Tools – Hartford WordPress

Project and Time Management

Trello

Free project management tool, collaboration, stay organized

trello.com/

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.com/

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

www.notion.so/

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

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www.fontpair.co/

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.adobe.com/create/color-wheel

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

unsplash.com/

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

wordpress.org/openverse/

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.org/photos/

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

www.canva.com/

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

www.adobe.com/express/

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

www.remove.bg/

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.

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www.befunky.com/

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

shortpixel.com/

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

www.grammarly.com/

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.com/

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-project.org/

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

www.google.com/drive/

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

www.screamingfrog.co.uk/seo-spider/

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

dnschecker.org/

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

viewdns.info/

Just a moment…

viewdns.info needs to review the security of your connection before proceeding.

WordPress Experimentation

InstaWP

Free and paid instant WordPress websites

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instawp.com/

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

tastewp.com/

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

www.wpthemedetector.com/

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

code.visualstudio.com/

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

notepad-plus-plus.org/downloads/

Downloads | Notepad++

Hoverify

Paid browser extension – suite of web development tools

www.tryhoverify.com/

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.com/

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.com/

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

joinmastodon.org/

Mastodon – Decentralized social media

Learn more about Mastodon, the radically different, free and open-source decentralized social media platform.

wpbuilds.social/explore

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

podcast.adobe.com/

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

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otter.ai/

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.com/

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

www.forestapp.cc/

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

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www.figma.com/

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

hyperwriteai.com/

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.withgoogle.com/

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.