WordPress Gear

WPGear.org is a compendium of useful developer tools for working with WordPress.

How

WordPress-Gear is meant to be community driven, please feel free to jump in and add/remove any useful information via GitHub.

The easiest way to contribute is to have a GitHub account then click index.md, then click edit. This will automatically fork this project to your account so you can make changes, then submit a pull request. There are additional instruction if you want to clone this locally in the readme.

Contributors

Please refrain from submitting any commercial products or themes. Links must allow for code browsing (github/bitbucket/svn..etc).

Base Tools

WordPress

Compressed format (.zip or .tar.gz)

• Latest Stable - wordpress.org
• Nightly - wordpress.org

Revision control - These builds roll the latest commits.

• SVN (Subversion)
• GitHub (Git)
• BitBucket (Mercurial)

Core Unit tests

Core Testing and profiling via PHPUnit + official theme sample data

• Trac SVN
• GitHub mirror
• Theme XML sample data Official sample data
• WP Test Additional test/sample data

Command line fu

• WP-CLI - The command-line tool for managing WordPress.
• WP-PowerShell - Windows powershell for the WP-CLI
• VimPress - Post to WordPress from Vim
• SublPress - Post to WordPress in Sublime
• wp-debug-toggle - NPM module to quick toggle wp_debug

Build scripts

• WP Stack - Capistrano deploy
• Wordmove - Rails gem
• Wp Project Tools - Fabric/Python CLI and automation
• WordPhing - Phing/Php build script
• Yeoman-WordPress - Node, NPM and Ruby

Theme scripts

• Wordless - Haml, Compass and Coffeescript (Ruby)
• Forge - Sass, LESS, and CoffeeScript (Ruby)

IDE bundles

WordPress snippets and auto-completions

• Sublime Text 2
• TextMate
• Aptana Studio
• Coda 2
• Vim Syntax
• Vim WordPress snippets
• NetBeans WordPress plugin

Misc

• Sublime Codex - Search the WordPress Codex inside Sublime
• WP-PhpTidy - Format PHP code so that it conforms to the WordPress Coding Standards
• Nginx - Configuration for running WordPress
• WordPress-Skeleton - Basic layout of a WordPress Git repository
• WordPress Java - Java xmlrpc interface of WordPress
• WordPress-Coding-Standards - PHP_CodeSniffer rules to enforce WordPress coding conventions

Debug Tools

Plugins that help with debugging

Debug Bar and extensions

• Debug Bar - Maintained by core devs
• Debug Bar Extender - Adds profiler and extra tools
• Debug Bar Cron - Display scheduled events
• Debug Bar Transients - Transient info
• ~~Debug Bar Template Trace - Template load and order~~ Deprecated but template still listed inside Debug Bar under WP Query tab.
• Debug Bar Action Hooks - List fired hooks
• Debug Bar Console - PHP/MySQL console to the debug bar
• Debug Bar Constants - List all WP and PHP constants

Debug plugins

• Core Control - Lots of core options
• Developer - Quickly get setup
• Debug This - Lot of debug modes
• P3 (Plugin Performance Profiler) - Test your plugins
• Debug Objects - Lots of info
• Hook Sniffer - Action and filter sequence
• Depreciated Notices - Log outdated functions
• Rewrite Analyzer - Helps dreaded rewrites
• XHProf Profiler - Profile plug ins and themes using XHProf (Facebook)
• BlackBox Debug Bar - Another debug bar
• WCM Current Admin Info - Info about current screen, contextual hooks & its globals
• WpDevTool - Development tool for WordPress to track bugs, manage crons, permalinks and much more.

SQL debug

• MySQL Profiler
• SQL Monitor

Other

• Console logger Log WP data to Chrome or Firefox

PHP Boilerplate

PHP bits

Most of these are PHP classes

Plugin stuff

• Plugin boilerplate - Organized, maintainable boilerplate for building plugins
• Object Oriented Plugin Template - WordPress plugins using object-oriented programming practices
• Settings framework - A framework for the WordPress settings API
• scbFramework - A set of useful classes for faster plugin development
• WordPress Settings API - Another WordPress settings API abstraction class
• WP MVC - MVC framework to create plugins
• DX-Plugin-Base - Base plugin for the WordPress system

Widgets

• Widget Boilerplate - Maintainable boilerplate for building widgets
• Widget helper class - A class to ease creating Widgets

Updaters

• GitHub plugin update - WordPress plugin updates via GitHub
• Update class - Private and commercial plugin update class
• wp-plugin-in-github - Sync WordPress Plugins between Github and WordPress Plugin repository.

Custom fields (meta box)

• My-Meta-Box
• Meta Box Plugin
• Custom Metaboxes and Fields
• WpAlchemy
• Reusable WordPress Meta Boxes

Comparison of tools CompareWP Content Type / Custom Fields

Other

• SuperCPT CPT and meta box wrapper with icons
• Media Manager class - Integrating the new media manager work-flow into your plugins/themes
• WordPress Taxonomies Fields - Class for creating WordPress taxonomies custom fields
• Pods framework - Expansive Framework for custom content and fields
• WordPress transients interface - A WordPress transients interface
• Logging class - A a general logging system
• WP Session Manager - Session manager for WordPress
• WP CoffeeScript - Use CoffeeScript in WordPress
• Dynamic Image Resize - Resize images on the fly (like WPThumb/TimThumb but using PHP only)

Theme Stuff

Theme tools and boilerplate

• Prometheus Front-end foundation (LESS, wpthumb)
• WordPress Template Base File structure based on TwentyEleven