Recommended resources for your website

Good software makes your workflow better. Here is a list of digital tools that I recommend.

WordPress pagebuilder

Elementor is the most popular WordPress pagebuilder in the world. It has over 5 million downloads. Why I like Elementor:

It is super easy to build pages because it’s all visual, no code at all.
Your can create pixel perfect designs. Just how we like it as designers.
If you are working for clients you can buy multiple licenses at once.
There is a lot of educational content about it because of it’s popularity.
It has amazing animation and scroll effects built in.

Get Elementor

Hosting & Domain

Hostinger hosting (affordable and really good)

Hostinger has proved themselves in the last couple of years to be reliable and fast. I myself have their cloud hosting and it’s blazing fast! It’s also perfect for anybody on a budget.

Really nicely designed interface
Super affordable
Free domain on some plans

View their pricing

Use the discount code: LIVINGWITHPIXELS to get an extra 10% discount.

Siteground hosting (premium hosting)

Siteground a more premium hosting provider with very good support. They aren’t the cheapest but deliver top notch performance.

They are recommended by WordPress themselves as a good and safe choice.
Their support is amazing. With 24/7 chat, phone and ticket support.
They have a 1 click WordPress installer. Easy for everybody.
Easy to use interface (recently updated).

View their pricing

Design software

Figma is the new standard for UI / UX design. When I saw what Figma could do I replaced Adobe Xd with Figma.

Figma is web-based, so you will never have to save your files, you can easily share files and can access your files from any computer via the browser.
It has handy global features that allow you to change colours, fonts and elements from 1 global place.
Figma has a lot of smart responsive features so that you spend almost no time measuring things.
Figma has great live collaborations features.
Figma has Google Fonts implemented so you don’t have to install them.
They have a free plan!

Get Figma

Elementor addons

Missing plugins/addons for your Elementor websites. You need this if you want to build more complex websites with Elementor.

It comes with the amazing Jet Engine. Create your own custom post types and custom fields. All in 1 plugin.
A powerful Search feature to add to a website with Jet Search.
Comes with JetSmartFilters, which is great for creating a filter for your dynamic content.
Pretty fun visual effects (like parallax effect) with Jet Tricks.

Pro tip: Check their pricing. The freelance package is the best value I think.
Pro tip 2: Check out all their features on this page.

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Use the coupon code: LivingWithPixels10 to get 10% discount. Important: it only works if you use the exact link that the button will link you to.

A very well designed library of unique Elementor Widgets to add more functionality and flexibility to any WordPress website.

Well build widgets
Easily customisable
The first pricing package already is for unlimited websites (that’s rare)

Pro tip: Don’t fall for their pricing page. The first package is all you need.

Check it out for yourself

Security plugins

Before one of my client website got hacked I thought that free security plugins were enough. Now I know better. iThemes protects your websites a lot better.

It’s the second most popular security plugin in the world.
It keeps your website faster (faster than Wordfence).
It has 2 step authentication, which keeps people with fake emails out.

Check out iThemes Security

Payment providers

Stripe is the payment provider that most people use in the west (USA & Europe). It’s has a very easy to use and beautiful interface and will give you a lot of data graphs to check your stats.

Perfectly integrates with Woocommerce on WordPress.
Has lots of payment options (even Apple and Google Pay for example).
It’s popular, so there is enough info about it online.

Check out Stripe

Management software

ManageWP is a tool that allows you to manage all of your client websites in 1 simple dashboard. This makes managing your web design business a lot easier.

Update all of your client plugins with 1 click.
Login to your client websites without remembering passwords.
Create client report PDF’s that you can send to your client.
It’s free!

Get ManageWP

Handy WordPress plugins

In this part I’ve compiled a list of plugins that I use and make it a lot easier to manage your websites.

Rank Math SEO > Optimize every page for Google (more features than Yoast for free)
Duplicate Page > Duplicate a page, post or template with a click
Post Types Order > Change the order of blogposts or products without changing their date.
Siteground Security: A great free security plugin for WordPress. Does work with any kind of hosting.
ManageWP Worker > Easily manage multiple websites in 1 dashboard (my tutorial: https://youtu.be/IVJHCqq58MU)
CPT UI > Create custom post types that can be used for things like a portfolio, hourses, cars or any kind of repeatable content in a list.

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