In July 2026 WordPress have delivered another excellent selection of new plugins and themes. And I’ve rounded up some of the best releases in one WordPress Wednesday post.

This post roundup I’ve split them up in two sections. First, you will find a hand-picked collection of standout plugins. Featuring both free and premium options. These plugins cover a wide range functions like a plugin that is a self-contained visual form builder for WordPress, an all in one WordPress security plugin, a lightweight, robust, and secure plugin that integrates WooCommerce to Google Sheets to some other WooCommerce plugins.

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

Let’s dive in.

Plugins – Free & Premium

1. GlobalDev Contact Forms

GlobalDev Contact Forms is a self-contained visual form builder for WordPress. That stores every valid form submission in your WordPress database before attempting email delivery. This makes it easier to verify lead counts against analytics platforms such as Google Ads, GA4, Meta, and TikTok. Best of all there is no Pro edition or paid feature wall as every feature is included and available to use from the start.

Price: Free

2. BellePopups

BellePopups is a WordPress plugin that lets you create eye catching popups, banners and notices. All directly from the WordPress admin dashboard and without relying on external marketing platforms.

Designed with beauty and wellness businesses in mind. It is ideal for beauty salons, aesthetic clinics, and other service-based businesses.

Use BellePopups to promote special offers, appointment reminders, gift cards, training courses, seasonal campaigns, important announcements and service updates. Helping you keep customers informed and engaged.

Price: Free

3. Locktura Security

Locktura Security is an all in one WordPress security plugin. That helps administrators protect their websites from a single dashboard. The plugin includes 18 security modules that covers firewall protection, login security, anti-spam, site hardening, update management, file integrity monitoring, traffic analysis, activity logging, alerts and privacy controls.

Most security features run locally within WordPress, giving you greater control over your site’s protection. You can enable only the modules you need, monitor security events, and manage essential security tasks from one central location.

Price: Free

4. Unite Flex Gallery

Unite Flex Gallery is a free all in one WordPress plugin for creating responsive photo and video galleries. It supports masonry layouts, justified grids, carousels, sliders and dedicated video galleries. All of which can be embedded anywhere using a Gutenberg block or shortcode.

It’s powered by JavaScript gallery engine. The plugin features an intuitive interface with clearly organized settings and plain English descriptions. With support for swipe gestures, pinch to zoom, panning, fullscreen mode and a customizable lightbox available in both compact and full width styles.

Price: Free

5. Coupon Scheduler for WooCommerce

Coupon Scheduler for WooCommerce makes it easy for you to automate your promotional campaigns. By letting you control exactly when coupons become active and when they expire. Simply set a start date and time, an end date and time and the plugin will handle the rest.

Also, including in this plugin is a convenient features such as one-click coupon duplication and the option to display active coupons in customers’ My Coupons area. Making it easier for shoppers to find and use available discounts.

Price: $12.00

6. ChimpSheets

ChimpSheets is a lightweight and secure WooCommerce plugin. That seamlessly integrates your store with Google Sheets. It automatically synchronizes orders, products and coupons in real time. Or on a scheduled background sync. Making it easy to keep your spreadsheet data up to date.

One of its best features is 2 way synchronization. Allowing you to edit product information directly within Google Sheets. Whether you are managing inventory, updating product details or tracking sales. ChimpSheets provides a simple and efficient way to streamline your store management.

Price: $29.00

7. Advanced Cash on Delivery Fees

Advanced Cash on Delivery Fees for WooCommerce. Which gives you complete control over additional charges for customers who choose Cash on Delivery or Cash on Pickup. With this plugin you can apply fixed or percentage based fees using flexible, priority based rules tailored to your store’s needs.

The plugin allows you to create unlimited fee rules based on conditions. Such as products, categories, cart total, weight, quantity, customer role, shipping location, shipping method, day of the week or date range. For even greater flexibility, you can even assign a custom COD fee to individual products with a single click.

Price: $12.00

8. WooCommerce Batch & Expiration Tracking 

This WooCommerce plugin enables advanced inventory management. By organizing stock into batches or lots. Each with its own quantity, supplier information, manufacturing date and expiry date. When an order is placed. The plugin automatically deducts stock from the batch closest to its expiry date. Helping reduce waste and ensure older inventory is sold first.

Ideal for businesses that manage perishable products and other industries where accurate batch tracking and expiry date management are essential. By automating stock rotation. The plugin helps streamline inventory management while improving product freshness and reducing expired stock.

Price: $25.00

Themes – Free & Premium

1. Weather Forecast

Weather Forecast Theme is a WordPress theme, which been designed specifically for weather forecasts, climate reports, seasonal updates and other weather related content. The theme features a clean and structured layout with customisable home page sections. And organized content blocks that display beautifully on all devices.

The theme includes built in customization options for colours, typography, banners and navigation, allowing you to personalize your site. Also, the theme offers widget ready areas, blog support, image sections and customizable footers for added flexibility.

Price: Free

2. Member Read

Member Read is a modern and fully customizable WordPress block theme built for membership websites, digital publishers, premium content platforms and creator focused websites. With Full Site Editing (FSE) support. Which makes it easy for you to design and customize every part of your website.

The theme is fully compatible with popular membership and user management plugins. Member Read provides the flexibility to create members only areas, premium article sections, downloadable resources, content restrictions, member directories and subscription based websites

Price: Free

3. Activewear Fashion Nook

Activewear Fashion Nook is a modern WordPress block theme designed for WooCommerce stores that sells activewear, athleisure, fitness apparel, yoga clothing etc. The theme has clean layouts, vibrant styling and lifestyle inspired design make it ideal for showcasing your product collections.

Built for the WordPress Site Editor, the theme includes professionally designed block patterns, flexible page layouts and full WooCommerce integration.

Price: Free

4. NXT Electrician

NXT Electrician is a modern WordPress theme. Which was designed for electricians, electrical contractors and other electrical service based businesses. With its clean and professional design. This theme helps you build a trustworthy online presence. While showcasing your services effectively.

The theme features a fully responsive layout that looks great on any device. It’s well suited for promoting services. It’s easy to customize and built with performance in mind, NXT Electrician provides a solid foundation for creating a professional website that helps attract new customers and grow your business.

Price: Free

5. Palse

Palse is a WooCommerce WordPress theme designed for sports stores, fitness equipment retailers, activewear brands. The theme come with a clean design. It provides an engaging shopping experience that helps boost customer engagement and conversions.

Built with Elementor. Palse makes it easy to customise every part of the website. Using a drag and drop interface. Also the theme is supports popular multi-vendor plugins. This including Dokan, MultiVendorX, and WC Vendors. Making it an excellent choice for creating a sports marketplace with multiple sellers.

The theme comes packed with eCommerce features such as professionally designed homepage layouts, advanced product filtering, Ajax search, featured product sliders and category showcases.

Price: $48.00

6. Reak

Reak is a modern WordPress theme designed for creative agencies, studios and developers. Who are looking to build a presence. As the theme is powered by Elementor it offers an intuitive drag and drop editor.

The theme includes responsive layouts, pre-built demo websites and flexible customization options. Allowing you to quickly launch everything. From landing pages to full scale business websites. Its clean design is ideal for showcasing services, portfolios, case studies, and business solutions.

Built with performance and search engine optimization in mind. Reak delivers fast loading speeds and SEO-friendly features.

Price: $19.00

7. Lookify

Lookify is a modern and high-performance WooCommerce theme. Designed for businesses that want to create stylish and effective online stores. Whether you building a fashion boutique, electronics store or any other type of eCommerce site. The theme provides you a flexible foundation. With a focus on speed, design and usability.

The theme includes professionally designed homepage layouts. Powerful WooCommerce features, and seamless Elementor integration. Allowing you to create custom pages easily with drag and drop editing.

With one click demo import and flexible customization options. You can quickly launch a polished online store and start selling.

Price: $19.00

8. Pooluxe

Pooluxe is a premium WordPress theme designed for pool cleaning companies and pool service businesses. With its clean and modern design. It helps businesses to create a professional online presence. While showcasing their services and building customer trust.

Built with Elementor, Pooluxe offers an easy drag and drop editing experience. Allowing you to customize website sections without any coding knowledge. The theme includes professionally designed layouts, service pages, contact sections, pricing areas and essential website pages needed to create a website.

Price: $39.00