3.0 is here, a Visual Page Builder for WordPress that is so ridiculously fast,  it’s easy to use you’ll think it’s magic.

MotoPress Demo Builder – Premium Plugin $21

MotoPress Demo Builder is an all-in-one plugin to easily build an effective demo of any WordPress product. Whatever it’s a plugin, theme or any other item to present.

This plugin allows you to do it both ways, the frontend and the backend. It’s easily create memorable demos to impress the visitors and provide access to the product backend to give users freedom of customisation test-drive.

WordPress Blog to PDF Plugin – Premium Plugin $20

WordPress Blog to PDF Plugin can generate and export WordPress Blogs/Posts into a PDF Doc, it can also export the Blogs/Posts Revisions into the PDF.

October

RocketBolt for WordPress – Free Plugin

A zero-coding install of RocketBolt’s contact tracking service into WordPress websites.

Themify Builder Lite – Free Plugin

Build responsive layouts that work for desktop, tablets, and mobile using intuitive “what you see is what you get” drag & drop framework

WP-Classified – Premium Plugin $29

WordPress Classified plugin allows you to add the ad posting functionality for your site.You can add multiple types which suites your business and also add unlimited categories for each type. The plugin allows you to add unlimitted and different type of custom fields for each ad type.

Pretty Emails – Premium Plugin $22

WordPress Pretty Emails is an advanced and highly extend-able email template system for WordPress, There are 4 email template by default on the plugin so you can select your desired template.

Material – Premium Plugin $22

Material Admin is most advanced and elegant White Label WordPress Admin Theme in marketplace. Along with White Label Branding features, It comes with 100 Elegant themes and gives you an option to Create your own custom theme. You can also control full appearance of Admin Menu, Top Bar, Buttons, Content Boxes, Typography, Forms, Text and background colors, logo and so on…

WP Offline First  – Premium Plugin $15

The WordPress plugin that help you control the content your users see, even when they are offline. It’s time to start thinking Offline First.

November

Woo Tuner – Free Plugin

Awesome WooCommerce addon, that allows you to customize woocommerce templates/layouts with no coding skills!

YES – Premium Plugin $20

YES (Your Extension of Security) is a plugin that aims to ensure better protection of your site by being Efficient, robust, versatile, yet simple to configure.YES works to lock down WordPress, fix common holes, stop automated attacks and strengthen user credentials.

WordPress Book a Table – Premium Plugin $24

Book a Table is easy way to get online restaurant bookings from your website. It is best for cafe & restaurants. You can add simple online booking system to your website.

Watool for WP – Premium Plugin $28

This plug-in will allow users with disabilities to adjust font size, to modify the background and font color, to enhance or reverse the contrast, to change the font type, to use a ruler or enlarge words spacing in order to improve text reading.

December

WP Offline Fallback – Free Plugin

This plugin can help you give your clients the necessary contact information when they lose the internet. By using the service worker to handle an offline situation. This plugin will save offline messages to the customer’s device when they do not have internet access, and this message will be displayed.

Booklet – Free Plugin

Booklet Booking System is a very simple booking system plugin. With this plugin, you add a simple booking form for or anything to reserve for your customers. It has very nice option panel to add a title, subtitle, and email for the form.

It can be used in your sites post and pages with very simple WordPress shortcode. Hotel reservation confirm by user e-mail address.

DevMatic – Free Plugin

DevMatic plugin provides a live preview of the page you are working with onto your device without losing the touch and feel of a mobile phone

Font Organizer – Free Plugin

Font Organizer is the complete solution for font implementation including uploading custom fonts and using google fonts in WordPress websites.

Agree/Disagree Interactive Voting – Premium Plugin $20

Sometimes our blog posts can stir up interest in our readers and there are sides to take. With this agree/disagree wordpress plugin it will allow your readers to either agree/disagree with the blog post and prompt them to enter their email address and a comment if they would like to add one.

WordPress Broken Image Verifier  – Premium Plugin $20

Scans all WordPress Posts and Pages for broken images