Popular Development & Debugging Tools
These tools will help you track down errors, problems, hard-to-find strings, offer security options, etc while developing your WordPress sites. These plugins are being actively kept up to date and monitored for accuracy and compatibility with current WordPress versions.
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2.1.3
This extension for MainWP enables you to view the activity logs of all child sites in one central location, the MainWP dashboard.
By Melapress.
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2.8.6
Get a tree view of all your pages directly in the admin menu. Search, edit, view and add pages - all with just one click away!
By Ciprian Popescu.
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1.0.2
Plugin creates an assets manager. Providing a self hosted file sharing platform.
By Jack Reichert.
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1.1
Visit the Dashboard → Update Tester screen after activating this plugin. (If using multisite, visit Updates → Update Tester in the network admin.)
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6.0.2
Bulk delete users and posts from selected categories, tags, post types, custom taxonomies or by post status like drafts, scheduled posts, revisions etc.
By Sudar.
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2.6.6
When using the Customizer is not enough - Create child themes and customize styles, templates, functions and more.
By Lilaea Media.
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1.6.5
Enables the WordPress classic editor and the old-style Edit Post screen with TinyMCE, Meta Boxes, etc. Supports the older plugins that extend this screen.
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1.0.15
Code Widget help you to run Code and simple text in widget which have different type Short Code PHP Code. Yes, you can also add TEXT and HTML.
By Solution Box.
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2.8.4
Supports multiple languages, themes, highlighting from a URL, local file or post text.
By Aram Kocharyan.
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1.1.6
Adds a debug menu to the admin bar that shows query, cache, and other helpful debugging information.
By wordpressdotorg.
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Robust zero-configuration and low-memory WordPress plugin to keep an eye on error log.
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0.54
Two-Factor Authentication for WordPress using the Android/iPhone/Blackberry app as One Time Password generator.
By Ivan Kruchkoff.
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0.7
Modifies the Google Authenticator plugin so that only users with 2FA enabled are prompted for the authentication token.
By Ian Dunn.
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5.0.41
Headers Security Advanced & HSTS WP - Simple, Light and Fast. The plugin uses advanced security rules that provide huge levels of protection and it is important that your site uses it. This step is important to submit your website and/or domain to an approved HSTS list. Google officially compiles this list and it is used by Chrome, Firefox, Opera, Safari, IE11 and Edge. You can forward your site to the official HSTS preload directory. Cross Site Request Forgery (CSRF) is a common attack with the installation of Headers Security Advanced & HSTS WP will help you mitigate CSRF on your WordPress site.
By 🐙 Andrea Ferro.
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1.19.1
A plugin for HTTP headers management including security, access-control (CORS), caching, compression, and authentication.
By Dimitar Ivanov.
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0.4.1
Logs the usage of deprecated files, functions, hooks, and function arguments, offers the alternative if available, and identifies where the deprecated functionality is being used. WP_DEBUG not required (but its general use is strongly recommended).
By Andrew Nacin.
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2.2.3
The MainWP Child Report plugin tracks Child sites for the MainWP Pro Reports Extension. The plugin is only useful if you are using MainWP and the Pro Reports Extension.
By MainWP.
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1.7.9
Page scroll to id is an easy-to-use jQuery plugin that enables animated (smooth) page scrolling to specific id within the document.
By malihu.
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10.1.10
A plugin to disable plugins on indivudual pages and change the order that they are loaded in.
By Jeff Sterup.
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0.14
Find and clear unused data from the deactivated or uninstalled plugins. Look at the list of database tables created and used by plugins with quantity of records, size and owner plugin name.
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2.14.0
Manage WordPress role definitions, per-site or network-wide. Organizes post capabilities by post type and operation.
By PublishPress.
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5.2.4
Redirect Pages, Posts or Custom Post Types to another location quickly (for internal or external URLs). Includes individual post/page options, redirects for Custom Post types, non-existant 301 Quick Redirects (helpful for sites converted to WordPress), New Window functionality, and rel=nofollow functionality.
By anadnet.
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1.0.232
Rank Math SEO is the Best WordPress SEO plugin with the features of many SEO and AI SEO tools in a single package to help multiply your SEO traffic.
By Rank Math SEO.
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0.0.1
***Make sure you have file access to delete the plugin if it breaks your site!*** Reduces or eliminates mixed-content warnings by striping the http: and https: from nearly any reference to your own site. Works on activation, stops working on deactivation.
By Matt Gadient.
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1.4.0
Displays System Info for debugging. This info can be emailed and/or displayed to support personnel via unique URL.
By Matt Cromwell.
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7.6.5.9
This all-in-one SEO plugin gives you control over meta titles & descriptions, open graph, auto-linking, rich-snippets, 404 monitoring, siloing & more.
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4.0.6
The simple, solid way to add custom CSS to your WordPress website. Simple Custom CSS allows you to add your own styles or override the default CSS of a plugin or theme.
By John Regan.
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1.3.3
Simply shows the ID of Posts, Pages, Media, Links, Categories, Tags and Users in the admin tables for easy access. Very lightweight.
By Matt Martz.
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9.3.4
Shield your site from cyberattacks and prevent security vulnerabilities. The only security plugin you need for a solid foundation.
By SolidWP.
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1.9.6
The Sucuri plugin provides the website owner the best Activity Auditing, SiteCheck Remote Malware Scanning, Effective Security Hardening and Post-Hack features. SiteCheck will check for malware, spam, blocklisting and other security issues like .htaccess redirects, hidden eval code, etc. The best thing about it is it's completely free.
By Sucuri Inc..
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Table of Contents Plus
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A powerful yet user friendly plugin that automatically creates a table of contents. Can also output a sitemap listing all pages and categories.
By Michael Tran.
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20231220
A simple and easy way to test your theme for all the latest WordPress standards and practices. A great theme development tool!
By Themes Team.
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1.03
Allows you to add any widget to your navigation’s drop-down menus with an easy to use interface. Comes with four custom widgets.
By Stephanie Chow.
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1.0
Because it's horrible that we don't have one.
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1.2.3
Shows the WordPress admin styles on one page to help you to develop WordPress compliant
By Frank Bültge.
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0.18
This is a developer's tool that sniffs out the firing sequence of WordPress action and filter hooks. DO NOT USE in a production environment.
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3.6.1
Allows you to easily upgrade to Beta releases.
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2.80.9
Manages your WordPress database. Allows you to optimize database, repair database, backup database, restore database, delete backup database , drop/empty tables and run selected queries. Supports automatic scheduling of backing up, optimizing and repairing of database.
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5.2.2
Identify WordPress security issues before they become a problem. Keep track of everything happening on your WordPress, including users activity. Similar to Linux Syslog, WP Activity Log generates an activity log with a record of everything that happens on your WordPress websites.
By Melapress.
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2.0.3
Wordpress Tabs Slides is plugin based on "joomlaworks Tabs & Slides Mambots" for Mambo/Joomla. Tabs and Slides (in content items) Plugin gives you the ability to easily add content tabs and/or content slides. The tabs emulate a multi-page structure, while the slides emulate an accordion-like structure, inside a single page!
By Abdul Ibad.