If you’re a developer, you might be interested to know what we’re using.
We use the latest version of WordPress on a VPS provided by Dreamhost. The theme is a custom version of Standard Theme (affiliate link), by my friends at 8BIT. I customize and create websites freelance as well. If you need a site, contact me at stephen@bate-man.com.
The stack we’re using looks like this
- Plugins
- ^^ Garnet Report Child Theme
- ^^^ Standard Theme
- ^^^^ Cloudflare DNS
- ^^^^^ MaxCDN
- ^^^^^^ WordPress
- ^^^^^^^ Dreamhost VPS
Plugins
- NRelate – Related posts
- W3TotalCache – caching and CDN (through MaxCDN)
- WPAdCenter – beefier advertisement plugin
- Disqus – commenting system
- WPDBManager – automatic database backups to my email (a lifesaver)
- Scribe – SEO analysis
- Yoast SEO in conjunction with Scribe
- AddThis – social sharing on posts
Software/Hardware
- 2008 Black macbook (don’t lie, it’s sexy…)
- Espresso for Mac
- ImageOptim for tiny images
- Adobe CS5 (except Dreamweaver, which sucks)
- MAMP for running locally
- Compass for compiling SASS
- SpriteRight for creating super easy image sprites
- Spotify because everyone needs to be sane.
Other Services
- I heart Pingdom (and their site analysis) for telling me about site speed and downtime.
