Jon Brown

joeguilmette

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.
For support, pull requests, and discussion: https://github.com/joeguilmette/wp-local-toolbox
<h4>Admin Bar</h4>
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.
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WPLT_SERVER: 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.
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.
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WPLT_COLOR: Determines the color of the admin bar. You can set this to any CSS color. If left undefined, will use the following defaults:
<ul>
<li>PRODUCTION / LIVE: red</li>
<li>STAGING / TESTING: orange</li>
<li>LOCAL / DEV: green</li>
</ul>
</li>
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WPLT_ADMINBAR: 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.
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</ul>
In wp-config.php:
<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>
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.
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!
<ul>
<li>WPLT_DISABLED_PLUGINS: A serialized array of plugins to disable.</li>
</ul>
In wp-config.php:
<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>
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.
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.
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<li>
WPLT_NOTIFY: 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/
</li>
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WPLT_NOTIFY_CHANNEL: 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.
</li>
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WPLT_DISABLE_ATTACHMENT_NOTIFY: If set, this will disable notifications for attachments.
</li>
</ul>
In wp-config.php:
<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>
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.
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.
<ul>
<li>WPLT_AIRPLANE: Set this to anything to enable the Airpane Mode toggle.</li>
</ul>
In wp-config.php:
<pre><code>// enable the Airplane Mode toggle
define('WPLT_AIRPLANE', 'true');
</code></pre>
<h4>Modification</h4>
You can add code that will be executed depending on server name by modifying the following in wp-local-toolbox.php.
I’d love a pull request if you come up with something useful.
<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>
As a special thank you, this plugin will remove the ridiculous <code>Howdy,</code> that is prepended to the username in the admin bar.
You’re welcome.
<h4>Credit</h4>
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<li>
Plugin disabling from <a href="https://twitter.com/markjaquith" rel="nofollow ugc">Mark Jaquith</a>: https://gist.github.com/markjaquith/1044546
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<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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Airplane Mode from <a href="https://twitter.com/norcross" rel="nofollow ugc">Andrew Norcross</a>: https://github.com/norcross/airplane-mode
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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/
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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>
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</ul>

WP Local Toolbox

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

Amrit Anandh

Kuppuraj

infinitewp

<a href="https://infinitewp.com/" title="Manage Multiple WordPress" rel="nofollow ugc">InfiniteWP</a> allows users to manage unlimited number of WordPress sites from their own server.
Main features:
<ul>
<li>Self-hosted system: Resides on your own server and totally under your control</li>
<li>One-click updates for WordPress, plugins and themes across all your sites</li>
<li>Instant backup and restore your entire site or just the database</li>
<li>One-click access to all WP admin panels</li>
<li>Bulk Manage plugins & themes: Activate & Deactive multiple plugins & themes on multiple sites simultaneously</li>
<li>Bulk Install plugins & themes in multiple sites at once</li>
<li>and more..</li>
</ul>
Visit us at <a href="https://infinitewp.com/" title="Manage Multiple WordPress" rel="nofollow ugc">InfiniteWP.com</a>.
Check out the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s35ZoW95cnU" rel="nofollow ugc">InfiniteWP Overview Video</a> below.
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Credits: <a href="http://prelovac.com/vladimir" rel="nofollow ugc">Vladimir Prelovac</a> for his worker plugin on which the client plugin is being developed.

InfiniteWP Client

We have 100 sites that we manage, update, review and monitor on a daily, weekly and monthly basis for customers.  Infinitewp makes this so simple to manage.  You can instantly see needed updates, You can setup staging sites to manage updates before updating live sites which is essential for our highly custom ecommerce sites.  

Support is top notch.  We have had 2 issues.  One was a 2 second fix where we simply did not RTFM and missed the step.  The other issue was recent and had to do with the recent update in WP All in One Security in which a specific setting was blocking access.  The support team could have taken the easy way and said - this setting is blocking our access, you have to leave it unchecked and not use it, but the infinitewp team did things the right way and updated their plugins to work around the security setting.  

This plugin is well worth the price.  It saves us hours every week and we highly recommend. 

BEST tool for any wordpress dev who manages sites

I have been using InfiniteWP for years, and highly recommend. It provides a quick way to see what sites have updates, and a way to target updating only specific sites/plugins/core. I've tried others, like ManageWP, but they lack features I need, like being able to only update specific plugins, or get a list of all sites I just updated so I can log into each, and check the updates didn't break anything. Most of my clients' sites use WP Engine's Smart Plugin Manager, and I use InfiniteWP so I can ensure the automatic updates keep running (they've stopped on quite a few of my sites, and InfiniteWP is how I track when this happens so I can get the automatic updates running again). I have InfiniteWP set up to send me an email of all sites that have updates daily. Asvin has provided fast, awesome support anytime I've had an issue over the years - which has only happened a couple of times when dealing with more advanced settings.

A must-have to manage site updates

Install this plugin on unlimited sites and manage them all from a central dashboard. This plugin communicates with your InfiniteWP Admin Panel.

WP Local Toolbox vs InfiniteWP Client