Kevin Dees

<p>Add custom post types and taxonomies to your website without code. With the TypeRocket UI plugin, you can register advanced post types and advanced taxonomies without knowing any code. Plus, TypeRocket UI goes beyond what you expect from a typical post type registration plugin by providing advanced features like:</p>
<ol>
<li>Post type placeholder text control.</li>
<li>Post type revision control.</li>
<li>Custom field column control for a post type’s table view.</li>
<li>Remove the slug prefix from your post type.</li>
<li>Gutenberg controls.</li>
<li>And much more.</li>
</ol>
<p>For over 12 years, <a href="https://typerocket.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">TypeRocket</a> has helped thousands of developers and designers craft powerful WordPress websites. With TypeRocket UI, you get many of the powerful features the TypeRocket developers have come to know and trust in a graphical interface.</p>


TypeRocket UI

This plugin provides a powerful user interface for creating post types, taxonomies, and meta boxes.

kdmurthy

<p>WpPDE is a development environment for WordPress. You can create your own plugins and maintain them using WpPDE.</p>
<p>WpPDE allows you to create plugins that contain:</p>
<ul>
<li>Widgets</li>
<li>Actions</li>
<li>Hooks</li>
</ul>
<p>WpPDE integrates with <a href="http://ace.ajax.org" rel="nofollow ugc">Ace editor</a> to provide a productive development environment.</p>
<p>WpPDE also facilitate easy creation of readme files for your plugins.</p>
<h4>Documentation</h4>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://wp-pde.jaliansystems.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">WpPDE – Plugin Development Environment</a> – Official home page</li>
<li><a href="http://wp-pde.jaliansystems.com/documentation/" rel="nofollow ugc">WpPDE – User Guide</a> – Documentation for WpPDE plugin</li>
<li><a href="http://wp-pde.jaliansystems.com/tutorials/" rel="nofollow ugc">WpPDE – Tutorials</a> – Selected screencasts demonstrating the functionality.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Plugin Elements</h4>
<p>Use the <strong>Plugin Elements</strong> box to add different type of items to your plugin. You can add:</p>
<ul>
<li>Actions</li>
<li>Filters</li>
<li>Widgets (More on this in the next section)</li>
</ul>
<h4>Widgets</h4>
<p>Once a widget element is added to the plugin, you can configure it in the GUI. You can also add form elements to the widget. WpPDE automatically creates the widget form for you including saving of the widget data. You just need to provide the display code (corresponding to <code>widget()</code> method).</p>
<h4>Form Elements</h4>
<p>You can various kinds of form elements to the widget. These include:</p>
<ul>
<li>Labels (with various styles)</li>
<li>Checkbox</li>
<li>Text</li>
<li>Text Area</li>
<li>Radio</li>
<li>Dropdown lists</li>
</ul>
<p>You can also hide/unhide dependent elements using the value of the selected item for checkbox, radio and dropdown items.</p>
<h4>External Files</h4>
<p>You can add external files (javascript, css, PHP etc.) to your plugin using the <code>External Files</code> box. WpPDE even lets you enqueue(or require) the files automatically.</p>
<h4>Readme Generation</h4>
<p>WpPDE can generate readme files (in standard wordpress readme format or markdown format for github). Provide the information in <code>About the Plugin</code> box and let WpPDE generate the files for you.</p>
<h4>Editor Options</h4>
<p>You can change the editor options using the <code>Editor Options</code> box.</p>


WpPDE

A development environment for creating plugins with support for widgets, actions and hooks.

TypeRocket UI vs WpPDE