Top Resources For Web Designers, Freelancers, And Business Owners
Find apps, tools, services, and plugins that I use and recommend. Pick from a condenced collection of my best tools and resources.
Professional WordPress page builders
Below are my only recommendations for WordPress page builders. When you are building your WordPress websites, I never recommend using a free or premium WordPress "theme" (Unless it's a full page builder). Keep it flexible. Own your creativity.
Bricks Builder for WordPress
One of the fastest professional page builders for WordPress. Build on VueJS, it's a snappy and feature-rich page builder for advanced and custom WordPress websites. Highly recommended.
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Oxygen Builder for WordPress
Oxygen has become one of the most well-known professional page builders for WordPress. It's very lightweight, but powerful. It is also developer friendly for those building more custom WordPress websites.
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Divi Theme (Builder) for WordPress
A well-know WordPress theme and pagebuilder. Easy to learn, use, and build simple sites. Not recommended for more custom WordPress websites. Good for beginners.
Direct LinkBricks Builder is my top recommended page-builder for WordPress.
Recommended WordPress Plugins
Level up your website build process and what you can offer to your clients. Pick from this assorted list of top recommended WordPress plugins will to build more custom sites, faster.
Pods - WordPress custom post and fields
A free and open source custom post type and custom fields plugin for WordPress that I have been using for many projects. It is my usual go-to plugin when I need to build a custom WordPress set up. Either create new post-types, custom fields, or both.
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StudioCart - Custom WordPress payment forms
This is the most flexible and customizable payment plugin for WordPress I have found. You can set up sales-pages, upsell, down-sell, and bump-offers. One slick feature I love is to have users be auto-logged into WordPress after purchase. Supports lots of integrations.
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GridbuilderWP - Card layouts, search, and filtering
A well-made, quality plugin to build custom cards for content listings. Also create fast search and filtering functions easily. With no coding you can build content cards, lists, grids, and a really slick filtering system.
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Happyfiles - Post, page, and media folders
A free and open source custom post type and custom fields plugin for WordPress that I have been using for many projects.
This plugin can also be used to assign different Bricks Builder templates based on what folder a WordPress page is placed in.
Direct LinkThis plugin can also be used to assign different Bricks Builder templates based on what folder a WordPress page is placed in.
Recommended hosting for Freelancers and Small Business
Below are my only recommendations for WordPress page builders. When you are building your WordPress websites, I never recommend using a free or premium WordPress "theme" (Unless it's a full page builder). Keep it flexible. Own your creativity.
WPAlchemy Managed WordPress hosting.
This is a fully managed WordPress hosting service with lots of premium services. This is for people who want a fully managed, consulted, and custom WordPress hosting setup.
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Cloudways - Premium advanced hosting
Cloudways have been an amazing partner with premium support to host my client websites. And for my own spread of websites. We also use Cloudways for our new premium WordPress hosting services at WPAlchemy.io.
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Dreamhost - Low cost and elegant hosting
Dreamhost is low-cost domain registrar and hosting service. You get everything in one package. I use it for all domain registrations and to set up email acccounts. I recommend to go for their Share Unlimited package
Direct LinkWPAlchemy is my recommended hosting. With a fully managed service.
Business tools and services
Here are a great collection of the best tools and services I use, or have used in my own or client businesses. I'm very picky on quality tools. Also when it comes to a well designed UI.
When you choose a tools or service to use in your business (or your client's business) it has to make sense, but also be enjoyable to work with.
Pods - WordPress custom post and fields
A free and open source custom post type and custom fields plugin for WordPress that I have been using for many projects. It is my usual go-to plugin when I need to build a custom WordPress set up. Either create new post-types, custom fields, or both.
Direct LinkStudioCart - Custom WordPress payment forms
This is the most flexible and customizable payment plugin for WordPress I have found. You can set up sales-pages, upsell, down-sell, and bump-offers. One slick feature I love is to have users be auto-logged into WordPress after purchase. Supports lots of integrations.
Direct LinkGridbuilderWP - Card layouts, search, and filtering
A well-made, quality plugin to build custom cards for content listings. Also create fast search and filtering functions easily. With no coding you can build content cards, lists, grids, and a really slick filtering system.
Direct LinkHappyfiles - Post, page, and media folders
A free and open source custom post type and custom fields plugin for WordPress that I have been using for many projects.
This plugin can also be used to assign different Bricks Builder templates based on what folder a WordPress page is placed in.
Direct LinkThis plugin can also be used to assign different Bricks Builder templates based on what folder a WordPress page is placed in.