SleekWP
Dennis is a genius, and I’ve brought all his tools, including block studio. I use SleekAI on this site, it handles my ALT text for me, it’s really good, costs pennies to run, SleekView is on my list to thoroughly test out too.
Tools & Services I Rely On
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
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SyncBack Pro
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
ACF
ACF is my custom fields and post type plugin of choice I use the pro version and its probably the third plugin I install on every site after ACSS and Bricks, its rare for me to build any site that doesn’t use ACF including this site where it powers this tools query loop! ACF is my favourite simply because it just works, has great documentation and videos and is the industry standard.
Devkit
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.
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SureForms
SureForms from Brainstorm Force is a really nice Guttenberg first form plugin. I use it a lot, and I have written an add-on for it called Response for Sure Forms. This allows you to use other API based automators, such as flowmattic to return items to our forms based on workflow.
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Etch
Etch is the new builder by Digital Gravy and will form part of my tech stack early on I purchased the pre-release early unlimited lifetime licence given how well I liked AutomaticCSS and Frames it to me was a no brainer, the current development cycle of frames is impressive.
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Gridpane
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
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SureCart
Another tool I use on reallyusefulplugins.com, it handles my premium licensing and updates and my sales, I have made extensive tools for surecart including URL Paramaters & Dashy
Simply Static
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
Really Useful Plugins
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
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InstaWP
InstaWP is my current quickfire WordPress Testing ground and where I tend to build my tutorial videos and test out new ideas and snippets
AutomaticCSS
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