We thought it would be handy to share the tools we use and love to run the site and keep organised. Some of these links may be affiliate links, which means we receive a small percentage of any purchase you make within a certain time of clicking the link.
Website Layouts
17th Avenue Designs
17th Avenue has gorgeous WordPress layouts, perfect for feminine blogs!
Creative Market
Great for browsing for new layouts, downloads and fonts
Image Editors And Tools
A Color Story
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Picmonkey
Free web based software to edit images – what more do you need?
Posts about Picmonkey
SC Stockshop
Posts about Stock Images
Unfold
Unfold is a great app for adding text to Instagram Stories.
Posts about Unfold
Social Media Tools
Buffer
Schedule social media posts
Posts about Buffer
Hootsuite
Schedule social media posts
Mailchimp
Send newsletters
Posts about Mailchimp
MailerLite
Send newsletters
Planoly
Planoly is a great tool for scheduling and planning out posts.
Posts about Planoly
Organisation Tools
G Suite
Super useful if you want to have all the functions of GMail in your personal email!
Grammarly
Useful plugin that checks your writing for you
Posts about Grammarly
Google Analytics
Measure how many people are visiting your site – Google has a course you can take for free!
IFTTT
Make life easier for yourself – use IFTTT to connect some of your accounts together to let them run themselves
Posts about IFTTT
Siteground
Recently moved a personal site to these guys – they took all the hassle out of moving a 10 year old Wordpress install and it all went super smoothly!
Wave
You’ll need to keep track of any money you earn through blogging, and this site makes it super easy to track, as well as being able to generate invoices and links to accounts if you have a separate account for your business
