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Essential Elements for a Thriving WordPress Site

How to put together the best environment for your WordPress site.

Essential Elements for a Thriving WordPress Site

How to put together the best environment for your WordPress site.

Key Elements

  1. WordPress Hosting
  2. Theme Selection
  3. Page Builder
  4. Performance
  5. Forms

Let’s cut to the chase – if you want to your site to be fast, responsive, easy to manage, and stable, you need to make sure you choosing the right tools at each level of your stack.

Over the past 10+ years, I have worked on over 1,000 WordPress websites. I’ve seen what works and what doesn’t. Below is my lean list of critical components for a thriving WordPress website.

1) Hosting Provider

WP Engine

starting at $35/month

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  • Best in the world support. 24/7 chat with real WordPress experts. They don’t just explain how to fix your problems, they usually do it for you.
  • Top-tier speed
  • Automatic backups and one-click restore
  • One-click staging site with single-click deployment
  • Automatic updates
  • SSL and CDN

2) Theme Selection

Studiopress

$59 to $129 per theme

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  • Industry leaders in speed & performance, mobile responsiveness, stability, and security
  • The theme platform that developers use
  • Built on the Genesis framework (the most stable and extensible framework for WordPress)
  • Used by over 500,000 WordPress sites
  • Choose a single theme or access to their full library of themes

WP Engine customers have unlimited access to Studiopress themes for FREE

3) Page Builder

Elementor

$49 per year

Check out Elementor
  • Hands down the easiest visual builder
  • A true “drag and drop” interface
  • Amazing mobile responsiveness
  • As a developer, I use this every chance I get

4) Performance

WP Rocket

$49 per year

Check out WP Rocket
  • Hands-down the best investment you can make in your site
  • Blazing fast performance on any device
  • Guaranteed to maximize the speed of your site
  • Super simple to set up – just a few clicks

5) Forms

Ninja Forms

$29 per year

Check out Ninja Forms
  • One feature every website has is a contact form
  • This plugin is the best in the business
  • There’s really no reason not to use it, unless you don’t have a form
  • Responsive on any device
  • Easy drag and drop form builder
  • Doesn’t break or slow your site down
  • Integrates with pretty much every platform
  • Simple to use for basic forms and best functionality for advanced form building