Everything Needed to Start a WordPress Design or Development Project in one Place
Every time we start a new WordPress project or even upgrade an existing site, the questions asked are always the same.
This is why we created the Website Specification Questionnaire and the Website Building Calculator, but we’ve also created an (updated) toolbox that contains all the best tools, those that save us hours of work.
Cheap Domain Purchases:
- Webgate – Site for purchasing Israeli domains
- Porkbun – Site for purchasing international domains
- Namecheap – Another site for purchasing international domains
- Unstoppable Domains – Site for purchasing NFT domains (e.g., .zil .crypto .coin .wallet .bitcoin .x .888 .nft .dao .blockchain and more)
Quality Hosting Servers:
- Cloudways – The fastest and highest quality hosting for WordPress! Requires some technical skills but allows you to independently manage servers on Google Cloud, AWS, DigitalOcean, Vultr, or Linode and even manage multiple servers simultaneously. New! You’ve made it this far, so you deserve a discount coupon for new subscribers offering 20% off for 3 months! Just enter coupon code DIGITIZER at checkout
- uPress – Managed WordPress hosting, amazing speed, strong security, and a revolutionary management panel (5% discount coupon for new subscribers: UP05BENKA)
- WP Engine – Managed WordPress hosting on international servers
- WordPress.com – Create a free website or blog
Fast and Recommended WordPress Themes:
- Astra WordPress Theme – A WooCommerce and Elementor-based design template for those who need to build an e-commerce store with faster loading, higher conversion, and optimal shopping experience, without a line of code
- OceanWP – Another excellent and recommended template that works great with WooCommerce and all popular builders including Elementor of course
Important WordPress Plugins:
- Elementor Pro – Probably no need to elaborate but for the sake of it, Elementor Pro is currently the most popular WordPress plugin, providing advanced visual editing capabilities on the front-end of the site, along with professional and advanced functional control behind the scenes. Interfaces with a variety of familiar and useful systems
- Ultimate Addons For Elementor – A library of unique widgets for Elementor to add more functionality and flexibility to your favorite page builder
- JetEngine – An excellent plugin by Crocoblock. Everything needed for adding and editing dynamic content using Elementor. Allows building complex dynamic websites
- JetElements – Another plugin by Crocoblock with which you can create advanced designs quickly and easily. With such a huge variety of widgets, you can add any content you want to your site
- WP Rocket – WordPress site optimization and acceleration plugin that will boost your site’s speed ranking on Google
- accessiBe – Web accessibility solution for ADA and WCAG compliance. AI-powered web accessibility solutions. Make your site compliant with WCAG 2.1, ADA, Section 508, AODA, ACA, and more.
- LearnDash – Plugin for building a Learning Management System (LMS) without any programming or design knowledge and connects perfectly with Elementor, WooCommerce, and more
- WishList Member – Membership plugin for subscribers with a personal area, very powerful and easy to use plugin, perfect for creating digital courses and monthly subscriptions, selling digital products, and protecting private content for site members
- WooCommerce – E-commerce and virtual store plugin built on the WordPress platform
- Official WooCommerce extensions:
- WooCommerce Subscriptions – Plugin for building a subscription site to manage recurring payment subscriptions
- WooCommerce Memberships – Plugin for building a membership site with a personal area for each user and content restricted to members only
- WooCommerce Bookings – Plugin for building a booking site, managing reservations for events, workshops, meetings, etc.
- CartFlows – Excellent plugin for building various sales funnels to increase conversions and boost profits for your WooCommerce store
- WPML – Premium plugin for multilingual sites, sites translated into additional languages, which supports WooCommerce, Elementor, Crocoblock, and other popular plugins
- Piotnet – Plugin for creating complex to very complex forms. Things you can do with the plugin: complex questionnaires, calculators, multi-step forms, dynamic purchase forms, user registration and login forms, post submission outside the dashboard, and basically any interactive questionnaire you want to create
Additional Tools Worth Knowing:
- Sumit (new name for OfficeGuy) – Quick clearing for virtual stores and software for accounting and business management, all the organization’s needs in one place, 10 charges per month at no cost and a free plugin for WooCommerce
- Bunny.net – CDN content distribution network that will speed up your site, at a surprisingly reasonable price compared to all competitors. Highly recommended for sites with high traffic or global traffic coming from all over the world
- Creative Market – Fonts, graphics, theme kits, and much more, everything needed to build beautiful and uniquely designed websites
- MAX Business – Clearing and cash flow solutions for businesses: attractive commissions, fixed-price clearing packages, discounting and immediate credit services with continuous cash flow, and a business terminal at an affordable price
- PayPlus – Connecting payment and clearing solutions to advanced e-commerce sites such as: Prestashop, OpenCart, WooCommerce, Magento, Shopify, Cashcow, Wix and more.. PayPlus works in collaboration with all credit card companies in Israel and with a wide range of aggregators
- smoove – Everything your business needs for digital marketing, smoove is an advanced platform through which any business can manage its relationship with target audiences
- Envato Market – Templates for WordPress sites and other content management systems as well as HTML sites, elements, plugins, and many additional services
- SE Ranking – The Most Advanced Tool for Organic and Paid SEO Analysis and Promotion
- Canva – Create Better Content and Designs for Your Brand. Effortlessly Create Amazing Designs with Templates, Special Editing Features, and Download Options
- Make (formerly Integromat) – A Super Powerful and Easy-to-Use Tool with Unique Automation Features. Connect Apps and Perform Automatic Workflows in Just a Few Clicks. Effortlessly Transfer Data Between Applications so You Can Focus on Growing Your Business
- Flashyapp – Email Marketing and Marketing Automation for Your WordPress. Transform Email Marketing into Advanced Automated Marketing Using Popups, Email, SMS, and Push Notifications
- Rytr – An AI Writing Assistant That Helps You Create High-Quality Content in Just Seconds, at a Fraction of the Cost! The Only One in the World That Can Write in Hebrew Too
Recommended Facebook Groups:
- LinkedIn: Questions, Tips, and Connections – A Professional Group Open to Beginner and Professional LinkedIn Users and the General Public
- WordPress Professionals – A Support Group for WordPress Developers and Users, Both Beginners and Advanced. The Group Includes Members and Several Admin Web Developers and Infrastructure Professionals Who Have Worked with WordPress for a Long Time and Serve as a Reliable, High-Quality, and Authoritative Source for All Aspects of the WordPress Content Management System and Its Various Capabilities.
- From a Stagnant Site 🎯 to a Conversion Machine – Our WhatsApp Community Focused on Providing Value to All Members and Customers on Our Mailing List.
