Christian Jongeneel

The Theme and Plugin Profiler uses a little known PHP feature known as ticks. Basically, this is an internal event that occurs every time a code block is executed, marked (roughly) by a function call or curly {} brackets.
The plugin uses ticks to collect a list of the functions that were executed, how often they were called and how much time they took in total. The plugin’s option page gives some filters to select and sort the results. This will give developers clues which parts of their code demand scrutiny.

Theme and Plugin (T&P) Profiler

Make your theme or plugin faster, greener and smarter with this plugin, that will tell you which of your functions is eating up most server time.

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gschoppe

Sometimes, you run into a situation where you just need to manually run a script. The actual logic might be as simple as generating a csv from a query, or changing a user’s settings, or even just running a single line of SQL. WordPress makes this difficult.
There are many hacky solutions to the problem, but most of them lack security or are too difficult for anyone but a developer to run or just take too long to build. That’s where we come in.
WP Utility Script Runner lets you start with a simple 17 line template, add in your custom code, save to the server, and in minutes you have a secure, fully featured utility, that you can safely run from the WordPress dashboard.
But that’s not all! With a few extra lines of code, your utility can:
<ul>
<li>Accept user input</li>
<li>Accept file input</li>
<li>Run at a future date and time</li>
<li>Run on a recurring schedule</li>
<li>Run large tasks by breaking them up into several smaller tasks, and saving state.</li>
<li>Create reports and other output files</li>
</ul>

WP Utility Script Runner

Create custom scripts and manage them directly from the WordPress Dashboard. Schedule scripts, handle user input, download reports, and more.

Theme and Plugin (T&P) Profiler vs WP Utility Script Runner