Chris Jean

<p><strong>WP Developer Assistant</strong> is a WordPress plugin developed by a WordPress developer for WordPress developers.</p>
<ul>
<li>Have you ever needed to run a query when you didn’t have access to phpMyAdmin or SSH?</li>
<li>Don’t you hate it when you need to upload a plugin, theme, or other file and don’t have FTP access?</li>
<li>Have you ever wondered where that action or filter hook gets called?</li>
<li>Want to enable errors while hiding them from everyone else?</li>
<li>Wouldn’t it be great if you could output a full listing of PHP global variable values on each page so debugging would be easier?</li>
<li>Ever wanted to modify one of those serialized options?</li>
<li>Would you like to quickly see a full list of defined constants?</li>
</ul>
<p>It’s thoughts like these that caused me to make this plugin. WP Developer Assistant is the first WordPress plugin of its kind. It essentially is a toolkit that makes life as a WordPress developer easier.</p>
<h4>Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Customizable enabling of PHP errors that only show for your user.</li>
<li>Display values of PHP’s built-in global variables (_POST, _REQUEST, _FILE, _ENV, etc) on each page.</li>
<li>Easily modify Options table values, including serialized data.</li>
<li>View a full list of all the add_action, do_action, add_filter, and apply_filters function calls complete with information on function names, priorities, number of accepted arguments, source file name, and file line number.</li>
<li>Quickly execute queries with the Run Query tool.</li>
<li>Show phpinfo().</li>
<li>View a comprehensive list of all the defined named constants, their current value, the declared value, the source file name of the definition, and the file line number of the definition.</li>
<li>Quickly and easily upload files to any place inside your WordPress installation. The uploader will even automatically extract archives to the destination directory.</li>
</ul>
<p>There are many more features planned for this plugin. For more information about this plugin and its development, visit the <a href="http://blog.realthemes.com/wp-developer-assistant/" title="wp developer assistant home page" rel="nofollow ugc">WP Developer Assistant Home Page</a>.</p>
<h3>Requirements</h3>
<ul>
<li>PHP 4+</li>
<li>WordPress 2.2+</li>
</ul>
<h3>Version History</h3>
<ul>
<li>1.0.1 – 2008-06-26 – Initial release version</li>
<li>1.0.2 – 2008-06-26 – Slight modification that required a new version</li>
<li>1.0.3 – 2008-07-01 – Added support for PHP 4</li>
</ul>
<h3>More Information</h3>
<p>For more information about this plugin and its development, visit the <a href="http://blog.realthemes.com/wp-developer-assistant/" title="wp developer assistant home page" rel="nofollow ugc">WP Developer Assistant Home Page</a>.</p>


WP Developer Assistant

A plugin by a WordPress developer for WordPress developers.

Viktor Szépe

<p>Toggles human and machine language (aka ID-s) on admin pages.</p>
<h4>Only for development!</h4>
<p>This plugin shows you the ID-s of almost all form fields including selects, checkboxes and radio buttons like in <code>wp-admin/options.php</code>.</p>
<p>It works only on WordPress Settings API-like formatted — not necessarily API generated — admin pages. E.g. <code><input></code> elements cannot be wrapped in <code><span></code>.</p>
<h4>Activation</h4>
<p>You can find the plugin’s checkbox in standard Screen Options (upper right corner). This checkbox could be overwritten — thus hidden — by poorly written plugins. To restrict Machine Language to a certain admin page, copy this to your <code>wp-config.php</code>:</p>
<pre><code>define( 'MACHINE_LANGUAGE_HOOK', 'load-options-reading.php' ); </code></pre>
<p>For example this line causes to run only on Settings / Reading.</p>
<h4>Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Basically all input ID-s are displayed in place of labels, actually <code>for</code> attributes of labels</li>
<li><code>select</code>-s get a title showing all option values comma separated (hover over <code>select</code>-s with your mouse)</li>
<li><code>option</code>-s get values appended in the form of “original option text|value”</li>
<li>Radio button labels will show: “name|value”</li>
<li>Descriptions (<code>p</code>-s and <code>span</code>-s with “description” class) will be hidden, this way Machine Language will clean up all admin pages, descriptions are hidden by CSS, so there’s no <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flash_of_unstyled_content" rel="nofollow ugc">FOUC</a></li>
</ul>
<h4>Other notes</h4>
<ul>
<li>Radio buttons or checkboxes with empty value are displayed with the “Empty Set” Unicode character: “? ” (U+2205) ( e.g. Settings / Permalinks / Default )</li>
<li><code>select</code>-s with empty values are not</li>
<li>The plugin’s checkbox in Screen Options is effective immediately</li>
<li>The code is designed as a must use plugin, so there is no separated Javascript or CSS file</li>
<li>State of Machine Language is saved as a user option so it is a per user setting</li>
</ul>
<h4>Links</h4>
<p>Development goes on on <a href="https://github.com/szepeviktor/machine-language" rel="nofollow ugc">GitHub</a>.</p>


WP Developer Assistant vs Machine Language