As you know, I have been working with WordPress for about ten years now, and I’m a developer since the earlies 2000, throughout this time I have tested and using hundreds of tools and resources to simplify my day work, and I want to share with you some of these.
I have used all of these at some point for clients or me.
WordPress Hosting
Page Builders
WordPress Plugins
Local Environments
Local By Flywheel – Local WordPress development made simple
Desktop Server – Create locally installed WordPress Websites
Trellis – WordPress development and production servers done right
Valet – a Laravel development environment for Mac and Linux minimalists
Starter Themes
Sage – WordPress starter theme with a modern development workflow
_s – Everyone knows underscores
Code Editors and IDEs
Visual Studio Code – Code Editing. Redefined
PhpStorm – The Lightning-Smart IDE for PHP Programming by …
No WordPress Tools
Tailwind CSS – A utility-first CSS framework for rapidly building custom designs.
Tailwind UI – Beautiful UI components, crafted by the creators of Tailwind CSS.
Tinkerwell – The magical code editor that runs your code within local and remote PHP applications.
TablePlus – Modern, native, and friendly GUI tool for relational databases for Mac.