This is the sixth of my yearly roundup of What’s New for Designers & Developers for 2020, in this roundup, I will be focusing on showing you what some of the best WordPress plugins that been released during this year were. I want to mention that not every plugins for WordPress been featured in each of my roundups will be featured in today’s post, as I feel that this list could be enormous.
So for your piece of reading pleasure, I will be splitting up the best of these plugins into month of release. So lets get in to it.
January
StockPath – Plugin
This plugin creates a new media library tab which you can use to search stock images directly. It streamlines the process of finding and inserting stock images for WordPress editors.
Price: Free
WP Plugin Manager Pro – Plugin
This is a WordPress plugin that allows you to disable plugins for certain pages, posts or URI conditions. Sometimes you don’t need to load all the plugins for every page or post. Even if you do it drops the loading speed of your website drastically.
Price: $19.00
Energy+ – Plugin
Energy+ gives you an e-commerce focused panel by simplifying and improving WordPress Admin and WooCommerce.
Price: $19.00
February
UsersWP ReCaptcha – Plugin
The UsersWP ReCaptcha plugin allows you to implement a super security captcha into forms like registration, login forms. UsersWP Re-Captcha protects your site against spam, malicious registrations and other forms of attacks where computers try to disguise themselves as a human.
Price: Free
Koko Analytics – Plugin
Koko Analytics is a privacy-friendly and 100% open source analytics plugin for WordPress. It doesn’t rely on any third-party services and scales up to thousands of page views per hour without any issues.
Price: Free
Contacter – Plugin
Contacter is a WordPress Plugin designed for voice feedback form for any websites. The plugin allows you to go beyond the usual text messages and contact forms and get closer to your users. The plugin adds a voice recording button to any convenient place on the site. This can be useful for reviews, order comments or any questions.
Price: $19.00
March
Customer Email Verification for WooCommerce – Plugin
This Customer Email verification will reduce WooCommerce registration spam in your store and will require them to verify their email address by sending a verification link to the email address which they registered to their account.
Price: Free
Global DNS – Plugin
Global DNS allows you to instantly check the DNS records across multiple servers. It provides an insight to end users on which server website is pointing to. It is also helpful to check the current DNS entries incase the DNS records are changed.
Price: $11.00
Age Verifier – Plugin
WordPress Age Verifier widget Allow admin the easiest way to arrange a page load age verification popup that will check the age of your website visitors. This plugin will help make your website accessible for Allowable age users and hide it from the under-aged.
You can set the age limit, choose verification format, make short-code and embed the widget on all or specific pages, and choose the action after access denial. The style is also under your control, with paint-able elements and the option to upload pictures.
Price: $8.00
April
ChatBot – Plugin
ChatBot integration with WordPress allows you to create customer service chatbot without coding and place it on your website in an easy way.
Price: Free
Rusty Social Image Share – Plugin
Rusty Social Image Share resizes your post thumbnail to perfectly fit to the Facebook Share dimensions whilst keeping your original image dimensions.
Price: Free
WP YouTube Manager Pro – Plugin
WP YouTube Manager Pro is the most advanced, flexible & easy to use YouTube plugin for WordPress that automatically fetches videos from YouTube channel and displays in beautiful video gallery on your site. Displays videos in grid view or masonry view. It also allows site admins to update video title, description and category on YouTube channel right from your wordpress site.
Price: $19.00
May
wpEasyDocs – Plugin
wpEasyDocs is a document store & management plugin which will save you a lot of time and headache. Simply Drag and Drop the files you want to upload and soon you will be able to use the built-in editor to manage all the important properties of your documents with just a few clicks.
Price: Free
WP DeskLite – Plugin
WP Desklite is a simple, easy to use, web-based customer helpdesk, and support ticket system. Users can create a ticket from the front-end. WP Desklite comes packed with a bunch of features that help you to run a support ticket with no extra cost.
Price: Free
WP Appointment – Plugin
WP Appointment is an easy to use and powerful scheduling tool for service providers. It gives you an automatic booking and online scheduling of your services, saving your time and money. Moreover, it supports a wide range of services provided by businesses, individuals that provide online booking services through websites.
Price: $15.00
June
Zion Builder – Plugin
Built and designed by Hogash team, the creator of famous WordPress theme Kallyas, this plugin is the newest page builder on the market that comes with tools to build an outstanding WordPress website
Price: Free
BruteBank – Plugin
BruteBank is an interactive firewall plugin that allows WordPress owners and server administrators to receive real time threat notifications via a mobile app. This app then allows for immediate threat mitigation by blocking attacking IP addresses.
Price: Free
SakolaWP – Plugin
SakolaWP is WordPress School Management System is the best plugin to manage the school activity like school routine, attendance, exam, homework, etc. The system has different access rights for Admin, Teacher, Student and Parent.
Price: $29.00
July
Bulletin – Plugin
Publish a slick announcement banner across your WordPress website or WooCommerce shop. Extend with icons, countdowns, placement rules and more!
Price: Free
Auto YouTube – Plugin
Auto YouTube to WordPress is a flexible WordPress Plugin make you can generate WordPress posts from YouTube. This plugin comes with built in options that you can use to generate different posts as you needed.
Price: $15.00
August
Private Workroom – Plugin
WordPress plugin for small businesses and freelancers that allows you to easily bill and receive payments online. Start to sell services online with “Private Workrooms”!
Price: Free
Jetpack CRM – Plugin
Jetpack CRM is a new lightweight CRM (with all sorts of plugins and add-onds already) built on top of WordPress.
Price: Free to $30.00 per month
WhizzChat – Plugin
WhizzChat is a universal WordPress Chat Plugin that can allow your users to chat with each other on your website or can with the Admin and it can work with any custom post type.
Price: $39.00
September
Wubtitle – Plugin
Wubtitle is the all-in-one plugin for dealing with video-to-text tasks in WordPress. Save tons of time automatically subtitling and transcribing your videos or instantly converting YouTube subtitles to plain text. Get started for free!
Price: Free
ThriveDesk – Plugin
ThriveDesk is easy to use yet powerful helpdesk plugin for WordPress. Your team can colloborate on conversation and help customer faster than ever. ThriveDesk is everything you need to convert, support, and delight your customers.
Price: Free
BeeMail – Plugin
BeeMail is an All-in-one and fully-featured email marketing plugin for WordPress with or without WooCommerce. With BeeMail, you have a powerful digital marketing and sales funnels management platform right in your WordPress with all capabilities like: contact & list management, email marketing, form design & publishing.
Price: $49.00
October
WP Umbrella – Plugin
WP Umbrella is the best monitoring tool for WordPress. Monitors uptime, performance and PHP errors generated by theme and plugins. Get notified when downtimes and timeout happen.
Prevent and troubleshoot errors generated by theme and plugins. WP Umbrella also provides you with WordPress Health checks because you’re better safe than sorry!
Price: Free
Add to Calendar – Plugin
Add to Calendar is now available as a WordPress plugin. This plugin provides a simple and flexible way for your users to add your events to their calendars. It has designed for event/seminar organizer to add an Add to Calendar button to their WordPress website. Right choice for Event Professionals, Developers & Agencies, Small Businesses, Community Organizations and other purpose.
Price: $25.00
November
WPActivity – Plugin
WPActivity provides valuable stats for actions your users/visitors take on your site, such as:Logins/Signups, Searches (Including search term), Comments, Bad URLs, not found errors, Administration logs (Changes to posts, pages, library, settings etc.) and Plugin actions (newsletter subscriptions, new forum topics, replies etc.)
Price: $12.00
Live – Plugin
With this plugin, you can easily create folders, collections, and galleries for your pictures to organize your media library properly. Next time you’re looking for a file, it’s just a click away in the file manager.
Price: $9.00
December
Admin UI – Plugin
WordPress is a very powerful CMS. It has huge ecosystem (plugins, themes, community). Can be used for almost any kind of website / application.But the default admin area’s UI / theme doesn’t look good. It can be improved. You might want to use this custom admin ui plugin to provide smoother and more beautiful UI for your WordPress admin area.
Price: Free
Blocs Developer – Plugin
This plugin is intended for use with the website and WordPress theme builder Blocs For Mac. It expands the WordPress json API and adds additional endpoints for greater integration with the Blocs design environment. This plugin is only required during the development phase and is not required once a theme is exported from Blocs and installed into WordPress.
Price: Free
Boat and Yacht Charter Booking System – Plugin
Boat and Yacht Charter Booking System is a powerful WordPress watercraft booking plugin for businesses of all sizes.
It will work well in a small water equipment rental, e.g. renting rowing boats, kayaks or pedal boats, as well as the main booking system for marina service. The plugin will handle a large number of vessels and an unlimited number of locations.
Price: $40.00
