Project and Time Management
Trello
Free project management tool, collaboration, stay organized
Manage Your Team’s Projects From Anywhere | Trello
Trello is the ultimate project management tool. Start up a board in seconds, automate tedious tasks, and collaborate anywhere, even on mobile.
Toggl
Free time tracking tool, online/desktop, measure and improve
Toggl: Time Tracking Software, Project Planning & Hiring Tools
Stress-free time tracking software, project-planning, and hiring. Designed by and for teams that work from anywhere.
Notion
Free and paid note taking, project management, trapper-keeper
Notion – One workspace. Every team.
We’re more than a doc. Or a table. Customize Notion to work the way you do.
Fonts and Colors
fontpair
Free online tool to visualize different font pairings
Fontpair – Free, beautiful fonts and font pairings curated just for you
Free typography for your next design project (Google Fonts, Fontshare, Fontesk, Font Squirrel, and more)
Adobe Color Wheel
Free color pairing tool
Color wheel, a color palette generator | Adobe Color
Create color palettes with the color wheel or image, browse thousands of color combinations from the Adobe Color community.
Finding and Creating Images
Unsplash
Free images requiring attribution
Beautiful Free Images & Pictures | Unsplash
Beautiful, free images and photos that you can download and use for any project. Better than any royalty free or stock photos.
Openverse
WordPress library of free photos, images, and audio
Openverse | WordPress.org
BeFunky Photo Editor lets you apply photo effects, edit photos and create photo collages with collage maker. Online Photo editing and creating collages has never been easier.
WordPress.org Photos
Completely free to use images from the WordPress community
WordPress Photo Directory
Choose from a growing collection of free, CC0-licensed photos to customize and enhance your WordPress website.
Canva
Free and paid graphic design tool
Free Design Tool: Presentations, Video, Social Media | Canva
Canva is a free-to-use online graphic design tool. Use it to create social media posts, presentations, posters, videos, logos and more.
Adobe Express
Free and paid graphic design tool
Free Online Photo & Design Tool | Adobe Express
Adobe Express is an online and mobile design app. Easily create stunning social graphics, short videos, and web pages that make you stand out on social and beyond.
Editing and Resizing Images
removebg
Free tool to remove backgrounds from images
Remove Background from Image – remove.bg
Remove image backgrounds automatically in 5 seconds with just one click. Don’t spend hours manually picking pixels. Upload your photo now & see the magic.
BeFunky
Free image editing tool – resize, crop, edit, etc.
Photo Editor | BeFunky: Free Online Photo Editing and Collage Maker
BeFunky Photo Editor lets you apply photo effects, edit photos and create photo collages with collage maker. Online Photo editing and creating collages has never been easier.
ShortPixel
Free and paid image compression, including plugin
Smart Image/CSS/JS Optimization Services and CDN for Websites
ShortPixel is an online image optimization service that smart-compresses images, CSS and JS. Global CDN delivery. Tools and plugins for any WordPress or generic website. Compress your images with up to 90% without any humanly visible differences.
Writing Aids
Grammarly
Free and Paid grammar checker and writing improvement
Write your best with Grammarly.
Grammarly makes sure everything you type is easy to read, effective, and mistake-free. Try it today:
Website and File Management
ManageWP
Free and Paid website management for one or multiple sites
ManageWP – Manage WordPress Sites from One Dashboard
Manage multiple WordPress websites from one dashboard. Schedule backups, migrate WordPress website, automate updates, monitor website traffic and SEO
FileZilla
Free FTP applications for Mac & Windows
FileZilla – The free FTP solution
FileZilla – The free FTP solution for both client and server. Filezilla is open source software distributed free of charge.
Google Drive (and Docs, Sheets, Calendar, etc.)
Free and paid file storage
Personal Cloud Storage & File Sharing Platform – Google
Learn about Google Drive’s file sharing platform that provides a personal, secure cloud storage option to share content with other users.
Auditing and Testing
Screaming Frog
Free and Paid SEO auditing tool
Screaming Frog SEO Spider Website Crawler
The industry leading website crawler for Windows, macOS and Ubuntu, trusted by thousands of SEOs and agencies worldwide for technical SEO site audits.
DNS Checker
Free online tool checks if DNS record changes have propagated
DNS Checker – DNS Check Propagation Tool
Check DNS Propagation worldwide. DNS Checker provides name server propagation check instantly. Changed nameservers so do a DNS lookup and check if DNS and nameservers have propagated.
ViewDNS.info
Free online tool checks if a wide variety of domain, IP, & DNS issues
Just a moment…
viewdns.info needs to review the security of your connection before proceeding.
WordPress Experimentation
InstaWP
Free and paid instant WordPress websites
Instant WordPress Sandbox and Test Sites – InstaWP
InstaWP is a 1-click WordPress sandbox launcher. Create new test WordPress sites in less than a second. Create from scratch or use a template.
TasteWP
Free and paid instant WordPress websites
Quick WordPress Testing & Staging Sites – TasteWP
Spin up a WordPress instance with one click – FREE & no login required!
WPThemeDetector
Find out what makes that WordPress site tick
WordPress Theme Detector – Free online tool to find a site´s theme
Did you ever wonder what WordPress theme or plugins is that awesome site using? WordPress Theme Detector is the perfect free online tool to find out.
Technical Tools
Visual Studio Code
Free code editor – works with multiple coding languages
Visual Studio Code – Code Editing. Redefined
Visual Studio Code is a code editor redefined and optimized for building and debugging modern web and cloud applications. Visual Studio Code is free and available on your favorite platform – Linux, macOS, and Windows.
Notepad++
Free text editor that includes specific language highlighting
Downloads | Notepad++
Visual Studio Code is a code editor redefined and optimized for building and debugging modern web and cloud applications. Visual Studio Code is free and available on your favorite platform – Linux, macOS, and Windows.
Hoverify
Paid browser extension – suite of web development tools
Hoverify | An all-in-one browser extension for web designers and developers
Hoverify is an all-in-one web browser extension that provides the tools you need to beat daily web development challenges faster and more efficiently. Tools like inspector, color-eyedropper, responsive, built-with, assets, debug, and screenshots help web developers overcome daily challenges and beco…
WordPress Collaboration
Slack
Free asynchronous chat / communication tool
Slack is your digital HQ
Slack is a new way to communicate with your team. It’s faster, better organized, and more secure than email.
GitHub
Development and project management collaboration used by WordPress teams
GitHub: Let’s build from here
GitHub is where over 94 million developers shape the future of software, together. Contribute to the open source community, manage your Git repositories, review code like a pro, track bugs and feat…
Mastodon
The Twitter alternative
Mastodon – Decentralized social media
Learn more about Mastodon, the radically different, free and open-source decentralized social media platform.
WP Builds Social
Love WordPress? Love Open Source? Join the WP Builds Social! Built on a free, open platform!
Audio
Adobe Podcast
Interesting audio tools
Adobe Podcast | AI audio recording and editing, all on the web
Next generation audio from Adobe is here. Record, transcribe, edit, share. Crisp and clear, every time.
Otter.ai
Free and paid audio to text
Otter.ai – Voice Meeting Notes & Real-time Transcription
Otter.ai uses artificial intelligence to empower users with real-time transcription meeting notes that are shareable, searchable, accessible and secure.
Tools Recommended in Our Meetup Chat
ClickUp
Project management tool
ClickUp™ | One app to replace them all
Our mission is to make the world more productive. To do this, we built one app to replace them all – Tasks, Docs, Goals, and Chat.
Forest
Tool to stay focused on task
Forest – Stay focused, be present
Forest is an app helping you stay away from your smartphone and stay focused on your work.
Figma
Web design brainstorming tool
Figma: the collaborative interface design tool.
Build better products as a team. Design, prototype, and gather feedback all in one place with Figma.
HyperWrite
AI powered templates for writing faster
HyperWrite
Our mission is to make the world more productive. To do this, we built one app to replace them all – Tasks, Docs, Goals, and Chat.
Recorder
Transforms audio files into text transcripts
Recorder
Recorder for Google Pixel instantly transforms audio into text so you can search, edit and share your favorite audio moments. And it all works offline too.