August 2026 has delivered another excellent selection of new WordPress plugins and themes, and I’ve rounded up some of the best releases in this WordPress Wednesday post.

This roundup is divided into two sections. First, you’ll find a hand-picked collection of standout plugins, featuring both free and premium options.

These plugins cover a wide range of functions, including a plugin that replaces the traditional static feedback forms with a short and adaptive interview experience, a plugin that’s provides a lightweight analytics solution for WordPress to some plugins that is a complete car listing and dealership marketplace platform and a plugin that find and fix accessibility problems.

The second section highlights the latest WordPress themes, with both free and premium designs suitable for a variety of website types. Whether you’re building a business website, a Gutenberg-powered site, a personal blog, portfolio, or online store, you’ll discover themes that look great out of the box while offering plenty of flexibility to make them your own.

Let’s dive in.

Plugins – Free & Premium

1. AccessVane

AccessVane checks your website pages against WCAG 2.2 Level AA, clearly explaining any accessibility issues in language you can understand and act on. It can also safely repair problems that can be automatically fixed.

Unlike an accessibility overlay, AccessVane does not simply load a script on top of your website to make temporary changes in a visitor’s browser. Instead, it improves the actual pages your server delivers, helping address accessibility issues at the source.

Price: Free

2. Feedback Mango

Feedback Mango replaces traditional static feedback forms with a short, adaptive interview experience. Visitors can leave a rating or start typing their feedback. While AI-powered follow up questions help gather more useful insights. Instead of sorting through a large collection of raw comments. You receive organised themes and actionable insights through your Feedback Mango dashboard.

This WordPress plugin makes it easy to add your Feedback Mango studies to your website without writing any code. Everything is handled through blocks, with each block connected to its own study. This means different pages across your website can ask visitors different questions and collect more targeted feedback.

Price: Free

3. SteadyDevs Venue Booking

SteadyDevs Venue Booking makes it easy for customers to reserve anything you rent by the hour. From sports courts and simulator bays to studios, treatment rooms, restaurant tables, equipment, salon chairs and meeting spaces. The plugin supports a wide range of booking needs.

You define your available resources, pricing, and opening hours. While customers can book online. Every reservation remains under your control. With bookings requiring your approval before they are confirmed. The system also prevents the same time slot from being booked twice.

Price: Free

4. Omea Analytics

Omea Analytics provides a lightweight analytics solution designed for WordPress. It tracks key metrics like pageviews, engagement, referrers, UTM campaigns and conversions. While avoiding the storage of IP addresses or persistent cross-session identifiers.

Its uses REST endpoints and cached data aggregates to deliver fast and efficient reporting. For cookieless operation, sessions can be attributed server side without relying on persistent browser storage.

When cookie based sessions are enabled. Omea Analytics uses short-lived first-party cookies to provide better session continuity. These cookies expire after a period of time. And are not used to identify visitors across different sessions.

Price: Free

5. HaggleChimp

HaggleChimp is a gamified price bargaining bot designed for WooCommerce stores. It allows customers to negotiate product prices directly from product pages. Creating a more interactive and engaging shopping experience.

By adding an element of fun to the buying process. HaggleChimp can help encourage sales, reduce cart abandonment. And automatically collect customer email leads.

Price: $19.00

6. Agent Gateway

Agent Gateway provides a production-ready connection layer that allows AI assistants to connect with self-hosted WordPress and WooCommerce websites through the open Model Context Protocol.

It includes a spec-compliant OAuth 2.1 server, per-agent permissions and a human approval queue. Giving you greater control over what each AI assistant can access and do. Agents can perform tasks such as searching your product catalogue, checking stock, and drafting orders without being able to make changes you have not explicitly approved.

Price: $39.00

7. AutoHub

AutoHub SaaS is a complete car listing and dealership marketplace platform built as a WordPress plugin. It allows you to transform a WordPress website into a fully monetised automotive marketplace. Where dealers and private sellers can publish vehicle listings and manage their own online showrooms.

The plugin includes subscription plans, listing limits and featured placements. Making it easy to generate revenue from your marketplace. Whether you want to create a free local car classifieds website or build a premium dealer network with subscription plans and Stripe payments.

Price: $19.00

8. CartLane

CartLane brings a range of essential WooCommerce conversion tools together in one connected system. It can help recover abandoned carts, improve the cart and checkout experience, launch targeted order bumps, recommend complementary products and create post-purchase upsell and downsell journeys.

The plugin also supports offer testing and targeted pricing campaigns, all managed from a single modern workspace.

Price: $39.00

Themes – Free & Premium

1. Keitai

This WordPress theme is a tribute to Japanese mobile phone websites from the early 2000s. Inspired by the NTT DoCoMo 502i era. It features a distinctive single-column layout designed around a 240px width. Along with an LCD-style texture overlay and a bitmap-inspired web font.

The theme also keeps things simple by using no JavaScript on the front end. For an extra touch of nostalgia. Its companion plugin adds optional 12×12 pixel-art emoji.

Price: Free

2. Portfolio Patterns

This designer portfolio WordPress theme is built for freelance designers, art directors, creative professionals and small studios. It provides everything needed to create a polished portfolio website. With flexible block patterns for project showcases, case studies, services, testimonials, pricing, journal pages, contact pages, headers and footers.

Each pattern is self contained and can be easily customised using the WordPress Site Editor. The theme also includes light and dark style variations. Additional section styles and locally bundled open source fonts for greater flexibility and creative control.

Price: Free

3. Index Of

A WordPress theme that lists your posts the way Apache’s mod_autoindex lists a directory. There’s no JavaScript, web fonts, images and font declarations at all.

Price: Free

4. Broadside

Broadside is a block theme designed for news publications and journals. It brings the classic look of a broadsheet newspaper to a modern WordPress website. Featuring a blackletter-style masthead, folio rule, three-column lead grid and long-form article layouts.

The theme also includes a range of editorial elements. Including short-answer boxes, key takeaways, tables of contents, FAQs, and source lists. Colours, rules and section names can all be customised through the available settings.

Price: Free

5. Goyard

Goyard is a hotel and resort booking WordPress theme. It includes a built-in reservation system that allows guests to check room availability, select their dates and complete bookings directly through your website without booking commissions charged by the theme.

Powered by the JWS Hotel Booking plugin. Developed by the same team. Guests can choose rate packages, apply coupons and pay using Stripe, PayPal, bank transfer or cash on arrival. The booking management area allows you to confirm reservations, manage check-ins, email invoices and view revenue and occupancy reports.

The theme is built with Elementor. And also includes one-click demo import. A header and footer builder, WooCommerce integration, Redux theme options and a child theme

Price: $59.00

6. Synvo

Synvo is a modern and elegantly designed WordPress theme created for IT service providers, technology startups and software companies. Looking to build a professional online presence. With more than 23 unique homepage designs and fully responsive layouts. It offers a combination of style, functionality, and flexibility.

Whether you are showcasing services, launching a tech startup or promoting a software company. The theme provides you the tools to create a visually engaging website.

The theme also includes multiple homepage variations, service detail pages, portfolio layouts, blog designs and working contact forms.

Price: $19.00

7. Autoas

Autoas is a modern and fully responsive WordPress theme designed for automotive eCommerce businesses. With a clean design and feature-rich shopping experience. It provides an effective platform for selling automotive products, replacement parts and vehicle accessories.

Built with the Elementor page builder, Autoas makes customisation straightforward through an intuitive drag and drop interface. Allowing you to personalise layouts, sections and content without coding.

The theme been designed with product listings, category pages, featured collections, promotional banners and intuitive shopping layouts. So to help customers easily browse and discover products. Autoas also includes essential eCommerce pages such as Shop, Product Details, Cart, Checkout, Wishlist, Customer Account, Blog and Contact.

Price: $29.00

8. Tandem

Tandem is a WordPress theme designed for architecture studios, interior design practices, design and build firms and creative portfolios. Where the work takes center stage.

The theme integrates with the Elementor Page Builder. Making it easy to create distinctive layouts that reflect your studio’s style and showcase your projects, spaces and services. Full project case study pages. Also provide an effective way to tell the story behind each piece of work.

With its elegant layouts and portfolio focused design. Tandem professionals create a visually engaging online presence that can leave a lasting impression on potential clients.

Price: $49.00