David Pullin

<p>A WordPress plugin to provide general tools to assist with WordPress development and maintenance. Each tool within this collection is pluggable, allowing you full control, over which ones are loaded.</p>
<p>Main features include:-</p>
<ul>
<li>Internal Developer Log (database table with viewer) that can be called from code to log message, debug details etc.</li>
<li>Send A Test Email</li>
<li>List Cookies (client side)</li>
<li>Clear WordPress’ Core Updater Lock & Increase PHP execution time to assist with timeout issues</li>
</ul>
<h3>Deactivation</h3>
<p>When deactivating this plugin from WordPress’ Plugins maintenance any option relating to deactivating will be adhered to even if that tool is disabled (as<br />
long as the tool’s physical file is still present).</p>
<p>For example, even if you disable the loading of the Development Logging Support tool, when this plugin is deactivated, if the Logging Support’s tool option to drop the log table on deactivation is set, the database table will still be deleted.</p>
<h3>Pluggable</h3>
<p>Each tool is in itself pluggable and can be removed or disabled from your WordPress installation.</p>
<p>You may wish to do this to limit which tools are available on your live site.</p>
<p>There are two different methods of disabling a tool.</p>
<h4>Removing via Administration Options</h4>
<p>On the main general settings screen you are able to choose which tools are active.  By default tools are active and by default any new tools in<br />
future updates of this plugin will default to active. You can also change this behaviour by turning off the option to activate new tools by default.</p>
<h4>Removing via Physical File Deletion</h4>
<p>Each tool exists within the tools\ sub-directory.  You can disable a tool simply by deleting the file or rename it so it is no longer prefixed with zhu_dt_.</p>
<p>Please note, if you apply an update to this plugin the removed file will be placed back as part of the update process.  Upon restoring the file it will be treated as a newly detected tool which may be enabled depending on the option to activate new tools by default.  You can find this option on the general settings screen.</p>
<h3>The Tools</h3>
<ol>
<li>Tool Activator & Client Development Toolbar</li>
<li>Generic development log database table</li>
<li>Quick email test</li>
<li>Cookie viewer</li>
<li>Update Assist</li>
</ol>
<h3>1. Tool Activator & Client Development Toolbar</h3>
<p>This tool provides UI support on the general settings screen to allow you to enable and disable other tools.</p>
<p>You cannot disable this tool via the UI but like the other files in the tool directory you can remove the file zhu_dt_activator.class.php to disable UI support.</p>
<h3>Client Development Toolbar</h3>
<p>Some tools provide features to be available on the client side (i.e. your website not the admin area of WordPress). If there are no tools enabled that provide client side features the toolbar will not be displayed.</p>
<p>To prevent the toolbar being displayed for everyone, i.e. public, it is also restricted to the specified user as per its settings.  This however, will only work when that user is logged into WordPress and viewing their site.</p>
<p>However, there may be times, when you wish to use these tools when visiting your site as a member of the public and therefore you will not be logged into WordPress.  To achieve this, the toolbar has an option to create a browser cookie containing an Activation ID.  This ID is then matched with the ID that you will need to enter into the tool’s settings.  If matched then the toolbar is rendered on the system with the matching cookie value.</p>
<p>The toolbar hooks into WordPress wp_body_open action to inject required HTML. wp_body_open was introduced into WordPress 5.2.0 which should be triggered via your theme after the open body html tag.  As such, if your theme does not support this then the client toolbar will not be displayed.</p>
<h3>2. Generic development log database table</h3>
<p>Tool filename: zhu_dt_log.class.php</p>
<p>Provides a public function to call via your code to record a log into the database</p>
<pre><code>public function zhu_log(    string $content) {}
E.g. zhu_log(‘testing my feature ‘ . $mode);
</code></pre>
<p>This function records, with a date a time stamp, into the database table [wp]_zhu_log.  Where [wp] is your site’s database table prefix.  Entries in this table can be viewed via this plugin’s log viewer which is accessible from the Administration Menu.</p>
<p>The log can be truncated at anytime via the truncate button found on this plugin’s options page.</p>
<p>In the event that this tool has been disabled or zhu_dt_log.class.php has been removed any calls to zhu_log() within your own code will <em>not</em> fail. However no logging will take place as zhu_log() simply becomes a do nothing function.  This allows you to keep your logging code in place, if required, and enable/disable the actual recording to the database by enabling and disabling this tool as required.</p>
<h3>3. Email Test</h3>
<p>Tool filename: zhu_dt_send_test_email.class.php</p>
<p>Provides, within this plugin’s options screen, a quick test to send an email using WordPress’ wp_mail() function.</p>
<p>The email address, subject and body of the email are remembered for next time. If an error is detected its details are displayed on screen.</p>
<h3>4. Cookie Viewer</h3>
<p>Tool filename: zhu_dt_cookie_viewer.class.php</p>
<p>When enabled, this tool adds an icon to the main site’s floating toolbar. The feature allows you to view cookies used by the site.  Detection is performed bia locally running JavaScript.</p>
<p>This pop-up viewer also provides an easy method of deleting individual cookies.</p>
<h3>5. Update Assist</h3>
<p>Tool filename: zhu_dt_cookie_viewer.class.php</p>
<p>This tool provides a simple button to remove WordPress’s Core Updater Lock. This will remove WordPress’s internal “lock” that is used by WordPress to indicate that a core update is taking place.  Whan a core update fails, for example, due to a timeout issue when downloading, the lock may still be present.  As such, when you try again WordPess displays the message “Another Update in Progress”.</p>
<p>This tool also allows you to set the value of PHP’s max_execution_time.  This may assist with timeout issues when downloading updates.  After enabling this option and pressing save the tool will inform you as best it can with the results of applying the change.  Please note, that some hosting providers configure their systems so changing this value has no effect even even if PHP reports the change was successful.</p>


Zhu Development Tools for WordPress

A WordPress plugin to provide general tools to assist with WordPress development and maintenance. Each tool within this collection is pluggable, allow …

Gustavo Bordoni

<p>Whenever you create a new Theme or Plugin you will always need to create custom data to test whether your plugin is working or not, and as Developers ourselves we had this problem quite alot.</p>
<p>Our goal with this plugin is to fill this gap where you have problem with a good solution both for Developers and for Users of WordPress.</p>
<blockquote>
<p><strong>Note: This plugin requires PHP 8.1 or higher to be activated.</strong></p>
</blockquote>
<p><a href="http://fakerpress.com/r/github" rel="nofollow ugc"><strong>Checkout our GitHub Repository</strong></a></p>
<h4>Components Included</h4>
<ul>
<li>Posts</li>
<li>Custom Post Types</li>
<li>Meta Data</li>
<li>Featured Image</li>
<li>Users</li>
<li>Tags</li>
<li>Categories</li>
<li>Comments</li>
<li>Custom Comment Types</li>
<li>Attachments (NEW)</li>
</ul>
<h4>Creating Dummy Content</h4>
<p>Normally a WordPress developer will need to perform the task of filling up an empty theme with dummy content, and doing this manually can be really time consuming, the main reasons this plugin was create was to speed up this process.</p>
<h4>Random Featured Images</h4>
<p>Create randomly generated attachments as the Featured Images for your WordPress dummy content.</p>
<h4>Create random Meta Information</h4>
<p>WordPress has Meta for Users, Posts, Terms and Comments, FakerPress will allow you to generate custom dummy meta for all four, with <em>20 types of Data</em></p>
<h4>Delete the Content Generated</h4>
<p>After you are done with your testing it should be easy to delete all the content created using FakerPress, now you will be able to do it.</p>
<h4>Generate Random HTML</h4>
<p>When creating dummy posts what you really want is that the HTML is really random so that you might see bugs that an XML import wouldn’t.</p>
<h4>Generate Images in your HTML</h4>
<p>When you are testing your website images are important, so FakerPress will allow you to output Images to your HTML tests.</p>
<h4>Real Browser data on User Comments</h4>
<p>For comments our plugin is prepared to generate a real Browser data instead of leaving the field empty.</p>
<h4>Random Terms generation</h4>
<p>For creating and assigning the terms you will have a much better tool that will allow you to select which kind of taxonomy you want to assign to your posts, and leaving the randomization to the plugin’s code.</p>
<h4>Real random User profiles</h4>
<p>If you fill up your WordPress with any data for the user profiles you might not catch an edge case, this plugin will fill up the fields with data that will really matter in the tests.</p>
<h4>Modern REST API</h4>
<p>FakerPress now includes a comprehensive REST API for programmatic content generation. All modules support REST endpoints with batching capabilities for large-scale generation. Full OpenAPI documentation is available at <code>/wp-json/fakerpress/v1/docs</code>.</p>
<h4>Generate Attachments</h4>
<p>Create realistic image attachments with customizable dimensions, multiple image providers (Placehold.co, Lorem Picsum), and automatic generation of alt text, captions, and descriptions. All images include proper attribution – Lorem Picsum images credit the original Unsplash photographers.</p>
<h4>Types of Meta Included</h4>
<ul>
<li>Attachment</li>
<li>WP_Query</li>
<li>Number</li>
<li>Elements</li>
<li>Letter</li>
<li>Words</li>
<li>Text</li>
<li>HTML</li>
<li>Lexify</li>
<li>Asciify</li>
<li>Regexify</li>
<li>Person</li>
<li>Geo Information</li>
<li>Company</li>
<li>Date</li>
<li>TimeZone</li>
<li>Email</li>
<li>Domain</li>
<li>IP</li>
<li>Browser User Agent</li>
</ul>
<h4>Languages</h4>
<p>We moved away from <em>Transifex</em> due to the new GlotPress on WordPress.org, so if you want to translate FakerPress to your language please <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/polyglots/handbook/rosetta/theme-plugin-directories/#translating-themes-plugins" rel="nofollow ugc">follow this guidelines</a>.</p>
<h4>See room for improvement?</h4>
<p>Great! There are several ways you can get involved to help make FakerPress better:</p>
<ol>
<li><strong>Report Bugs:</strong> If you find a bug, error or other problem, please report it! You can do this by <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/fakerpress" rel="ugc">creating a new topic</a> in the plugin forum. Once a developer can verify the bug by reproducing it, they will create an official bug report in GitHub where the bug will be worked on.</li>
<li><strong>Suggest New Features:</strong> Have an awesome idea? Please share it! Simply <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/fakerpress" rel="ugc">create a new topic</a> in the plugin forum to express your thoughts on why the feature should be included and get a discussion going around your idea.</li>
<li><strong>Issue Pull Requests:</strong> If you’re a developer, the easiest way to get involved is to help out on <a href="https://github.com/bordoni/fakerpress/issues" rel="nofollow ugc">issues already reported</a> in GitHub. Be sure to check out the <a href="https://github.com/bordoni/fakerpress/blob/master/contributing.md" rel="nofollow ugc">contributing guide</a> for developers.</li>
</ol>
<p>Thank you for wanting to make FakerPress better for everyone! <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fPf6L0XNvM" rel="nofollow ugc">We salute you</a>.</p>


FakerPress

I use this plugin on all my sites during the development phase, thanks !

A must have

To test a potential conflict between plugins, I needed a site with content. 

In the past, I would oftentimes copy/paste Wikipedia articles one by one. But not anymore! FakerPress allows me to quickly generate exactly what I need, without taking up HOURS AND HOURS of my scarce time. 

Thanks for this plugin! 

Pure brilliance

This Plugin has saved me countless hours of generating data to test WordPress. It's a fantastic resource and is a "must have" for any new site I build.

Thanks to the author for creating such a great tool!

One for the toolbox

Super useful to generate quick populated dev sites

Great dev tool

Easy of use and sense of humour by developer. I like both :)

Works with custom post types

Awesome!


This plugin does exactly what it has been created. It has a clean interface, is fast, and has a wipe button—nothing more to add.


The best solution


The setup is easy. The content is generated. You begin to work thereafter.


Simple! Generates the content as sold.


have used this plugin several times when I needed to test WordPress sites with certain content. Specifically it was a lifesaver as I built it my simple user listing plugin! 



Bugs fixed quickly and open to adding useful features. A+ support as well 


fantastic dev tool

FakerPress is a clean way to generate fake and dummy content to your WordPress, great for developers who need testing

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