This is the October 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 October!.
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 October. 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 powerful plugin that make it easy to create grids within a few clicks, to a plugin lets your back up websites. Also, we got a plugin multipurpose booking system plugin plus many more other types of WordPress plugins below.
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. EazyGrid for Elementor
EazyGrid is the easiest way to create grids in WordPress. It comes as a native add-on for Elementor, which can be used to create stunning grids with a few clicks. With built-in support for standard grid types like Masonry, Justified, Even. You even have the ability to create completely customised grid types. You will find something worth using with this plugin.
Moreover, it’s optimised for fast and smooth performance. The learning curve is minimal, so you don’t have to look up documentation to use this plugin. If you want a better way to grid something, try this plugin.
Price: Free
2. Everest Backup
Everest Backup is a modern plugin that takes care of your site’s backups, restoration, migration and cloning. It’s the fastest and easy to use cloud-based storage backup plugin.
The plugin has manual as well as automatic scheduled backup. With the free version, you can integrate Google Drive to upload all your backup data there. As all of the backup files are managed from your Dashboard within WordPress.
Migrating your website is simple. It’s just the copy and paste method. The method is just generated and copy the migration key from the source and paste migration to your destination website.
Price: Free
3. FS Poster Lite
FS Poster social media auto-poster is developed to make WordPress users achieve the best social media experience and grow their online presence.
So that’s mean there’s no more wasting time on social sharing. Grow your social community and increase engagements while creating amazing content.
Price: Free
4. Awesome Quick Viewer
Awesome Quick Viewer is for WooCommerce and it’s a lightweight WooCommerce based plugin. A user can easily view a product without redirection. The advanced slider is used for navigating gallery products. Within this plugin, it contains a whole lot of options and live customisable option..
Price: Free
5. Post Elements
Post Elements is a powerful Elementor add-on for any type of blog, news, newspaper, or magazine based website. It is here to help you to showcase the blog posts, images, and post categories beautifully.
It’s friendly with users. So this Post Elements plugin is a necessary feature for any blog, news, newspaper, or magazine. You also install this powerful extension into many WordPress themes.
Price: $19.00
6. Osteo
Osteo is a pricing table generator plugin for both the Elementor & WPbakery Page Builder. You can make the unlimited style of pricing table using only 7 preset layouts. Look, it is easy to use. And no coding knowledge is required!
Plus there is well over 350+ Pricing table styles that can be generated from this plugin. So make sure you check out the demo. The plugin developers have made some example styles for you.
Price: $15.00
7. Ultimate Booking Pro
Ultimate Booking Pro is a multipurpose booking system plugin. It’s uniquely designed for many types of businesses. The Plugin has been created to give a high-quality user experience for clients and admins.
It has awesome features that give a safe and perfectly functioning appointment-booking form. Users can check availability and make bookings for your services with different duration and prices and product availability.
Lastly, you can Control the Staff (Team) or Resource availability and Services List to be shown in the form.
Price: $19.00
8. Smart Product Review
Smart Product Review is an all-in-one review pack for your WooCommerce store. It lets you to add customers’ reviews and rating with images and videos with AJAX review submission and pagination. There’s three different layouts (Grid, List, and Slider) available within the plugin.
Price: $10.00
Themes – Free & Premium
1. Geologist
Geologist is a streamlined theme for modern bloggers. It consists of a simple single column of posts, paired with a sophisticated color palette and beautiful sans-serif typography.
Price: Free
2. Voluto
Highly customisable magazine theme. Voluto is a blog and magazine WordPress theme. And it is perfect for beginners as well as seasoned webmasters. It works great on any kind of device. Features an extensive set of Customizer options and comes with easy to import demos.
Price: Free
3. Signify Tune
Signify Tune is an elegant music theme. The theme comes with a simple and visually aesthetic light colour option. The theme is dedicated to all musicians, bands, artists, and other music businesses.
Its a child theme of Signify. It has Sections like Sticky Playlist, Playlist, Featured Slider, Featured Content, Hero Content, Portfolio, Services, and Testimonials have been added in Signify Tune.
Price: Free
4. ExS Boxed
This is a fast and extremely customizsable multipurpose child theme for ExS WordPress theme. If you need a boxed design that this theme will be the best choice for you. It also has a WooCommerce and Easy Digital Downloads (EDD) plugin support so it will be perfect solution for your online store and e-commerce business.
It has unlimited color options, headers and footers layouts, 15+ blog layouts, separate layouts for each category and many more super useful features that you can set up directly in your Customizer with live preview.
Price: Free
5. Zyth
Zyth is a WordPress theme that can help you create a super stunning online presentation. Suited for your gym business, fitness centre or any other sports-related businesses.
It features a built-in Class post type, so you can create workout classes and beautifully list them for your audiences.
While having a pricing plan that has been integrated with Contact Form 7 plugin will allow you to easily identify which package type that customers are interested in.
Also, it comes with the 3rd version of the super powerful & customisable framework by GoodLayers. And it is super flexible with tons of great features such as background wrapper options, custom skin colour for specific item wrappers. There are also three view modes(live, preview, block), ajax page builder saving, pre-built pages and blocks and much more.
Price: $64.00
6. KnowBase
KnowBase is a premium easy-to-use theme for the bbPress plugin. It comes with a clean and modern functional design. It’s an ideal choice for your knowledge base, forum, or bulletin board website.
The theme layout is optimised for great readability. And it comes with a native and durable layout suitable for knowledge base and forum websites. It includes catchy, elegant and modern design elements. Easy-to-use back-end powers flexible and responsive layout.
The theme includes support for Elementor. You will receive detailed documentation along with additional features like unlimited colour schemes, google web fonts, custom widgets, etc. Functions are based on a solid back-end Redux framework.
Price: $39.00
7. Bascart
Bascart is the ultimate WooCommerce theme that is suitable for any eCommerce business. The theme is optimised for creating WooCommerce online stores that provide a super-fast interface for the best user experience. This WordPress theme contains different homepage designs with easily customisable and well-organised editable functionality.
The theme provides plenty of elements and powerful features that can configure all you want. It has features like a mini cart, custom widgets, slider with smooth transition effects, Menu with multiple column styles and advanced widgets.
Price: $19.00
8. Galatea
Galatea is a creative portfolio WordPress theme built for Elementor. It’s been dedicated to digital-designer, artists, design studio, personal portfolios or anyone who wants to create a professional website easily.
It includes everything you need: blog, shop, portfolio etc. And been made simple and functional out of the box, yet offer high customization for advanced users who want to build the best website for their client.
So, either import the demo content with one simple click and edit the content directly. Or start from scratch to create your own concept using a solid scaffold.
Price: $75.00
