Developer tools
Maintenance mode, template names, page stats, environment labels and a WP-Cron viewer.
- Show the environment in the admin bar Adds a coloured “Staging”, “Development” or “Local” label to the admin bar on sites that aren’t live, so nobody edits the wrong copy of the site.
- Server versions in the admin footer The admin footer shows the WordPress, PHP and database versions for administrators. Handy when someone asks “which PHP are we on?”
- Keep staging sites out of search engines On staging, development and local copies of the site, every page tells search engines not to index it. The live site isn’t touched.
- Don’t send emails from staging copies On staging, development and local copies of the site, WordPress doesn’t send any email, so customers never get a test order confirmation.
- Maintenance mode Visitors see a simple “Back soon” page (with the proper 503 status for search engines) while you work. Logged-in editors see the site as usual.
- Show which template a page uses Administrators see the theme file (or block template) that built the current page in the admin bar. Saves guessing when you edit a theme.
- Page stats for administrators Administrators see how long the page took to build, how many database queries it ran and how much memory it used, in the admin bar.
- Hold back updates for one plugin WordPress stops offering updates for the plugin you name, for example one you’ve customised or one whose next version breaks your site.
- See scheduled tasks (WP-Cron) Adds Tools > Scheduled tasks for administrators: every WP-Cron event, when it runs next and how often. Handy for finding the plugin behind a slow site.
Move your snippets over this afternoon.
Importing changes nothing until you switch over, and your old shortcodes keep working.