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Hosting • Themes • Backup Plugins• Caching Plugins
More Plugins • Site Fixes • Zoom Meetings

Hosting

NameHero Hosting

Fast and reliable. Great for shared, reseller, and more.

SiteGround

Super shared hosting with greater protection than most hosts. It’s worth paying the slightly higher price.

A2 Hosting

Super managed VPS for large sites with high traffic.

Themes

Genesis StudioPress

The Genesis framework is the only one I use and recommend. It’s also the framework preferred by my webmasters and designers. Solid and clean coding for fast performance, superior schema markup for SEO, and keeps pace with core WordPress changes. StudioPress child themes offer a super structural basis for your next design. Need help with your site revamp?

Backup Plugins

UpdraftPlus

UpdraftPlus is my go-to plugin. See my tutorial and comparison series on the different versions, including the Migrator add on that webmasters will find invaluable.

Amazon S3

Amazon S3 is super, duper cheap storage for your backup files. See my video tutorial on how to get an AS3 account and set up your bucket.

Caching Plugins

WP Rocket - WordPress Caching Plugin

WP Rocket helps you create a fast site with all the extras, including lazy load, minification, and more.

WP Fastest Cache Banner

WP Fastest Cache has both a free and paid option and is a super choice for speeding up your site.

Looking for More Plugins?

See the Recommended Plugins page
for the ones I won’t do a site without plus recommended plugins

Site Fixes

Site hacked?

Contact me to have it cleaned and secured.

Just Getting Started?

See the BlogAid Start Here page for more resources

Live Meetings

Zoom

I love Zoom!! It’s a great for:

  • meeting with my clients
  • screen sharing sessions
  • group meetings

And it’s a whale of a lot cheaper than GoToMeeting, which I used for years.