Best developer plugins for WordPress

Jadav REST Route Explorer

#50,522

by Sanjay Jadav2 months ago

Explore, test, document, and export WordPress REST API routes from a private admin console.

WebOsmotic AI Site Debugger

#52,030

by sainawebosmotic77 days ago

Collects WordPress diagnostic data, redacts sensitive info locally, and uses Cloudflare Workers AI to explain issues and suggest fixes.

Logtern

#52,366

by ASTOM Labs3 months ago

View, search, filter, and manage the WordPress debug.log file directly from your dashboard — no FTP or file manager required.

Presetscope

#52,674

by Rahul Tank1 month ago

See the theme.json settings, presets, styles and generated CSS that WordPress is using for your theme, on one read-only screen.

Restico API Explorer

Up in the last 7 days:16,987#53,052

by Heet Sangani3 months ago

An interactive REST API client and documentation explorer built directly inside the WordPress Admin Panel.

LiKoToN Debug Logs

#53,097

by likoton9 days ago

A lightweight debugging plugin that collects PHP, WordPress, REST API and login logs with filters, dark mode, infinite scroll and CSV export.

OrderCraft for WooCommerce

#53,108

by roshandalvi1 month ago

Generate realistic mock WooCommerce orders with random products, coupons, and shipping methods directly from the WordPress Admin Bar.

Horde Trace

Down in the last 7 days:3,798#53,471

by Horde10 days ago

Click any text, image or link on your site and see where it comes from and where to edit it.

HI Theme Toolkit

Up in the last 7 days:13,555#53,796

by Hawaii Interactive Sàrl20 days ago

A developer toolkit for WordPress themes — ACF blocks, custom post types, taxonomies, REST API, and utility services.

Javascript Error Reporting Client

Down in the last 7 days:1,199#53,836

by James Amner5 years ago

A plugin that collects javascript errors from every client and provides a dashboard for you to review these errors.

FieldPilot

Down in the last 7 days:5,853#55,459

by Harsh Prajapati7 days ago

Build ACF field groups with AI prompts and JSON. Built for ACF free and PRO. Preview every change first, undo any time.

Update Logger

Up in the last 7 days:12,242#55,548

by Poly Plugins2 years ago

Log WordPress updates, so you can exclude 3rd party plugins from your repo.

DesignLock

Up in the last 7 days:7,320#55,641

by Dakshesh B7 months ago

Freeze your design system. Get alerted the moment a plugin update, theme change, or client edit breaks your brand.

Show developer profile

#55,752

by evandrosouza896 years ago

A plugin to fetch and exhibit profile information and list repositories of a given github user.

Reusable Admin Panel

#57,327

by Poly Plugins1 year ago

A settings class to help developers easily add beautiful admin pages and handle getting, sanitizing, and saving options.

Naroum Update Merge

Up in the last 7 days:11,662#58,870

by maximebakernsn1 month ago

Update a plugin you customized without losing your changes. Keep your code, apply the update, and choose block by block where they conflict.

Dapre Custom Fields Tools

#60,317

by Giulio Daprela5 years ago

This plugin is the 'swiss army knife' of custom fields. It allows you to manipulate them from the dashboard to make it easy testing and debu …

Disable Telemetry

Up in the last 7 days:11,390#60,605

by Brad Parbs5 years ago

A WordPress plugin to disable all HTTP requests to api.wordpress.org.

UGT Admin IDs

Up in the last 7 days:4,429#60,764

by unigoodtech2 months ago

See WordPress object IDs directly in admin lists, sort by ID, and copy an ID with one click.

AMG Labs Cron Inspector

Down in the last 7 days:11,394#61,161

by amglabs2 months ago

A lightweight admin tool to inspect, monitor, and manually trigger WordPress cron events.

Hyper Admin Speed ULTRA

#61,488

by Mogham8 months ago

Hyper Admin Speed ULTRA transforms the WordPress dashboard into a faster, smarter, and more customizable workspace.

Promote My Extensions

#62,088

by GrandSlambert3 years ago

This plugin creates a custom post type to share information about WordPress themes and plugins you've developed.

LH Log Queries and hooks

Down in the last 7 days:7,459#62,197

by shawfactor4 years ago

Decisions not options for query and hook logging

Ozosh DevTools

Down in the last 7 days:3,354#63,208

by Ozosh Maharjan2 months ago

A modular collection of temporary development tools for building, testing, and debugging WordPress websites.

Development Mode

Down in the last 7 days:8,059#63,705

by Jakobodb9 years ago

Uses Sunrise theme on Dashboard and Frontend to visually represent development mode

Briefnote

Up in the last 7 days:4,648#63,779

by Saud Barudanovic9 months ago

A live-rendering Markdown editor and secure credentials storage for developer documentation in the WordPress admin.

Ranabikram Field Copy for ACF

#63,819

by ranabikram4 months ago

Adds a "Copy" action to ACF fields so you can copy a field, with its sub-fields, into another field group while keeping the original in place.

Palasthotel Content Change Observer

#64,188

by Palasthotel GmbH5 days ago

Efficiently observe content changes between WordPress instances.

4WP Advanced Code

#64,311

by 4WP.dev4 months ago

Enhanced Code block for Gutenberg with syntax highlighting, copy and share controls, and optional SoftwareSourceCode JSON-LD.

Notice TraceLog

Up in the last 7 days:3,326#65,080

by shuliakmaster1 year ago

Easily display PHP backtraces when Notices occur. Designed for developers to quickly identify the source of early execution issues in WordPress.

Loginator

#65,408

by Poly Plugins1 year ago

Adds a simple global function for logging to files for developers.

gitblock

#65,511

by Thrijith Thankachan17 days ago

Show GitHub profiles, organizations and repositories in the block editor, with top languages and contribution graphs.

Debug Manager Pro

#65,604

by Ziaul Kabir3 months ago

Professional debug management — toggle constants, view logs, track errors, monitor performance, emergency recovery, and export snapshots.

DevDocs

Up in the last 7 days:3,547#65,639

by Alex Hedström3 months ago

Developer software documentation with folder-based navigation, changelog tracking, and customizable color schemes.

ControlKit For Elementor

Down in the last 7 days:13,257#65,732

by amine482 months ago

ControlKit For Elementor is a lightweight developer toolkit designed to simplify the process of building and organizing custom Elementor widgets insid …

Kodosvet Code Block

Up in the last 7 days:3,129#65,895

by kotophalk2 months ago

Lightweight Gutenberg code block with Highlight.js syntax highlighting, smart language detection, and a built-in legacy block migrator.

KineticHub Frontend Doctor

#66,487

by kinetichub1 month ago

Find what is breaking your WordPress frontend - and see the exact element involved.

Blockwright Workbench

#66,558

by markrussellwp2 months ago

One-click developer tools for block-theme work: bulk-reset Site Editor overrides, rescan theme patterns, flush every cache, clear all transients.

MentoClasses

Up in the last 7 days:2,350#66,727

by H. Bakhtiari5 months ago

CSS class registry and searchable panel for Gutenberg. Build a documented class library and reuse it across your site.

DevSniper

Down in the last 7 days:3,830#67,202

by interestoffice9 months ago

Fast admin search + front-end inspector for admins to identify elements and jump to editing.

Clarke Template Debug

Up in the last 7 days:3,890#68,740

by Clarke Website Design Ltd12 days ago

Shows the active theme template file in the toolbar or a small panel, for chosen administrators only.

Sharmin Site Readiness Review

#69,762

by Sharmin Oomatia29 days ago

Check whether your WordPress website is ready to launch with a simple site-readiness checklist.

Mail Switcher For Developer

Down in the last 7 days:2,937#70,237

by PRESSMAN7 years ago

Switching all mails' "to" recipient from the original to what you specify.

Portabrief

#70,934

by 1click2open4 months ago

Export any WordPress page or whole site as a portable rebuild brief — BRIEF.md plus assets — to recreate it on another stack or with an AI.

itdatex Sync Gate

#72,593

by itdatex2 months ago

Granular per-table sync between two paired WordPress sites. Copy individual tables (posts, options, terms) between staging and live.

MetaBench

Down in the last 7 days:17,983#72,772

by Silver2222 months ago

A workbench for metadata. Search, filter, sort and edit custom fields for posts and terms from one fast panel.

Database Analyzer

#74,360

by Joel Masci6 years ago

Reports on the size and structure of your database. Shows where your data is distributed among your database tables.