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
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.
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
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
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
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
I’ve got all of SurelyWP’s plugins on Reallyusefulplugins.com. I run their support portal and I also run their toolkit for surecart too for its FluentCRM integrations
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.
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.