Let’s dive into some of the top WordPress plugins and themes available as of September 2024.
In this overview, I’ll be showcasing the most noteworthy plugins and themes released this month, organized into two easy-to-navigate lists. The first list features a blend of both free and premium plugins.
Following that, you’ll find a thoughtfully curated selection of plugins designed for content publishers to clone your existing posts, make edits, and then republish them seamlessly. Or plugins that makes displaying Advanced Custom Fields in the block editor to real time product viewer for WooCommerce and plenty more plugins below.
For themes, I’ve compiled another collection that includes both free and premium options, catering to a wide range of needs. Whether you’re looking for themes tailored to businesses, Gutenberg compatibility, blogging, versatile eCommerce solutions, or even child themes, this list has something for everyone.
These themes are ready to use as-is or can be customized to suit your or your clients’ unique preferences.
Plugins – Free & Premium
1. Mega Navify
Transform your website’s navigation with Mega Navify, a user-friendly WordPress plugin designed to create stunning mega menus. Whether you’re a beginner or an experienced developer, Mega Navify seamlessly integrates with your existing theme and is easy to set up. Elevate user engagement with beautiful, intuitive menus that enhance your website’s overall experience.
Price: Free
2. Content Republish
Content Republish is an essential tool for content publishers. With just a single click, you can clone your existing posts, make edits, and republish them seamlessly. It functions like a staging area for your draft content, allowing you to make changes without impacting the original post. Once you’re satisfied with the updates, you can republish, and the draft content will overwrite the existing content, streamlining your content management process.
Price: Free
3. Blocks for ACF Fields
Blocks for ACF Fields is a WordPress plugin that makes displaying Advanced Custom Fields in the block editor a breeze, with no coding required. Designed for both developers and content creators, this plugin streamlines the process of adding and showcasing custom fields, enabling dynamic and personalized content creation directly within the block editor.
Ideal for full site editing, Blocks for ACF Fields empowers you to effortlessly customize every aspect of your site.
Price: Free
4. UptimeMonster Site Monitor
Monitor and analyze every activity on your WordPress website with the powerful and versatile UptimeMonster Site Monitor plugin. Seamlessly integrated with the external UptimeMonster web application, this plugin keeps track of your website’s uptime, downtime, security, and other critical functions.
Simply activate the plugin, connect it to your dashboard, and gain comprehensive monitoring of every aspect of your WordPress site. Choose from various monitoring intervals and receive detailed reports in a centralized dashboard for all your websites.
Price: Free
5. Spirit
Spirit is a clean and modern WordPress plugin designed for domain-for-sale websites and related services. It’s ideal for businesses involved in selling domains, old domain sales, and domain parking. With Spirit, you can create unique and contemporary websites tailored to your specific needs.
The code is easy to modify, making customization simple, and the plugin is fully responsive, ensuring it looks fantastic on tablets and mobile devices. Highly versatile, Spirit allows you to build a professional and functional domain sales platform with ease.
Price: $10.00
6. GutenDraw
As the demand for visual content and engaging storytelling grows, it’s essential to elevate your WordPress site and captivate your visitors. That’s where GutenDraw comes in! GutenDraw seamlessly integrates Excalidraw, a versatile sketching tool, directly into your WordPress experience. This plugin allows you to save and edit Excalidraw files right from your WordPress dashboard, with no need for remote servers or third-party services—ensuring your data stays secure and private.
With GutenDraw, you can easily embed drawings directly into your posts and pages, enhancing your content with unique and captivating visuals.
Price: $29.00
7. Contact Form 7 Emoji Reaction
Contact Form 7 Emoji Reaction is a WordPress addon that allows users to add Emoji reactions to Contact Form 7 forms. With the option to choose from over 300 included Emojis, this plugin can be easily integrated into any Contact Form 7 setup. It looks great on all types of devices, enhancing user interaction with your forms.
Price: $20.00
8. WooCommerce Real-Time Product Viewer
The WooCommerce Real-Time Product Viewer plugin displays the number of users currently viewing a specific product in real-time. Utilizing AJAX requests, it provides live updates to ensure accurate and up-to-the-minute data. The plugin stores view counts in a JSON file, allowing you to track and display user engagement with your products effortlessly.
Price: $15.00
Themes – Free & Premium
1. Raconteur
Raconteur is a theme designed to showcase captivating stories, featuring bold imagery and typography on a clean, practical layout that draws readers into your narrative.
Price: Free
2. ReelCraft
ReelCraft is a sleek and modern WordPress theme tailored for videographers, filmmakers, and creative professionals eager to showcase their work. Its visually captivating layout features user-friendly portfolio options, customizable video galleries, and seamless integration with media players. Ideal for building professional portfolios, showreels, and video projects, ReelCraft ensures your content shines with both style and functionality.
Price: Free
3. Infinite News
Infinite News is a versatile WordPress theme designed for news, portal, and magazine websites. Its retro-modern aesthetic blends classic and contemporary styles, creating a distinctive look. Featuring a clean, minimalist structure and user-friendly interface, it ensures an enjoyable browsing experience. Optimized for performance, this responsive theme adapts seamlessly to any device. Perfect for online magazines, newspapers, and blogs, Infinite News allows for easy customization with color changes and widgets, enabling you to tailor it to your brand.
Price: Free
4. Illume
Illume is a sophisticated WordPress theme that utilizes light effects to craft unique visual experiences. Tailored for business, office, and portfolio websites, Illume enhances your online presence with its modern aesthetics and light-inspired animations. Ideal for showcasing your work, services, or corporate identity, this theme combines elegance with professionalism and usability. Illuminate your brand with Illume’s captivating style and seamless functionality, bringing a refined glow to your content.
Price: Free
5. Maker
Maker by Wpbingo is a powerful WordPress theme designed specifically for Tools WooCommerce stores. Leveraging the latest version of Bootstrap as its back-end framework, this theme offers an impressive design tailored for your online shop. Maker focuses on organizing products by category while also emphasizing key web components to showcase special items.
Built on the Elementor plugin, Maker allows for easy drag-and-drop customization, enabling you to create a website that perfectly fits your vision. It is also compatible with three multi-vendor plugins (MultiVendorX, WC Vendor, Dokan), making it an excellent choice for building multi-vendor websites.
With widgets for displaying top-selling products, banner sliders for featured and trending items, and a smooth user experience for product categories, Maker enhances your eCommerce store’s functionality. Its robust search feature enables customers to refine their search based on categories, availability, product conditions, brands, price ranges, sizes, colors, and various custom specifications. In short, Maker is the ideal theme for your online store!
Price: $19.00
6. Bizgen
Bizgen is a modern and professional WordPress consulting theme specifically designed for consulting and business websites. Featuring a clean, minimalist design, it is perfect for showcasing financial services, consulting, corporate offerings, and products. The theme is fully responsive, ensuring it looks great on all devices and screen sizes.
Built with a powerful admin panel, Bizgen allows you to easily customize the theme to meet your specific needs. It includes a variety of pre-designed pages, such as About Us, Services, Projects, FAQs, Pricing Plans, and Contact pages, all of which can be easily imported and tailored to fit your requirements.
Additional advanced features include a built-in mega menu, customizable homepage sections, and multiple blog layouts. Powered by the drag-and-drop Elementor Page Builder, Bizgen makes it simple to create a website for any type of business.
Price: $19.00
7. ClassifiAd
ClassifiAd is a revolutionary all-in-one classified ads solution designed to bring next-generation features to your classified ads website. This powerful theme includes all the tools you need to create a high-converting, user-friendly platform for any niche, including real estate, automotive, services, and general classifieds.
With ClassifiAd, you’ll enjoy a seamless user experience, complete control over design, and unmatched customization options, all powered by the CubeWP Framework. This framework provides dynamic content and full control over your site’s form submissions, filtering options, search capabilities, and more.
One standout feature is the front-end ad submission with live preview functionality. Users can easily submit ads directly from the front-end, receiving instant feedback on how their listings will appear to potential buyers—eliminating cumbersome back-end processes and enhancing user satisfaction.
Price: $39.00
8. Bione
Showcase your business innovation with Bione, a modern template designed for all business consulting, advisory, and consulting service websites. Bione offers a fantastic selection of carefully crafted website demos, including templates tailored for businesses, consultants, accountants, financial advisors, insurance professionals, business analysts, and marketing agencies. It is fully responsive, ensuring a stunning appearance on all screen sizes and devices.
The Bione theme features a super creative layout, complemented by carefully selected features and pages. Smooth animations enhance the overall elegance of your site, creating a polished user experience.
If you’re seeking a website theme that maximizes visitor engagement, Bione is the perfect choice for you.
Price: $19.00
