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Its the first Wednesday and like always we are here to see what were some of the best free and premium WordPress plugins and themes that you could of found though out October.

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 October. The plugins you can find below are hopefully a bunch of useful plugins that can do things like intergrating the helpdesk portal of Freshdesk, Zendesk or ZohoSupport, to a plugin that is specially for those who want to connect Yahoo for sending their emails, a multistep checkout plugin for WooCommerce, a great new Dashboard Theme that uses Google’s Material Design, a security plugin and a great new Page Builder plugin.

and over on the theme roundup you’ll be able to find nearly any type of theme that you may need such as business themes, WordPress themes for creative agencies, multipurpose themes, WooCommerce supported theme and even a child friendly theme that been released during October.

Plugins – Free & Premium

1. Bellows Accordion Menu – Free

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Bellows is an awesome accordion menu for WordPress. It works with the WordPress menu system to allow you to build beautiful accordion menus for your site.

2. WP Helpdesk Integration – Free

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WP Helpdesk Integration integrates WordPress with service desk tools to capture support tickets & contacts from your website. You can design the forms with Contact Form 7 or default WordPress forms. The form created can be embedded in Post, Page or Widget. The information collected are sent to anyone of the helpdesk portal Freshdesk, Zendesk or ZohoSupport with secure API connectivity.

3. Fast Link Shorten Plugin – Free

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This plugin is a waste of time for the sole purpose of quickly instantly a link of your choice, without having to bc.vc link to turn works. Activate the plugin and you can use in 3 stages in a way unlimited. After defining the system, your user ID and API key, you only need to use a short code of the process.

4. WP Yahoo SMTP – Free

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With WP Yahoo SMTP plugin you can connect Yahoo to your WordPress website for sending emails. It bypasses the normal WP mail function and sends email using Yahoo service.

5. WordPress Social – Free

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With WordPress Social, you can quickly and easily see which of your posts are getting the most traction from social media websites. Through this information you can further optimise your posts for social media and ultimately get even more social shares.

6. Coothemes Shortcodes – Free

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CooThemes Shortcodes is a free WordPress plugin that provides a pack of shortcodes. With this powerful yet easy-to-use shortcode plugin, you can easily create sliders, services, testimonials, members, columns, tabs, buttons, feature boxes and much more. You can easily and quickly create your beautiful shortcodes and make your theme premium with a simple click. Check screenshots for more information.

7. ARG Multistep Checkout for WooCommerce – Premium $19

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ARG Multistep Checkout for WooCommerce offers both the seller and buyer great experiences. It’s important to know that this plugin isn’t developed to only make the experience more enjoyable for the buyer but in the same way the seller must have well organized and intuitive options to work with. The main feature of this plugin is that you can do lots of customisations using the built in options and get the look you have in mind in no time.

8. Material Admin – Premium $22

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Material Admin is most advanced and elegant White Label WordPress Admin Theme in marketplace.Along with White Label Branding features, It comes with 100 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…

9. meReactions – Premium $8

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meReactions is a Reactions System for WordPress is a system of reactions with soft and beautiful animations, with it you can add or remove available reactions, besides having a rich documentation, it has an easy installation.

10. WPSec – Premium $13

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WPSec is a WordPress security suite that contains some essential security tools for any WordPress site. Featuring a Web Application Firewall, Intrusion Prevention System, Rate Limiter and a number of hardening steps; this plugin leaves you in the best position to combat security threats.

11. Utter Builder – Premium $34

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Utter is a great front-end WordPress page builder that lets you create remarkable things even with mediocre themes. Spice up your content and draw visitors attention to the point! Animate entrance of site elements so your site looks modern and fresh. Use modern parallax effect on sections and with professional look impress even more!

12. WP-Forms Builder – Premium $24

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The WP-FORMS is super flexible and has a fully responsive design, no coding for any type of forms, using the plugin is easy and fun, you can create, customize and build beautiful forms with drag & drop fields, apply existing form templates for design and use them right onto your site in no time. You can receive form submission data via email and store them in the database as well.

Themes – Free & Premium

1. Creator World – Free

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Creator World is a 100% Multipurpose theme, this theme you can use for your construction,corporate, restaurant, photography, wedding, industrial, hotels or any type of business. You can build your site in the Theme customizer which is very easy to use and user friendly.

2. Collect – Free

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Collect is a beautifully designed theme for blogs, portfolios and businesses. Create a custom mosaic of posts on your home page and control whether each one takes up one column, or appears extra wide or tall. Use Jetpack’s featured content to display important posts or pages above the home page grid. With tons of possibilities, no two layouts are the same. Designed to look great on desktop browsers, tablets and handheld devices.

3. Dolcetto – Free

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Being the sweetest and most user-friendly template ever and coming with a superb, responsive all-platform design, the Dolcetto theme will help your business get closer to the client and is the perfect solution for blogs, small business or corporate sites alike.

4. iStore – Free

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iStore is a child theme of MaxStore WooCommerce WordPress theme. iStore is WooCommerce WordPress Theme suitable for eCommerce websites of any store type: fashion, sport, technology, fashion, furniture, digitals etc. Its modern design is perfect to create a website for your business. iSotre includes plenty of customization options that are easy to use. Main features of iStore: Customizer theme options, background image and color, wishlist support, grid homepage block, product search with category select, SEO optimised, fully responsive, configurable home page, fast loading.

5. Red Mag – Free

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Red Mag is a magazine WordPress theme ideal for any sports magazine, newspaper, online magazine, review sites, blog or personal websites. Red Mag is child theme of First Mag – free responsive magazine WordPress Theme. Theme support WP Review plugin, an easy and powerful way to review content with stars, percentages or points rating. WooCommerce support is included.

6. Advance – Free

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Advance is a clean responsive theme that been specially designed for businessand general corporate website. It comes with the necessary feature for your website such as a business, personal, blog, portfolio etc.It is fully responsive and thus, looks stunning on all screen types: desktop, notebook, tablet and smartphones.

7. The Pearl – Premium $56

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The Pearl is a modern and beautiful theme perfect for hotels, motels, resorts, restaurants and other kinds of businesses that needs an automated booking system. The theme looks simple at first, with the classic two-column header: the left side is where you can introduce your place and the right side feature a nice and funny booking form. This hotel and reservation theme is very easy to install and use. The theme comes with intuitive Visual Composer plugin which saves you plenty of time and effort to get your layout and content done!.

8. Cosmetro – Premium $35

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Cosmetro is a cosmetics store WooCommerce theme packed with different layout types and settings for the header, footer, and sidebar. To impress customers with your offerings, you can show them in page-wide slides with captions and some text.

This image-rich design also boasts a lot of large banners throughout the layout. They are perfect for both your promo campaigns and extra categorization of your inventory. The major details are elegantly underlined with tender colors, which can provide a pleasant visual experience along with the light aesthetics.

Blog integration allows you to share interesting info with customers and make your store Google-friendlier thanks to keyword-rich content. Using this responsive WooCommerce theme, you can run a mobile-friendly store linked to social networks and equipped with a sticky menu, currency switcher, carousel, and many other tools.

9. Umbrella – Premium $39

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Umbrella is a premium Photography, Portfolio WordPress theme. Clean and minimal design will be perfect for Photographers, Designers and Creative Teams. Full-screen slider fully customisable and easy to use. AJAX loading will make your website lightning fast.

10. Drill – Premium $49

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Construction themes with creative style is a craze now. Every designer wants to come up with great design and great style. Drill is a perfect creative template for construction business. It has multi designed homepage version. We have came up with something very creative. It has around 11 pages of design with many shortcodes. We have used the Most popular Revolution Slider. Every content is easily editable with shortcode using Visual Composer. It has perfect WPML Support.

11. Cyan – Premium $59

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Cyan is a multipurpose WordPress theme that will support you in creating your new websites! with great attention to details, incredible features, an intuitive user interface and everything else you need to create outstanding websites.Built on top of Twitter Bootstrap 3 and WooCommerce. Cyan is a powerful & responsive All-in-One solution. You can create almost any kind of website for your own or your customers business. Cyan is the perfect solution for any website.

12. Agora – Premium $59

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Agora is perfect choice for amazing online stores. It’s fully responsive. Its modern design puts your products in focus and its AJAX functionality gives your customers a great user experience.

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WordPress Wednesday – The Best Plugins & Themes from October 2016