Add an indication to the Admin Bar of the environment WordPress is running in (e.g., Prod, Staging, QA, Dev, etc).
As of April 2026, Show Environment in Admin Bar is a WordPress admin plugin with 200 active installations and a 5/5 rating from 3 reviews. It has been downloaded 12K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 4.6+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2017. Last updated 1 year ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: Loginizer.
If you’re like me, you often have multiple versions of the same WordPress site open in different browser windows, e.g., production in one window and development in another window.
And if you’re like me, you have also unwittingly edited content in the production environment thinking you were doing so in the development environment or vice versa.
If so, then this plugin is for you!
It adds an indication of the current environment to the Admin Bar that is easier to see than examining the URL in your browser’s address bar.
Out-of-the-box, 2 different environments are recognized:
| WordPress | 4.6+ requiredTested up to 6.6.5 |
| PHP | false+ required |
$wp_version as a global in SHC_Show_Env:init(). D’oh!Plugin data sourced from WordPress.org. Analysis and metrics by PluginSift.