This is the August 2021 edition of “The Best Plugins & Themes this Month in WordPress.” Here is where we have a first look back at what was some of the best plugins and themes for WordPress for August 2021!.
What you are about to read in today’s post is were some of the best WordPress plugins and WordPress themes that were released during the 31 days we’ve spent in August. In this roundup, I’ve divided them up into two categories lists, the first list showcases both free & premium(paid) plugins for WordPress. Plugins such as a easy map for google maps, a new cookie manager plugin to a new drag and drop form builder.
And with the themes list, you will see another set of free and premium WordPress themes that include nearly any type of themes that you may need. Themes include business based themes, Gutenberg compatible, blogging, multi-purpose and eCommerce supported themes, you can use these themes as-is or customise them to suit your or your client needs.
Plugins – Free & Premium
1. EasyMap
EasyMap for WordPress plugin lets you place Google Maps on your WordPress website with little effort. The bottom line idea of this plugin is to keep it simple. You can have one map per content page. And you can have up to 200 pins/markers on a given map. You may specify which pins/markers should appear on a given map.
This plugin requires a Google API key suitable for Google Maps and Google Geocoding. This is a requirement imposed by Google.
Price: Free
2. WP Debug Log
A simple debug log plugin. Check Debug Log from the dashboard. Enable and disable Debug ('WP_DEBUG', 'WP_DEBUG_LOG', 'SCRIPT_DEBUG')
with one click. Insert new Constant Item in the config file without editing it directly.
Price: Free
3. Cookie Manager
Cookie Manager allows you to elegantly inform users that your site uses cookies and, in the PRO version, they can even configure the types of Cookies they consent to, helping you comply with the EU GDPR cookie law regulations.
Price: Free
4. Block Patterns
Save & control your site Block Patterns in an organized way. Add a beautifully designed, ready to go layout to any WordPress site with a simple add/replace.
Price: Free
5. WPEForm Lite
WPEForm is a Live, No-Code, Drag-N-Drop Form Builder for quizzes, payment estimations, personality tests, surveys, contacts, lead generations and user feedback of all kinds.
Price: Free
6. QuoteX
QuoteX is not just another Traditional WooCommerce Quotation Plugin. It comes with some extraordinary features to help you set up a standalone Quotation system on your WooCommerce based Store.
QuoteX comes with it’s own basket system, so it does not cause conflicts with WooCommerce Regular functionality. You can keep using Regular ordering system along with the Quotation system. This is an exclusive feature of QuoteX.
Price: $49.00
7. WP Manager
WP Manager helps you manage all of your media files in WordPress. Manage unlimited media files such as images, videos and documents into categorized folders with WP Manager.
Price: $9.00
8. Instagram For WooCommerce
Selling on Instagram was never so easy. Just upload your catalog to Instagram, create shopp-able posts and stories by tagging your products in them, and redirect your audience to your store with just one click.
Just define a product hashtag. Customers will be able to tag their images with this hashtag and they will automatically appear on your product page.
Price: $14.00
9. TMusers
bbPress is the most popular WordPress forum plugin. Unfortunately, there is no built-in member directory on bbPress. TMusers allow you to create beautiful member directories in a few clicks. You can also create single member cards to use them anywhere you want.
Price: $15.00
10. Streamit
Stream Video Player WordPress Plugin is a powerful responsive video player for any WordPress theme compatible with Mas Videos and Streamit WordPress theme as well, that can play videos from various third party videos like Vimeo, YouTube, Google Drive, etc.
Price: $29.00
Themes – Free & Premium
1. Madhura
Madhura is a child theme for Lalita WPKoi theme. This theme has a colorful, happy style and design for portfolio, business or agency content. The theme is multipurpose, so you car represent your style, art and business.
The theme is responsive so looks good on almost every devices. You can setup multiple header styles, navigation styles and layouts.
Price: Free
2. Canvi
Colorful, fast and fully customizable block-ready WordPress theme suitable for personal blog and portfolio. Canvi is designed to ensure visual consistency and to take full advantage of the flexibility of the block editor. With new block patterns you can create a beautiful layout in a matter of seconds.
Price: Free
3. ScapeShot
ScapeShot is a responsive and visually aesthetic Fullscreen Photography WordPress theme. The theme is fully responsive and your website will look great no matter what device your visitors are using. The photography design and versatile customisation capabilities in ScapeShot allows you to create professional and sophisticated photo-centric websites in just a matter of minutes.
The features include Custom Header, Featured Content, Gallery, Hero Content, Logo Slider, Portfolio, Pricing, Promotional Heading, Services, Slider, Stats, Team, Testimonials, Events, and more.
Price: Free
4. LMS Education
LMS Education is a fabulous, elegant, sophisticated and retina-ready theme. You can add shortcodes to the theme if you know coding to improve the functionality of your website.
It is ideal for online learning, education, teaching, tutoring, training center, university, college, primary and secondary schools, book selling, course hub, digital skills development center and for other educational institutions. It is translation-ready theme and supports RTL layout.
Price: Free
5. NewsCover
NewsCover is a dark-style child theme of CoverNews. The widgetized theme comes with starter demo import. It has different header and banner design as well as some significant fonts and color configuration adjustments. In addition, the design also modified some of the default nature of the front page layout.
You can implement layouts as a contemporary news and magazine sites, clean and minimal blogging site, a vintage and retro fashion blog, a photography blog, a wedding blog & magazine and more with the help of the available customizer options.
Price: Free
6. Nutrie
Nutrie is another attractive specimen of health & nutrition coach WordPress themes crafted for health coach business. It’s a great choice for all healthy lifestyle people, sports blogs & health stores and helping you grow your business.
Choose your website from Nutrie pre-made demos or create your own layout using our powerful page builder elements. It comes with Elementor Page Builder, we will be easily able to change the look of all pages without ever needing to learn a single line of code.
The best thing is that Nutrie compatible with the Events Calendar plugin, Contact Form 7, WooCommerce, so you can keep your website interactive & informative. Shop ready to launch, so your online store is ready to start making profits within minutes without any efforts.
Price: $19.00
7. Dotox
Dotox is built as a clean and modern responsive multipurpose service agency WordPress theme. This theme is perfectly designed and organized for any kind of service or any kind of online service site. You can easily modify and extend the theme layouts.
Theme included with five clean homepage layouts with two different header styles and 15+ variant inner pages.
Price: $19.00
8. Ryen King
Ryen King is a multipurpose template for Designer, Developer, Freelancer, Agency, Portfolio websites. Layers are well organised with proper naming conventions so you can easily access and change things according to your needs.
The theme is packed with lots of pre-designed widgets for Elementor page builder. Gallery, Portfolio, Video, Blog and much more.
Price: $39.00
9. Buyent
Buyent is a fast reliable, creative, modern, and carefully crafted classifieds ads WordPress theme. It is perfect for classified listing and directory websites. The theme have used Elementor page builder to create this beautiful theme so that you can design your home page easily.
Built-in classified Monetization multiple monetizations featured, like selling ads, feature ads, bump up, and ad banner slots. If you want your classified business to stand out from the crowd Buyent is the one-stop solution to start and make it easy to sell your products online.
Price: $49.00
10. Amela
Meet the gorgeous beauty care WooCommerce WordPress theme Amela. It features all the tools you need to run a modern online store. It’s thanks to Elementor page builder it lets you easily manage the overall appearance of your site and create pages that perfectly match your business goals and target audience preferences.
Packed with a selection of home page layouts, header, footer, mega menu and product builder, custom Elementor widgets topped off with full WooCommerce plugin compatibility. The theme developers took care of all the important components such as quick-view, wish-list, newsletter popup, off-canvas mini cart and many more.
Amela also includes Revolution Slider and Advanced Custom Fields Pro, along with tons of premium widgets which make creating amazing looking pages super easy! The Amela theme is a complete and powerful eCommerce solution for all beauty shops, hairdressers, salons or any other business that sells beauty care products. Build you next online store with Amela WordPress theme.
Price: $49.00