Anyone who’s spent time building and maintaining WordPress websites knows the feeling. You search for a solution, and you’re met with a thousand plugin options, each one claiming to be the best, the fastest, the most secure. It’s exhausting, and it’s genuinely hard to know who to trust.
This is Simon Bailey Design’s carefully curated toolkit of WordPress resources. These are the trusted tools and suppliers relied on for many years to keep websites running smoothly, securely, and behaving themselves.
Simon Bailey Design has been working with WordPress across private schools, charities, NFPs, and software companies. The toolkit has been shaped by real-world use, on real client projects, with real consequences when something goes wrong.
These are the tools that made the cut.
Managed WordPress Hosting
WordPress Themes
WordPress Customisation Plugins
WordPress Security Plugins
- Akismet Anti-spam
- Solid Security Pro (formerly iThemes Security)
- Wordfence
WordPress Backup Plugins
- Duplicator
- SolidWP Backups (formerly BackupBuddy)
WordPress SMTP Plugins
WordPress eCommerce Plugins
- WooCommerce
- Orderable (for restaurants)
WordPress Donation Plugins
WordPress Event Plugins
WordPress Learning Management Systems
WordPress Membership Plugins
WordPress SEO Plugins
Other Helpful Plugins & Services
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