Best development plugins for WordPress

Suicide

Up in the last 7 days:71#28,087

by Justin Watt12 years ago

Remove all content from your blog's database (by table). Multisite compatible.

Plugin Builder

Up in the last 7 days:227#28,376

by Chris Taylor11 years ago

Gets started building a plugin using the WordPress Plugin Boilerplate in seconds, not hours. Speed up your development.

SnapShots

Down in the last 7 days:397#28,517

by EverPress23 days ago

Save and restore named WordPress development snapshots of the database and uploads from the admin bar or WP-CLI.

PB Unblock some IPs

Up in the last 7 days:395#28,711

by Pat Bloom4 years ago

Block your website from being viewed - But unblock some IPs!

WP Shield

Up in the last 7 days:125#28,979

by drupalmatts1 month ago

This plugin will allow you to secure your development, staging and UAT environments with an http authentication block.

PHP Console Log

#29,056

by Marcus Viar6 years ago

Log PHP variables and arrays to the web console in your browser via JavaScript's console.log(). No browser extensions required.

SitePush

Down in the last 7 days:108#29,156

by Mark Rowatt Anderson13 years ago

Easily move content and code between WordPress sites. Pull your site's DB to a dev site, push new code to a staging site, etc.

WP-ngrok

Down in the last 7 days:369#29,177

by Theme.id3 years ago

Expose your local WordPress to the world. only work in your localhost

Coral

Down in the last 7 days:366#29,445

by Big Sea9 years ago

Save space and download time! Leave your uploaded images where they're at, in /wp-content, during development on your local.

Ajax Post Filter

Up in the last 7 days:235#29,786

by James Irving-Swift14 years ago

Filter posts with ajax

365i Environment Indicator

Up in the last 7 days:1,443#30,615

by Mark McNeece of 365i5 months ago

Displays a color-coded DEV, STAGING, or LIVE indicator in the admin bar to prevent accidental changes on production sites.

Admin Bar Tools

Down in the last 7 days:541#31,144

by braveryk73 years ago

Admin Bar Tools gives you access to useful tools for running WordPress.

DevStage

#31,380

by mapsiter4 years ago

Simplest admin bar indicator created by Weblings, to easily recognise whether you are in Development, Staging or Live environment.

WP Dev Flag

#31,448

by Poodle Plugins7 months ago

Shows a floating badge on the front end, to visually distinguish your development site from production.

DX localhost

Down in the last 7 days:583#32,434

by Mario Peshev7 years ago

Display a yellow notice box when you're working on localhost

Current Page Template Viewer

Down in the last 7 days:22#32,816

by Nagaoka Design20 days ago

Display current template file and directory name on screen for WordPress development.

Switcheroo

Up in the last 7 days:204#32,918

by John Thompson1 year ago

Easily manage feature flags to control the availability of features on your WordPress site without deploying new code.

Toolbar Plugins Link

#33,116

by Hareesh S3 years ago

Toolbar Plugins Link customizes the Admin Toolbar and adds a shortcut to the plugins page.

Gridly Design Overlay

Up in the last 7 days:8,549#33,746

by Gridly Design Overlay2 months ago

Adds a responsive grid overlay to help check WordPress layouts during development.

Apermo Xdebug

#33,750

by Christoph Daum8 years ago

This plugin helps developers that use Xdebug.

Freshly

#34,298

by djekanovic3 months ago

Start fresh quickly. Freshly is a debugging tool to quickly start with a new, fresh WordPress site.

Simple SCSS Compiler

Down in the last 7 days:4,578#34,440

by kidadavid4 years ago

Simple SCSS Compiler makes it easy for you to automatically compile your SCSS files to CSS, thus providing you with a hassle-free development experien …

Development Assistant

#34,651

by Dmitry Pripa28 days ago

Toolkit for debugging and customer support.

دکتر پیمان محمدپور

Down in the last 7 days:184#34,671

by Pmpr2 years ago

دکتر پیمان محمدپور ارائه دهنده محصولات و خدمات با کیفیت تحت وردپرس. با نصب افزونه رسمی، محصولات و خدمات ما را مستقیما در پنل مدیریت وردپرس خود دریافت …

Deploy Helper

Down in the last 7 days:259#34,693

by topdrawinc14 years ago

Simplify the process of deploying a website. If you ever worked on a Wordpress site on a local environment, you know how frustrating it can be to move …

Placeholder it

#35,193

by johanvandemerwe10 years ago

Add placeholders easily to widget areas during site development, with many options

EC Developer Mode Integration for Cloudflare

#35,217

by ralphiooooo10 years ago

Easily set your website into cloudflare development mode or clear the full sites cache.

Basic Dev Tools

Up in the last 7 days:11,592#35,414

by Rodrigo Techera11 years ago

A plugin with some Basic Tools For Development and Developers. Trying to be easier the way of develop common things in WP

Local Indicator

Up in the last 7 days:94#36,679

by Tom J Nowell13 years ago

A fast way of seeing which machine a WordPress install is running on.

Prevent Indexing on Non-Live Sites

Up in the last 7 days:8,813#36,729

by Steve North1 year ago

Prevent your WordPress website from being indexed by search engines when it's not on the live site.

Env Bar

Up in the last 7 days:8,461#37,203

by Justin Peacock8 years ago

Display a colored bar to help distinguish between different environments.

WP Debug Logger

Up in the last 7 days:9,780#37,236

by Donncha O Caoimh (a11n)10 years ago

A plugin that makes it easy to log code activity to a file.

WTools

Up in the last 7 days:1,590#38,182

by Junaid PV6 years ago

WTools brings various functions and classes to make developing other plugins faster.

Development Environment Notification

Up in the last 7 days:7,582#38,270

by Alex Phelps11 years ago

This plugin adds a simple notification on the WP Admin bar to help the developer know if they are looking at development or production.

Matty Theme QuickSwitch

Up in the last 7 days:3,234#38,315

by Matt Cohen14 years ago

Quickly switch between themes via a menu in the WordPress Toolbar.

CSSbyua

Up in the last 7 days:6,627#38,362

by thomasbonsirven7 years ago

Easily add styles for specific browsers and rendering engines, from the dashboard!

Author

Up in the last 7 days:3,288#38,986

by Francis Crossen13 years ago

Tina MVC is a Wordpress framework that allows you to develop plugins, shortcodes and and widgets.

Simple Hook Widget

#39,059

by Eddie Moya14 years ago

Allows developers to create a drop down of hooks to be selected from a widget, for on-the-fly widgets without the fuss, or just easily test hooks.

Theme Development Preview

Down in the last 7 days:2,340#39,900

by Roland Barker10 years ago

Allows specific users to preview and configure a theme without affecting the current theme of the site.

Dev Corner Badge

Up in the last 7 days:2,344#40,443

by philipacamaniac16 years ago

Places a highly visible marker in the upper corner of every post/page to denote a development site.

QuickStart

Down in the last 7 days:1,744#41,572

by Doug Wollison2 years ago

This plugin is no longer being developed.

Icey

Down in the last 7 days:4,877#41,687

by Icedor Johansson1 year ago

Simple yet powerful plugin to restrict WordPress access. Only logged-in users can view the site or REST API. Includes a magic link for easy access.

Jameel's Dev Tools

#41,912

by jameelbokhari13 years ago

Chalked full of little helpers for developing websites, including search and replace function and shortcode to create columns.

KAGG Compatibility

Down in the last 7 days:10,601#42,001

by kaggdesign7 days ago

The plugin blocks error messages of any level from WordPress core, plugins, and themes.

JK Development Console

Down in the last 7 days:5,085#42,818

by KevinJCandlert12 years ago

A development console for adding custom javascript and CSS.

Toggle Admin Toolbar

Down in the last 7 days:5,089#42,831

by JRyven1 year ago

Adds option to toggle admin toolbar visibility on WordPress frontend.

Theme Folders

Down in the last 7 days:6,141#43,268

by theode10 years ago

A plugin to sort themes. For an easy overview about your favorite Themes.

CMB2 Markdown

Down in the last 7 days:1,819#43,397

by ryanpmckenna9 years ago

Adds a Markdown enabled textarea with a live preview to the available CMB2 field types.

Apermo AdminBar Toggle

Up in the last 7 days:3,015#43,403

by Christoph Daum8 years ago

This plugin simple allows you to toggle the AdminBar on and off just with the keyboard.

W8ing

Down in the last 7 days:191#44,472

by bgcom12 years ago

A basic waiting/landing page plugin for Wordpress