While WordPress offers a ton of features & flexibility, there is still a lot of functionality missing from the core and one of the best way to fill in the missing pieces is to get yourself the right plugins that fill that missing piece in the core or another plugin.
WordPress plugins offer all kinds of customisation for site admins, however, with almost 48,891* plugins but there heaps more when we are talking about Paid Plugins or Premium Plugins like there are know as.
Finding whats the newest plugins is a hard task, So this WordPress Wednesday is a collection of the newest free and paid WordPress plugins that can help take your site from good to awesome.
* 48,891 plugins are currently actively on the official WordPress Plugin repository.
1. Style the Toolbar – Free
This is a very simple plugin that changes the colour of the WordPress toolbar for users on the front-end to match the theme within the admin area. Supports RTL language direction setting and honours the hide toolbar option by not including the stylesheet if the toolbar is hidden.
2. WP Affiliate Linker – Free
WP Affiliate Linker is a simple, effective WordPress link cloaking plugin that allows you to insert cloaked / disguised affiliate links in your WordPress web site content.
3. Glamix Instagram Shop – Free
The plugin automatically add all of your Instagram posts above the footer of your website with our amazing technology already integrated, which detects all of the fashion items in your posts and offers your followers to purchase the exact items or very similar ones.
4. Comments Censure – Free
Comments Censure filters uncensored comments before showing them to end-users. If you want to keep your blog clean, then this plugin is just for you. Comments Censure is very flexible and has many settings, which allows you to manage censoring process as you want, disallow or replacing uncensored words with pre-defined words.
5. Malware Scanner – Free
This Malware Scanner plugin detects web malwares, vulnerabilities and other security threats which can harm your server. Provides malware scan reports.
6. Save to Facebook – Free
Save to Facebook button lets people save items or services to a private list on Facebook, share it with friends, and receive relevant notifications. For example, a person can save an item of clothing, trip, or link that they’re thinking about and go back to that list for future consumption, or get notified when that item or trip has a promotional deal.
7. SubPageLister – Free
Shows a list of subpages, with display options for content or excerpts, buttons and links, featured images, and layout. Enter the shortcode [subpagelist] in any page to generate the list.
8. Crusader Security – Free
Bleeding edge technology combined with security expertise has brought one of a kind security suite for your WordPress website that nullifies all threats with ease. It prevent exploitation by filtering out all incoming requests, and easily block out unwanted visitors with the firewall protect yourself against spam and brute force attacks with an amazing collection of security tools inside of one WordPress plugin will keep your website safe from the online dangers.
9. WooCommerce Store Closing – $19
This plugin works under WooCommerce online sales plugin. It allows you to choose the days and times when your store is open for sale.
10. Undo and Redo for Visual Composer – $6
Undo and Redo for Visual Composer gives you the number one missing feature in Visual Composer: having the ability to undo and redo your changes. Now you will be able to easily revert back a mistake you did. You can undo/redo every change you perform in Visual Composer, such as moving elements, adding/removing elements, and modifying the settings of elements. These two new commands are instantaneous and changes are performed right away. Visual Composer is required to use this add on.
11. Formi – $27
The Premium Form Builder. The mythical drag and drop multi column form builder has arrived. Formi is the easiest WordPress plugin that allows building intuitive forms with draggable layouts from elemnets spanning multiple columns. With formi you can create forms with just few clicks. Formi will help you create beautiful intuitive forms with mythical draggrable and resizable tools.
12. WooCommerce Email Templates – $29
The transactional emails sent through your WooCommerce store are critically important emails, which should convey important information to your customer. Customising those emails is a simple and effective way to differentiate yourself from the competition. It allows you to convey the information you are trying to communicate in an effective way and generate a higher level of customer engagement.