Tools

WordPress Plugins

Ric Smolenski

Aug 16, 2023 — 2 min read

These plugins are a great place to start if you're hosting your website using WordPress.

Learning Management Systems

These tools give you a place to host and sell your online course.

LearnDash

LearnDash is one of the most powerful learning management systems for WordPress. We've used it for a few of our WordPress-based course websites.

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Membership Plugins

These plugins help you to build a WordPress membership site.

Restrict Content Pro

Restrict Content Pro is the easiest membership plugin for WordPress.

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WordPress Themes

These themes let you beautify your WordPress site.

Kadence

Kadence

Kadence offers beautiful starter templates to help you launch your WordPress site quickly and easily.

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Sales Boosters

These plugins help you to increase your sales.

Iconic

Iconic

Iconic helps you boost your sales using a WooCommerce store.

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WordPress Security

These tools help you to protect your WordPress site from hackers.

iThemes

This is the most powerful and easy-to-use security solution for WordPress that doesn't affect your site performance.

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Event Management

These help you set up events and calendars on your WordPress website.

The Events Calendar

The Events Calendar

Sell tickets for in-person or virtual events using this powerful plugin.

Get The Events Calendar

Donation Management

These plugins help you to accept donations on your WordPress site.

GiveWP

Use GiveWP to accept donations and manage fundraisers.

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Virtual Private Server Hosting

These companies let you run your own software on virtual servers. These are perfect for hosting your WordPress website when it grows or for hosting other software like Ghost, Discourse, or N8N. DigitalOcean DigitalOcean DigitalOcean provides VPS servers, Managed Kubernetes clusters, hosted databases, and an App Platform. We host our