Here’s what we use & love
Whether you’re a blogging beginner or a WordPress whiz, here’s some tools we personally recommend to help make your website experience easy and efficient!
Some of the tools suggested below may include affiliate links. This means that, if you sign up via our link, we may receive a small commission as a thank you for referring peers. We only recommend affiliated services and tools that we strongly support and use ourselves.
Have any other resources you highly recommend for your fellow bloggers? Please let us know!
Bluehost
Our top pick for webhosting. Super affordable plans, reliable, helpful support, and a free domain. What’s not to love?
Envato Marketplace
A collection of marketplaces for any sort of digital asset you can imagine, like WP themes, plugins, videos, and more!
MailChimp
An all-in-one marketing platform with great email newsletter design options & data analysis.
Unsplash
Thousands of gorgeous and free-to-use stock photos. From food to travel to fashion, Unsplash has something for everyone!
Death to the Stock Photo
DttSP is a premium stock photo & video service that sends you a fresh media pack each month. Plans start at $12/month.
Canva
An absolute must-have for any blogger. Not a Photoshop whiz? Not a problem! Canva’s a drag & drop graphic design dream.
W3 Total Cache
Cache plugins help improve load speeds and reduce the strain on your server which is a win-win for both you and your visitors.
Autoptimize
Autoptimize helps aggregate, cache, and minify the masses of scripts on your site so pages load more quickly and smoothly.
Yoast SEO
A no-brainer for blogging beginners & experts alike. Yoast helps make your site an SEO-optimized superstar.
Hustle
Hustle helps you build your mailing lists or display targeted ads with easy-to-customize widgets, pop-ups & slide-ins.
Loco Translate
Easily & quickly translate your theme from one language to another without leaving your WordPress Dashboard!
Solo Pine Tutorials
Can we toot our own horn a bit? But, honestly, if you have one of our Solo Pine themes, be sure to reference our ever-growing knowledge database!
WordPress Codex
The official guide to WordPress by the folks who build WordPress.
WPBeginner
Since 2009, WPBeginner has been an ever-growing resource for WordPress how-tos. They offer tutorials on just about anything you can think of!
Solitaire online
Create and brand your own online Solitaire game and embed it directly to your website. Check out our own Solo Pine Solitaire game here.
