Today is the August edition of where we see what were the best plugins and themes in WordPress.
What you are about to see in today’s post is a list of what were some of the best WordPress plugins and WordPress themes that were released during August, In this roundup, I’ve divided them up into two categories lists, the first list showcases both free & premium plugins for WordPress and the plugins you can find below in the post includes a plugin that adds an additional layer of security to your site, a great social plugin that you allow your visitors and readers to easily share your content in different social platforms to direct checkout plugin for WooCommerce, plus a food menu and restaurant reservation plugin.
And over on the themes list, you will see another set of free and premium themes that include nearly any type of themes that you may need, themes include such as business based themes, blogging themes, multi-purpose and WooCommerce supported themes, these themes you can either use either as-is or customise them to suit your needs.
Plugins – Free & Premium
1. Cool Admin Theme
Cool Admin Theme Lite for WP is a super light-weight and clean interface for your WordPress Admin Pages. With a clean design proposal, this plugin tries to modernize the WordPress admin interface. Finally, it is also possible to make the admin interface a little more fun by activating the emojify function, which replaces the icons in the side menu with emojis.
Price: Free
2. Social Share Block
Using this Social Share Block plugin, you can let your visitors and readers to easily share your content in different social platforms. Without any coding, it will allow you to add social sharing options from your WordPress Block Editor.
Price: Free
3. Git it Write
Inspired from static site generators like Jekyll, Next.js, Gatsby.js on how content is written is markdown, Git it Write allows to publish the markdown files present in a Github repository to your WordPress site. So with this plugin, whenever the files are added, updated in the repository the WordPress post will be added, updated accordingly.
Price: Free
4. NovaSense
NovaSense adds an additional layer of security to your site by preventing known threats and attackers from sending requests to it, and reducing the amount of server load caused by spammer and DoS attacks.
Additionally, it cleans up a lot of comment spam from blocking known spammers and compromised hosts.
Price: Free
5. BeeMail
BeeMail is an All-in-one and fully-featured email marketing plugin for WordPress with or without WooCommerce. With BeeMail, at your fingers you’ll have a powerful digital marketing and sales funnels management platform right in your WordPress with all capabilities just like having the contact & list management, email marketing, form design & publishing.
BeeMail can deliver marketing emails directly using the hosting server. It’s also powered by versatile integration support to any local mailer or remote SMTP services like Amazon SES, SendGrid, Elasticemail, SparkPost, Mailgun.
Price: $49.00
6. WP Cafe
WP Cafe is a flexible and easy to use food menu and restaurant reservation WordPress plugin. It is a package of solutions to manage restaurant reservation, food ordering, restaurant menu, online ordering and more.
Price: $25.00
7. User Redirect Pro
User Redirect Pro plugin lets you target your website’s users against multiple parameters and redirect them as per your defined redirection rules.
It allows you to build the redirect logic on multiple parameters such as User Country, User Device, Browser, OS Version and you can also set redirect rules globally, which will bypass other rules and will be used as default rule if not other rule matches.
Price: $24.00
8. WooCommerce Direct Checkout
WooCommerce Direct Checkout is a plugin to allow the steps reduction inside WooCommerce checkout process. You are able to simplify the checkout process by skipping the shopping cart page. The “Add to cart” button is added in each product to redirect customers to the checkout page. This can encourage buyers to shop more and quickly. You will increase your sales reducing cart abandonment.
Price: $25.00
Themes – Free & Premium
1. Blogoholic
Blogoholic is super flexible and responsive. Its elegant design offers a user-friendly experience to the viewers. No matter the size and screen resolution, the theme can resize and looks perfect in all of them. It looks smooth and sophisticated, giving equal attention to your content being displayed.
Price: Free
2. Ridhi
This theme is a lead-generating WordPress theme for coaches, speakers, mentors, consultants, entrepreneurs, therapists, and small business organizations. The strategically placed Newsletter banner section will drive your visitors to quickly connect with you and help you achieve a great milestone. The theme offers multiple sections to showcase your bio, services, testimonials, team members, contact details, and many more.
Price: Free
3. MagnusWP
MagnusWP is a beautiful, very customizable, multipurpose theme that you can use to create amazing websites through drag and drop. It comes with a pre-designed home page, 5 header designs and over 35 ready-to-use content blocks that you can easily customize. You can also design your own custom blocks by combining more than 25 drag and drop components. MagnusWP is a child theme of Colibri WP.
Price: Free
4. Online Eshop
Online Eshop is a beautiful theme especially build for Store, eCommerce, Shop and also fits for any kind of Shopping theme which contains all the feature you need to create a stunning website. The theme consists of well organized components so it’s easy to edit and customize everything to create a specific website for your needs.
Price: Free
5. Keystroke
Keystroke is a Digital Agency & modern WordPress theme that has been specifically designed for making modern websites. You can use it for building any kind of agency, digital agency, startup agency, creative agency, creative business, creative multipurpose, creative, or freelancer websites. You can easily create stunning presentations of your work as well as many aspects of your digital agency.
Price: $25.00
6. Yoku
Yoku is a premium theme for Yoga Online Classes, Yoga Studio, Yoga Meditation, Yoga Shop and Yoga Coaching. Yoku comes with the robust LMS system that allows you to create and sell yoga online classes. Or if you want to use a third party streaming service for your online classes, you can link the classes to third party providers such as MindBody. Yoku also features many essential tools such as 1-click demo importing, color pickers, powerful GoodLayers Page Builder that allow you to start creating your website easily.
It is super flexible with tons of great features such as background wrapper options, custom skin color for specific item wrapper, three view modes(live, preview, block), ajax page builder saving, pre-built pages and blocks and much more.
Price: $59.00
7. Meabhy
Meabhy is classic WooCommerce theme for your next meat farm and food shop project. It’s a perfect WordPress eCommerce theme for entrepreneur and website development company or freelancer who want to build a fast and sufficient way eCommerce project in the meat and food industry. Build effective way & sustainable eCommerce project, saving your valuable time for and money with Meabhy WooCommerce Theme.
Price: $39.00
8. Rokwool
Rockwool is a modern and highly flexible WordPress theme for an insulation contractor, energy resources saving program, house energy efficiency and full-service insulation company. It comes on board with all features you may need for a local small business website. Free quote request forms, appointment calendar, great projects gallery, easy to use layout builder great documentation and built-in demo data are just to name a few.
This is a popular and easy to use solution that guarantees great site performance at various devices and screens. The backend is based at Unyson WordPress framework giving you development flexibility and great site speed.
Price: $49.00
