Most Helpful Tools For WordPress Developers

WordPress is full-fledged CMS and a strong platform for developers. here are some of helpful free tools that every WordPress developer should know about:

1.Roots.io

Roots.io is a multi-tool package for serious developers. Its aim is to provide tools for designing robust WordPress projects, from server setup to theme development. Here are the three tools:

• Trellis: a LEMP WordPress server stack.
• Bedrock: a WordPress project boilerplate.
• Sage: a WordPress starter theme.

Be sure to check out each project and its documentation to see which apply to you! You could start small by developing a theme with Sage.

2.Underscores

Underscores is a starter theme developed by Themeshaper in collaboration with a number of volunteer developers in the WordPress community. It comes without any additional features or styling, allowing you to focus on creating a unique product for each of your clients. The main foundation and template for every site is pre-built here, but you will be responsible for adding custom functionality and styling.
Underscores is a popular starter theme brought to you by Automattic itself on Github.

3.WordPress Plugin Boilerplate

The WordPress Plugin Boilerplate offers a standardized, organized, and object-oriented foundation for high-quality WordPress plugins. It is essentially a ‘starter plugin’, designed for you to take and make your own. It features:Code organization, Code snippets, Setup for public and administrative hooks, Well-written comments to guide you through the process

4.InstantWP

InstantWP is a complete standalone, portable WordPress development environment. InstantWP allows you to have an instant WordPress setup suitable for some quick and dirty plugin and/or theme tests. The application creates a temporary development site and you can even carry it around on a USB stick.

5.Duplicator

Duplicator is a helpful plugin for transporting your site from one place to the next. With it you can Make a whole copy of your site, Import any copy of your site somewhere else.

You can use Duplicator for backups, or for moving your site between local development, staging, and deployment.

6.Query Monitor

Query Monitor is a wordpress plugin which track of all queries being run on your WordPress site, including AJAX calls, REST API requests, Redirects, Narrow output by plugin or theme.

7.Theme Inspector

Theme Inspector is a lightweight plugin that displays useful technical information on pages and posts to aid in developing WordPress themes. It adds a dropdown to the admin bar where you can get all kinds of information about the current view, including Content type, Post ID, Post Type, True conditions, File loaded

8.Log Deprecated Notices:

Log Deprecated Notices is a wordpress plugin that logs the usage of deprecated files, functions, and function arguments, which is very helpful when you’re developing a WordPress site with a lot of custom functionality. Here’s a few of the things you can do with Log Deprecated Notices View all deprecated files in your plugins and themes, Get recommendations for what to use instead, See whether you’re using functions incorrectly

9.Theme Check

Theme Check is a wordpress plugin is an easy way to test your theme and make sure it’s up to spec with the latest theme review standards. With it, you can run all the same automated testing tools on your theme that WordPress.org uses for theme submissions.

10.VVV

Varying Vagrant Vagrants is an open source Vagrant configuration which focuses on WordPress development, licensed under the MIT license. Vagrant is a toolkit that runs on top of VirtualBox, VMWare, or another virtual machine software on your local machine. Vagrant allows you to work with these virtual machines to run your code while you keep your entire workflow on your local computer.

VVV is ideal for developing themes and plugins as well as for contributing to WordPress core.

11. Generate WP

Generate WP is a tool for WordPress which helps to decrease the developing time by adding snippets of code.

It has the latest WordPress features and coding standards and different API support.