Automattic

Lance Willett

Michael Fields

The Monster widget consolidates all 13 core widgets into a single widget enabling theme developers to create multiple instances with ease. It has been created to save time during theme development and review by minimizing the steps needed to populate a sidebar with widgets. The Monster widget is not designed for use in production.

Monster Widget

This is a great tool for theme testing.



Works Great

Provides a quick and easy method of adding all core widgets to a sidebar for testing purposes.

Ryan Welcher

Many times when creating a custom theme or plugin there is need to view a piece of data you are working with which can be unweidly and not to mention ugly. 
This plugin adds a new tab to the Debug Bar plugin that allows you to “trace” the data to a window and displays not only the data, but where the call came from and optionally a description.
Plus, it’s green like the Matrix.
<h3>About debug_trace</h3>
The method debug_trace() takes one parameter that can be of any data type. 
If you want to pass a descriptor for the debug_trace(), pass an array with the following indices:
<ul>
<li>‘key’ => The descriptor</li>
<li>‘data’ => What you want to trace – can be any data type.</li>
</ul>
Behind the scenes, each trace is actually an array containing the location of the call, the data and optionally a custom key. 
If the parameter passed to debug_trace() is an array that has a key of ‘key’ or ‘data’, then the method overrides the defaults with it. 
Otherwise, the method assumes you want to trace the passed parameter as the ‘data’.

Debug Bar Tracer

Trace messages/data to a Debug Bar window from your theme or plugin. Requires the Debug Bar plugin

Monster Widget vs Debug Bar Tracer