Tools & Resources
Here’s a list of the tools and resources we use – many in our everyday business – and that feature in our blog posts and videos, too. We research and review them thoroughly before deciding to include them on this page. As such, we feel comfortable in sharing them and recommending them for you to use in creating and designing great websites. Please see our affiliate disclosure.
WordPress Themes
Blocksy
A fresh, lightweight, fast, highly customizable theme built for Gutenberg and page builders.
$49/yr - $299/lifetime
GeneratePress
A lightweight, fast, minimalistic theme built to work with page builders and Gutenberg.
$59/yr - $249/lifetime
WordPress Website Builders
Bricks
A theme and visual site builder that is fast, highly customizable and is easy to use.
$59/lifetime - $149/lifetime
Oxygen Builder
A fast visual hybrid site builder that replaces your theme and page builder. Highly customizable.
$99/lifetime - $169/lifetime
Divi
WordPress theme and visual page builder. Customizable and includes large selection of templates.
$89/yr - $249/lifetime
Elementor Page Builder / Addons
Crocoblock
A suite of tools for Elementor including custom post types and WooCommerce product pages.
$130/yr - $750/lifetime
Dynamic Content for Elementor
Unique toolkit for Elementor adding powerful widgets for custom posts, media and users.
$49/yr - $399/lifetime
Briefcase
A suite of tools for Elementor to customize WooCommerce product, shop, checkout and account pages.
$24/yr - $319/lifetime
Gutenberg Addons
WordPress Dynamic Data
Gridbuilder WP
Build advanced grid layouts with faceted search for eCommerce, blog and custom post types.
$49/yr - $249/yr
JetEngine & JetSmartFilters
Part of Crocoblock create custom post types and filters for both Elementor and Gutenberg.
$50/yr - $103/yr
WordPress Forms / Booking
WordPress Page Speed
WP Rocket
Easy to setup, powerful caching plugin that improves website speed and positively impacts SEO ranking.
$49/yr - $249/yr
Pefmatters
Increases site speed by reducing HTTP requests, stripping out code, and optimizing the database.
$24.95/yr - $124.95/yr
Email Marketing / Popups
GetResponse
Email marketing, website builder, webinars, marketing automation with easy to use builder.
$15/mth - $580+/mth
Bloom
Email opt-in plugin that’s part of the Divi membership. Easy to use, behavioral triggers and A/B testing.
$89/yr - $249/lifetime
Stock Photos / Video / Music / Fonts
PixaBay
Over 1.9 million high quality free stock images, video and music you can use anywhere.
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Deposit Photos
Over 198 million royalty-free images, videos, illustrations, vector art, backgrounds and music.
$29/mth - $1,500/on demand
Envato Elements Photos, Videos & Music
Unlimited downloads of 54+ million photos, video, music, sound effects, templates and more.
$16.50/mth
Envato Elements Fonts
Unlimited downloads of thousands of font styles and types plus other creative assets.
$16.50/mth
Font Squirrel
A resource for free, hand-picked high-quality commercial-use fonts. Some paid fonts are also available.
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Photo Editing
Skylum Luminar
A simple to use editing application that uses artificial intelligence to help complex editing tasks.
$67 - $89
Photoshop
The industry standard image editing and photo retouching application for Mac and Windows.
$9.99/mth
Affinity Photo
An image editing application that offers all the necessary features and fuctions.
$49
Stencil
An online app to easily and quickly create visuals for blogs and social media sites. My wife loves it!
$9/mth - $20/mth
BeFunky
An all-in-one platform to easily edit photos and create graphic designs and photo collages.
$6.99/mth - $59.88/yr
Remove Background
An online app to easily remove backgrounds from images within seconds.
$1.99 to $.40/img - $9 to $389/mth
Video Editing
Final Cut Pro X
A Mac only professional non-linear, non-destructive video editing application.
$299
Davinci Resolve
A non-linear video editing and industry standard color correction application for Mac and Windows
$300/studio
Process / Client Experience
Plutio
An online app to manage projects, track time, create proposals and handle invoicing.
$15/mth - $30/mth
Admin Menu Editor Pro
WordPress plugin to customize and hide admin areas based on the user role.
$29/yr - $59/yr
Hosting
Cloudways
Cloud hosting plans on Linode, DigitalOcean, Vultr, AWS or Google Cloud servers. Great uptime and support via chat and email.
$10/mth - $3,568/mth
Rocket.net
Managed WordPress hosting on very fast servers including CDN. Fast support and can also help identify WordPress issues.
$25/mth - $200+/mth
NameHero
Shared, VPS or Dedicated Cloud hosting on fast managed servers. Support via phone, chat and email. Free site migration.
$8.95/mth - $670/mth