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Welcome

WordPress-Gear is a compendium of useful developer tools for working with WordPress.

Base Tools
Debug Tools
PHP Boilerplate

How

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

To edit this project fork this project on GitHub and edit right in the GitHub UI or clone it locally,

# how to clone locally
$ git clone git://github.com/your_username/your_fork.git
$ cd your_fork
# switch branches to default github hosted pages
$ git checkout -b gh-pages remotes/origin/gh-pages
# Edit index.md 
$ git push

Then send a pull request: GitHub-how-to

WordPress-Gears is written using Jekyll, to make changes edit index.md.

Contributors

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

You can @mention a GitHub username to generate a link to their profile. The resulting <a> element will link to the contributor's GitHub Profile.

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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

Command line fu

• WP-CLI - The command-line tool for managing WordPress.

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

Misc

• 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

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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
• Debug Bar Action Hooks - List fired hooks
• Debug Bar Console - PHP/MySQL console to the debug bar

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

SQL debug

• MySQL Profiler
• SQL Monitor

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PHP Boilerplate

PHP bits

Most of these are PHP classes

Plugin stuff

• Plugin boilerplate by @tommcfarlin
• Object Oriented Plugin Template
• Settings framework by @gilbitron
• scbFramework - Classes for plugin dev
• WordPress Settings API - by @tareq_cse
• WP MVC - MVC framework to create plugins

Widgets

• Widget Boilerplate
• Widget helper class

Updaters

• GitHub plugin update
• Update class

Custom fields (meta box)

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

Other

• Media Manager class
• Pods framework
• WordPress transients interface
• Logging class
• WP Session Manager
• WP CoffeeScript

Theme Stuff

Theme tools and boilerplate

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