Create a Personal Site Like This

• 24 December 2021
• interesting

I recently moved my personal site (the one you’re currently on) from Gatsby + Netlify to self-hosted WordPress.

I received a few DMs from my Twitter friends that they liked the site and they would like to know what tools and tech I used to create this. Finally, I decided to put together the list of everything that I used to create the site.

Tools used:

• WordPress

  • Theme — Twenty Twenty

  • Plugins

    • Twentig — to further customize the Twenty Twenty theme
    • LiteSpeed Cache — for caching (the best one I have ever used)
    • Open Graph and Twitter Card Tags — for link previews on social media
    • XML Sitemaps — to generate automatic sitemap
    • 301 Redirects — to 301 redirect any internal page to an external or another internal page
    • Akismet Anti-Spam — to block out spam comments and form entries
    • WP Sweep — to clean up unused, orphaned, and duplicate data
    • All-in-one WP Migration — to download manual backups of the site on a regular basis
    • Auto Upload Images — to automatically upload external images to the WordPress media folder
    • Insert Headers and Footers — to add Google Analytics and other JS & CSS code snippets in the site’s header or footer

  • Fonts — Space Grotesk

  • Colors

    • Black — #000000
    • Blue — #007ACC

• Hosting

  • DigitalOcean — Sign up using this link and get $100 credits that will last for months on Digital Ocean
  • Cyberpanel — Used this app to create the droplet
  • Cloudflare — for extra security and DNS management

And no, I am not using any SEO plugin.

That’s it.

If you have a related query, feel free to let me know in the comments below.

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