Product reviews.
Honest, hands-on reviews of the WordPress plugins, themes and tools we actually use — the good, the bad, and whether they're worth your money.
InPrivy
Emailing a client their password is a habit everyone knows is bad and does anyway. InPrivy fixes it: encrypted, self-destructing…
Josh Cox ★ 4.8 8 July 2026 3 min read 
FluentCRM
Email marketing platforms charge you more every time your list grows. FluentCRM takes a different route: a self-hosted…
MainWP
Looking after thirty WordPress sites one login at a time isn't a plan. MainWP pulls them all into a single, self-hosted…
FlyWP
Cloud servers are fast and cheap, and a faff to look after. FlyWP is the layer that fixes that: it turns a raw cloud se…
Vultr
When a site outgrows shared hosting, Vultr is where I go for raw cloud power. The High Frequency plans are genuinely fa…
20i
20i is the host I quietly reach for on most client projects. It's fast, UK-based, properly good value, and the support…
UptimeRobot
There are few worse ways to learn your website is down than a client ringing to tell you. UptimeRobot makes sure I'm th…
Cal.com
I’m a big advocate for keeping things native to WordPress, so a hosted scheduling tool was never an obvious fit for me.…
Plausible
Plausible is a privacy-first, cookieless analytics tool, and one we’ve moved a chunk of our sites over to. It’s the ope…
Streamlining client bookings with Fluent Booking
Fluent Booking is a new addition to the WP Manage Ninja suite of products, and one we recently picked up a lifetime lic…
Ensuring compliance with Termageddon
As a WordPress developer and agency owner, I’ve lost count of the number of times clients have asked, “Do I really need…
Divi, the ancient behemoth of page builders
If you’ve been in the WordPress space for a few years, there’s a good chance you’ve come across Divi. It’s one of the m…
WP Rocket
As a WordPress agency, speed isn’t just a nice-to-have, it’s a must-have. From SEO to UX (User eXperience) to conversio…
Why We Use Bricks Builder for WordPress Projects
As a web development agency soon approaching its 10th anniversary, we’ve worked with different page builders and theme…
Fluent Forms
Most websites have contact forms. It’s so common place, we’re just accustomed to filling out forms to send enquiries. S…
Extending the Gutenberg block editor with Stackable
We often get asked what our “go-to” WordPress tools are, so we decided to create a few review articles about them. In t…
Why We Chose Blocksy as Our Go
As a web development agency, we used to handcraft our themes from a custom boilerplate. That old-school workflow served…