Mark McNeece of 365i

<p>Environment Indicator adds a prominent visual indicator to the WordPress admin bar showing the current site environment. This high-visibility indicator helps prevent accidental changes on production sites by making the environment instantly recognizable to logged-in users.</p>
<p>Perfect for developers, agencies, and teams managing multiple environments (development, staging, production) across different sites.</p>
<h4>Key Features</h4>
<p><strong>Smart Environment Detection</strong><br />
* Automatically detects environment using WordPress core constants (<code>WP_ENVIRONMENT_TYPE</code>)<br />
* Supports popular hosting providers: WP Engine, Pantheon, Kinsta, Flywheel<br />
* Legacy Bedrock constant support (<code>WP_ENV</code>)<br />
* Subdomain-based heuristics (dev.example.com, staging.example.com)<br />
* Manual override option for custom setups</p>
<p><strong>Customization Options</strong><br />
* <strong>Custom Colors</strong> – Match your branding or personal preferences for each environment<br />
* <strong>Custom Labels</strong> – Rename DEV/STAGING/LIVE to LOCAL, UAT, PRODUCTION, or anything you prefer<br />
* <strong>Role-Based Visibility</strong> – Control which user roles can see the indicator (great for client sites)</p>
<p><strong>Visual Enhancements</strong><br />
* Admin bar label (always visible)<br />
* Full admin bar background coloring (high-visibility option)<br />
* Browser tab prefix – instantly identify environments across multiple tabs<br />
* Top border in wp-admin screens<br />
* Admin footer watermark<br />
* Dashboard widget showing environment status and system information</p>
<p><strong>Export/Import</strong><br />
* Export settings as JSON to deploy across multiple sites<br />
* Import settings from JSON file<br />
* Perfect for agencies managing client sites with consistent configurations</p>
<p><strong>Multisite Compatible</strong><br />
* Full support for WordPress multisite installations<br />
* Network-wide settings when network-activated<br />
* Per-site settings when activated on individual sites</p>
<h4>How It Works</h4>
<p>Detection runs in this order:</p>
<ol>
<li>WordPress core constant: <code>WP_ENVIRONMENT_TYPE</code></li>
<li>Legacy constant: <code>WP_ENV</code></li>
<li>Hosting provider constants (WP Engine, Pantheon, Kinsta, Flywheel)</li>
<li>Subdomain patterns (dev, staging, test, qa)</li>
<li>Default to LIVE if no detection</li>
</ol>
<p>You can always override automatic detection and manually select the environment.</p>
<h4>Perfect For</h4>
<ul>
<li><strong>Developers</strong> – Never accidentally deploy to the wrong environment</li>
<li><strong>Agencies</strong> – Manage multiple client sites with consistent environment indicators</li>
<li><strong>Teams</strong> – Everyone instantly knows which environment they’re working in</li>
<li><strong>Managed Hosting</strong> – Works out-of-the-box with WP Engine, Pantheon, Kinsta, and Flywheel</li>
</ul>
<h4>Zero Impact on Visitors</h4>
<p>The indicator only displays for logged-in users. Public visitors see no performance impact or visual changes.</p>
<h3>Development</h3>
<p>Development of this plugin happens on GitHub: https://github.com/BSolveIT/environment-indicator</p>
<p>Bug reports and feature requests are welcome!</p>


365i Environment Indicator

Displays a color-coded DEV, STAGING, or LIVE indicator in the admin bar to prevent accidental changes on production sites.

shift8

<p>This is a plugin that pushes a single post or page to an external site via the REST API</p>
<h3>Instructions for setup</h3>
<ol>
<li>Generate core WordPress application user & password on the destination server. You can follow the official WordPress <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/2020/11/05/application-passwords-integration-guide/" rel="nofollow ugc">instructions for generating an application password</a>.</li>
<li>Setup plugin on your source server and configure application user & password</li>
<li>When editing a single post or page, a “Push” button will appear to push the changes to the server.</li>
</ol>
<h3>Want to see the plugin in action?</h3>
<p>There isn’t anything to see! This is transparent API interactions from the source server to the destination server.</p>
<h3>Features</h3>
<ul>
<li>Fully pushes all content of a single post or page from your source server (i.e. staging) to the destination server (i.e. production)</li>
<li>If the page or post doesnt exist, it will create it and clone the slug</li>
<li>If the page or post exists, it will overwrite the content with the source server.</li>
</ul>


Shift8 Push

This is a plugin that pushes a single post or page to an external site via the REST API

365i Environment Indicator vs Shift8 Push