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
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.
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
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.
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 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
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.
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.
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.