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 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
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.
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.
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.
Another Webhost Solution, they host my WPdemosite and WPdemostore websites, on which I do a lot of development. They also host several of my email domains and handle my business email too, so while they are one of the newest suppliers, I have been very surprised by their other knowledge and helpfulness. They inspired the wildcard DNS video for Cloudflare based on a support ticket I submitted.
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.
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
InstaWP is my current quickfire WordPress Testing ground and where I tend to build my tutorial videos and test out new ideas and snippets
While this one isn’t my automator of choice, I like it and use it, it has great linking with the Sure Suite of products which I use a lot and it also has the most intergrations I know of for an automaton, with additional new items like ‘human in the loop’ it continues to be a leader in its class, I prefer the data ownership I get with FlowMattic but if you don’t want the hastle of hosting your automation this is a really good choice.
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
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