For WordPress Birmingham Kirsty Burgoigne asked which plugins people use during development.
The top 4 recommended by UK slack members match the top 4 in the table below. I use oik-bwtrace. It’s not popular but it works everywhere: front-end, admin, AJAX, REST and in batch ( WP-CLI).
Total plugins: 60574
| Position | Plugin | Total downloads | Active | Star Rating | Tested up to |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 67 | Regenerate Thumbnails | 19531284 | 1000000 | 4.6 | 6.2.2 |
| 143 | Query Monitor | 7849474 | 100000 | 4.9 | 6.2.2 |
| 288 | WP Crontrol | 3426812 | 200000 | 4.5 | 6.2.2 |
| 315 | User Switching | 3117869 | 200000 | 4.9 | 6.0.5 |
| 471 | Debug Bar ElasticPress | 1898216 | 800 | 5 | 6.1.3 |
| 610 | Debug Bar | 1366493 | 30000 | 4.2 | 6.1.3 |
| 1291 | Advanced Cron Manager | 466195 | 30000 | 4.7 | 6.0.5 |
| 2265 | Debug Bar Console | 194489 | 1000 | 5 | 3.4.2 |
| 2628 | Debug Bar Extender | 151139 | 1000 | 4.6 | 3.2.1 |
| 2801 | Debug This | 135865 | 4000 | 4.8 | 6.2.2 |
| 3163 | Debug Bar Cron | 110944 | 900 | 5 | trunk |
| 3704 | Debug Info | 85346 | 7000 | 5 | 6.1.3 |
| 3727 | Debug Bar Actions and Filters Addon | 84526 | 800 | 4.5 | 6.0.5 |
| 3911 | Debug | 77941 | 4000 | 4.6 | 6.0.5 |
| 4783 | Timber Debug Bar | 56336 | 1000 | 0 | 5.8.7 |
| 4849 | Debug Bar Slow Actions | 54827 | 400 | 4.8 | 4.9.23 |
| 5026 | Debug Queries | 51616 | 30 | 3.8 | 4.3.31 |
| 5721 | Debug Bar Rewrite Rules | 41720 | 1000 | 5 | 5.7.0 |
| 6260 | Debug Bar List Script & Style Dependencies | 36300 | 400 | 5 | 4.7.26 |
| 7088 | Debug Bar Post Types | 29076 | 100 | 4 | 4.9.23 |
| 7254 | Debug Bar Constants | 27810 | 70 | 5 | 4.9.23 |
| 7731 | Debug Bar Transients | 24695 | 90 | 5 | 4.7.26 |
| 8075 | Debug Bar Shortcodes | 22872 | 90 | 5 | 4.4.30 |
| 8442 | Debug Bar Remote Requests | 21055 | 60 | 5 | 3.9.40 |
| 9725 | WP Cron HTTP Auth | 16290 | 700 | 5 | 6.2.2 |
| 10241 | Cron Logger | 14899 | 2000 | 4.6 | 6.1.3 |
| 11415 | Debug Bar – Enable WP_DEBUG from admin dashboard | 12315 | 400 | 1.8 | 6.0.5 |
| 11457 | Cron Jobs | 12220 | 1000 | 5 | 5.9.7 |
| 11759 | utopia38/U-CRON – Easy Pseudo Cron Jobbys for WordPress | 11632 | 40 | 0 | 2.5 |
| 11775 | Get URL Cron | 11605 | 1000 | 5 | 6.2.2 |
| 11928 | WP Cron Cleaner | 11378 | 600 | 3.5 | 6.2.2 |
| 13220 | WPX Cron Manager Light | 9418 | 100 | 4 | 5.8.7 |
| 13686 | Debug Log – Config Tool | 8832 | 1000 | 5 | 6.2.2 |
| 13849 | Debug Bar Rewrite rules | 8654 | 90 | 0 | 5.0.19 |
| 14723 | Improved Cron | 7799 | 300 | 4.3 | 4.3.31 |
| 14862 | Debug wp_redirect() | 7664 | 200 | 4.8 | 6.1.3 |
| 15623 | Debug Toolkit | 7012 | 100 | 5 | 5.1.16 |
| 15628 | FFF Cron Manager | 7007 | 200 | 4.4 | 3.5.2 |
| 15728 | WordPress Debug | 6918 | 10 | 0 | 4.4.30 |
| 16055 | Formitable Development Kit | 6658 | 1000 | 5 | 6.1.3 |
| 16327 | Debug Bar Taxonomies | 6465 | 50 | 0 | 4.9.23 |
| 16660 | amr cron manager | 6232 | 400 | 5 | 5.5.12 |
| 17403 | wp pear debug | 5762 | 10 | 0 | 4.3.31 |
| 18156 | Debug Bar Screen Info | 5334 | 30 | 5 | 4.5.29 |
| 18426 | Debug MO Translations | 5183 | 10 | 5 | 6.1.3 |
| 18445 | Local Development | 5175 | 100 | 5 | 6.2.2 |
| 18561 | Debug Log Manager | 5110 | 700 | 5 | 6.1.3 |
| 19074 | Debug Bar Post Meta | 4858 | 20 | 5 | 3.4.2 |
| 19768 | Development Theme 2 | 4565 | 60 | 3.2 | 3.7.41 |
| 19930 | Debug Bar Post Meta | 4497 | 30 | 5 | 5.5.12 |
| 20035 | Debug Meta Data | 4459 | 90 | 5 | 5.4.0 |
| 20114 | WooCommerce Debug Bar | 4424 | 30 | 1 | 3.4.2 |
| 20403 | Mail Debug for WooCommerce | 4306 | 300 | 5 | 6.1.3 |
| 21032 | Debug Bar Cache Lookup | 4059 | 10 | 3 | 4.5.29 |
| 21207 | Debug Bar Query Tracer | 3998 | 10 | 1 | 3.2.1 |
| 21676 | WP Debug Logger | 3846 | 10 | 0 | 4.7.26 |
| 21873 | Debug Bar Super Globals | 3777 | 30 | 5 | 3.4.2 |
| 22155 | Debug Elementor | 3689 | 100 | 5 | 5.2.18 |
| 22210 | Mail Debug | 3668 | 10 | 0 | 2.7.1 |
| 22440 | Debug Bar bbPress | 3595 | 10 | 5 | 3.5.2 |
| 22774 | WP E-Mail Debug | 3491 | 50 | 5 | 4.3.31 |
| 23148 | Cron Developers Demo | 3377 | 10 | 0 | |
| 23288 | Debug Media | 3337 | 50 | 5 | 4.7.0 |
| 23312 | Debug Bar Roles and Capabilities | 3331 | 10 | 5 | 3.9.40 |
| 23359 | Simple Debug | 3320 | 10 | 3.7 | 3.5.2 |
| 23419 | Disable Admin WP Cron Notice For UpdraftPlus | 3305 | 100 | 0 | 6.2.2 |
| 23544 | Hit an External Cron | 3271 | 10 | 0 | 4.6-alpha |
| 23811 | Debug Bar – Sidebars & Widgets | 3199 | 10 | 0 | 3.9.40 |
| 23841 | Debug Bar Localization | 3191 | 30 | 5 | 4.5.29 |
| 25141 | Scrape and Debug | 2869 | 100 | 0 | 5.8.7 |
| 25256 | Simple Cron | 2844 | 20 | 2.3 | 3.5.2 |
| 25281 | Debug Bar Query Count Alert | 2839 | 10 | 5 | 3.7.41 |
| 25428 | Debug Bar Widgets | 2808 | 10 | 0 | 6.0.5 |
| 25466 | Debug Bar Plugin Activation | 2801 | 10 | 5 | 4.5.29 |
| 25570 | Debug Bar Hook Log | 2778 | 10 | 4 | 4.0.38 |
| 25895 | Debug Log | 2709 | 200 | 5 | 4.5.29 |
| 25933 | DP Debug Menu | 2703 | 300 | 5 | 5.6.11 |
| 26692 | Advanced Cron Scheduler | 2558 | 70 | 5 | 6.1.3 |
| 26795 | Debug Robot | 2539 | 10 | 0 | 3.4.2 |
| 28469 | Debug Bar Custom Info | 2251 | 20 | 5 | 3.9.40 |
| 28604 | Admin Enable Debug DZS | 2230 | 200 | 5 | 6.1.3 |
| 29638 | Simple Debug Info Panel | 2079 | 60 | 5 | 6.2.2 |
| 29906 | MultiSite System Cron | 2042 | 10 | 5 | 4.2.35 |
| 30259 | Cron Debug Log | 1991 | 10 | 0 | 3.5.2 |
| 30685 | Admin’s Debug Tool | 1936 | 10 | 0 | 4.2.35 |
| 30746 | SM Debug Bar | 1928 | 10 | 0 | 3.3.2 |
| 30766 | Development Mode for Jetpack | 1925 | 30 | 0 | 5.5.12 |
| 30782 | Cron Tasks Viewer | 1922 | 80 | 5 | 4.0.38 |
| 31208 | WP Development Utilities | 1870 | 0 | 0 | 2.6.3 |
| 33653 | Theme Development Preview | 1601 | 10 | 3 | 4.5.29 |
| 33901 | WP Cron Pixie | 1578 | 10 | 5 | 6.1.3 |
| 35457 | Debug Tool | 1437 | 10 | 0 | 4.9.23 |
| 35843 | Easy Debug Info | 1407 | 10 | 5 | 4.0.38 |
| 36474 | Debug Status Display Footer | 1354 | 100 | 5 | 6.1.3 |
| 36711 | Development Environment | 1337 | 0 | 5 | 5.0.19 |
| 36875 | Debug Bar Toggle | 1324 | 10 | 5 | 3.5.2 |
| 37379 | Developer Debug Tools | 1284 | 20 | 5 | 6.2.2 |
| 37446 | Clear Debug.log Cron | 1279 | 20 | 0 | 3.5.2 |
| 37759 | Pretty Debug | 1257 | 10 | 5 | 3.5.2 |
| 38182 | Cron Tasks Viewer | 1225 | 60 | 5 | 6.1.3 |
| 38328 | Manual cron | 1215 | 20 | 0 | 4.4.30 |
| 38930 | Development Debug Backtraces | 1176 | 0 | 0 | 4.2.35 |
| 39174 | Debug Assistant | 1160 | 60 | 0 | 6.2.2 |
| 39939 | Debug tools | 1112 | 10 | 5 | 3.7.41 |
| 39943 | WP Live Debug | 1111 | 50 | 0 | 4.9.23 |
| 40032 | Development Environment Notification | 1106 | 10 | 5 | 3.9.40 |
| 40120 | Development Notice | 1101 | 0 | 0 | 2.8 |
| 40215 | Change WP Cron Request URL | 1094 | 10 | 0 | 5.5.12 |
| 40316 | Scripts Styles Debug Bar | 1088 | 10 | 0 | 4.1.38 |
| 40319 | Debug Log Parser | 1088 | 10 | 3 | 3.9.40 |
| 41317 | DeMomentSomTres Debug | 1030 | 0 | 0 | 5.1.16 |
| 41357 | TIVWP-DM Development Manager | 1028 | 10 | 0 | 4.0.38 |
| 42670 | JK Development Console | 959 | 10 | 5 | 4.0.38 |
| 43105 | WP Cron Viewer and Manager | 937 | 10 | 0 | 4.9.23 |
| 44275 | KL Debug | 878 | 10 | 5 | 6.0.5 |
| 44801 | Taylor’s Debug Toggle | 853 | 10 | 1 | 4.1.38 |
| 46412 | Debug Editor | 782 | 10 | 0 | 5.3.15 |
| 47144 | Debug User/Post/Options Meta Data | 751 | 10 | 5 | 4.5.29 |
| 47278 | Spot view Cron Job | 745 | 10 | 5 | |
| 47433 | DeMomentSomTres Debug Text Domain | 738 | 0 | 5 | 5.1.16 |
| 47488 | Arrested Development | 736 | 0 | 0 | 4.1.38 |
| 47523 | Change Debug Log Location | 734 | 20 | 0 | 6.2.2 |
| 47577 | SEO Debug Bar | 732 | 0 | 5 | 4.8.22 |
| 48141 | Debug Bar for Sophi | 708 | 0 | 0 | 6.0.5 |
| 48171 | WPMS Cron List | 708 | 0 | 0 | 4.1.38 |
| 48524 | FDP Debug | 693 | 0 | 0 | 6.2.2 |
| 48567 | WP Cron per Action | 692 | 10 | 0 | 4.6.26 |
| 48601 | Consolari Debug Logger | 691 | 0 | 0 | 4.1.38 |
| 49563 | WP Marvelous Debug | 651 | 20 | 0 | 5.3.15 |
| 49756 | What The Cron | 644 | 20 | 5 | 5.3.15 |
| 50300 | Vimeotheque Debug | 622 | 60 | 0 | 5.8.7 |
| 50878 | Development Mode | 601 | 0 | 0 | 4.7.26 |
| 51090 | Debug with TogetherJS | 593 | 0 | 0 | 4.5.29 |
| 51499 | DGAshu Cron Job Mail Setup For User Role – DGAshu | 577 | 0 | 5 | 6.0.5 |
| 52036 | Mc Lennan Design & Development WOICT Event Search by date Widget | 558 | 0 | 5 | 3.5.2 |
| 52260 | Multisite Postie CRON Creator | 550 | 10 | 0 | 5.3.15 |
| 55191 | All-in-One Debug Lab | 434 | 0 | 0 | 5.4.13 |
| 55425 | Post Type & Taxonomy Debug | 423 | 10 | 0 | 5.2.18 |
| 55697 | Maras IT Suite : Development Environement | 410 | 0 | 0 | 5.2.18 |
| 56248 | LH Clear Debug Log by Cron | 381 | 0 | 0 | 6.0.5 |
| 56833 | Debug Logger | 352 | 0 | 0 | 5.7.9 |
| 57405 | Zhu Development Tools | 320 | 0 | 0 | 5.6.11 |
| 57426 | Gorilla Debug | 319 | 0 | 0 | 5.7.9 |
| 57920 | Debug Using Ngrok | 287 | 0 | 0 | 5.7.9 |
| 58058 | NVV Debug Lines | 277 | 0 | 0 | 5.7.9 |
| 58616 | Debug Switch | 231 | 0 | 5 | 6.0.5 |
| 58942 | Environment & Debug Bar | 199 | 0 | 0 | 6.2.2 |
| 147 | TOTALS | 39242805 |