Shows a floating badge on the front end, to visually distinguish your development site from production.
As of April 2026, WP Dev Flag is a WordPress flag plugin with 10 active installations and a 5/5 rating from 3 reviews. It has been downloaded 2.5K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 3.0.1+ and PHP 5.6+. Available on WordPress.org since 2019. Last updated 1 year ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: SVG Flags – Beautiful Scalable Flags….
This plugin makes it easy to distinguish between your local development site, and your live site.
I created this because I often use a local duplicate of my live site, for development, with the same DB, and the same URL.
I needed a quick & easy way of distinguishing between my live and development sites at a glance. This plugin acheives that in the simplest way possible.
There are settings for colour, positioning and the text displayed on the badge. It is also possible to add a link onto the badge.
| WordPress | 3.0.1+ requiredTested up to 6.7.5 |
| PHP | 5.6+ required |
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