What WordPress Stack do the World's Best Pro's use?

good morning i hope you're well wow have i got a treat for you today to celebrate reaching 3 000 subscribers on youtube and a huge thank you for supporting the channel i reached out to the best wordpress pros out there and asked them to tell us what stack they use when they're building wordpress websites and the responses i got were just incredible i was gonna edit this video down but there's just too much good stuff in here but i have put chapter markers down here below so you can fast forward to specific sections or rewind back and watch it again huge huge thank you to everyone that took part you'll see the names as you go through it we've just got the biggest names in wordpress telling us how to build wordpress websites i asked them five questions what is their favorite wordpress plugins what are their favorite wordpress themes what is their favorite wordpress hosting what is their favorite non-wordpress app that they use and finally gutenberg yes or no so you're going to find this incredibly useful i recommend get yourself a coffee or a cup of tea slice a cake and watch the whole thing it's just fantastic content so let's get into it we're going to start with paul over at wp tuts over tupol just wanted to say a quick congratulations for your 3 000 youtube subscribers an absolutely fantastic milestone so congratulations for reaching that and spreading a lot of useful information out there in the youtube community okay so you asked me what are my favorite tools my tech stack those things that i can't live without so i'm gonna answer that question right now [Music] so first of all we've got one of my favorite plugins and we're allowed to have three apparently so i'll try to keep this concise first step we've got admin columns pro if you build websites with wordpress and you want to expand what your dashboard could offer admin columns pro is a great tool the free version has tons of options but the pro version opens that up to even further cool things check it out next up we've got dynamic content for elementor anybody that knows me and knows my channel know that i love a little bit of dynamic content when it comes to wordpress and this plug-in just has a ton of options available inside it the third and final option is acf front-end forms pro this just means that i can create front-end dashboards for woocommerce wordpress all those kinds of things quickly and easily and let that into my clients hands as quick as possible three cool plugins that i would definitely recommend checking out so next on the list is my favorite theme or themes i'm allowed to have three again but i'm only gonna choose one because i don't really use themes that often for me bloxy and bloxy pro are basically the theme that i would use right now for pretty much most jobs that don't require something to be built completely from scratch it has a ton of option integrates great with dynamic content acf those kinds of tools and is very very intuitive and easy to use so check that out if you haven't already seen it now favorite hosting this is one of those things that's incredibly subjective but for me i'm going to give my nod my recommendation to a company that i've been working with for probably 10 plus years both in my freelance business as well as my previous business and i still use them today with pretty much all of my clients including a big chunk of my own websites and that's a uk company called cloak why do i recommend them do they offer the best options no they're pretty much the same as most other companies but what they do have is amazing technical support should you need it which at some point you probably will need it so if you're looking for a company that has great support available 24 7 and incredibly helpful i would recommend checking out cloak so the next question is what non-wordpress tool do i recommend and for this i would have to say this would be thrivecart now thrivecart gives me a great platform to build an online business around that's exactly what i've done so i would recommend if you're looking for an easy cart system that integrates into lots of different things check out thrive cart and if you are in the online education area they've also just released a new feature called learn and learn plus now if you are a thrive cart user you get access to learn for free and this is a very simple but growing online educational platform that opens up a ton of options if you want to provide these kinds of tools and education to users so the final question is gutenberg yes or no in my case i have to say it's a yes and a no the reasons are yes because it's the future of what we're going to do with wordpress so we kind of have to embrace this whether we like it or not and it is getting slightly better but no because we still have to rely upon third-party tools to make it truly usable for most use cases so for me it's a yes and a no at the same time so there we go that's the tech stack that i use and recommend on a pretty regular basis so that's hopefully answered the question and once again i just want to say congratulations on that 3 000 subscribers on youtube heroes to 10 000 50 000 and beyond well that's enough from me take care [Music] hi there my name is chris lemma i am a blogger over at crystal.com i'm also the gm for an online learning plugin called learndash and now let's get into the questions the first is one of my favorite plugins and why so i'll tell you the plugin that i put on every single site no matter what is a plugin called code snippets it lets me put in all little bits of code stuff you might normally put in a functions.php file and i can turn them on and off as i like it's a utility but it's a super powerful utility the second another utility plug-in that i use on just about every single site is uh yoast and often the premium version but not always and that's because i know at some point someone's gonna write something and you want those gamified little green dots to turn on so i love uh that seo plug-in and the third is also a utility and and you might go okay what about an e-commerce plug-in or forms plug-in whatever but some of these utilities i just put on every single site and so it's critical for me you know i have a short list and these are the ones i use all the time and that would be the um header footer code manager again people are going to want to send me little scripts turn on javascript here and there and so i like having a clean place to put that so those are the three plugins those are not the fancy or sexy plugins not the most well-known plugins but they're the ones that i use all the time the second question my favorite themes that's an easy one bloxy astra cadence those three in any order right all of them are a relatively newer wave of themes that have pro version plugins that go with it to enhance it all of them are super lightweight they often all have additional theme templates that let you get going faster i love the code bases i like that they're clean i like the settings and configuration of what you can turn on and off i think they're fabulous the third my favorite hosting well i work for a hosting company called liquid web they're the parent that owns learndash i also spent the last five years building the managed wordpress and managed woocommerce hosting over at nexus.net which is owned by liquor web so i would say that's my favorite just because i've poured all sorts of time and energy into building some very cool and stand apart features on the managed hosting side over there for for wordpress and woocommerce that some people don't even know about uh all right my favorite non-wordpress app or tool gotta be zip message uh zip message is for asynchronous video it's for all of my conversations it's great for pre-sales it's great for hiring i've used it in pre-sales i've used it in hiring i've used it on uh qualification for you know coaching clients um i've used it in coaching like i can't tell you how many different ways i've used zip message but it's my all-time favorite and then uh question number five gutenberg yes or no yes all the way yes uh took me a long time took me two years to get to the point where i said okay i can i can give it a shot i like it i like how clean it is the thing that i love most is the ability to create a block of content save it off somewhere and then dynamically drop it into posts based on rules right so i can say if this is a member and you can go look at you know if you go to chrisman.com blog and then you see membership and you click it and you start looking at membership posts before the third h2 before the third heading there's often a block that drops in that says which is the right membership plugin for you that little bit of content is now block and that block can be put anywhere you want and you can put timer restrictions on it visibility restrictions on it placement restrictions on it rules for when it appears that's the whole benefit of gutenberg is that it it breaks everything apart into these blocks that then you can use and reuse as you like and that's my favorite so there you go hope that helps you hope you are able to check some of those things out and have a great day hey jamie thanks so much for inviting me to do this video big congrats on the 3000 subscriber milestone and i'm excited to answer your questions that you have prepared but first i should probably introduce myself i'm leslie i'm co-founder of newsletter glue which is a wordpress plugin that lets you write build and send newsletters and newsletter templates directly inside the wordpress blog editor so enough about me let's head over and answer some questions the first question is what are your favorite plugins and why so for me the three plugins that i always install in any new site i built are yoast redirection and tiny png so yoast is an seo plugin and i'm not a professional seo expert by any means so having yoast come in and you know optimize my site for me for search engines is really helpful i love the little checklist and the red light green light thing that they do and once all of that's checked i can publish the post and not worry about seo beyond that the next one is the redirection plugin the redirection plugin lets you manage your 301 redirects as well as check on your 404 errors so that all sounds like a bunch of like code words so let me explain what that means 301 redirects is basically when you take a permalink or a url and you point it to a different url instead so my site my personal site is lesley.pizza and let's say i wrote a post and i titled it congrats jamie so it would be leslie.pizza congrats jamie this is all for example of course and so that you tell me hey thanks for the post um can you instead change the url to congrats poodlepress because that's the name of my youtube channel and i don't want people to get confused so all i need to do because of this redirection plugin is go back to my post and change the permalink to congrats poodle press instead of congrats jaime and the redirection plugin just handles all of that for me so visitors just get automatically redirected and they are none the wiser and that's just kind of a nice experience for them the third plugin that i really like is the tiny png plugin and that's an image compression plugin so let's say i uploaded an image of my doc when i upload it onto wordpress the tiny png plugin just kind of automatically compresses that down in the background without me having to do anything yeah that just kind of makes my life easier because i don't have to worry about manually compressing images so the next question is what are your favorite themes and why so my favorite theme right now is bloxy and i like it because it's kind of the perfect combination of powerful features um easy and intuitive to use beautiful and not bloated with unnecessary features i also really like everything that anders noren does he makes some really beautiful simple paired down themes you can pretty much just activate any of his themes right out of the box and expect to have a beautiful site and i can't say the same for most other themes uh the last one that i kind of want to shout out is to the automatic team actually so uh they don't or in my opinion they don't do a good enough job about publicizing and promoting all the themes that they built but they've actually been kind of like behind the scenes uh uploading a whole bunch of themes consistently and if you search in the theme directory for automatic themes you'll actually find a whole bunch of really nice simple and interesting themes on there the next question is what's your favorite host to be perfectly honest i don't really have a favorite host i think that the hosting industry is really competitive and any big brand name host you've heard of is probably going to be good enough the next question is what's your favorite non-wordpress tool and for me that has got to be clean shot which is a screen capture and screen recording tool i use it every single day and i talk about it and promote it at least once or twice a week so what i like best about it is that it gives me all of these super easy to use tools to markup screen captures so like drawing arrows pixelating confidential areas highlighting stuff writing text adding steps so like one two three four like all that stuff is just like super easy when you use screenshot in comparison to if you use um i don't know the native preview app on on mac likewise with screen recording it's really easy to just like capture um five minutes or three minutes of a particular part of your screen and then you can upload it onto the cloud and it gives you a link really easily so that you can paste that link into support videos which is what i often use the tool for and yeah it's just kind of made my day-to-day screenshot and screen capture workflow much much easier and i couldn't recommend it highly enough the last question is gutenberg yes or no so for me it's a simple and super biased hard yes because newsletter google the plugin that i run works off of gutenberg yeah so we are just kind of super tightly integrated into gutenberg so of course for me again very biased but for me i like the gutenberg project and i'm a huge fan of where it's going and that's it i hope these answers were useful to you and your subscribers congrats again for reaching the 3 000 milestone i can't wait till you reach the 10 000 100 000 and 1 million subscriber milestone i will definitely be there cheering you on hi everyone bob wp here i hang out over on do the boo dot io uh website for woocommerce builders but i'm not really here to talk about that i'm here to first of all congratulate jamie on hitting 3k subscribers man as a content creator for over a decade i know how tough it is getting subscribers in a big congrats especially since i've never hit 3k myself so way to go jamie i'm hoping you carry on that tradition and keep building it up my stack told me to start with three favorite plugins now i love jamie but man these are so tough because this is stuff that i've used on my site since i don't build sites so i'm going to go through real quick three plug-ins uh yoast and the reason i mentioned these i mentioned yoast already is that these are basically plugins i probably have had my site since i you know for years and years and years a lot of years so yoast seo i've used a premium version for a long time i basically couldn't live without it and you know as far as other ones uh the broken links checker that's been a lifesaver now probably because i write so much content over the years and being able to pick up those and even as a podcaster i put a lot of external links in there and i want to make sure they're working so it's nice to catch those and the third one god i i can't i can't help this it's got to be woocommerce i mean i've used woocommerce since it came out and it's been on my site um i've sold everything but physical products so it's been a godsend for me to basically sell whatever i need to sell online especially a lot of virtual stuff so woocommerce what can i say gotta love it uh the other thing he asked me is three themes now this is kind of strange because i haven't you know always changed a lot of themes i'm gonna actually go through my three phases of themes which would probably put those in my favorite uh the first one was i did a lot with genesis studio press themes for many years uh they were easy flexible they just did what i needed to be done not too long ago i moved over to generatepress again loved it simplicity powerful very lean i used that for a long time and then i had a developer or actually an agency redo my site recently so they put astrid in for the tools that they they had put in there that was the best bet and so far i've loved it so i'm going to say those are my three favorite because those are the three most recent i've used uh hosting again a you know there's so many hosts they do great stuff and i'm gonna just go by experience my favorite hosting right now is liquid web because i'm on them and they've um yeah done an amazing job uptime it's like my site hardly ever goes down and what can i not say but give the hosting that i'm using right now as my favorite because it does such an awesome job so so that that really is it uh outside of wordpress i use a lot of different tools and i wish i could go through them all but jamie said i can just share one so i gotta stick to jamie's rules one of the ones i've over the last few months really used a lot of is click up uh it's it's a way to organize you know whether you're an individual or a team just to put everything everywhere i've used evernote i've tried others and nothing really worked my bizarro way of creating uh you know lists and keeping content bookmarking and all this stuff click up go check it out it has saved my life i'm able to organize my life which is an amazing thing in itself so click up should uh feel extra special because of that reason because my life is not easy to organize gutenberg yes or no ah man i used gutenberg when it came out of the gate in 5.0 and i say yes i guess it's a yes because i've used it for a long time now oddly enough the rebuild of my site i'm using beaver builder a lot for my pages and my posts which is cool because it works and it's fitting the need i have right now but gutenberg i love it i sympathize with everybody else that has had struggles with it i know that you know the builders i deal with they've had to do it on that side of things and yeah i can feel for you other people that are doing uh client work you know agencies that are doing sites you have to deal with this and your clients yeah i feel for them too and just new users or people that are used to i guess really the old editor classic editor and having to move over but you know we're in the tech world things got to change and i think it's for the better and i think there's a lot of potential so it's definitely a yes i love using it actually my workflow when i was using it a lot more improved compared to the old classic editor which a lot of people have said just the opposite so really that's it that's that's my stuff thanks for listening to me congratulations to jamie i'm 3k subscribers i i figure he just needs to add a zero on that and soon he'll be at 30k so way to go jamie and thanks everybody for listening you can find me over at do the boo dot io hi jamie congratulations to your 3 000 subscribers on your youtube channel this is amazing uh for all your hard work you've done thank you and i can't wait what happens with your youtube channel next year and what you're gonna do and what kind of amazing cool new videos you put out um you asked us a bunch of questions and um here are my answers so my favorite wordpress plugins uh three maximum you set so first of all the gutenberg plug-in because we are developing for gutenberg at the moment and it's just exciting to see all the things happening in the wordpress base with gutenberg so this is my first pick then also super exciting is the woocommerce blocks plugin because it helps create the blocks for guru commerce and getting woocommerce ready for full site editing and blog themes and i also want to mention the anti-spamby plugin from the plugin collective because it's just an amazing initiative that they picked up this plugin and maintain it for so many years they're doing an amazing job and it's a cool um alternative plugin for anti-spam on wordpress uh next you ask our favorite themes and of course this is um hard for me to answer of course we love our own themes craving for wordpress so obviously i have to say our i know theme which we create on our aina website where we build blogs and now we have the full side editing block theme the first one for i know so um obviously i love that and it's also exciting at the moment to follow the 2022 theme which will be the first default full set editing block theme on wordpress so it's exciting to follow the development there so i add that to my list next one you said favorite hosting so my favorite hosting it's also the host that we use it's kinsta this is easy to me to answer this question because ever since we moved there was it last year we had a lot of trouble with hosting before and now we are just happy fellas no problems and they have amazing support and helped us out so many times so kinstein is my pick there um favorite non-wordpress app or tool um i have to say working with manu together the team creating design and development for wordpress it has to be figma because it's so amazing it's changed so much you can work and collaborate amazingly together and you can build these awesome components which help so much for our blog development and yeah we just love sigma next question gutenberg yes or no and why obviously yes yes yes we can't wait um it's tough it's been a long road a lot of changes happened but i think it's just um important for wordpress being there for such a long time and obviously also a lot of wordpress users rely on us developers creating the best experience on the web for them impossible so i'm pro gudenberg because i think it's important to evolve and even if it's not an easy road to go changing something that has been there for long um so um but i'm obviously pro good back so yeah that's my answer uh thanks so much and see you on the web and on youtube soon thanks so much for asking me to join here hey my name is lee i am a wordpress developer and i uh i like to say that i'm a block obsessed wordpress developer because i love building with blocks but uh we'll get to that here in a second so i want to go through the list of some of the uh the the wordpress stack i use for some of my work so i build wordpress sites plugins themes uh for myself but then i also build them uh for clients and use them for client projects as well so for the little agency side of my business um i love using elementor uh actually i use that for all of my client work uh it makes it really easy to quickly build beautiful sites they've got a whole bunch of parts and fully done websites that you can go in and tweak for all of your customers needs and i love their design systems and and tooling that that comes with that um with with that being said i also love building with blocks so for all my personal stuff i uh use a plug-in that i built called wp draft it makes it really easy to add tailwind utility classes to the block editor which is kind of cool because it gives you a lot of extra functionality and ability to style uh core block plug-ins uh so eventually i want to use i want to move all of my agency work over to gutenberg only i'll probably be using my draft plugin for themes then i've got uh i use elementor's hello theme just as my default theme for all my client work it's just easy i know it inside now it's it's pretty lightweight and it makes it easy then for my fun projects and for myself i use my wp draft uh block based full site editing theme that i created myself it's actually uh it's super lightweight it's five kilobytes so it's in the wordpress directory and it's the perfect companion to my wp draft plugin that i use and i'm gonna be i'm i build all kinds of uh different fun demo sites and templates that are going to be launching soon with that so those are those really are my core tools that i use otherwise like as far as like adding plug-ins to every site i always add site kit um for google analytics makes it super easy to see what keywords are working who's coming to my site where they're coming from and uh what content is attracting in my my my traffic so um as far as hosting goes i am obsessed with spinupwp.com i use that in uh i use that with alongside digitalocean so with spin up it makes it really easy to manage and launch wordpress sites using you know pretty much any cloud hosting provider like uh aws digitalocean uh the list goes on and on but i use it with digitalocean and then just launch all of my sites on spin up wp they provide ssl certificates you can have deploy deploy scripts to easily um install and activate plugins and themes and uh that that's my go-to and it's affordable so you can't go wrong uh finally uh to the last question as far as gutenberg heck yes uh i'm obsessed with blocks and building uh block plugins and themes and websites and eventually i'm gonna move all of my stuff over once everything stabilizes and full site editing comes out here soon every i'm going to be a gutenberg only shop i think it's really lightweight sites load super fast i think it's going to really speed up the build process for uh building and launching you know not just simple sites but more complex sites as the gutenberg ecosystem grows so um that's it those are my pro tips thanks for having me see you soon hi there my name is nick diego and i'm a wordpress developer so first question uh favorite plugins so whenever i start a new site whether it's for myself or for another project i always install yoast seo i use the premium version of that you can also use the free version um i also install google site kit so it allows you to have google analytics right within your site which i just find handy i just of course you can go to google analytics but having it in your dashboard is is pretty nice and then also because i saw a lot of digital products or at least i have in the past for about the last i don't know five six years i've been using easy digital downloads and i've liked that a lot uh it's been the easiest way to sell digital downloads for me so the next question we have here is uh favorite themes so again i build a lot of my own themes for my own needs but when it comes to themes these days i'm really enamored with a lot of the full site editing themes that are coming that are coming out there aren't very many of them but i felt a couple more notable ones is tova and um i have to shout out frost uh by brian gardner i'm a full disclaimer i'm working with brian on that uh but these are themes that kind of take or kind of leverage the new functionality in gutenberg and wordpress and i fully expect to the next year or two full site editing themes are gonna kind of be the the way to go and some of these themes that are coming out now including 2022 which should be coming out in january with wordpress 5.9 are kind of paving the way for for new ways to build themes in wordpress uh favorite hosting i can i go a bit uh off the beaten path here so i've always hosted my own sites and i've done this for probably about a decade now uh through digitalocean so digitalocean allows you to have your own servers virtual servers and then um i've paired digitalocean with serverpilot and serverpilot provides you with a way to easily manage wordpress on top of digitalocean so you know managing your own servers is not for the faint of heart uh but that's what i've used for a long time um most recently uh i've spun up some websites using wp engine as well uh so those are really the only two hosting platforms that i've used since since my uh beginnings in wordpress um favorite non-wordpress app or tools uh i i know figma is a big thing these days but i've been a sketch user from the beginning so i use sketch a lot to do mock-ups and even design icons and all that kind of stuff so sketch is definitely one of my go-to's uh when it comes to code editors i have fallen in love with adam i know what there's a lot of like you know different all everyone has their favorite uh uh code editor but i use adam uh which is by github and uh what else out there that i use yeah those are pretty much the two things oh actually uh for video recording i really like screenflow um for doing demo videos and stuff it's a bit more it's more expensive a bit more of an advanced application but screenflow is awesome if you're on a mac so that's a great one too and then the final question is gutenberg yes or no so i'm a huge gutenberg fanboy i'll be the first one to say that it's got at this use this new technology but i kind of see it as the definitely see it as the future of wordpress that's not to say that the past was bad or wrong or anything it's just that there's a lot of great new functionality that's coming to wordpress that i think will from a user perspective user perspective eventually really improve the way that we work with wordpress websites so that's what i'm focused on right now whether it's working on full site editing themes like frost i have a bunch of my own personal projects related to blocks in gutenberg namely block visibility and i just see a lot of potential in it now and things that you can do now or will be able to do that you just simply couldn't even fathom in the classic editor so i'll be the first to uh sympathize with those who maybe are not so enthusiastic about gutenberg and i'm i'll be the first one to tell you there's a lot of improvements that are still needed uh with gutenberg and as wordpress evolves but i'm all on board and i'm going to be doing my part especially with contributions to core to make sure that gutenberg is the best it can be so uh hopefully that answers all the questions um i may not be the the best uh maybe you should no not everybody should be running their own servers on digitalocean but that's what i've used um and hopefully you guys found this useful my name is paul lacey i'm a designer half of the time and the other half of the time on a podcast or so 50 of the time i'm trying to make people not think and the other half i'm trying to help people to think a little bit harder about stuff anyway so top plugins let's see easy peasy classic edit no just messing around beaver builder viva fema advanced custom fields pro that's my three picks for my core stack with that particular set of plugins i can do basically anything i want and it really suits my workflow it suits my particular skills and lack of in certain areas as well and for me that is just the way that i like to build websites and the way that i mean to in the future i want to add a few more in because just choosing my standard stack is going to be a little bit boring so i'm going to chuck in a recommendation for a performance plug-in perf matters it's not a caching plug-in it's a script management plugin so you can decide what scripts are loading into any given page or particular set of pages you want so if you're not using a form on the home page then why are you loading the form script into the page it's just wasting time that has got to be downloaded to the to the site if you're using google maps but only on the contact page you don't need the api to be pulled into every single page so perf matters helps you control all of those things so that you're efficiently sending the right stuff to the browser and you're getting the fastest possible load speed that you can get on that side of things there's one more that i want to mention that i really love in terms of like plugins that got me excited in the last couple of years that came out as new things for me is presto player it's a video embed plugin that allows you to embed your youtube videos or your vimeo videos with a custom skin over the top but for me the best part about it is you can hook it up to a cdn called bunnycdn and you can stream your own videos from bunnycdn straight into the player and you don't get all of the junk scripts that come with vimeo and youtube and stuff like that so you get absolutely fantastic performance in terms of hosting i'm not going to name a particular host i'm in the podcasting space i need sponsors so i can't upset anyone right but i'm going to tell you that the type of hosting for me is super important what i want is a balance of power customization and also flexibility and for me what that means is a vps server the one i use for the majority of my client sites is cloudways it's not the the best price but the ease of use is is just phenomenal on that when i have more edge cases i'll go with runcloud so my own development server is on runcloud because i can buy a super cheap but super powerful vps plug it into run cloud and i'm paying just a couple of dollars for multiple cpus multiple gigabytes of ram it is absolutely amazing my own site as well runs on a godaddy vps funnily enough and the crazy thing was it outperformed the other ones that i was using so yeah vps for me is the way to go i'm not really into the managed hosting space i used to use those for me they don't present good value for other people they are perfect so again whatever whatever works for you for me it's vps all right non wordpress products thrivecar is a checkout it helps you create funnels or just run checkouts for things like wordpress care plans or products or digital products and stuff like that 50 of all my income is processed through thrive car and then on to stripe and it just allows me to ad hoc create different digital products or or product type services and sell them as a freelancer super super easy convertbox is a pop-up and notification bar app and what it allows you to do is log into one central dashboard and control all the pop-up campaigns or the notification bar campaigns throughout all of the sites that you want to manage so if a client calls me up or even from my own site and i want to put a new pop-up somewhere i don't even have to log into the wordpress dashboards and try and figure out what i had on that site or what plugin was there i just log into convertbox and i can control all the sites from everywhere and in terms of like an added value product for as a freelancer to offer to care plans that is great because i'm able to offer that particular product as part of my managed service all right gutenberg yes or no the gutenberg block editor is the future of the core software there is no doubt about that so you can decide that you're going to get on board because of that or you can decide that you're going to leverage the array of plugins and page builders or whatever you want that people use to do wordpress the way that they like to do it bear in mind though that while gutenberg block editor is the future right now the future isn't going and buying or installing four or five different block packs to try and bridge the gap between the things that the block editor doesn't do yet that it will do in the future adding all of those extra bloat and plug-ins right now is just a moment in time that isn't the future so if you are going all in on gutenberg maybe you want to wait a little bit watch jamie's channel he'll keep you up to date and you'll know when is the right time for you to jump over or if it's never the right time for you and if not don't worry you've got tons of choice out there press asked me to do a video about the most controversial topics in wordpress and of course i am happy to oblige that man is jamie marcel and i'm congratulating him on his 3 000 his journey to 3 000 subscribers on youtube man i got 14 000. you'll get there soon jamie trust me you'll get there soon you can find me at mattreport.com thewpminute.com and i'm the director of podcaster success at a company called casos.com let's just kick it off with the top three plug-ins that jamie asked me to mention of course i got to give it up to seriously simple podcasting plug-in it's our plug-in there at castos if you're looking to start a podcast it doesn't get any easier host a free podcast right out of your wordpress website when you're ready to upgrade to get better analytics faster cdn delivery and just a more rock solid stable podcast hosting solution you upgrade to castos plugin number two is going to have to be my tried and true gravity forms love gravity forms use it on every site even though carl hancock doesn't really like me that much i continue to use it it's the longest uh premium plugin that i've been paying for and number three i got to give it up to my plugin easy support videos if you're looking for an easy way to support your customers through videos inside the wordpress dashboard check out easysupportvideos.com for that plugin number two favorite themes and why my favorite theme of all time and i use this on matt report in the wp minute is the chaplain theme by anders noren pretty much anything that andrews noren puts out uh i love i have to give it up for the chaplain theme number one number two if i were a freelancer starting a new wordpress uh consultancy agency i would really look at the nev theme by theme isle i know it doesn't get as much mention as well a theme i'll mention in a minute but all of the big themes it doesn't always get thrown in the mix but i think folks should pay pay close attention to the nev theme and their collection of plugins that support that theme and then number three i have to give it to generate press i think what they're doing over at generatepress is amazing and what they're doing with generate blocks is even better so really excited for that uh favorite hosting and this is what i mean this is some controversial stuff i don't really always give a vote to the favorite hosting because it is so uh varied i worked at pagelea for three years they now are acquired by godaddy i think if you're looking for rock solid hosting for big projects one should look really carefully at their web host first like a page lead or if you're looking for something more value based certainly something like akinsta seems like a fine solution or if you're looking for a diy solution uh i would say something like a spin up wp i answered three there even though there's only one but i think it's going to vary on the project and uh it's not always about the cheapest uh hosting that you can find favorite non-wordpress app or tool simple note uh i use it it is an automatic product it is a simple note-taking app as the name infers and i just love it use it every day just everything goes in it from writing to notes to ideas i just can't stop using it because it is so simple i wish i did a little bit more but it's also the simplicity the ease of just opening up writing a note and just knowing that it's always going to be there across all my devices and then i'm really looking a lot more at things like notion todoist discord there's a bunch of other apps that i really love but my day to day has got to be simple note gutenberg yes or no and why again another loaded question gutenberg is uh it's here to stay obviously um i want to stop saying that i hope we all stop saying that it's been years and uh i do like where it's headed it's taking a lot longer to smooth some of the most obvious rough edges to put it politely and you know basic things like dragging and dropping blocks into columns and setting up columns are still something that are is a struggle and it shouldn't be i think it's a fantastic tool to be available in core wordpress but there are tools out there like beaver builder that are page builders that have their opinion on building pages and i think what we'll see is page builders will not go away that there will be an opinionated way to approach building themes and vote with your dollars if you really like something like a beaver builder keep your license going but at the end of the day gutenberg is really powerful it will become really powerful and at the end of the day we'll give a lot of our end users of wordpress some strong flexibility and some really nice features for building a website with wordpress that's all i've got for you today it's mattreport.com casos.com if you want to start a podcast congrats to jamie hitting 3 000 subscribers it's not an easy road keep it up smash that like button subscribe to his channel retweet all the things he does it's not easy being a content creator all right until next time hey wordpress people it's keith here from highrise digital i've got a few questions that jamie's asked me so i'm gonna do my best to give some insightful answers to those first question favorite plugins and why gonna be really boring here i think uh and give what are probably to be some of the most popular answers but on nearly every website that i've built and we have as high rise digital have built in the last five years um we've had advanced custom fields on there we've had gravity forms and we've had yoast so advanced custom fields we used heavily pre gutenberg to give content editors the ability to add interesting formatting to a page add lots of different types of data super easy way to to create a much richer content management experience in wordpress um today we still use it because it allows us to build custom gutenberg blocks without actually having to know any react and get into that whole world so that's been a real life saver for us gravity forms is our favorite form builder plug-in um mainly because it's the one we know the best and i've been using that one for nearly 10 years as well um pretty much does everything that we've ever needed to do there are a whole load of extensions uh add-ons for it um if the core functionality doesn't get you far enough uh it's never let us down and very boringly as used the number one seo plug-in and it does everything that i need it to do and everything that my clients need it needs to do and and usually a whole lot more on top we rarely need to go for the premium option uh the free options usually enough for our needs and our client needs question two favorite themes and why well i build themes so my favorite theme is probably going to be the next one that i'm gonna build a custom theme for a client we very rarely actually just use off-the-shelf themes so we don't have too much experience in them i would say recently i've been keeping an eye on theme development especially because of gutenberg so block based themes and now the full site editing themes are really really interesting um i did a lot of deconstruction of the 2021 theme and i learned a whole lot from that 2022 looks like it's gonna be amazing uh and then there's some really incredible work going on in the community um special hot tip i think to anders noren who's just building the most beautiful looking themes i've ever seen uh themes like i think it's to vertova um absolutely stunning uh full site editing themes so definitely check that out favorite hosting i don't know if i would say i have a favorite host um but the one that we're using the most at the minute is from a managed hosting point of view is kinsta so we've used a few different hosting platforms before uh and we've just found kinsta to be great in terms of their support um i really just like the platform everything seems to be easy it's very wordpress specific sites are are pretty fast um so no real complaints with kinster they've they've been really great so i would go for kinster from a managed point of view and if you want to get a little bit deeper into the weeds and kind of do a self-managed version we've had a lot of success using spin up wp uh mixed with digitalocean uh so we'll buy digital ocean droplet stick spin up wp on the top of it and it allows us to pretty easily spin up new wordpress websites on the dissolution platform which makes things super cheap and really really fast but you need a little bit a few more skills to handle that side of things which luckily my business partner mark has number four favorite non-wordpress app or tool again i'm just gonna go for the one that i use the most uh probably aside from my code editor which i kind of change quite regularly based on what people are talking about at the time but the one that's just kind of sat there in the background and done a really good job for me for a long time is tower um it's a get uh tool i basically gives you a graphical interface uh user interface for forget so i don't need to be constantly in the command line uh i just find i'm not really a command line person and so something like tower helps me get all the power um that git brings and version control brings in general um but without needing to to know how to use the command line in any depth uh so i find that really really really valuable and i've been using it for a really long time so that's tower and the last question is gutenberg yes or no and why really uh tough tough question i'm but i am a firm yes actually i think it's been it's been a pretty painful process and especially at highrise digital we've we've struggled we've we've wanted to adapt and we've tried to adapt and we're still trying and we're still working at it and it's been a lot of work and it's been quite a lot of pain um but but when i build websites now uh i'm actually having a lot of fun building them apart from the frustrations you know things change things break and i can bang my head against the desk but generally i can do a lot more or i can enable my clients to do a lot more there's some just really powerful stuff in there you can do a lot with just the core blocks and some some sprinkling of css on the top it really is quite mind-blowing how far you can get um without actually having to do a whole lot of work and it really does give clients just massive massive flexibility marketing managers i find absolutely love it because they don't want to have to commission us to design a new template design and build a new template every time they have a new campaign so we're getting pretty good feedback from clients in general um and it is getting better uh mostly so for normally yes um it's like i say it's been difficult but i think the future is pretty bright and we do have to remember that as developers i think we can be quite self-centered in the in the sense that we want wordpress to be a developer product we want it to be great to develop on but really the end goal is the end user it's the person writing the content um publishing content like the the owners of the websites so i do think that the experience in general is probably better or at least it will be in the right hands so i'm a yes for gutenberg um hope that was useful uh thanks for the opportunity to speak to you bye hey there my name is rich taper and i write about wordpress in particular gutenberg on my blog rich tabor.com i'm the head of product for a platform of site design and creation tools for the block editor called extendify so for the questions the first of which is what are my favorite plugins and why i would certainly say that i'm all about blog plugins collection wise codeblocks is my favorite although i am a bit biased there but in the realm of single block plugins there are a lot of interesting blocks out there such as the layout grid block by automatic this allows for more creative approaches to designing and laying out pages so plugin wise i think i anything block related i'm going to definitely check out and probably use on my own site the next question is what is my favorite theme so i'd have to say that 2022 is by far the most inspiring default theme that has been created to date i know it doesn't land until 5.9 in january but y'all this theme sets the baseline for the future of wordpress and i'm really excited about it you know 2022 is setting the standard for how this new full site editing era of wordpress is going to handle themes while also laying the foundation for anything that's created after this point i i mean these themes are very different they're not just a set of styles for your website it's more of a framework that can be built off of and more of a starting point for building your entire website off of and they're more manageable for everyday folks to create and build on top of you know we've been saying for years that themes are changing themes are changing but but yeah it's finally here like this is the big one here in january third question is what is my favorite hosting uh i'd had to go with the tried and true hosting at godaddy the folks behind the scenes are still really good friends of mine and i know they're working hard to deliver the best wordpress hosting experience around and it shows it honestly does question four i love this one it's a bit outside of wordpress but it's what is my favorite non-wordpress app and uh i'd have to say that my go-to and i know it's kind of cliche but figma is killing it on the design front i'm absolutely slain it's it's you know it's incredible how simple and intuitive it can be and i use it a lot when i'm referencing how things could potentially be within gutenberg even on the design front on the productivity side you know with work linear is really an awesome issue tracking tool that has helped my team at xtendify ramp up productivity big time i enjoy both of these tools a ton and they're both just a delight to use and they're designed really really well so the last question is simply gutenberg yes or no um i mean you might know but i've been all in on gutenberg for a while now and that's not changing there's still a lot of work to do particularly around the fine tuning of the editing flow and the full site editing experience all around but i am confident that we're moving in the right direction in all i'm just incredibly thankful to be part of this era of wordpress and i'm really excited for what's coming up next so thanks hey this is kim doyle of kimdoyl.com and here are the answers to the questions so what are my favorite plugins and why as a marketer this is probably not going to be a surprise so the first one is link whisperer i love link whisper it is super easy to add internal links to my content so that way i don't have to go searching so i just had link whisper update the post and i can find great internal links for my own content another one is newsletter glue number two this is a newer plugin and love newsletter glue because i am a huge fan of newsletters and it gives you the ability to essentially write it once and publish it twice so you can build it in your site and then go ahead and send it to your email service provider and let me just tell you i've used this with activecampaign anxiously waiting for the convertkit link and it looks better than the native active campaign emails so it also looks stellar and their support is amazing and then lastly is trepetto which is a wordpress form plug-in however it looks like typeform so you can build wordpress contact forms or any type of form really with trepetto and they look just like typeform so i love the way stuff looks so it makes really good looking forms what are my favorite themes and why i don't really have favorite themes anymore honestly i would say back in the day with studiopress hands down i love genesis and now i pretty much just use beaver builder and generate press is a favorite theme as a base theme but not really doing a whole lot honestly with themes i've kind of pivoted a lot more to the content marketing side of things but again it was studiopress genesis i would say generatepress i like how clean and easy it is to use my favorite hosting is my current host right that would be bad if i said it wasn't it's convecio and convecio's a newer managed wordpress hosting company we have an e-commerce brand a business partner we've got an e-commerce and my personal site they're both both on conveysio and i love it their support is amazing you know it's a newer hosting company but hands down their support is fantastic and it works great easy enough right my favorite non-wordpress app or tool is convert box all day long i love that freaking tool it makes it super easy to add opt-ins embedded you know ribbons you know pop-ups whatever you need but i love that there is conditional logic it's super clean the editor makes it really easy to build and it works great with most email service providers so that you do not have to hammer your visitors when they come to the site if they're already on the list they don't even need to see it again which is kind of magical and now i say that i probably should check to make sure i have those settings and as far as gutenberg goes i am gutenberg all day long i friggin love it at first i was a little bit hesitant but mainly because it's a better writing experience it gets a little wonky at times and so to be expected would be my guess but i love it i think it's a cleaner writing experience it's distraction free so to speak i love that you can add elements into your content super easily so from a content perspective i absolutely love gutenberg i have not gotten into building pages or anything with it really but i love it all day long hi there my name is sean hesketh and i'm the creator of wp 101 a wordpress video tutorial site for beginners there are three wordpress plugins that i'm using on most of my sites these days first of all fathom analytics i'm using in place of google analytics primarily because of their emphasis on user privacy so even though they're not tracking our users and evading their privacy in the way that google does we still get detailed analytics on all of our traffic so we can make the decisions based on the data that matters the most to us the second plugin that i'm using is nitro pack and i'm using this to speed up all of my wordpress websites it's probably one of the best ways to improve page load times for wordpress and get those core web vital scores that we all need so badly these days the third plugin that i'm using is wp mail smtp and it's probably the best way to ensure that all of our emails from our wordpress website are actually getting to our customers inbox so if deliverability is a problem for you check out wpmail smtp when it comes to wordpress themes i'm primarily recommending three themes these days astra bloxy and cadence all three of these themes are incredibly lightweight so they load fast they're also doing some really creative things with gutenberg blocks and i think you can rest assured that all three of these themes will also be able to leverage full site editing as soon as that becomes available next year without a doubt my favorite hosting for wordpress websites is nexus they've become an incredible partner over the years and when i migrated wp101.com from my previous managed wordpress host to nexus we had almost a 40 improvement in page load times but also their support has been absolutely tremendous at every turn so when they say they're the most helpful humans in hosting they really do a tremendous job of living up to that reputation when i'm not working in wordpress you'll usually find me working in screenflow which is my favorite non-wordpress app or utility screenflow is a screen capture software so it allows me to record my screen and create video tutorials which is primarily how i spend my days but you can also use it to record direct to camera footage like this for talking head videos or really any kind of promo video you can imagine it's multi-track editor is fantastic for not only editing video but also audio so it's a fantastic way to create just about any type of video for your website when it comes to gutenberg and the future of wordpress i'm all in even though it took me a little bit of time to get used to the block editor in the beginning these days i think it's one of the most powerful ways to create just about any type of page layout you can imagine and most of the new users of wordpress that we encounter love it and find that it's actually very intuitive to use and that enables them to create just about any type of website that they want so i'm bullish on the future of gutenberg and the block editor particularly once we see what full site editing holds in store for us during this coming year hi there my name is vito i'm the founder at atarim.org and the co-founder of bertha.ai i started my journey building websites for clients from the back of a van as a freelancer uh using wordpress more than 12 years ago and from then i grew to an agency with a team of 12 before pivoting to building products for our industry that basically solves my own challenges and problems uh through my journey as a freelancer and an agency owner i would love to answer some of jamie's questions here so uh the first one my first one is gravity forms i've been using them for more than seven years now and i love the extendability of this system and the fact that i can find a bunch of snippets online as well as a bunch of add-ons from other creators in our community for every every uh use case that i can come up with and i've built some really complex uh scenarios with uh with this foam system so definitely recommend them i do know that nowadays there are other uh foam systems out there that might be a little more slick and a little more even more feature-rich than what gravity foam has out of the gate but i'm so used to working with this system i know it inside and out and i know every class and every div that is structured into the into the code so for me this is the best one uh if you have some knowledge in coding and at least some knowledge in css you can do some magical stuff with the gravity forms the second one is pretty links this is a quick and uh really useful plugin that i install almost on every website that i built that allows you to kind of a bitly uh type of scenario only that it's built into your own website and it's allowing you to create a beautiful links or urls uh from long strings for so if you're using um query strings or if you're using utm tags and you wanna beautify those urls uh pretty links is really an awesome solution for this even with their free version that is on the repo and the third one is bertha dot ai this is an ai based content writer for wordpress and it's built right into the website allowing you to click any text area within the website itself to generate copy or seo content or even like full-on blog post product pages and all of these kind of uh cool stuff and i like to call it the lorem ipsum killer uh because there's no need to drop in lower mipsums if you can click a button and get the actual content in there and that transformed my position from being uh um or trying to be a copywriter and with my bit of broken english because it's not my native language to being an editor because the tool does most of the work with the most advanced ai on the market and then you can just kind of fix it up edit it up and make sure that it fits uh your needs so there's even a free version that gives you a bunch of words every single month to use for free and uh the premium versions are a lot more extensive and give you a lot more cool features for every type of content on the website full disclosure i'm the co-founder of bertha three things so the first one and this is my kind of go-to theme over the past couple of years is hello by elemento it's just a super clean theme nothing much to it um i i rarely use even the header in there or the footer it's just a frame uh so um um that i use that with a page builder uh in my case usually that would be elemento and uh and yeah it just works out of the gate it's awesome and it's lightweight it's free and this is my go-to the second one with the same type of mindset of those modern uh um type of themes is the page builder framework it has an awesome founder behind this and it's really uh simple and clean it gives you all kinds of small and uh pretty basic but powerful functions right inside the customizer which does most of the stuff that you would need out of the gate but if you're using a page builder uh it becomes even more powerful because it adapts beautifully to every page builder on the market and the third one is a theme that i've been using for a few years maybe even five years uh and that was before the age of uh page builders which is x theme um it kind of has a built-in page builder into it it's like a code canyon uh type of theme but we've built hundreds of projects with this theme and it's so easy for clients to use that it just made the process um pretty awesome for us we didn't need a bunch of additional plugins or or licenses to manage we just had that one theme that had a bunch of stuff built into it it's not light uh but it is really uh extensive and very feature rich so if you don't want to mess up with a bunch of plugins x theme would be um an ideal choice in my opinion for non-wordpress uh tools or sas and it's kind of a bit of both it's atari material is my platform that helps web agencies and freelancers to deliver website projects fast and the way that we do this is we basically tackle the dead time of every project so if we build a website on our own if i build a website on our own on my own it's usually going to take me between three to five days to build a basic 10 page business website but as soon as a client comes into the picture then it becomes a four to six weeks project so what happens between the three to five days and the four to six weeks this is the procrastination the back and forth a lot of redundant clicks a lot of um lagging in our projects and this is i think one of the biggest challenges of our industry and what we do with atari is we tackle that 83 percent to reduce project completion by literally weeks and bringing it to a more realistic time of how long it really does take to build a website and so that the client doesn't disrupt the the process they actually enjoy it and we can get them to the result a lot a lot a lot faster so gutenberg yes or no so i'm still on the fence on gutenberg i've tried it a couple of times and tried to even start building a website with it and then went back to page builders so i know that there is a mindset shift that needs to happen uh in order for you to take advantage of the functionality of gutenberg but i'm still gonna stay on the fence for another year or so to see how this product evolves before i'm jumping in and changing a bunch of websites that are already designed with previous tools hey jamie first of all congratulations on 3 000 subscribers that's amazing uh and thank you for including me in this video i'm really excited to talk about some of my favorite wordpress and non-wordpress tools so first my favorite plugins and why i had a hard time with this i there are a lot of plugins i love so uh and i tried to figure out what is favorite is it most used or is it just like ones i really like so i did a mix of both the first one is redirection this gets installed on every wordpress website i create to easily create redirect for short urls and friendly urls uh the best example i have of using this plugin is on my podcast website how i built that it i use i actually tap into their functions and i hook into the plugin so that when a new episode is published it automatically creates a redirect for the episode number so how i built it slash 243 or whatever and so redirection's really great for that it's developer friendly which i like but it's also a very easy to use well maintained plug-in the second is blockmeister now there are a lot of plug-ins that do this but i think blockmeister does it the best you can create block patterns without code so you can open the editor the block editor and blockmeister create the blocks you like save them as a pattern add them to the categories you want without having to build a plugin and like i said there are other ones out there that exist but i like blockmeister because it allows you to create those custom categories as well so big fan of block meister and that's like the free version there's a pro version that i haven't really looked into because the free version does everything i need it to do and then the third one is learn dash and i picked learndash because it's integral to my business i've been using it for five years now and i manage all of my courses through learndash i now manage my membership through learndash because they just rolled that out they recently rolled out subscriptions so i need to see how easy it would be to switch away from woocommerce subscriptions to just learn dash but uh it's such a great plug-in and it's been growing uh a lot and i use it for everything from memberships to courses to cohort based uh learning which i'll be rolling out soon and learndash will be at the center of that so those are my three picks for my favorite plugins uh my favorite theme now i have one favorite theme but i cheated a little bit because there are a couple of companion plugins uh that i chose with them and my favorite theme is cadence i've been using cadence for all of my websites for the last year or so i've been switching my sites away from other themes um i won't name them but i i've just been switching away from other themes and i've been using cadence for them and i think a one killer feature if i have to pick one from cadence is the elements so i can create block layouts and then assign them a placement and so i really love this because it allows me to among other things create these uh these specific opt-ins for blog posts right so i have this automation opt-in where i'm using convertkit uh to to i'm placing that at the bottom or actually the fourth paragraph after the fourth paragraph of my automation blog posts i have an airtable opt-in that i'm placing after the fourth paragraph of most of my other blog posts and so the elements section is really versatile it lets you create these reusable areas that are automatically inserted based on a bunch of criteria and you can show it on specific posts or post types you can show them to logged in or logged out users and a few other things and i really think that is a fantastic a fantastic feature that i otherwise would have had to write a custom plug-in for so i'm a big fan of that and lots of other features in cadence and i want to mention the other the plugins right cadence pro which unlocks a bunch of features for the cadence theme but then cadence blocks and cadence blocks pro which work hand in hand with the cadence theme so i recently removed beaver builder from my personal site casabona.org and was able to replace all of the layouts with cadence and cadence blocks and the pro version of both so i'm a big fan of cadence in general but my favorite theme right now is cadence themes cadance theme sorry not cadence themes uh my favorite hosting this isn't i i don't think this is a big secret nexus is my favorite hosting company um their managed wordpress and managed woocommerce hosting are the best i've used they're really easy to use they've got features like auto scaling and easy to use cash which is wild because cash usually ruins everything and i think they've done a good job of including really nice features and they keep adding new stuff like woocommerce automated testing and so it's it's really affordable too i think 19 bucks a month starting for the managed woocommerce hosting if you're hosting an e-commerce store that directly makes money 19 bucks a month should be nothing to you uh to run your store so big fan of nexus and everything they're doing over there and i i i host all of my important sites on nexus okay so this this question this next question was hard your favorite uh non-wordpress app or tool because there are a lot of them but i think i'm gonna have to give it to shortcuts by apple i'm a big fan of shortcuts especially because now it's on the mac and i've been a big fan of automation i've been doing a lot of automation stuff i'm a one-man band and i've been teaching my students and my members how to automate more with a bunch of tools but i've been digging deeper into shortcuts because it is on the mac now and it and it unlocks a whole new world of automation to me i wasn't a big fan of automator i think is what the original mac automation tool was because it was very programmery but shortcuts is more drag and drop so there are several things i can do here from my my triage to controlling scenes to automating uh task creation and things like that and then i can drop them onto my stream deck so shortcuts on the mac has allowed me to run automations right from my stream deck for things like recording or just being on camera in general controlling scenes and that has been a lot of fun to play with and extremely practical as well so i've got to give it to shortcuts on the mac sorry to anybody who's not an apple ecosystem user and the last question gutenberg yes or no well i think probably a few of my previous answers spoiled my answer for this which is yes i am all in on gutenberg and the block editor i have courses on how to use the block editor and full site editing especially i'm really excited for full site editing and where that's going to take theme development i've been making wordpress themes since 2004 and i cannot wait to see what people do with full site editing and theme.json to really focus on creating beautiful themes instead of getting caught up in in all of the will say under the hood wiring of core so gutenberg yes it is the way wordpress is going and i think the fewer dependencies we can have on external tools and the easier we can make development for people is just all good so those are my answers thanks so much again for having me be a part of this video congratulations again on 3 000 subscribers and thanks so much to everybody watching until next time get out there and build something hey guys my name is writer chevelis and i work at visual composer as a product manager for almost 10 years and let's get back to the questions so the first question my three favorite plugins of course the number one spot is visual composer i use it on a daily basis i know it from a to z and basically there are no limits when i need to create something with visual composer uh the second is yoast and i use both free and premium version depends on the project i work with content a lot so getting green light in yoast is something i would love to have and the third plugin is the one i discovered recently it's real media library and it allows you to categorize your images in folders which is really handy if you work on a project that has tons of images okay so my three favorite scenes i as i work with visual composer i try to rely on it i this is why i choose uh basically clean seam uh that because i don't use seams that much so the number one choice is the starter seam which is a good pairing with visual composer and the second and third are definitely cadence and bloxy which are pretty nice feature-rich scenes and kind of popular these days so maybe you heard about them or even use them wordpress costing cloud ways definitely cloud ways because of the performance support quality speed everything there uh with cloudbase i'm able to create sites that are green in google corvette vitals and that's an important these days uh the next question my three no but uh yeah my favorite apps outside wordpress so the first one is sketch since i work with a design on a daily basis and it's pretty handy to create design and move it to development and for the communication i use slack and zoom which are apps that i definitely love gutenberg yes or no even i am from the page builder business uh gutenberg is definitely yes for me because it's uh evolution in wordpress wordpress is getting better and also gutenberg pushes visual editors to become better to introduce new features to become faster and use new technologies like react.js for example so these are my answers and thank you guys for watching and good luck with your wordpress project hello james it's andrew palmer just back from the states um still suffering from jerk lag but uh thanks for giving me an opportunity to answer these five questions favorite plugins and why uh max three plugins ws form my favorite plugin ever it's a form plug-in made by mark westgard and he lives in the states he's english chap nothing about that really but it just does everything it's drag and drop it's responsive it's um e-commerce enabled connects to stripe connects to thrive cart which i use it for and um it's just awesome so go and have a look at wsform.com and um of course bertha.ai that's mine so and veto so let's um promote that i love it i've just built um a web page website rather for another plug-in on a gutenberg based plugin that i'm doing but i won't talk about that um but that's going to be my second favorite plugin i think um and it's brilliant so go and have a look at that and my third it's always difficult to have favorite real favorite plugins but um cadence blogs you know is it a plug-in yeah it's a plug-in cadence blogs uh favorite things and why cadence you know gutenberg is the future i know it you know it every everybody knows it people just don't want to admit it i really do think gutenberg's the future that's why i'm developing for gutenberg and um that's about it really uh divi divi has uh changed my life no doubt about it it's a brilliant community brilliant theme um and it just needs to stop updating every single day but apart from that it's brilliant so there you go what else is brilliant sound like a guy from the far show um three themes astra i mean you know we all love astro it's really um compatible with everything gutenberg compatible as well elementor you can put the divi builder on it if you really want to but you don't have to favorite hosting i don't have one i can't stand web hosts they tell all sorts of lies it's just ridiculous there's no such thing as managed wp i really haven't found one that's totally managed at a reasonable price now godaddy have obviously bought paisley but not why me how can who can afford that only big corporates right but um i use grid pain and i'm a spartan for them so you know disclaimer uh the reason i use i used grid pain before i became a spartan ie a digital advocate for them i love grid paint i love the way it works i love the way that i can choose the servers that i can go on from digitalocean to vulture to aws to light sale whatever so that's what i use and i've built my own managed wp solution around that uh if we're talking about uk host for good for registrations and good for staging sites and all that kind of stuff and also reseller packages uh 20i.com brilliant uh favorite non-wordpress apple tool it's here it's right here i bought it um a few weeks ago or bought them a few weeks ago treated myself facebook glasses all right i look a little bit of a twit but you know they need lenses in them and i could have got them from them but they were far too expensive so next time i go and get lenses for these i'm gonna get lenses for these and uh you can take images pictures recordings listen to music it's bluetooth enabled this these are great fun so there you go uh gutenberg yes it's obvious in it it's built in it's going to be wordpress it's going to change people's lives the way they develop websites and um you're doing great stuff on your woocommerce plugins and gutenberg blocks and educating people so yeah gutenberg be a twit not to try it out see you later thanks for asking all right so my name is boba feldman and i'm the founder and ceo at premius we help plugin and theme developers to commercialize their solutions so i want share three of my favorite plugins or themes because there are so many amazing products in the wordpress ecosystem but i will mention a few notable ones that we like to use so the first plugin and the second plugin are related to security the first one called wps hide login which basically allows you to customize the url of wordpress login from the default wp login or admin the second one called login watchdog which is monitoring for false logins and can block the ip after several attempts these two plugins will really help you to remove let's say 95 maybe 98 of the wordpress potential attacks which is really good and will help you to secure a website the third one that it's worth mentioning is a nifty plugin called share and draft which allows you to easily generate links that you can share with others uh so they can see a draft of a blog post or a page before it was officially released it's very useful in terms of themes uh again there are tons of really good themes three notable ones that worth mentioning are bloxy ocean wp and zakra theme they're all kind of lightweight new generation using extensions etc and very flexible to work with my favorite hosting provider is actually digitalocean it provides the flexibility of ease of use along with full control of your servers you need to be a little more tax savvy in order to use digitalocean but it's really amazing company and we've been using them for years favorite non-wordpress app or tool as a developer someone who is living in the world developers world in wordpress so php store the id is definitely the tool that i i'm using on a daily basis and my entire team and highly recommend it uh to everyone whether we use gutenberg or not that's the last question so gutenberg is getting better every day and it's pretty exciting to see what it will like what will happen with that in the future but we feel that it's still immature and changing too rapidly with potential backward compatibility breaks so we can't really rely and put our production environments relying on gutenberg so at this stage we prefer to use other more stable page builders thanks a lot for your time and hope you'll find that helpful hey y'all it's your friend bridget willard here with bridgetweller.com and congratulations on 3 000 subscribers so my favorite three wordpress plugins are beaver builder revive social and edd first of all beaver builder allows my designer to create pages in in a way that reflects my brand identity um i think it's a great value i don't think that page builder is going anywhere and i like robbie and the guys behind it revive social i use to push my content out on a specific time frame so i really like that edd easy digital downloads not the unemployment development department easy digital downloads is how i sell my ebooks and my plugin launch with words my favorite theme i really like 2020 well i'm kind of old school i like 2019 but what i'm using on my site is the beaver builder theme and rhonda negard made a child theme for that my favorite hosting that's hard because i like all the hosts but my current host is site district matt coppola is a great guy love the service love the speed love the scale love that i have you know backups and options for uh making a dev site all that's great um my favorite non-wordpress average tool would be 0xero that's my accounting system i love love love that and gutenberg doesn't matter if it's yes or no i'm known for kind of being a naysayer but i was always a necessary about the timeline what i love about gutenberg is copy and paste from google docs without the spam codes congratulations again bye so wasn't that great i hope you made it to the end if you did congratulations i haven't mentioned what my favorite stack is so i ought to so in terms of uh plugins i generally use on every site uh gutenberg pro which is a plugin we built it adds extra options to the gutenberg plugin doesn't introduce new blocks just new options to customize it if you're into content lock-in and understanding what that is you'll appreciate why we've built that i use rank math as well on pretty much every site all yoast seo um in terms of themes i'm generally using our theme 18 tags on new sites you can check it out it's a free theme or astra or bloxy in terms of hosting i'm a big fan of wp engine right now i've been using them for a long time and in terms of um apps this is completely kind of left field but i've been uh i've been learning all about painting composition this year it's great for mindfulness here's some of my little doodles i do on an iphone probably here or here and on that i use a an app called adobe fresco which is just a fantastic app i really love it just for little doodles and in terms of gutenberg yes or no absolutely 100 full in on gutenberg as you probably are aware if you follow this channel because that's pretty much all i'm doing tutorials on so there we go thank you so much for watching i hope you found some of that really really interesting i think there's gold dust in that in those videos for you hopefully if you enjoyed this video if you can give it a thumbs up down below right now that would be fantastic because it really helps spread the word of the channel which is growing a pace also every time you do hit the like button our cats get a little treat [Applause] [Applause] so thank you so much if you want to see more videos like this hit the subscribe button down below and you'll be notified every time i release a new one keep well and safe and i'll see you all soon you

Channel: Jamie Marsland

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Published: Wed Dec 15 2021