My Toolbox and Work Setup

Explore my toolbox, where I unveil my daily used top tools, hardware, and software, alongside WordPress plugins that fuel my content creation, web development, and online marketing ventures.

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Websites & Tools that I use daily

Fonts, Design & Development

  • Font:
    • Really Sans by LETTERMATIC.
    • In the past, I have used Suisse International, Inter, FF Real & Satoshi fonts. All great!
  • Pixelmator, Affinity Designer 2 & Canva for designing graphics
  • Napkin.AI for crazily easy inline infographics.
  • Sublime Text 3 & VS Code for Development and Writing Hacks.
  • Whisk — the visual HTML5 Editor.
  • SnippetsLab — for organizing my code snippets and other key data.
  • Clop Pro for Image Optimization.
  • CleanShot X to capture and annotate screenshots. Paid
  • Dropover & Yoink for drag-and-drop file management.
  • Versioning:
    • Forklift as FTP client.
    • SnailSVN for SVN.
    • Terminal for git.
  • Local WordPress® Development:
    • Local by Flywheel
    • Studio by WordPress.com
    • InstaWP (great for staging sites)
  • Optimized KaTeX for math-rendering.
  • Programming Languages: PHP, Javascript (& jQuery), and Python
  • Markup Languages: HTML5, CSS3, LaTeX, and MathML

SEO, Content & Marketing

Hardware

Productivity Tools

  • Notion — for notes, collaboration and media kits
  • Things 3 for tasks.
  • Raycast for almost everything else.

WordPress Plugins

  1. Dynamic Month & Year into Posts to show auto-updating month, year and dates in content and meta.
  2. WP Rocket for performance (Read the tutorial)
  3. Rank Math SEO Pro for SEO. Better than Yoast. Better than anything else.
  4. TablePress for complex data tables.
  5. GenerateBlocks Premium for literally everything that is not normal content.
  6. Kadence Blocks Pro for amazing designs and advanced forms.
  7. Code Snippets for useful on-need PHP functions and content shortcodes.
  8. Advanced Custom Fields - a total lifesaver.
  9. AAWP for Amazon Affiliates.
  10. Tangible Loops & Logic for inserting posts everywhere and creating dynamic lists.