Below you’ll find the essential tools and services that power my workflow and website. Whenever I’ve partnered with a provider through an affiliate program, you’ll see a small “Affiliate” badge in the top right corner. Purchasing through these links helps support my content at no extra cost to you—thank you for your support!
Some Tools and Services
This is the lynchpin in my Windows development that links all my custom BAT scripts to my FTP and SFTP servers for plugin updates and script updates it allows me to set and forget, and it was worth every penny I paid for it, I can’t recommend this software enough, it was a really upgrade from the free no longer developed FTPBox
This one is all me, this is where I sell some of my little plugins, designed not to make huge amounts of money, but each serves a single niche, and they are designed to make your life just that little bit easier using some of the other tools in this section
I use this on all my sites alongside bricks and as such it forms part of my must-have tools, if I am firing up a Bricks site you can be 100% sure that it will be followed second by Automattic CSS
The basis for almost everyone of my sites my builder / theme of choice what can we say about bricks its is currently the best builder both in terms of output and third party support, I have lots of third party additions for bricks and this strength’s what I can do with it, the output is pretty clean, it does a really good job and this is the reason it is the basis of my sites.
Gridpane hosts most of my sites, I am on their developer plan and have about a dozen VPS of various sizes with their support is top notch their scripts are great, and I really love their documentation, I can’t recommend them enough and infact they are one of only 3 webhosting companies I can recommend depending on your budget
I use devkit a lot and have published a few videos on it and how I use it for database, resetting, search and replace. It has so many different items I use on a website basis to to reset the installation for a tutorial or to view the database. It continues to get better and better and its well worth the fairly tiny price.
FlowMattic is my WordPress Automator of choice; it has solid performance, is infinitely expandable with PHP snippets and has a lot of native integrations as well as the ability to create your own.
Another email provider I’ve been using for about 5 years and have some of their best legacy offers I am not an affiliate, and I am not a lifetime deal holder I pay on some tri-annual deals from a previous Black Friday offer
This website is static and runs using simply static, I’ve found their support to be excellent and their documentation good and the benefits of making your block or sites static using a tool like this are many so If your considering that I recommend them