Throughout 2024, we’ve come across an impressive array of resources for designers and developers.
The sixth instalment in the series, “What’s New for Designers & Developers from 2024,” highlights some of the most outstanding and useful WordPress plugins, whether newly launched or updated. These include plugins for a powerful and flexible layout builder block, analytics, site performance, appointment booking, project management and more
As we look forward to the advancements 2025 will bring, let’s take a moment to reflect on the standout WordPress plugins of 2024. Enjoy the retrospective!
January
Advanced Columns – Plugin
Leveraging the robust foundation of CSS grid, the Advanced Columns plugin stands out as the most powerful and flexible layout builder block for crafting professional WordPress websites.
Price: Free & Starting at $49.00 (1 site)
Flexible Cookies – Plugin
The Flexible Cookies plugin not only presents the cookie bar in a professional and compliant manner but also scans your website for cookies, categorising them appropriately. Customise the cookie bar’s appearance with unique styles to match your preferences. Managing cookies has never been easier – forget the complications with Flexible Cookies!
Price: Free
February
Better Email Validator – Plugin
The Email Validator is a lightweight and high-performance WordPress plugin designed to offer real-time email address validation during registration and form submissions on your website. It efficiently identifies disposable email addresses and ensures that only valid email addresses are accepted, thereby enhancing the integrity of your user data.
With this plugin, you can maintain the quality of your user database and minimise the risk of spam or fraudulent registrations.
Price: Free
HexReport – Plugin
Introducing HexReport: the ultimate report analytics plugin for WordPress. Designed for store owners, it offers real-time insights into online store performance.
With comprehensive sales metrics, including top-selling products and categories, plus delivery and payment methods analysis, HexReport empowers informed decision-making. Gain valuable insights and optimise sales strategies effortlessly with HexReport.
Price: Free
March
Performance Lab – Plugin
The Performance Lab plugin accelerates website speed through modules designed for image optimization, WebP support, and performance checks, with the ultimate goal of seamless integration into the WordPress core in the future.
Price: Free
ParityPress – Plugin
ParityPress is a robust WordPress plugin meticulously crafted to elevate your website’s marketing strategy. It empowers you to implement dynamic discount announcements and parity pricing, effectively capturing visitors’ attention and boosting conversion rates.
With ParityPress, you can create compelling discount offers that leverage the concept of pricing parity to enhance your website’s performance.
Price: Free
WooCommerce Chained Products Pro – Plugin
Elevate your e-commerce with WooCommerce Chained Products Pro plugin. Craft customized product bundles effortlessly, boosting Average Order Value and sales. Seamlessly link complementary items, offer bundle discounts, and highlight bundle value. Drive sales by captivating customers with attractive bundled offerings.
Price: $20.00
April
SuperSearch – Plugin
SuperSearch transforms your WordPress site search into a revolutionary experience, providing a robust and lightning-fast solution that surpasses the limitations of the default WordPress search. With easy installation and setup, you can have it up and running within minutes, enhancing user experience and efficiency.
Price: Free to $39.99 per month
Writebot AI – Plugin
Experience the revolutionary Writebot AI WordPress plugin, unlocking unparalleled capabilities for your website. Harnessing advanced text generation, image processing, chatbot integration, and voiceover functionalities, Writebot AI elevates your site into a dynamic and immersive platform.
Engage your audience with personalized interactions and captivating content, setting your website apart from the rest. Whether streamlining workflows, boosting user engagement, or seeking to differentiate your brand, Writebot AI empowers you to achieve your goals. Unlock a world of possibilities and elevate your WordPress website to new heights with Writebot AI.
Price: $29.00
WooCommerce Multi Vendor Subscription – Plugin
WooCommerce Marketplace Subscription allows customers to subscribe to products on a daily, weekly, monthly, or yearly basis.
Admins and sellers can create and manage subscription products, setting EMI frequency individually for each product. Customers can quickly renew their subscribed orders at the specified frequency of products, making purchasing more efficient.
Price: $29.00
May
UltraBlocks – Plugin
UltraBlocks is a robust Gutenberg block plugin engineered to elevate your WordPress editing journey. Featuring a diverse range of custom blocks like container, grid, paragraph, buttons, countdown, shape-divider, google-maps, and more, UltraBlocks empowers you to effortlessly craft stunning layouts and designs.
Price: Free
PreBook – Plugin
PreBook is a comprehensive appointment booking plugin for WordPress designed to automate your online booking system tailored to your business requirements. This Online Scheduling Solution streamlines the booking process for your WordPress website, enabling your customers to schedule appointments with just a few clicks.
Price: Free
EXA Navigator – Plugin
Introducing the EXA Navigator plugin for Elementor, delivering an innovative solution for crafting captivating and engaging navigation experiences.
With EXA Navigator, you can design highly interactive and modern fullscreen menus that captivate your audience. These menus occupy the entire screen, showcasing navigation options in a creative and captivating manner. Smooth transitions guide users seamlessly through the navigation process, transforming every click into an immersive visual journey.
Price: $15.00
WPThumbify – Plugin
WPThumbify is a groundbreaking WordPress plugin engineered to streamline and automate the creation of featured images for your website’s blog posts.
Ideal for bloggers, small business owners, and website administrators, WPThumbify empowers you to generate captivating, SEO-optimized featured images in bulk, saving valuable time and effort.
With its user-friendly interface and comprehensive customization tools, WPThumbify is an essential tool for enhancing your website’s visual appeal and streamlining your content management process.
Price: $29.00
June
Cache Using Gzip – Plugin
The Cache Using Gzip plugin for WordPress significantly boosts page speed for site visitors. By preloading the cache in settings and downloading the necessary config settings to add to your Apache or Nginx server config, all of your posts and pages can be delivered to site visitors with lightning-fast speed!
Price: Free
FluentBoards – Plugin
FluentBoards is a next-gen project management solution, meticulously crafted to revolutionise your workflow. With seamless organisation, effortless communication, and unparalleled efficiency, it ensures you sweat less and achieve more!
From creating projects and assigning members to setting priorities, managing multi-stage workflows, receiving work updates, and administrating projects—all of this can be done at your fingertips, without ever leaving the dashboard.
Price: Free
Essential Addons Bundle for Elementor – Plugin
Welcome to the “Essential Addons Bundle for Elementor Page Builder,” a meticulously curated collection of plugins designed to enhance your WordPress and Elementor experience. This bundle is ideal for website owners seeking to elevate their site’s functionality, user engagement, and overall performance.
Here’s what you’ll find in the offering: Elementor addon for Elementor & iDonate, Event showcase for Elementor & The Event Calendar,Smart post layout for Elementor, Productify for Elementor & WooCommerce and CatShowcase for Elementor & WooCommerce.
Price: $39.00
July
WebTotem Backups – Plugin
The WebTotem Backups plugin offers tools for creating, managing, and restoring website backups. This reliable WordPress plugin is designed for the secure and fast recovery of your website’s stable version.
Price: Free
Quill SMTP – Plugin
Quill SMTP is the most versatile SMTP mailer for WordPress, ensuring reliable email delivery through a wide variety of mailers.
Price: Free
AI Knowledgebase Premium – Plugin
AI Knowledgebase WordPress Support Assistant leverages your existing WordPress content to provide instant, context-aware assistance for users. Boost support efficiency and user satisfaction with AI-driven answers.
Price: $29.00
August
AI.TLD – Plugin
Search for available domains using Artificial Intelligence (OpenAI) in any language or TLD. You can search and register domains directly through a WHMCS platform integrated with WordPress.
Price: $45.00
Knowlifi – Plugin
Knowlifi is a cutting-edge Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) platform designed to revolutionize how businesses create, manage, and distribute knowledge. With its intuitive and user-friendly interface, Knowlifi enables companies to build comprehensive knowledge bases that empower employees, enhance customer support, and streamline information management.
Price: $19.00
September
Sharing Image – Plugin
Sharing Image is a WordPress plugin designed to generate custom sharing posters for social networks. It allows you to add text, watermarks, and various filters, enabling the creation of unique posters for any post type, archive, or taxonomy.
Compatible with various SEO plugins, Sharing Image helps your social media links stand out in feeds. Additionally, you can place your company logo as a watermark to boost brand awareness.
Price: Free
Super Rollback – Plugin
Super Rollback empowers you to instantly revert any plugin update, whether it’s a free or premium plugin. Once installed, a “Rollback” link will appear next to each plugin on the plugins screen. After updating a plugin, simply click the link and choose the version you want to revert to—it’s that easy!
Price: Free or Premium starting at $19.00 per a year/site
Workreap Meetings – Plugin
Enhance your Workreap Freelance Marketplace with the Workreap Meetings Addon, designed to streamline meeting scheduling between employers and freelancers. This plugin allows freelancers to set availability slots, enabling employers to book meetings seamlessly.
Price: $19.00
October
DefendWP Firewall – Plugin
DefendWP.org is a WordPress plugin that instantly deploys firewall rules and patches as soon as vulnerabilities are disclosed, protecting your site from hackers before official updates are available. This automatic protection ensures your website stays secure, even if you don’t apply patches immediately.
Price: Free
White Label WP Login – Plugin
This minimalist WordPress plugin was designed to easily style the default login page while staying as lightweight as possible. It offers all the basic styling tools needed to give your site’s login page a custom look and feel.
Free and open-source, this plugin is perfect for users who want to add a layer of customization without the hassle of bulky plugins that clutter the admin panel with popups.
Price: Free
November
Changeloger – Plugin
Changeloger is a WordPress plugin that converts plain text changelogs into visually appealing formats within the block editor. Simply upload your changelog, and Changeloger automatically transforms it into an engaging, user-friendly display—eliminating the need for manual formatting!
Price: Free
Custom Fields Snapshots – Plugin
Custom Fields Snapshots make it easy to back up your Advanced Custom Fields (ACF) data by exporting post types, taxonomies, options, users, and comments. These snapshots enable version control, simplify sharing setups with team members, assist in migrating between WordPress environments, and allow for quick restoration of previous configurations.
Price: Free
Air WP Sync – Plugin
Effortlessly connect Airtable to WordPress with this plugin. Export and sync Airtable data to publish it to any post type, including Posts, Pages, Custom Post Types (CPT), Users, and Taxonomies. Upgrade to the Pro+ version to enhance your workflow with compatibility for ACF (Advanced Custom Fields) and SEO plugins.
Price: Free, $130 to $200 per year
December
Auto Post Expire – Plugin
This plugin simplifies post lifecycle management by automatically assigning expiration dates to your posts. When a post reaches its expiration date, it is seamlessly moved to draft status—removing it from the front end while keeping it available for editing or future publication.
Perfect for time-sensitive content like promotions, announcements, or events, this feature helps you maintain a clean, relevant website without the hassle of manually managing outdated posts.
With customizable expiration settings, you can tailor the plugin to fit your workflow, ensuring efficient content management over time.
Price: Free
Quick-Insight – Plugin
Quick-Insight is a convenient WordPress plugin that provides a snapshot of your site’s essential details. It shows the active theme name, total posts, published pages, and a comprehensive breakdown of storage usage, highlighting both free and used space. Powered by the REST API and React, the plugin features interactive graphs for a visually engaging way to track your site’s storage and performance metrics at a glance.
Price: Free
aBlocks – Plugin
aBlocks is a powerful Gutenberg WordPress builder plugin for creating responsive websites, including eCommerce stores, landing pages, and more. Featuring a user-friendly interface and advanced tools, it’s ideal for both beginners and experts to build professional websites with ease.
Price: Starting $29.00 lifetime
