Favorite Business Tools and Resources

I know that building a WordPress website and managing your online presence can feel overwhelming– that’s why I’ve gathered all my favorite links to make your journey easier!

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FAVORITE RESOURCES

Flodesk

EMAIL MARKETING

Create gorgeous newsletters, opt-in forms, and workflows using a drag-and-drop builder. I use Flodesk for all of my marketing emails.

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Kadence Bundles

KAdence Theme Add-Ons

Unlock extra features, plugins and blocks for your Hearten Made theme! We use Kadence Pro & Kadence Blocks Pro on our main website.

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Siteground

Website Hosting

A great option for website hosting. SG has its own optimizing & security plugins, and a CDN to help with speed & website performance.

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Learn Dash

ONLINE Courses

Create and sell your online courses with complete control. Learn Dash is compatible with all of our Kadence Child Themes.

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The Contract Shop

LEGAL

Privacy policy, TOC, contracts, and more! Legally protect yourself and your business with contract templates drafted by an attorney.

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Creative Market

Fonts, STOCK PHOTOS & More

Gorgeous fonts, stock photos, graphics, and more. When you shop on CM, you’re supporting small businesses and designers!

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Hosting

* Siteground — A great option for website hosting. SG has its own optimizing and security plugin, and a new CDN to help with speed & website performance.

WP Engine

WordPress Tutorials & training

Hearten Made Support Docs — We provide tons of theme, plugin, and WordPress tutorials, videos, troubleshooting guides, and more!

WP101 — WordPress courses & tutorials for beginners

Youtube – There are tons of free WordPress tutorials on Youtube!

Free Fonts

Google Fonts

Adobe Fonts — A lot of people don’t know this, but if you have any type of Adobe Creative Cloud plan, you have free access to Adobe fonts!

Font Fabric

Paid fonts

* Creative Market – FAV place to shop for fonts! By purchasing from CM, you’re also supporting talented designers & small businesses!

The Hungry JPEG – On a budget? Find fonts starting at $1

My Fonts

Font Shop

Design Tools

Adobe Creative Cloud — There’s an Adobe app/service for just about everything design-related.

Procreate — One of my fav tools to create hand-drawn graphics, patterns, backgrounds, text and more. You’ll need an iPad and an Apple Pencil to use this program.

Canva — Easily create beautiful graphics for your website or social media feed. I recommend the Pro membership for extra goodies!

Free Stock Photography

Plexels — My fav place to find gorgeous stock photos.

Kaboompics

Unsplash

Paid Stock Photography

* Moyo Studio on Creative Market — My favorite shop to purchase device mockups from.

* Floral Deco on Creative Market

Haute Stock

Email Marketing

* Flodesk — Create gorgeous newsletters, opt-in forms, and workflows using a drag-and-drop builder. I use Flodesk for all of my marketing emails.

Mailchimp — Free up to 2k subscribers.

Courses & Membership Tools

Learn Dash — Create and sell your online courses with complete control. Learn Dash is compatible with all of our Kadence Child Themes.

MemberPress — Create a membership site, member-only forums, and create and sell online courses.

Design Inspiration

Pinterest — Duh!

Behance

httpster — Website design inspo

Type Wolf — Typography ideas

Learn Coding & Design

Treehouse — Learn coding, programming, design, WordPress development, and more. Free trial, and only $25 a month after.

Social Media Tools

Planoly — Plan and schedule content for Instagram, Facebook, Pinterest and Twitter.

Canva — Easily create beautiful graphics for your feed. I recommend the Pro membership for extra goodies!

Social Proof

Provely — We use Provely on our website that displays a popup when someone has purchased a product from us.

Customer Service/Knowledge Base

Help Scout — This is the platform I use for my Support Docs.

Helpful Google Chrome Extensions

Full Page Screen Capture — Easily take screenshots of your entire page.

Clear Cache — Instead of taking so many steps to get into your browser settings to clear your cache, with this extension you can do it with just one click. Useful when making a lot of edits on your website and need to see the design changes immediately.

Blogging & Writing Tools

Grammarly — Powerful writing assistant

Grammarly for Chrome — Chrome extension