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Camp FI 2018: My Talk Notes

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Hello Everybody! I gave a talk at Camp FI this year on creating your next website and what to do next. It was a lot of content, so I’m putting my software recommendations all here from the talk, with a little expansion here and there! You’ll also have my slides and a video going through the same content I went through on the demo.

Disclosure: Some links are affiliate links for myself and friends, but don’t effect what software I recommend. I only use the referral links if one is available. In fact many I could sign up to be an affiliate with but I never bothered…

Hosting

Themes

Domains

Recommended Registrars: Hover, Google Domains. Both don’t charge you for WHOIS privacy settings. Hover is best if it’s just going to be you, Google Domains if you want to work with others, as you can grant access to edit your domain settings to anyone with a Google Account

Email

Recommended Paid Providers: GSuite (Google), Office 365 (Microsoft), Rackspace

Recommended Free Provider: Zoho – scroll down for the free plan

Logo Design

All The Plugins (plus other things)!

Page Builders

I recommend Beaver Builder and its add-on Beaver Themer if you want to have a clean “drag and drop” business site.

Add-ons to enhance its features I’d recommend are Power Pack, and UABB (Ultimate Addons for Beaver Builder)

One Plugin to rule them all

Jetpack can do a lot for your site, just only use what you need! Turn off any features you don’t use.

Kill Comment Spam – Antispam Bee

Google Analytics – GADWP

Newsletter Providers – MailerLite, MailChimp

SEO – The SEO Framework

Transactional Email – MailGun, SendGrid

Caching – WP Rocket

Web Automation – Zapier, IFTTT, Microsoft Flow

I talked about a few more things in my talk, so if you’d like the slides, you can download them here!

Below is my demo creating a WordPress site using a Digital Ocean VPS, and ServerPilot to manage the WordPress site:

Cheers!

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  • Mrs Chaos
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    Mrs Chaos Mrs Chaos

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    Thanks for this Kevin – its really useful! I have a couple of questions about plugins… I am trying to limit the plugins on my site and so want to avoid ones that are duplicating jobs, and theoreticaly get the multipurpose ones. I have Updraft already and Akismet but I have just looked at Jetpack and it apparantly does all these things, as well as analytics etc – so should I switch to that?


  • molly
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    molly molly

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    Wow I have REALLY REALLY done a ton of reading (I’m a Fitness Expert Not a web or tech geek) despite all my reading research yada yada-your list? Makes me WISH-I could hand it to you-your site is visually relaxing and not like most others Bombarding me with Junk and all others?
    Give me the spinning ball of hell on my old macair—Great Job-I need your help-Molly (FYI-I have procrastinated SOOOO long re beginning a website for work and blogging-I did the lazy thing and had ‘Strikingly’ suck my info from linked in-and have yet to make it ‘nice’ and edit-Editing?? NOT my strong suit-