What WordPress Stack do the World's Best Pro's use?

What WordPress Stack do the Pro's use

Article link https://www.pootlepress.com/2021/12/what-wordpress-stack-do-the-pros-use/

Timeline:
0:00 - Intro
0:45 - The 5 questions
1:00 - Paul Charlton (WP Tuts)
5:04 - Chris Lema
9:15 - Lesley Sim
15:30 - BopWP
21:25 - Ellen Bauer
24:48 - Lee Shadle
28:46 - Nick Diego
34:07 - Paul Lacey
39:20 - Matt Medeiros
43:48 - Keith Devon
51:50 - Rich Tabor
55:15 - Kim Doyal
58:43 - Shawn Hesketh
01:00:46 - Vito Peleg
01:08:31 - Joe Casabona
01:17:41 - Raitis Sevelis
01:19:00 - Andrew Palmer
01:25:05 - Vova Feldman
01:28:15 - Bridget Willard

Introduction
I asked the best WordPress Pro’s to tell us what stack they use when building with WordPress and their answers are super useful and interesting.

What are their favourite plugins
What are their favourite themes
What is their favourite hosting
What is their favourite non-Wordpress App
Gutenberg Yes or No?
I hope you find their answers useful ????

Paul Charlton
Favourite Plugins:

Admin Columns Pro
Dynamic Content for Elementor
ACF Frontend Forms Pro
Favourite Themes: Blocksy / Blocksy Pro

Favourite non-WordPress app: ThriveCart

Gutenberg Yes or No?
Both.

Chris Lema
Favourite Plugins:

Code Snippets
Yoast or Yoast Premium
Header/Footer Code Manager
Favourite Themes:

Blocksy
Astra
Kadence
Favourite non-WordPress app: ZipMessage

Gutenberg Yes or No?
Yes.

Lesley Sim
Favourite Plugins:

Yoast
Redirection
TinyPNG
Favourite Themes:

Blocksy
Themes by Anders Norén
Themes by Automattic
Favourite non-WordPress app: Clean Shot

Gutenberg Yes or No?
Yes.

BobWP
Favourite Plugins:

Yoast
Broken Links Checker
WooCommerce
Favourite Themes:

Themes by Genesis StudioPress
GeneratePress
Astra
Favourite non-WordPress app: ClickUp

Gutenberg Yes or No?
Yes.

Ellen Bauer
Favourite Plugins:

Gutenberg
WooCommerce Blocks
AntiSpam Bee
Favourite Theme:

Aina
Twenty Twenty-Two
Favourite non-WordPress app: Figma

Gutenberg Yes or No?
Yes.

Lee Shadle
Favourite Plugins:

Elementor
WP draft
Site Kit
Favourite Themes:

Hello Elementor
WP Draft Block Based FSE
Favourite non-WordPress app: DigitalOcean

Gutenberg Yes or No?
Yes.
Nick Diego
Favourite Plugins:

Yoast
Google Site Kit
Easy Digital Downloads
Favourite Themes:

Tove
Frost
Favourite non-WordPress apps:

Sketch
Atom
Screenflow
Gutenberg Yes or No?
Yes.

Paul Lacey
Favourite Plugins:

Beaver Builder
Advanced Custom Fields Pro
Perfmatters
Prestoplayer
Favourite Theme: Beaver Themer

Favourite non-WordPress app:

ThriveCart
ConvertBox
Gutenberg Yes or No?
The Gutenberg block editor is the future of the core software.

Matt Medeiros
Favourite Plugins:

Seriously Simple Podcasting
Gravity Forms
Easy Support Videos
Favourite Themes:

Chaplin (and other themes by Anders Norén)
Neve
Themes by Generate Press
Favourite non-WordPress app: Simplenote

Gutenberg Yes or No?
Gutenberg is here to stay.

Keith Devon
Favourite Plugins:

Advanced Custom Fields
Gravity Forms
Yoast
Favourite Themes:

Twenty Twenty-One
Anders Norén themes, like Tove
Favourite non-WordPress app: Tower

Gutenberg Yes or No?
Yes.
Rich Tabor
Favourite Plugins:

Co blocks
Layout grid block
Favourite Theme: Twenty Twenty-Two

Favourite non-WordPress app:

Figma
Linear
Gutenberg Yes or No?
Yes.

Kim Doyal
Favourite Plugins:

Link Whisper
Newsletter glue
Tripetto
Favourite Themes:

StudioPress Genesis
Beaver Builder
Generate Press
Favourite non-WordPress app: ConvertBox

Gutenberg Yes or No?
Yes.

Vito Peleg
Favourite Plugins:

Gravity Forms
Pretty Links
Bertha.ai
Favourite Themes:

Hello Elementor
Page Builder Framework
Xtheme
Favourite non-WordPress app: Atarim

Gutenberg Yes or No?
Both.
Joe Casabona
Favourite Plugins:

Redirection
Block Miester
LearnDash
Favourite Themes: Kadence

Favourite non-WordPress app: Shortcuts

Gutenberg Yes or No?
Yes.

Raitis Sevelis
Favourite Plugins:

Visual Composer
Yoast
Real Media Library
Favourite Themes:

The Starter Theme
Kadence
Blocksy
Favourite non-WordPress app: Sketch, Slack, Zoom

Gutenberg Yes or No?
Yes. Because it’s an evolution in WordPress and pushes visual editors to become better.

Andrew Palmer
Favourite Plugins:

WP Forms
Bertha.ai
Kadence Blocks
Favourite Themes

Kadence
Divi
Favourite non WordPress App: Ray ban Glasses

Gutenberg Yes or No?
Yes. It’s the future of WordPress!

Vova Feldman
Favourite Plugins:

WPS Hide Login
Login Watchdog
Share a Draft
Favourite Themes:

Blocksy
OceanWP
Zuka
Favourite non-WordPress app: PhpStorm

Gutenberg Yes or No?
No Gutenberg is getting better everyday and it is exciting to see what will happen with it in the future.

Bridget Willard
Favourite Plugins:

Beaver Builder
Revive Social
Easy Digitial Downloads
Favourite Theme:

Beaver builder
Favourite non-WordPress app: Xero
Gutenberg Yes or No?
Both. Always been on the fence about Gutenberg, but what is useful about Gutenberg is the ability to copy and paste from Google Docs, without the spam codes.