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DawsonyWeb – Admin Utilities is a developer-friendly WordPress plugin that packages the small admin improvements you actually need into one clean, modular plugin. No bloat, no nag banners, no upsells.
Each tool (module) can be independently enabled or disabled. Only enabled modules load their hooks and assets, keeping your admin fast.
<h4>Modules Included</h4>
Copy Buttons Everywhere 
Adds copy buttons for IDs, permalinks, edit links, and slugs across:
<ul>
<li>Post/Page/CPT list tables (row actions)</li>
<li>Single post edit screens (meta box)</li>
<li>Users list table</li>
<li>Taxonomy term list tables</li>
</ul>
Environment Badge 
Shows a color-coded environment indicator (LOCAL / DEV / STAGING / LIVE) in the admin bar. Uses <code>wp_get_environment_type()</code> with a <code>DAWSONY_ENV</code> constant fallback. Configurable per role.
Debug Snapshot 
A read-only support snapshot page showing WordPress version, PHP version, server info, memory limits, active theme, active plugins, and more. Includes a one-click “Copy as Text” button for easy sharing with support teams.
Global Admin Notice Board 
Set a message that appears in wp-admin for selected roles. Supports basic HTML, notice type (info/success/warning/error), optional expiry date, and per-user dismissal with admin reset.
Dashboard Widget Manager 
Hide or show dashboard widgets per user role. Automatically discovers all registered widgets (core + plugin) and lets you control visibility from a simple settings UI.
<h4>Philosophy</h4>
<ul>
<li>No front-end output or performance impact</li>
<li>No external tracking, telemetry, or “phone home” behavior</li>
<li>All inputs sanitized, all outputs escaped</li>
<li>Nonces for all actions, capability checks for all settings</li>
<li>Clean uninstall removes all data</li>
</ul>
<h3>Privacy</h3>
DawsonyWeb – Admin Utilities does not collect, store, or transmit any data externally. All data is stored locally in your WordPress database (wp_options and wp_usermeta). No cookies are set. No external requests are made.

DawsonyWeb – Admin Utilities

A lightweight, modular admin suite that bundles small, high-value quality-of-life tools for developers, site admins, and editors.

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Whoops error handling, no password logins, template hints, no indexing, flush rewrites, everything a developer needs for their local development environment.
Components
<ul>
<li>Disallow Indexing Turn off the public blog option. This will modify the robots.txt generation to block all search engines</li>
<li>Flush Rewrites No more weird redirection problems when working on custom post types or taxonomies.</li>
<li>No Password Logins Just stick the user in you want to login as, write anything in the password field, and it will login! Only works when connecting from local host</li>
<li>Whoops Error Handling The error screen from laravel, now in your WordPress setup</li>
<li>Template Hints See which templates are loading for the page you are on</li>
</ul>
The goal is to exchange security for ease of use, for that reason it’s important that you take the security measures needed 
to ensure that someone can’t take advantage of the site with this plugin enabled.
If you’re running on a staging environment ensure you have setup a <a href="http://www.htaccesstools.com/htpasswd-generator/" rel="nofollow ugc">htpasswd</a>
<h4>Filters</h4>
Set Environment
<pre><code>development-environment/is-development
</code></pre>
Dynamically set how the plugin detects if the environment is development based on your own criteria.
Stop a component from loading
<pre><code>development-environment/require-component-$component
</code></pre>
Disable require of a component if you don’t want to use it. Possible values are:
<pre><code>disallow-indexing, `flush-rewrites`, `no-password-logins`, `whoops-error-handling`
</code></pre>

Development Environment

- quote from user -

"When an error is thrown it's so easy to find it and quickly debug why it happened, and the no password login makes my day so much easier 

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Whoops error handling, no password logins, template hints, no indexing, flush rewrites, everything a developer needs for their local development envir …

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