Comments on: WordPress Plugins for More Productive Development

By: faryl

faryl — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 03:34:18 +0000

Awesome! Played with some of your plugins – first time visiting your blog.

Just wanted to say THANK YOU for the wealth of valuable information & tools you’ve shared here!

By: Matt Martz

Matt Martz — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 18:45:44 +0000

I just released a plugin several days ago that is targeted towards WordPress developers called WordPress reset. The plugin can be found here: http://sivel.net/2009/03/wordpress-reset/

In short the plugin will remove all of the WordPress tables and reinstall. It keeps the admin and the associated password unless then admin doesn’t exist or isn’t actually an admin, otherwise it recreates the user and password that performs the reset. The plugin defaults to reactivating itself after the reset.

So far it has proven itself invaluable to me during theme and plugin development. No more wasting time dropping and recreating the database and going through the install process manually.

By: Ozh

Ozh — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 07:38:01 +0000

John: nice finds! thanks for sharing

By: johnbillion

johnbillion — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 23:32:54 +0000

I regularly use Pseudo Cron Dashboard Display to ensure my crons are scheduled/firing correctly, although I've recently started using Cron View instead (and as well as). Then there's the very useful Maintenance Mode for those times when you need to make a load of simultaneous changes to a live site (eg. a relaunch). DD32 has recently released Core Control which has lots of handy control features aimed at developers, although I've yet to try it out myself.