Best development plugins for WordPress

Query Monitor

Down in the last 7 days:2#243

by John Blackbourn12 days ago

Query Monitor is the developer tools panel for WordPress and WooCommerce.

Yoast Test Helper

Down in the last 7 days:2#697

by Yoast1 month ago

This plugin makes testing Yoast SEO, Yoast SEO add-ons and integrations and resetting the different features a lot easier.

What The File

Up in the last 7 days:1#891

by Barry Kooij8 months ago

What The File is the best tool to find out what template parts are used to display the page you're currently viewing!

Stop Emails

Down in the last 7 days:1#3,132

by Sal Ferrarello9 months ago

Stop all outgoing emails sent from WordPress.

Monkeyman Rewrite Analyzer

Down in the last 7 days:11#5,248

by Jan Fabry15 years ago

Making sense of the rewrite mess. Display and play with your rewrite rules.

WP Secure Maintenance

Down in the last 7 days:9#5,316

by Saad Iqbal2 years ago

Want to lock your site for Maintenance or Development? Then this is the right Plugin

Display Environment Type

Down in the last 7 days:27#5,991

by Stoil Dobreff10 months ago

Displays WordPress 5.5's environment type setting in the admin bar and the "At a Glance" dashboard widget.

What Template

Down in the last 7 days:17#6,043

by Brian Alexander2 years ago

Adds the current page's template name to the admin bar.

WP PHP Console

Down in the last 7 days:21#9,115

by Fulvio Notarstefano6 years ago

An implementation of PHP Console as a WordPress plugin. Use Chrome Dev Tools to debug your WordPress installation!

Ray

Down in the last 7 days:45#9,727

by freekmurze11 months ago

Easily debug WordPress sites using Ray.

Admin Bar Tools

Down in the last 7 days:72#10,576

by Grégory Viguier5 years ago

Adds some small development tools to the admin bar.

Simple Session Support

Up in the last 7 days:12#11,568

by Peter Wooster13 years ago

Provides support for the PHP session allowing data to be retained from one request to another.

Disable Version Caching

Down in the last 7 days:26#12,174

by mrkhanakia6 years ago

Updates the assets version of all CSS and JS files. Shows the latest changes on the site without asking the client to clear browser cache.

Asset Queue Manager

Down in the last 7 days:25#12,415

by NateWr10 years ago

A tool for experienced frontend performance engineers to take control over the scripts and styles enqueued on their site.

Discourage Search Engines

Down in the last 7 days:27#13,344

by Flint1 year ago

Show a dashboard notification to remind you that 'Discourage Search Engines' is still enabled in the settings.

SiteCare

Down in the last 7 days:159#13,532

by SiteCare3 days ago

One forgotten setting can hide your site from Google. A red/green eye shows visibility at a glance, plus a one-click fix and instant email alerts.

Alpaca Issue Tracker

Up in the last 7 days:39#13,796

by Rareview®24 days ago

A lightweight issue tracker built entirely inside WordPress, designed for developers and agencies managing client projects.

Test Email Redirector

Down in the last 7 days:177#14,139

by Zaib Makda1 year ago

Redirects all outgoing WordPress emails to a specified test address for development and testing purposes.

Stage File Proxy

Up in the last 7 days:288#14,638

by drubage9 years ago

Stage File Proxy Plugin for Wordpress Development. This plugin IS NOT meant for use on production websites.

Lorem Ipsum for WP Editor

Down in the last 7 days:60#15,037

by Janynne Gomes12 years ago

Now you can easily test your website adding Lorem Ipsum text to your posts by one click.

VarDumper

Up in the last 7 days:52#15,316

by borantula11 years ago

A plugin to include var-dump package to use dump() function while developing or debugging.

The Permalinker

Down in the last 7 days:33#15,469

by Andy Stratton1 year ago

Use short codes to dynamically link to your WordPress pages and posts. All you need is the ID. This can come in handy when developing content for Word …

一介資男(Mxp.TW) 開發工具箱

Up in the last 7 days:214#15,933

by mxp1 day ago

WordPress 開發與維運工具箱，整合外掛安裝、資料庫維護、搬站輔助、安全片段、站點管理與前端問題回報。

DebugPress

Up in the last 7 days:32#16,044

by Milan Petrovic4 months ago

Easy-to-use plugin for debugging and profiling website loading, SQL queries analysis, help with development, bug fixing, all in configurable popup.

BEAPI

Down in the last 7 days:34#16,331

by BE API7 years ago

Puts your WordPress site into maintenance mode by sending a 'Error 503: Access Denied/Forbidden' status to all unauthenticated clients.

Enqueueror

Down in the last 7 days:115#16,447

by Panagiotis (Panos) Anastasiadis2 years ago

Supercharged CSS & JS Coding for WordPress

CL WP Info

Up in the last 7 days:111#16,828

by Carlos Longarela5 months ago

Show us information about WordPress install, PHP, Database and Hosting Server

Zodan Mini Admin Menu

Up in the last 7 days:14#17,289

by Marten Moolenaar1 month ago

This mini menu is super comfy: not the big default admin bar, but just a tiny button. Great when you are developing (or maintaining) websites.

Local Development

Down in the last 7 days:163#17,681

by Andy Fragen2 months ago

Places development notice for plugins or themes that are in local development. Prevents updating of selected plugins and themes.

Find Function/Class

Down in the last 7 days:82#17,967

by Daniele Scasciafratte8 years ago

Search the file and row (on WordPress) that contain a PHP function or class with a click!

Blocs Developer

Down in the last 7 days:13#18,342

by cazoobi1 year ago

Blocs Developer allows you to connect Wordpress site content with the Blocs desktop Mac application.

Show Template

#19,230

by Matt Martz16 years ago

Prints an html comment in the footer of every page letting you know which template file of your theme was used for the display.

Apermo AdminBar

Up in the last 7 days:213#19,270

by Christoph Daum10 years ago

This plugin allows you to add links between a development, staging and live version of your website, and adds them to the AdminBar.

Wowholic CORE

Down in the last 7 days:154#19,366

by Wowholic11 months ago

CORE makes you faster and more efficient when developing custom WordPress sites.

SMNTCS Show Symlinked Plugins

#19,514

by Niels Lange1 month ago

Labels symlinked plugins on the Plugins page and hides their delete link and update notice, so you cannot change them by accident.

Media Placeholders

Down in the last 7 days:45#19,561

by Weston Ruter11 years ago

Redirect requests to non-existent uploaded images to a placeholder service like placehold.it or placekitten.com. For use during development.

302 Moved Temporarily

Down in the last 7 days:84#19,701

by Jordan Patterson13 years ago

Need to redirect your visitors temporarily? This plugin will redirect any unauthenticated users to another url and still allow logged in users to use …

List All Pages

Down in the last 7 days:8#20,579

by The Jake Group13 years ago

List all pages on a WordPress site for easy browsing and editing.

Where Am I

Down in the last 7 days:99#22,209

by BjornW11 years ago

Adds a HTML comment in the head on the front-end with current server name and address. Description = Where Am I is a tiny WordPress plugin which ad …

Reprint

Up in the last 7 days:981#22,847

by WordPress.org5 days ago

Copy your WordPress site's files and database to another computer or host with an authorized Reprint client.

WD Quick Pages

Up in the last 7 days:277#23,110

by WolfDevs11 months ago

Quickly create multiple WordPress pages with hierarchical structure support. Perfect for rapid site development.

WP Developer Assistant

Down in the last 7 days:128#24,210

by Chris Jean18 years ago

A plugin by a WordPress developer for WordPress developers.

EZ Coming Soon

#24,423

by watchthedot27 days ago

Display a basic coming soon page or maintenance page on demand. Or display your own coming soon page using your theme!

SJE Simple JSON Editor

Up in the last 7 days:270#24,590

by Paul Fleury2 years ago

SJE (Simple JSON Editor) is an elegant and easy-to-use JSON editor for your WordPress theme files.

Dev Theme

#24,773

by Avi Bashari3 years ago

DEV Theme

KAGG Generator

Down in the last 7 days:69#26,648

by kaggdesign7 days ago

The plugin generates posts/pages. Useful to generate millions of records in the wp_posts table.

Email Cop

Down in the last 7 days:390#27,053

by Ashish Kumar (Ashfame)7 years ago

Prevents WordPress from sending out emails and save them so that you can preview them without actually having to send them.

StageBridge

Up in the last 7 days:938#27,294

by Daniel Emunot3 months ago

Push tested staging changes without losing unrelated live-site work. Includes backups and WooCommerce protection.

WP Quick Provision

Up in the last 7 days:1,277#27,739

by HasinHayder5 years ago

This is a powerful provisioning plugin to install multiple themes and plugins automatically by providing them as a list from https://gist.github.com.

HPOS Status Indicator for WooCommerce

#27,830

by YMMV Plugins5 months ago

Adds a High Performance Order Storage (HPOS) status indicator to the admin bar that shows the status of HPOS on the site, perfect for debugging.