Best development plugins for WordPress

Only Admins

#44,581

by pcoitinho9 years ago

Only Admins is a minimal plugin that restricts your entire WordPress site to Admins.

EPT Empty Plugin Template

#44,988

by Juergen Schulze15 years ago

An empty plugin template to start with, including the most basic necessary stuff. Take this as some kind of workshop.

Blighty Pluginator

Down in the last 7 days:6,193#45,254

by Blighty2 years ago

This plugin monitors installed WordPress plugins on your installation for updates and notifies via email when they are available.

Force Transient Refresh

Up in the last 7 days:2,183#45,451

by Zach Wills11 years ago

Clear all transients by adding a query string parameter (?ftr) to whatever URL you are trying to load. Not for use in production.

WP Logger

#45,946

by mrkhanakia6 years ago

Logs every single request made to your Wordpress website and helps you to tighten security by analyzing the requests made to your website.

Missing Content

Up in the last 7 days:24#46,455

by dholloran12 years ago

Allows you to add placeholder content quickly and easily to your site.

Anti-Cache Kit

Up in the last 7 days:1,051#46,491

by Fernando Tellado2 months ago

Flushes and deactivates cache and optimization plugins, enables debug mode, and provides maintenance mode for WordPress development.

WP CoffeeScript

#46,519

by tombenner15 years ago

Allows developers to easily use CoffeeScript in WordPress. Simply use enqueue_coffeescript(); the compilation is done automatically behind the scenes.

WP Git Deploy

Down in the last 7 days:2,893#46,596

by vmassuchetto12 years ago

Deploy websites using Git and the admin bar.

TIVWP-DM Development Manager

Down in the last 7 days:2,893#46,604

by Gregory K. (@tivnet)12 years ago

Install and manage development plugins

WP Reroute Mandrill

Down in the last 7 days:572#46,624

by RexAK11 years ago

Reroutes All Mail going through the wpMandrill Plugin to email address(s) of your choice.

My Github

#46,751

by Ratul Hasan2 years ago

A simple and nice WordPress plugin that can track your github's profile.

Sunrise

Up in the last 7 days:24#46,902

by Vova13 years ago

Plugin framework, that was designed to speed up plugin deployment and development

Back To The Theme

Down in the last 7 days:3,360#46,962

by Mikael Korpela7 years ago

See a page with different themes all at once, just like that!

WooFakePay

Down in the last 7 days:230#47,341

by FranH13 years ago

Dummy payment gateway for developers. Simulates IPN. Always marks Order as paid.

Developer monitor by VentureGeeks

#47,782

by nick00000014 years ago

Check all the running queries and other development information in Firebug. Great to debug performance issues in live web sites.

WP Prevent CSS Cache

Down in the last 7 days:743#47,983

by WP Academic7 years ago

License: GPLv2 or later WordPress plugin to prevent caching your stylesheet during development

SP Framework

Down in the last 7 days:8,235#48,040

by Alex Kuimov6 years ago

Special Pack Framework - Feature set for fast website development

Easy Local Site

#48,276

by Simon Blackbourn6 years ago

Aid the development process on a local WordPress site by adding some handy reminders and overriding outgoing emails.

Mail Debug

#48,492

by Ben16 years ago

Redirects all email sent through wordpress to the user currently logged in or the site administrator.

Dark Site

Down in the last 7 days:4,834#48,516

by wptechnical15 years ago

Keep your site private with dark-site. Simple to use.

Bromate Remote Media Bridge

Down in the last 7 days:249#50,484

by bromate4 months ago

Use a remote WordPress uploads directory without copying your entire media library. Optionally cache media files locally as visitors browse your site.

Echo Out Viewer

Up in the last 7 days:7,295#50,628

by aminul Islam1 year ago

Short Description: A simple tool to output and inspect PHP variables directly in your browser for debugging purposes.

Access Code Lite

Up in the last 7 days:10,732#51,240

by ExpandOps9 months ago

Restrict site access with a simple URL code parameter and grant access using private link sharing. Ideal for sites in development or maintenance.

StageBar

Up in the last 7 days:3,868#51,941

by DeeperLook1 month ago

Know at a glance which site you are editing. The admin bar changes colour and shows a LIVE, STAGING, DEV or LOCAL badge.

Onemax Product Seeder for WooCommerce

Up in the last 7 days:11,485#52,078

by onemax8 months ago

Generate demo WooCommerce products (simple and variable) from the admin area. Requires WooCommerce 8.0+.

Axle Staging Guard

#52,567

by Aryan Jasala3 days ago

Stop staging sites from emailing real customers and showing up in Google. Colours the admin bar so nobody edits the wrong copy.

"Safe WP Updates" by WP Boom

Up in the last 7 days:3,591#52,860

by wpboom1 year ago

A site cloning and visual testing tool that allows creation of development sites for WordPress update testing.

LocalDev Switcher

Down in the last 7 days:337#53,380

by thewebist10 months ago

Easily switch between version-controlled plugins/themes and local development versions by toggling in the Plugins and Themes screens.

Local Email Blocker

Up in the last 7 days:14,203#53,384

by Md Mostafizur Rahman1 year ago

Blocks outgoing emails in development environments and logs them for review.

HTTP Authentication site lock

Up in the last 7 days:9,804#53,650

by Affilipoint3 years ago

Restrict your site from the public while it's in development, staging or maintenance mode.

Product Testimonial

Up in the last 7 days:12,472#53,671

by Sadekur Rahman2 years ago

Custom Wordpress Testimonial is a plugins that where you can added all testimonials of your clients to your WordPress site.

EnvBeacon

Up in the last 7 days:7,359#55,222

by Grant Barnard5 months ago

Display a colored notice in the WordPress admin bar to indicate which environment (Live, Staging, Local) your site is running on.

HTML API Debugger

#55,853

by Jon Surrell13 days ago

Add a WP Admin page for debugging the HTML API.

WP Dev Notice

Down in the last 7 days:3,784#57,166

by nezhar9 years ago

A WordPress plugin that displays a notification if you are working in a development environment

BTFU

#57,256

by jkirker1 day ago

One-click file + database checkpoints for WordPress development. Snapshot, experiment, roll back. (The F stands for Files.)

Gorilla Debug

Up in the last 7 days:11,319#57,373

by gorillasolutions5 years ago

Gorilla Debug is a simple WordPress plugin. It is geared towards helping programmers with the development of WordPress themes and plugins.

Current Template Insights

Up in the last 7 days:11,324#57,419

by macurious5 months ago

Quickly view the active template file and important page information directly in your WordPress admin bar.

Rudra WC Test Data Generator

#60,058

by Rahul Ranjan25 days ago

Generate a small amount of dummy WooCommerce data for development and staging websites.

Staging Superpowers

#60,554

by Rodolfo Melogli26 days ago

Make a staging copy of your site safe to test on: blocks emails and outside services, freezes scheduled tasks, keeps search engines and AI bots out.

WP Frontend Helper

#60,917

by riccardooliva7 years ago

A set of handful tools to ease your life as a frontend WP developer.

MieBadge

Down in the last 7 days:5,401#61,142

by LaughterOnWater8 months ago

A persistent, draggable badge that alerts users they're on a staging site. Inspired by Kabuki mie poses that demand attention.

MockingCrow

#62,178

by mrthito2 days ago

A mock WooCommerce payment gateway for testing checkout. Choose whether each payment is approved or declined. No money is ever charged.

MailcatcherClient

Down in the last 7 days:2,675#62,808

by Johannes Przymusinski1 year ago

Integrate your WordPress development environment with Mailcatcher to effortlessly capture and view outgoing emails during testing.

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

Dev Studio

Up in the last 7 days:4,159#63,775

by SolidBunch5 years ago

Development environment for Wordpress developers

SpawnWP Deploy

#63,826

by wpvoicer2 months ago

Deploy and migrate WordPress sites with reusable blueprints — capture a configured site once, publish it to a fresh installation.

Super Interactive Image Placeholders

#64,323

by Super Interactive4 years ago

Display placeholder Lorem Picsum images to avoid chains of 404 requests caused by an incomplete uploads directory (while developing)

Uploads Relay for Local Development by Carl Alberto

Down in the last 7 days:11,503#65,338

by Carl Alberto5 months ago

Proxy missing upload files from a remote server during local development. No need to download the entire uploads folder.