EXPLORE MY TOOLKIT

Here, I am opening up my toolkit that I regularly use while blogging & creating contents and graphics. I’ve listed my favorite apps and tools that really help me during the work. Most of these were once recommended to me and today I am recommending to you.

Blogging Platform

WordPress is my favorite blogging platform. I started my blogging journey with free platforms, Blogger and WordPress.com and I am using WordPress for almost 2 years now. Like many other bloggers, WordPress has become my choice for the blogging platform.

 

Web Host

There are many web hosting services and Bluehost is quite popular. Even WordPress recommends Bluehost for web hosting. With easy installation, affordable rate and 24/7 WP support, Bluehost is a great choice if you are building your first website.

P.S. Currently, I’m using Namecheap for my blog.

 

Blog Themes

WordPress has thousands of themes, you just need to browse and choose the one that fits your niche. Check for the features you are looking for. You can get premium themes from ThemeForest. I have settled for ‘Smartblog’. Before that, I used ‘Lifestyle’, ‘LookFashion’, and tried a few others.

 

Graphic Design Tools

Canva – An online graphic design tool that enables you to create graphics like a Pro.

Learn more about creating graphics like a Pro using Canva.

Gravit – Another amazing online graphic design tool that lets you easily create graphics, logo, watermark and other designs.

Learn how to create watermark with Gravit.

Pixabay – A stock photo site that offers CC0 licensed high-quality images, plus vector graphics, illustrations, and videos.

Check 20 Best Websites For Free Stock Photos.

 

WordPress Plugins

Better Click To Tweet – Add Click to Tweet boxes to your pages and posts.

Google Analytics – A statistics program

Shareaholic – A social media kit

Shortcodes Ultimate – A comprehensive collection of visual components for WordPress

WP Smush – Reduce image file sizes, improve performance and boost your SEO

WP Super Cache – Very fast caching plugin for WordPress.

Yoast SEO – An all-in-one SEO solution for WordPress

 

Other Tools and Apps

Grammarly – An online platform to help you with the grammar. It has an awesome Google Chrome extension as well.

Evernote – Great tool for taking and sharing notes

Lightshot – A Google Chrome extension to take the screenshot of a webpage

Pinglr – Link indexing tool

Pingomatic – A tool to update different search engines that your blog has updated.