Its the first Wednesday of the new month and it’s time to see what were some of the best free and premium plugins and themes that you could find though out last month (August).

You will see right in the Plugin section of this roundup I’ve collected what I seem to be some of the hottest & newest plugins that been released during August. The plugins you can find below are hopefully a bunch of useful plugins that can do things like an awesome new 21+ shortcodes plugins, a plugin that adds a like feature to your site, a automatic SEO protection plugin, a new backup & restore plugin and a time tracking/activity reporting plugin.

and over on the theme side you will be able to find nearly any type of theme that you may need such as a business themes, multipurpose themes, WooCommerce supported theme and even a child friendly theme that been released during August.

Plugins – Free & Premium

1. Uix Shortcodes – Free

Uix Shortcodes makes it easy and quick to add the shortcode you need to achieve the page layout or function you desire. It provides easy to use over 21+ shortcodes. Currently, Uix Shortcodes supports: container, columns, buttons, progress bar, google maps, special heading, pricing table, icons, features boxes, testimonials carousel, team, list of clients, responsive video, audio, accordion, dividing line, tabs, code with highlighter, share buttons, contact form(use commenting form template), portfolio(support lightbox) and recent posts with custom template.

2. Nice Likes – Free

Nice Likes easily adds likes functionality to your website without requiring you to write a single line of code, while offering a lot of possibilities for developers to extend its functionality. You can make use of likes natively or add them with a template tag (PHP function).This plugin is fully integrated with WordPress.

It makes use of its native architecture to show likes for your content, and includes a huge set of hooks, so you can customize it in any way you need.

3. AudioIgniter – Free

AudioIgniter lets you create music playlists and embed them in your WordPress posts, pages or custom post types. By using the standard WordPress media upload functionality, you can create new playlists in minutes. Oh, you can use AudioIgniter to stream your radio show too!

4. SEO Defend – Free

WordPress automatically solves many SEO related issues. However, WordPress can’t take care of ensuring your website and domain assets are protected against negative SEO, black hat SEO techniques and bad SEOs. SEO Defend is a SaaS SEO monitoring solution, based on WordPress which ensures your WordPress site is always protected.

So this plugin periodcially scan and monitor your website with respect to domain, content, link, algorithm and social media related risk factors, look at SEO Defend as insurance for your SEO. Avoid Google penalties and keep your WordPress website safe from search engine algorithm updates.

5. Flexible Invoices – Free

Flexible Invoices is a plugin that allows you to create PDF invoices in WordPress. You can also generate PDF invoices, manage currencies, tax rates and payment methods, generate reports, bulk download invoices and more.

6. Pricing Table – Free

If you want to display any kind of offers or packages such as pricing plan, subscription plan, product packages etc. easily then you should choose ADL Pricing Table at it’s a great choice. The main feature of this plugin is the simplicity and ease of use, yet very effective and elegant to perform its job. You can show pricing plan for different purpose. Suppose, you have a membership website and you want to offer different membership plan to your users. You can do that very nicely with this pricing table plugin.

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HeartBeat is a blazing-fast AJAX search solution for WordPress, it can search through thousands of posts within a fraction of a second. You can add any post type to the search index, and yes you can also add WooCommerce products.Your visitors will get relevant product and query suggestions as soon as they type.

Faster and curated suggestions attract visitor attention to products that match what they are looking for.

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The BAN Users has been developed to enable administrators to quickly BAN (aka disable, suspend…) users from logging into their WordPress user account, as well as the option to change the status of all their posts.

There are several configurable options that allow the administrator to control how the BAN will be implemented such as redirecting them to a custom holding page, or sending them a custom email notification. Once BANned they will be unable to login until an administrator reinstates their account.

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Backup And Restore is a wordpress plugin through which you can take or schedule backup on local server or cloud servers including Dropbox, Google Drive and Amazon S3. You can restore your whole site including database on any of existing restore points with just a click. Downloading of your wordpress site, database and all of your backups are also possible which can be restored through the zip file and the sql file.

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WP Floating Menu Pro is a smart WordPress plugin that allows you to enhance your WordPress website’s usability with easy one page navigator and many other sticky navigation menus.

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A simple and ready-to-use plugin that lets you enhance your images thanks to filters.There are more than 15 filters to chose from. They take inspiration from those used by Instagram but are hand crafted by us.Once the Media Upload screen is opened, you’ll be able to select a filter from the sidebar which will then be applied to the image after inserting it into the post.

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WPTTAR is a WordPress plugin for businesses and companies who would like to keep a track record of there ongoing or past projects. Time tracking can be easily managed where developers, designers or other team members can submit there worked number of hours along with the comments.

Themes – Free & Premium

1. Wanderlust – Free

Wanderlust is a big bold travel blog theme, designed to feature your beautiful travel photos and stories. The home page has an optional posts slider which let’s you set up a specific slider category for those posts you want to feature there.

It’s on the home page you can also choose to (optionally) feature some static pages right below the slider too. Of course you can set colors, social media links, and logo through the Customizer so you can make it your own without any coding required. Happy trails.

2. MH NewsMagazine – Free

MH NewsMagazine can transform your blog into a modern online magazine or dynamic news website. This magazine theme is perfectly suitable for topics like politics, world news, economy and business news or anything else you can imagine. You can have the same layout in the premium version of MH Magazine (without the need of a child theme) which can be configured by making use of the flexible layout options. MH Magazine offers additional widget areas, multiple unique custom widgets, great features and extended layout options to manage several layout elements on your site including changing the color scheme and typography.

3. Astrid – Free

4. LayerStore – Free

LayerStore is a child theme of MaxStore WooCommerce WordPress theme for creating beautiful online store for selling almost everything. It is best for fashion shop, handmade shop, accessories shop, glasses shop, electronic shop, watches… or any other categories. Theme is user friendly and easy to use.

Main features of LayerStore is the Customizer theme options, background image and color, product search with category select, SEO optimised, fully responsive, configurable home page, product carousel, fast loading.

5. Maggie Lite – Free

Maggie Lite is clean & modern WordPress magazine theme. It is ideal for newspaper, editorial, online magazine, blog or personal website. It is a cutting-edge, feature-rich theme and is fully-responsive. Its feature includes: 2 post layout, author block, large featured images for page/post, social media integration for wider social reach.

6. Boston – Free

Boston is a minimal WordPress Theme designed for blogger, it provides many features that blogger will love. Whether you are looking to share your own thoughts, write about your latest findings, Boston is designed to fulfill these and a lot more.

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Abacus is a trendy and unique WordPress Blog and WooCommerce Theme aimed at individual sellers and small enterprises. It is based on top-notch web-design and WordPress code quality standards which gives it a refreshing look while keeping up with latest design trends in the industry.

Abacus comes packed with useful features custom post-formats, easy to use theme options using the Customizer, WooCommerce support and much more.

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Acceril is a clean, super flexible and fully responsive WordPress Theme (try resizing your browser), suited for Transpost and Logistics websites, Users want to catch and market their business online. The Theme is built Vafpress framework and offers support for the WPML MULTI LANGUAGE plugin, just in case you need itIt comes with a plethora of options so you can modify layout, styling, colors and fonts directly from within the backend. Build your own clean skin or use one of 18 predefined skins right out from your WordPress Admin Panel. Font, background and color options as well as the dynamic template builder will help you create the Website you need in no time. In addition to the global options you can set unique styling options for each entry as seen in the theme demo

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This elegant and intuitive theme is carefully developed and includes that set of pages, tools and settings that will help you create a professional looking and trustworthy online shop.Also, Boutique comes with several widgets that will help you improve the user’s perception of your shop.The Theme Options is user-friendly and requires no special knowledge, adding value to a beautifully responsive theme.

This responsive WordPress theme comes with pixel perfect design, dynamic mega menu, incredible revolution slider, product widgets, nice effect Static blocks. It also includes Powerful Theme Options allowing you change colors and features of theme just in some minutes. With Boutique, you are able to customize many aspects of your theme such as footer, navigation menu and fonts with ease.

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Plumber Zone is a modern and responsive ready WordPress theme is designed and develop specifically for plumbers, electricians, handyman, roof repairing, construction, building companies and other similar construction services. The layout looks beautiful at any device.The flexibility and powerful options allow you to customize the theme easily. The theme comes pre-packed with a drag and drop page builder (Visual Composer) to ensure you can easily design your website for your exact needs.

Plumber Zone is unlimited to customize with outstanding features like powerful admin panel, easy-to-use shortcode, typographic options, smooth WooCommerce integration, creative portfolio showcase, unlimited color schemes, different layout options for header and pages. Master slider, Contact Form 7, MailPoet Newsletters for WP and testimonial are included in this theme.

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Windsor is a splendind solution for online presentation of a newly built apartment complex, office center or a house. You can use the theme to sell single property object or modify it as a corporate page for real estate agency. We are sure, the theme will go beyond the scopes of your initial expectations and provide more features than you could imagine.

The theme features pop-up menu and side scroller that is very useful when switching between page’s sections. Windsor is compatible with Visual Composer if you want to add more pages with your own layouts, with bbPress and BuddyPress to create forums and discussions between your visitors, and many other premium plugins.

12. Top News – $49

Top-News is a simple, feature-rich, user friendly, fast-loading, customizable, functional and modern WordPress news, newspaper, magazine, blog, video and publishing WordPress Theme. This theme is fully responsive, fits any size of display from lower to higher resolutions and supports all modern browsers. It also supports YouTube and Vimeo videos.This theme has multiple homepage and header variations and easy to use admin back-end. The flexible and powerful options allow you to customize the theme easily and the drag & drop page builder makes it easy to create unique and creative homepages.