It’s the first Wednesday of the new month and you know what time it is, It’s time for us once again to see what were some of the best free and paid for plugins and themes that you could find though the whole month of APril.
Below for today’s WordPress Wednesday round up you will see what were some of the best plugins and themes that people have used to either build up or refresh an already existing WordPress site(s)
In this month’s plugins roundup you will find 10 free and premium plugins that does things like giving you a full responsive and touch enabled slider, a plugin for those needing to integrated the Australian Post service in their WooCommerce install to plugins that helps you to add your own custom CSS into your site, a add on plugin for Visual Composer to a plugin that shows the top posts in your site plus many great other plugins that been developed in April 2015.
and over the theme side of this best of roundup for April are the themes, the themes roundup you will find are 10 of the best themes that really suits any occasion such as themes for photographers that wanting to showcase their artwork, a tumblog styled WordPress themes, a couple of one page themes, a powerful business theme that provides any companies or freelancers to create an awesome online presence to a WooCommerce compatible theme plus other great themes right below.
Plugins – Free & Premium
1. JustRows – Free
JustRows takes the featured images of posts from a given post type, and shows them as a responsive image grid. The generated galleries may be customized using one of many user-created configurations.
2. Slider Pro – Free
Slider Pro is a fully responsive and touch-enabled WordPress slider plugin that allows you to create professional and elegant sliders. This slider plugin was built with user experience in mind, striving to provide a clean and intuitive user interface in the admin area and a smooth navigation experience for the end-users. The lite version of Slider Pro allows you to create simple image sliders which are fully responsive and mobile-friendly.
3. Australia Post WooCommerce Extension – Free
Australian Post WooCommerce Extension is a WordPress Plugin that integrate the Australian Post service, it will calculate the shipping cost and the delivery time for your customer.
4. FAQs Shortcode – Free
FAQs Shortcode, is a shortcode generator which adds a neat frequently asked questions section to any of your pages. The functionality is built using native WordPress functions, which makes adding questions and answers as simple as adding a post or page.
5. AccessPress Custom CSS – Free
AccessPress Custom CSS is a plugin to add your own custom css to your site that will override plugins and theme’s default stylesheets. With this plugin you can put custom css code without editing your theme and/or your plugins files (really useful in case of any theme/plugin update). This is very easy to use plugin.
6. Visual Composer Responsive Inner Columns and Rows – $8
Visual Composer Responsive Inner Rows and Columns is a VC extension that gives Visual Composer users the option to add custom responsiveness to each interior column, giving infinite responsive options. The non-extended version of Visual Composer only allows users to choose individual column responsiveness in a primary row… but what if you want to have completely responsive columns within rows within rows?
7. PDF Wizard – $10
PDF Wizard is a Responsive FlipBook WP Extension you will easily convert any PDF into a fully functional FlipBook with just few clicks. It works on any server, high resolution images for zoomed pages will be created for you automatically.
8. Legacy – $21
Legacy Admin is most advanced and elegant White Label WordPress Admin Theme in marketplace. Along with White Label Branding features, It comes with 20 Elegant themes and gives you an option to Create your own custom theme. You can also control full appearance of Admin Menu, Top Bar, Buttons, Content Boxes, Typography, Forms, Text and background colors, logo and so on…
Legacy Admin is compatible with both LTR and RTL modes so can be used for any language. Legacy admin is also Multisite compatible. Admin Menu Management Addon is again outstanding feature to use. You can easily Rename,Rearrange menu and submenu items, Change menu icons, Enable/Disable Menu and submenu items.
Legacy admin comes with Fully customizable Beautiful Login Screen theme. Also Control Top bar links, Customize Footer, Plugin access permissions, Login page customizing options etc. features help you to design web project (in WordPress) for your clients with your own company branding.
9. WP Popular Posts Pro – $14
Popular Posts Pro for WordPress is most power plugin to add your top posts on your website. The plugin allows site owners to display popular posts in a variety of unique layouts using widgets or shortcodes. You have to see the 10 layouts that are baked into this wonderful plugin.
10. Gallery Factory – $16
Gallery Factory is the new way to organise you image collection in WordPress. This plugin features unique interface we call Gallery Manager, which combines all you need to work with your image galleries in one single place. It is easy to handle even for beginners, yet powerful enough for demanding users. Every piece of the plugin is built to be interactive and self-explaining – from organizing your albums in multi-level folder structure to creating unique layouts in WYSIWYG layout editor.
Themes – Free & Premium
1. Toivo Lite – Free
Toivo Lite is perfect fit for business, personal or blog sites. It has beautiful Front Page template where you can show your important content, testimonials and Callout links. Toivo Lite is an accessible, translation-ready theme which supports plenty of features like Right to Left languages and Schema.org microdata.
2. Indentiy – Free
Identity is a modern, bright and colour tumblog style theme designed for the many bloggers who are young of heart, mind and/or spirit. Identity supports all post formats (standard, aside, image, video, audio, gallery, quote, link, status) and in the header you can display your gravatar image and users description.
3. One Page Scroll – Free
One Page Scroll is a one page responsive WordPress theme built using the Twitter Bootstrap framework and retina ready Font Awesome icons integration. One Page Scroll also uses the Options Framework plugin with extensive theme options which lets you set custom logo, favicon, typography and more. Choose from four predefined sections and build the homepage that best suits your company. Each of the homepage sections can have a parallax background image and its own set of colors. It designed to easily display your photo albums use WordPress gallery shortcode. You can not only use it to create a singlepage-style front page for your WordPress business website, but also create your personal blog easily.
4. Rider – Free
Rider is a lightweight, faster, clean, super flexible and bootstrap based responsive theme for business or personal websites. rider Theme is built on top of Twitter Bootstrap which means that your site can be displayed on every device (pc, laptop, mobile devices, tablets etc) without horizontal scrolling. It has got custom widgets, theme-options etc in order to get it customized as per your need.
5. Sydney – Free
Sydney is a powerful business theme that provides a fast way for companies or freelancers to create an awesome online presence. Sydney brings plenty of customisation possibilities like access to all Google Fonts, full color control, layout control, logo upload, full screen slider, header image, sticky navigation and much more. Also, Sydney provides all the construction blocks you need to rapidly create an engaging front page.
6. Sleek – $43
Sleek is a full bootstrap responsive landing WordPress theme as it’s an advanced and powerful premium theme that is suited for personal onepage/singlepage websites/blogs, business websites, users who want a very nice portfolio website where they can showcase their work, or for any other purpose website. This theme is fully responsive, flexible, clean, with a professional design, Search Engine Optimized and comes with an advanced framework with tons of powerful and flexible theme options in order to make your life easier and build your site very quickly.
Plus this theme has included Visual Composer Page Builder which gives you freedom to create awesome web sites with almost any layout you can imagine in only couple of clicks and will save you tons of time working on the site content!
7. Man’s – $58
Man’s is a flexible and simple theme which bring a different experience in Shopping, it’s sets the standard for setting up your online shop with a dozens of features! It is designed so it is easy to use and working on your site right on install. It is built with the latest in HTML5 and CSS3 in mind to ensure it meet the standard of quality websites.
Man’s is the theme that will get your website noticed, the clear cut design is useful for any type of Retail Shops, whether it’s a Fashion, Books, Toys, Hardware, Software, and lots more of products.The theme also compatible with WooCommerce which is has the capability to run an online shop within the range of your Business scope and WPML multi language plugin which means you can easily host your site to people of all languages.
8. Magpie – $48
Magpie theme is designed for photographers, the top features of theme are the horizontal portfolio page, semi-transparent menu area, full-screen galleries with zoom-in feature and social share, client galleries, four different single portfolio layouts that you can mix and match for each entry, services page, carousel sliders and more!
9. Shema – $43
Shema is a creative style one page wordpress theme, it’s perfectly suits photographers, freelancers, design agencies, creative persons and for landing pages as well. Shema is packed with dark and light versions of the homepage, blog page, premium plugins such revolution slider and visual composer and it is very easy to use and it doesn’t require coding knowledge.
10. Candidate – $43
Candidate is a stunning diplomatic and political WorDPress theme, with a clean, modern and crisp design perfect for a political campaigner or political campaign.Packed with every premium wordpress plugin you will ever need, you will have your creative business website up and running within days.
Fully supported with detailed documentation, video tutorials and premium forum support you will never be left wondering how to create your perfect wordpress theme.Allow your customers to get immersed in your content with full screen images, parallax video backgrounds, elegant typography and animations.
