Jon Brown

joeguilmette

<p>Through constants defined in wp-config, you can disable plugins, disable the  loading of external files, set search engine visibility, display or hide the admin bar, display the server name and change the color of the admin bar, or literally anything else you can think of. All without touching the database, so you can push and pull without worrying.</p>
<p>For support, pull requests, and discussion: https://github.com/joeguilmette/wp-local-toolbox</p>
<h4>Admin Bar</h4>
<p>Change the color of your admin bar and display the name of the current server environment. Green for local, orange for staging, and of course, red for production. You can also force the front end admin bar to hide, to display, and can even set it to display when logged out.</p>
<ul>
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<p><strong>WPLT_SERVER</strong>: The name of your server environment. It will be displayed in the admin bar at browser widths greater than 1030px. If left undefined, the plugin will make no changes to the admin bar.</p>
<p>If not defined as <code>PRODUCTION</code> or <code>LIVE</code>, the plugin will enable ‘Discourage search engines from indexing this site’ to prevent your development and staging servers from being indexed. This option is not stored in the database, so your production server will still look to the actual setting on the Reading page.</p>
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<p><strong>WPLT_COLOR</strong>: Determines the color of the admin bar. You can set this to any CSS color. If left undefined, will use the following defaults:</p>
<ul>
<li>PRODUCTION / LIVE: red</li>
<li>STAGING / TESTING: orange</li>
<li>LOCAL / DEV: green</li>
</ul>
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<p><strong>WPLT_ADMINBAR</strong>: Show or hide the admin bar on the frontend. <code>FALSE</code> will force it to be hidden, <code>TRUE</code> will force it to display, <code>ALWAYS</code> will display the admin bar even when logged out. These settings will override the ‘Show toolbar’ setting in the ‘Users > Your Profile’ options panel and <code>add_filter('show_admin_bar', '__return_false');</code> in functions.php, but doesn’t attempt to overcome any CSS based hiding of the admin bar.</p>
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<p><strong>In wp-config.php:</strong></p>
<pre><code>// set server environment to 'LOCAL'
define('WPLT_SERVER', 'local');

// set admin bar color to #800080
define('WPLT_COLOR', 'purple');

// show the admin bar even when logged out
define('WPLT_ADMINBAR', 'always');
</code></pre>
<h4>Disable Plugins</h4>
<p>Pass a serialized array in this constant to disable plugins. This does not store any data in the database, so plugins that are manually deactivated or activated through the admin panel will stay so.</p>
<p>In order for this feature to function properly, WP Local Toolbox must be installed as an mu-plugin. You can read more about mu-plugins here: https://codex.wordpress.org/Must_Use_Plugins. We’re investigating ways to avoid this requirement; if you have any ideas we’d love to hear it!</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>WPLT_DISABLED_PLUGINS</strong>: A serialized array of plugins to disable.</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>In wp-config.php</strong>:</p>
<pre><code>// deactivate a set of plugins
define('WPLT_DISABLED_PLUGINS', serialize(
    array(
        'hello-dolly.php',
        'w3-total-cache/w3-total-cache.php',
        'updraftplus/updraftplus.php',
        'wordpress-https/wordpress-https.php'
    )
));
</code></pre>
<h4>Post Update Notifications</h4>
<p>Receive notifications when any page, post, or attachment is added or updated. Notifications can be received via email, or can be sent to a Slack channel via their Incoming WebHook API.</p>
<p>This is helpful in production to see if a client has submitted a new post, or in development to see if data is being added to the staging environment so you don’t accidentally overwrite new posts when pushing databases around.</p>
<ul>
<li>
<p><strong>WPLT_NOTIFY</strong>: Define this constant as the email address where you’d like to be notified of post updates. You can specify either an email address or a Slack Incoming WebHook URL. You can set up a Slack Incoming WebHook URL here: https://my.slack.com/services/new/incoming-webhook/</p>
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<p><strong>WPLT_NOTIFY_CHANNEL</strong>: If WPLT_NOTIFY is set to a Slack Incoming WebHook URL, you can specify the channel that the notification will be posted to. If left unset, it will post to the default channel specified in Slack’s Incoming WebHooks settings page.</p>
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<p><strong>WPLT_DISABLE_ATTACHMENT_NOTIFY</strong>: If set, this will disable notifications for attachments.</p>
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</ul>
<p><strong>In wp-config.php</strong>:</p>
<pre><code>// send an email to someone@somewhere.com 
// whenever any post or page is updated
define('WPLT_NOTIFY','someone@somewhere.com')

// or, send a notification to a Slack channel
define('WPLT_NOTIFY', 'https://hooks.slack.com/services/etc');
define('WPLT_NOTIFY_CHANNEL','#channel');
</code></pre>
<h4>Airplane Mode</h4>
<p>Control loading of external files when developing locally. WP loads certain external files (fonts, gravatar, etc) and makes external HTTP calls. This isn’t usually an issue, unless you’re working in an evironment without a web connection. This plugin removes / unhooks those actions to reduce load time and avoid errors due to missing files.</p>
<p>On and Off: Can be toggled from the admin bar by clicking ‘Airplane Mode’. In the admin bar a ✗ or ✓ will indicate if Airplane Mode is enabled or disabled.</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>WPLT_AIRPLANE</strong>: Set this to anything to enable the Airpane Mode toggle.</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>In wp-config.php</strong>:</p>
<pre><code>// enable the Airplane Mode toggle
define('WPLT_AIRPLANE', 'true');
</code></pre>
<h4>Modification</h4>
<p>You can add code that will be executed depending on server name by modifying the following in wp-local-toolbox.php.</p>
<p>I’d love a pull request if you come up with something useful.</p>
<pre><code>if (strtoupper(WPLT_SERVER) != 'LIVE' && strtoupper(WPLT_SERVER) != 'PRODUCTION') {
    // Everything except PRODUCTION/LIVE SERVER

    // Hide from robots
    add_filter( 'pre_option_blog_public', '__return_zero' );

} else {
    // PRODUCTION/LIVE SERVER

}
</code></pre>
<h4>Notes</h4>
<p>As a special thank you, this plugin will remove the ridiculous <code>Howdy,</code> that is prepended to the username in the admin bar.</p>
<p>You’re welcome.</p>
<h4>Credit</h4>
<ul>
<li>
<p>Plugin disabling from <a href="https://twitter.com/markjaquith" rel="nofollow ugc">Mark Jaquith</a>: https://gist.github.com/markjaquith/1044546</p>
<ul>
<li>Using this fork from <a href="https://twitter.com/rarst" rel="nofollow ugc">Andrey Savchenko</a>: https://gist.github.com/Rarst/4402927</li>
</ul>
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<p>Airplane Mode from <a href="https://twitter.com/norcross" rel="nofollow ugc">Andrew Norcross</a>: https://github.com/norcross/airplane-mode</p>
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<p>Always showing the admin bar from <a href="https://twitter.com/perishable" rel="nofollow ugc">Jeff Star</a>: http://digwp.com/2011/04/admin-bar-tricks/</p>
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<p>A healthy refactoring from <a href="https://twitter.com/jb510" rel="nofollow ugc">Jon Brown</a> of <a href="http://9seeds.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">9seeds</a></p>
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</ul>


WP Local Toolbox

A simple plugin to help manage development over local, staging and production servers.

Frank Bueltge

Inpsyde GmbH

Simon Kraft

WP Media

<p>If you manage a multi-author WordPress blog or WordPress sites for clients, then you may have wondered if it was possible to clean up the WordPress admin area for your users? There are lots of things in the WordPress admin area that your users don’t need to see or use. This plugin help you to hide unnecessary items from WordPress admin area.</p>
<p>Adminimize makes it easy to remove items from view based on a user’s role.</p>
<h4>What does this plugin do?</h4>
<p>The plugin changes the administration backend and gives you the power to assign rights on certain parts. Admins can activate/deactivate every part of the menu and even parts of the sub-menu. Meta fields can be administered separately for posts and pages. Certain parts of the write menu can be deactivated separately for admins or non-admins. The header of the backend is minimized and optimized to give you more space and the structure of the menu gets changed to make it more logical – this can all be done per user so each role and their resulting users can have his own settings.</p>
<h4>Support Custom Post Type</h4>
<p>The plugin support all functions also for custom post types, automatically in the settings page.</p>
<h4>Support Custom Options on all different post types</h4>
<p>It is possible to add own options to hide areas in the back-end of WordPress. It is easy and you must only forgive a ID or class, a selector, of the markup, that you will hide.</p>
<h4>Compatibility with plugins for MetaBoxes in Write-area</h4>
<p>You can add your own options, you must only check for css selectors.</p>
<h4>Help with “Your own options”</h4>
<p>See the <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/topic/328449" title="Plugin: Adminimize Help with Your own options (3 posts)" rel="ugc">entry on the WP community forum</a> for help with this great possibility.</p>
<h4>License</h4>
<p>Good news, this plugin is free for everyone! Since it’s released under the GPL, you can use it free of charge on your personal or commercial blog. But if you enjoy this plugin, you can thank me and leave a <a href="http://bueltge.de/wunschliste/" title="Wishliste and Donate" rel="nofollow ugc">small donation</a> for the time I’ve spent writing and supporting this plugin. And I really don’t want to know how many hours of my life this plugin has already eaten 😉</p>
<h4>Translations</h4>
<p>The plugin comes with various translations, please refer to the <a href="https://codex.wordpress.org/Installing_WordPress_in_Your_Language" title="Installing WordPress in Your Language" rel="nofollow ugc">WordPress Codex</a> for more information about activating the translation. If you want to help to translate the plugin to your language, please have a look at the sitemap.pot file which contains all definitions and may be used with a <a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/" rel="nofollow ugc">gettext</a> editor like <a href="http://www.poedit.net/" rel="nofollow ugc">Poedit</a> (Windows) or use, I prefers this, the <a href="https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/adminimize" rel="nofollow ugc">translation service from wordpress.org</a>.</p>


Adminimize

Adminimize that lets you hide 'unnecessary' items from the WordPress backend

WP Local Toolbox vs Adminimize