Helpful External Tools

Description

Brief descriptions and links to useful tools and applications for helping streamline your development. This list will be edited regularly but here’s a few to get us started.


WordPress & WooCommerce API References & Manuals

https://make.wordpress.org/core/handbook/
WordPres Core Contributor Handbook
http://wp-a2z.org/
Dynamic API Reference for WP core, RestAPI, WooCommerce, etc
http://v2.wp-api.org/
WordPress Rest API documentation
https://woothemes.github.io/woocommerce-rest-api-docs/
Woocommerce Rest API documentation
https://businessbloomer.com/woocommerce-tips/visual-hook-series/
BusinessBloomer.com Visual WooCommerce Hooks Resource


Browser Extensions

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/lightshot-screenshot-tool/mbniclmhobmnbdlbpiphghaielnnpgdp?hl=en
Lightshot (screenshot tool) – A simple chrome extension for taking screenshots with arrows, added explanatory text, etc. A really great communication tool.
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/advanced-rest-client/hgmloofddffdnphfgcellkdfbfbjeloo
Advanced Rest Client – Chrome extension for the RestAPI.
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/builtwith-technology-prof/dapjbgnjinbpoindlpdmhochffioedbn?hl=en
BuiltWith – Chrome extension for determining various aspects of a site from: hosting, frameworks, languages, libraries, content encoding or other technologies used to make the site.
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/eye-dropper/hmdcmlfkchdmnmnmheododdhjedfccka/related?hl=en
Eye Dropper Color Picker – Select colors from any page to get the hex, rgb or name values of any given color.


Development & Management Tools

http://sourceforge.net/projects/pacmanager/
PAC is a Perl/GTK replacement for SecureCRT/Putty/etc (linux ssh/telnet/… gui)… It provides a GUI to configure connections: users, passwords, EXPECT regular expressions, macros, etc.
https://poedit.net/wordpress
Code Localisation / Translation
http://lighttable.com/
Light Table – The next generation code editor. Sponsored in part by Matt Mullenweg.
https://atom.io/
Atom – An advanced text and code editor.
http://www.sublimetext.com/
Sublime Text – An advanced text and code editor.
http://wpgear.org/
WordPress development tools
https://tell.wtf/
Font development tools
https://generatewp.com/
WordPress code generation tools
http://wpbin.io/
WordPress-centric code pastebin tool
http://wphierarchy.com/
Visual interactive reference to the WordPress template hierarchy
https://infinitewp.com/
Manage multiple WordPress sites from one control panel
https://mainwp.com/
Manage multiple WordPress sites from one control panel


ExtendsClass.com is an online toolbox for front and back-end developers


You can find tools such as testers (Regex, XPath, JSONPath), random data generators (JSON, CSV, SQL), API tools (SOAP/REST clients, MOCK API), comparators (XML, JSON, CSV), database tools (SQL formatter, SQLite browser) …

TOP 3 tools for WordPress users:

https://extendsclass.com/php-tester.html
PHP code checker
https://extendsclass.com/css-generator.html
CSS Generator
https://extendsclass.com/csv-generator.html
Random CSV/SQL Generator


Sandboxes & Cheatsheets

http://vim.rtorr.com/
Vim Cheatsheet
http://mod-rewrite-cheatsheet.com/
Apache httpd mod_rewrite cheatsheet
https://www.regex101.com/
Regular Expression (Regex) sandbox
https://docs.vagrantup.com/v2/getting-started/project_setup.html
Vagrant Setup, virtual disposable servers for local installation. Setup default operating/development environments for yourself in just a few minutes.
http://jsfiddle.net
Live collaborative interactive code fiddle
http://codepen.io/
Code playground and sharing
http://cssanimate.com/
CSS animations code generator


Getting Started with Schema

http://schema.org/docs/gs.html
Getting Started with Schema
https://search.google.com/structured-data/testing-tool
Google Schema Testing Tool

Last Modified: 1 Jul, 2020 at 19:55:42