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
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
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.
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.
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 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.
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
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
InstaWP is my current quickfire WordPress Testing ground and where I tend to build my tutorial videos and test out new ideas and snippets
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