WordPress Development Plugins

This plugin helps developers that use Xdebug.

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

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

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

Import and Export Wordpress Options to/from JSON with filters.

Display a colored bar to help distinguish between different environments.

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

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

A development console for adding custom javascript and CSS.

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

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

Toolkit for debugging and customer support.

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

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

A basic waiting/landing page plugin for Wordpress

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.

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

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

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

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

Special Pack Framework - Feature set for fast website development

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

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

This plugin is no longer being developed.

Install and manage development plugins

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

Adds option to toggle admin toolbar visibility on WordPress frontend.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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