joeguilmette

Jon Brown

<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>
</li>
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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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</ul>
<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>
</li>
</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.

Clayton Collie

BugHerd

<p>With <a href="https://bugherd.com/?utm_source=wordpress&utm_medium=plugin_directory&utm_campaign=Details_page" rel="nofollow ugc">BugHerd</a> it’s so easy for clients to provide website feedback. They simply point, click and comment – BugHerd grabs a screenshot, saves technical details and creates a task for your team to track.</p>
<p>Install the BugHerd plugin once, send your clients or stakeholders a link, and they can start pinning feedback right away, directly onto any element of your live or WordPress staging site – no code changes, no browser extension, no client login or account setup required.</p>
<p>Used by web agencies, in-house dev teams, QA testers, freelancers, and marketing teams worldwide, the BugHerd visual website feedback and bug tracking tool is trusted by over 350,000 people across 10,000+ companies in 172 countries.</p>
<p>Every piece of feedback automatically captures a screenshot plus full technical metadata: browser, OS, screen resolution, URL, CSS selector, and more.</p>
<p>Feedback flows straight into BugHerd’s built-in Kanban board, or syncs with your favorite developer or PM tools.</p>
<h3>How it works</h3>
<span class="embed-youtube" style="text-align:center; display: block;"><iframe loading="lazy" class="youtube-player" width="750" height="422" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/RFPtCE4mgIs?version=3&rel=1&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&fs=1&hl=en-US&autohide=2&wmode=transparent" allowfullscreen="true" style="border:0;" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox"></iframe></span>
<h3>Get Started with BugHerd in Minutes</h3>
<p><strong>Step 1:</strong> Install the plugin from your WordPress dashboard<br />
<strong>Step 2:</strong> Create your first project<br />
<strong>Step 3:</strong> Invite your team and clients to leave feedback</p>
<h3>BugHerd Key Features</h3>
<h4>Feedback pinned to the exact element on a web page</h4>
<p>Clients and teammates click any element on your live WordPress site or WP Admin to leave a comment. Feedback is anchored to that specific element so your developer knows exactly what needs fixing – no more vague emails. <a href="https://bugherd.com/feature/easy-website-annotations?utm_source=wordpress&utm_medium=plugin_directory&utm_campaign=Details_page" rel="nofollow ugc">Learn more</a></p>
<h4>Automatic screenshot & full technical data captured</h4>
<p>A screenshot along with browser type, OS, screen resolution, and the exact URL are all captured automatically with every piece of feedback. Your team gets everything they need to reproduce and fix an issue without a single follow-up question. <a href="https://bugherd.com/feature/actionable-bug-reports?utm_source=wordpress&utm_medium=plugin_directory&utm_campaign=Details_page" rel="nofollow ugc">Learn more</a></p>
<h4>No client account or login required</h4>
<p>Clients don’t need to create an account or install anything. Send them a link to your BugHerd project and they can start leaving feedback immediately, directly on the page, in their browser. <a href="https://support.bugherd.com/en/articles/11424313-get-feedback-from-clients-on-websites-and-files?utm_source=wordpress&utm_medium=plugin_directory&utm_campaign=Details_page" rel="nofollow ugc">Learn more</a></p>
<h4>Task Tracking</h4>
<p>Every comment becomes a trackable task on a Kanban board, so your team can prioritize and resolve feedback easier than ever. Already using a PM tool? Send tasks there with one click. <a href="https://bugherd.com/feature/integrated-kanban-board?utm_source=wordpress&utm_medium=plugin_directory&utm_campaign=Details_page" rel="nofollow ugc">Learn more</a></p>
<h4>Deep two-way integrations</h4>
<p>BugHerd has true two-way integrations with all major project management tools, such as Jira, ClickUp, monday.com, Asana, and more; as well as supporting integrations with collaboration tools like Slack & MS Teams, and developer tools like GitHub.  BugHerd also has a fully featured API and Webhook support enabling custom integrations with any application. <a href="https://bugherd.com/integrations?utm_source=wordpress&utm_medium=plugin_directory&utm_campaign=Details_page" rel="nofollow ugc">Learn more</a></p>
<h4>Video feedback for complex issues</h4>
<p>For feedback that’s hard to describe in text, clients and teammates can record a short video walkthrough directly on a web page. The recording attaches to the task alongside a screenshot and user metadata. <a href="https://bugherd.com/feature/video-feedback?utm_source=wordpress&utm_medium=plugin_directory&utm_campaign=Details_page" rel="nofollow ugc">Learn more</a></p>
<h4>Public feedback widget for ongoing feedback on live sites</h4>
<p>Visitors can QA your website and leave comments even after your website project has finished. The always-on public widget runs a continuous feedback loop on your live WordPress site. <a href="https://bugherd.com/feature/public-feedback?utm_source=wordpress&utm_medium=plugin_directory&utm_campaign=Details_page" rel="nofollow ugc">Learn more</a></p>
<h3>Who uses BugHerd</h3>
<ul>
<li><strong>Web development agencies</strong> collecting client feedback on builds, redesigns, and ongoing maintenance</li>
<li><strong>In-house dev and QA teams</strong> managing bug reports during UAT and pre-launch testing</li>
<li><strong>Marketing teams</strong> getting sign-off on landing pages, campaign pages, and content updates</li>
<li><strong>Freelancers</strong> who want to look professional and cut down on client email threads</li>
<li><strong>Product teams</strong> running continuous feedback cycles on live web applications</li>
</ul>
<h3>Get started with BugHerd</h3>
<p>All BugHerd plans include a free 7-day trial. No credit card required.<br />
<a href="https://www.bugherd.com/users/registrations/new?utm_source=wordpress&utm_medium=plugin_directory&utm_campaign=Details_page" rel="nofollow ugc">Start your free trial</a> or <a href="https://bugherd.com/book-a-demo?utm_source=wordpress&utm_medium=plugin_directory&utm_campaign=Details_page" rel="nofollow ugc">book a 1:1</a> demo with a BugHerd product specialist.</p>
<h3>How to install the BugHerd WordPress plugin</h3>
<ol>
<li>Log in to your WordPress Admin.</li>
<li>Go to Plugins <span aria-hidden="true" class="wp-exclude-emoji">→</span> Add New.</li>
<li>Search for “BugHerd” and click Install Now, then Activate.</li>
<li>Go to Settings <span aria-hidden="true" class="wp-exclude-emoji">→</span> BugHerd and enter your Project Key (find it in your BugHerd project under “Settings” > “General Settings”).</li>
<li>Optionally enable “Show BugHerd on WP Admin pages” to collect feedback on Admin pages too.</li>
<li>Open your site — the BugHerd sidebar appears on the right, ready for feedback.</li>
</ol>
<p><strong>Need help installing BugHerd?</strong> Follow the <a href="https://support.bugherd.com/en/articles/11425578-install-the-bugherd-wordpress-plugin" rel="nofollow ugc">BugHerd WordPress Installation Guide</a> for help or email <a href="mailto:support@bugherd.com" rel="nofollow ugc">support@bugherd.com</a></p>


Client feedback on your WordPress site made ridiculously easy. No code changes or client logins. Syncs to Jira, Asana, ClickUp and more.

WP Local Toolbox vs BugHerd