The best WordPress Black Friday deals for your website

The holiday season is upon us, one of the busiest times of the year for shoppers, retailers, and delivery drivers. It’s also the time to take advantage of great deals that retailers only offer during this season. And it all starts on the day after Thanksgiving: Black Friday.

What started out as a way for accountants to show end-of-year profitability in black ink is now an annual tradition during which retailers offer great deals to consumers to encourage them to make more purchases and kick off the holiday shopping frenzy.

The one-day event has evolved into something bigger. By adding Cyber Monday to the mix — and the three days in between — retailers have created a long shopping weekend to give consumers plenty of opportunities to save a lot of money on their holiday purchases. And the opportunities to save keep increasing — some deals even begin before Black Friday and extend beyond Cyber Monday.

The deals aren’t limited to items you might wrap up and put under a tree, either. For example, now you can even find special offers on all sorts of services that can help you take your website to the next level.

WordPress Black Friday deals

WordPress is an open source content management system, which means developers can build tools that enhance the WordPress experience and offer them for sale. Users can purchase tools such as plug-ins, development tools, management and support devices, and themes, as well as savings on hosting and page-building services.

Online services that offer WordPress solutions have taken advantage of the holidays by offering considerable savings on products that can help enhance your web presence. We’ve compiled a list of the best WordPress Black Friday deals for 2024.

Plug-in deals

Plug-ins are the quick and easy way to add functionality to your WordPress site. Chances are there’s a plug-in that provides a solution to any functionality your site is lacking. Plug-ins can handle tasks as simple as changing a site’s color to tasks as complex as organizing and manipulating data.

1. Jotform

You can use the Jotform WordPress plug-in to create forms for special discounts and offers, which you can prominently display on your website — no coding skills required. Additionally, you can set up email subscription forms to keep your customers informed about upcoming deals.

Gathering feedback from your customers through surveys can also provide valuable insights into their shopping experiences and preferences. And with over 10,000 free Jotform form templates at your fingertips, there’s no need to build a form for your WordPress site from scratch — just pick a template and customize it to fit your needs.

Jotform is offering 50 percent off its Bronze, Silver, and Gold annual plans for Black Friday. The offer expires December 3.

2. ProfilePress

ProfilePress helps WordPress site admins monetize their websites with paid memberships. It’s a WordPress membership plug-in that accepts both recurring and one-time payments. It’s fully integrated with Stripe, PayPal, Apple Pay, and other merchant services providers.

For Black Friday and Cyber Monday, ProfilePress is offering 25 percent off new purchases as well as upgrades with promo code BFCM2024.

3. AAWP

AAWP helps Amazon affiliates incorporate product lists, bestseller lists, and Amazon partner networks into their WordPress sites. This powerful WordPress plugin also has a geotargeting feature that automatically directs site visitors to their own country’s Amazon store based on their location.

AAWP is offering a 40 percent discount for Black Friday.

4. wpDataTables

wpDataTables is a plug-in that creates beautiful data tables and charts without requiring coding skills. It allows users to create tables by pulling data from a variety of sources, like Excel and MySQL. wpDataTables is offering up to 70 percent off to its customers on its Standard, Pro, and Developer plans.

5. Discount Rules

Discount Rules is a plug-in for WooCommerce, an e-commerce plug-in for WordPress. It allows users to create bulk discounts, role-based discounts, buy-one-get-one offers, and other discounts in minutes. Discount Rules is offering 30 percent off its regular pricing with promo code BFCM2024.

6. Next3 Offload

Next3 Offload is a plug-in that optimizes WordPress speed by offloading WordPress media files from the WordPress media library to cloud storage providers. It automatically rewrites media URLs to ensure no interruption in your site’s look and feel. Next3 Offload is offering discounts up to 48 percent for Black Friday through November 30.

7. Admin Page Spider

Admin Page Spider is a plug-in that allows you to make edits to WordPress pages faster and more efficiently by making your posts easier to navigate. It enhances the WordPress admin bar with search tools, filtering tools, and quick-access menus. Admin Page Spider is offering a 30 percent discount with the promotion code BLACKFRIDAY2024.

8. Tourfic

This plug-in is specific to the travel and tourism industry. Tourfic enables you to create a travel or hotel booking site in WordPress without doing any coding. Tourfic features a custom review system and multi-vendor integration, and it supports payment gateways. Tourfic is offering a 60 percent discount on lifetime plans as a Black Friday promotion.

Theme deals

Themes are what help you differentiate your WordPress site from the competition. They allow you to customize your site to match your brand. The following companies provide creatively designed themes for every type of WordPress site, from blogs to e-commerce sites.

9. Themeisle

Themeisle is offering 50 percent off all themes for Black Friday. Themeisle features customizable WordPress themes for sites of all kinds from theme creators such as Neve and Hestia. It also offers plug-ins such as Visualizer, which allows you to embed interactive data and responsive tables to your WordPress site, and Otter Blocks, which let you add features like button groups, animations, and tabs to your pages.

10. Astra

Astra is a lightweight WordPress theme you can use to build any type of site. It has a growing library of templates created by talented page builders. Astra is offering up to 25 percent off its regular prices as a special this time of year.

Web development tools

These tools can give you the ability to customize your WordPress site whether you know how to write code or not. They can add functionality so your site can meet the needs of whatever industry you serve. Web dev tools can range from all-in-one solutions that can be used for any industry to specialized tools that cater to educators, marketers, or other specialized audiences.

11. Brizy

Brizy is a web development tool that allows anyone to build a website without development experience or coding skills. Brizy is an all-in-one shop that offers development, hosting, and plug-ins, providing everything you need to get a WordPress site up and running. Brizy offers 50 percent off WordPress subscriptions for Black Friday from November 29 through December 6.

12. LearnDash

LearnDash is a learning management system for WordPress sites. With the LearnDash LMS plug-in, users can develop online courses using their WordPress site. LearnDash also offers hosting services for an additional cost. For Black Friday, LearnDash is offering 40 percent off its services with promo code bfcm2024 starting November 27 and running through December 3.

13. CodeSnippets

CodeSnippets is an AI-powered code snippet management tool for WordPress. CodeSnippets allows you to manage which snippets run on your page with easy-to-use toggle switches to switch between regular and sale prices, background colors, sale badges, and much more. CodeSnippets is offering 50 percent off for Black Friday.

14. Master Addons

Master Addons offers a wide variety of widgets for Elementor, a popular WordPress site builder. It offers a variety of advanced features such as dynamic content, floating visual effects, and various other elements to help you design an impressive website that stands out from the competition and doesn’t require extensive coding skills. Master Addons is offering 50 percent off with the promo code BFCM50.

WordPress management and support services

These tools can reduce the administrative overhead of managing a site — or multiple sites — with numerous users. They can make it easy to create user accounts, manage profiles, upload content, and perform backups.

15. Paid Memberships Pro

Paid Memberships Pro is a plug-in that turns your WordPress site into a powerful membership management platform. It provides membership management tools such as communities, multi-tiered memberships, member email communication, and e-commerce tools. It also provides administrative features that allow you to granularly restrict content and permissions. Paid Memberships Pro is offering 50 percent off of its regular pricing with promo code blackfriday24.

16. Dashboard Switcher

Dashboard Switcher enables WordPress admins to build their own custom dashboards. It lets you customize your screen elements, menus, welcome screens, and pages (such as tutorial pages) without having to write a single line of code.

Dashboard Switcher is offering a 30 percent discount for Black Friday when you use code BF2024 at checkout.

17. CheckView

CheckView is a testing platform that enables you to detect broken WordPress forms in WooCommerce. CheckView has features such as form field submission validation, database save confirmation, and test submission scrubbing to ensure accurate data. CheckView is offering a 35 percent discount for life as a Black Friday promotion.

18. NitroPack

NitroPack is a platform that offers site and image load optimization for WordPress and e-commerce sites. It also offers image resizing and compression to improve the performance of your site. For Black Friday, NitroPack is offering 20 percent off all annual plans.

19. OptinMonster

OptinMonster is a lead-generation platform that integrates with WordPress and WordPress e-commerce plug-ins. It helps WordPress site owners collect email addresses to grow their email lists and offers services that create behavior-based offers to reduce shopping cart abandonment. For Black Friday, OptinMonster is offering big discounts on its pricing plans starting November 24.

Hosting deals

WordPress can’t do what it does best without a home, a place where users can store their WordPress content and all the themes, widgets, and add-ons that go with it. Your WordPress site will only get bigger as you add more content to it, so finding a hosting service that can grow with your site is important.

Managed WordPress web-hosting services can provide the cloud storage you need to host your site and the backup infrastructure you need to keep it up and running and your readers, contributors, and customers happy.

20. Hostinger

Hostinger boasts a fast, secure, and easy-to-use web hosting experience at competitive prices. Guaranteeing 99.9 percent uptime, superior speed and performance, and technical support available 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and 365 days a year, it’s an appealing choice for many website owners and developers. Hostinger is offering heavily discounted hosting plans ($1.95 per month plus two months free).

21. BlueHost

BlueHost is a web host that offers WordPress services. BlueHost offers AI-powered WordPress hosting, WordPress Cloud hosting with a 100 percent uptime service level agreement, WooCommerce integration, and dedicated professional designers who can customize your WordPress site to your specifications. BlueHost is offering up to 82 percent off hosting plans for Black Friday.

22. WP Engine

WP Engine is a hosting service that offers WordPress and WooCommerce hosting, security, monitoring, and e-commerce services. For the holidays, WP Engine is offering four months free on its annual shared plans with the promo code freedomtocreate.

23. Kinsta

Kinsta offers WordPress hosting services with some unique features, and one of them is free site migrations with no downtime. Kinsta also offers an application performance monitoring (APM) tool that allows WordPress admins to easily identify bottlenecks in the performance of their website.

Kinsta also offers unique add-ons like external backups to either Amazon S3 or Google Cloud and premium high-volume staging environments with increased CPUs and memory. Kinsta is offering 50 percent off its hosting plans for Black Friday through December 3.

24. HostWP

HostWP offers high-speed, secure, and reliable hosting for WordPress sites. It boasts solid-state drive speed and a built-in WordPress Manager that makes it easy to keep things running smoothly on your WordPress site.

HostWP is offering 50 percent off all plans with the promo code BFCM50.

25. GreenGeeks

GreenGeeks offers managed WordPress hosting with a socially conscious twist. GreenGeeks reduces its carbon footprint by buying wind energy credits to offset the energy it consumes, all while offering solid-state drive speeds, caching for quick page loads, and cloud storage. For Black Friday, GreenGeeks is offering more than 70 percent off of its pricing plans, starting at $1.95 per month for WordPress Lite and $6.95 per month for WordPress Premium.

FAQ

What are the origins of Black Friday?

The earliest known use of the term “Black Friday” to mean the day after Thanksgiving was in 1951 in a journal called Factory Management and Maintenance. The article used the term to describe when factory workers would call in sick on the Friday after Thanksgiving so they could have a four-day weekend.

Around the same time, police in Philadelphia began using the term to express their annoyance at the increased traffic, crowding, and other problems that accompanied the start of the Christmas shopping season.

Who standardized the length of the holiday shopping season?

The Thanksgiving holiday in the U.S. was originally established as the last Thursday of November. In 1939, however, that meant that Thanksgiving fell on the last day of November, which meant a shorter shopping season. The economy was still recovering from the Great Depression, so President Franklin Delano Roosevelt responded by issuing a presidential proclamation making Thanksgiving the fourth Thursday in November, rather than the last Thursday, to lengthen the holiday shopping season by a week.

Before Black Friday, what signaled the start of the holiday shopping season?

Before Black Friday, retailers held parades that featured Santa Claus to kick off the holiday shopping season. Once Santa Claus arrived in the holiday parade, shopping commenced shortly after. However, there was no standard date for when Santa Claus arrived, so it varied from region to region. The department store Macy’s was the first to link Santa Claus’s arrival with Thanksgiving Day in 1924.

When was Cyber Monday first held?

The National Retail Federation coined the term “Cyber Monday” in 2005. Since Amazon.com first started selling books online in 1995, shoppers had become increasingly accustomed to putting items into a digital shopping cart rather than a physical cart. Online retailers wanted a day to differentiate their sales from brick-and-mortar retailers, and thus Cyber Monday was born.

Is Black Friday observed outside the United States?

Other countries do observe Black Friday as the start of the holiday shopping season. Canada was prompted to initiate its own Black Friday deals when retailers noticed shoppers crossing the border to the United States to get better prices on gifts. Black Friday is also observed in Brazil, France, Norway, and India, as well as Mexico, where the occasion is called “El Buen Fin” (“fin” being short for “fin de semana”), which translates to The Good Weekend.

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