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: 55609
Limit reached: 200 at 53073
| Position | Plugin | Total downloads | Active | Star Rating | Tested up to |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 38 | Regenerate Thumbnails | 13064399 | 1000000 | 4.6 | 5.3.2 |
| 180 | Force Regenerate Thumbnails | 2600014 | 600000 | 4.7 | 4.0.29 |
| 216 | Query Monitor | 2023540 | 90000 | 4.9 | 5.3.2 |
| 302 | User Switching | 1470905 | 100000 | 4.9 | 5.3.2 |
| 472 | WP Crontrol | 894340 | 100000 | 4.9 | 5.1.4 |
| 539 | Debug Bar | 784417 | 30000 | 4.2 | 4.9.13 |
| 1012 | Regenerate Thumbnails Advanced | 347321 | 60000 | 3.6 | 5.3.2 |
| 1537 | Advanced Cron Manager | 207869 | 20000 | 4.8 | 5.3.2 |
| 1753 | Debug Bar Console | 171610 | 3000 | 5 | 3.4.2 |
| 2023 | Debug Bar Extender | 138506 | 2000 | 4.6 | 3.2.1 |
| 2354 | OTF Regenerate Thumbnails | 109584 | 10000 | 4.6 | 4.1.29 |
| 2548 | Debug This | 98462 | 5000 | 4.5 | 5.2.5 |
| 2774 | Debug Bar Cron | 85620 | 1000 | 5 | trunk |
| 2984 | Debug Objects | 76695 | 700 | 4.7 | 4.9.13 |
| 3109 | WP-Cron Control | 72612 | 8000 | 3.5 | 4.8.12 |
| 3669 | Cron GUI | 56828 | 3000 | 4.6 | 3.3.2 |
| 4037 | Debug Bar Actions and Filters Addon | 49037 | 1000 | 5 | 4.8.12 |
| 4050 | Debug Queries | 48908 | 60 | 3.8 | 4.3.22 |
| 4102 | Debug | 48018 | 3000 | 5 | 5.4 |
| 4430 | ONet Regenerate Thumbnails | 42846 | 5000 | 4.5 | 4.5.13 |
| 4623 | Debug Info | 40312 | 6000 | 5 | 5.2.0 |
| 5394 | Official TraceMyIP Plugin | 31913 | 2000 | 5 | 5.3.2 |
| 5588 | Debug Bar Slow Actions | 30008 | 800 | 4.8 | 4.9.13 |
| 5758 | Cronjob Scheduler | 28648 | 3000 | 4.4 | 4.9.13 |
| 5845 | Debug Bar ElasticPress | 27995 | 500 | 5 | 5.1.4 |
| 6312 | WP-Cron Status Checker | 24656 | 3000 | 5 | 5.3.2 |
| 6413 | Timber Debug Bar | 24038 | 1000 | 0 | 4.0.29 |
| 6503 | Crony Cronjob Manager | 23449 | 1000 | 4.2 | 4.4.21 |
| 6807 | Kint Debugger | 21625 | 3000 | 4.8 | 5.0.8 |
| 7179 | Debug Bar List Script & Style Dependencies | 19770 | 700 | 5 | 4.7.16 |
| 7487 | WP-Cron Dashboard | 18458 | 900 | 0 | 4.1.29 |
| 7696 | User Switching in Admin Bar | 17516 | 2000 | 4.9 | 4.7.16 |
| 7778 | BlackBox | 17248 | 100 | 4.8 | 3.5.2 |
| 8110 | Debug Bar Post Types | 16172 | 300 | 4 | 4.9.13 |
| 8131 | Debug Bar Transients | 16096 | 200 | 5 | 4.7.16 |
| 8607 | Debug Bar Constants | 14629 | 200 | 5 | 4.9.13 |
| 8778 | Template Debugger | 14148 | 2000 | 5 | 5.2.5 |
| 8863 | Debug Bar Rewrite Rules | 13911 | 800 | 5 | 5.3.2 |
| 10044 | utopia38/U-CRON – Easy Pseudo Cron Jobbys for WordPress | 11239 | 100 | 0 | 2.5 |
| 10093 | Debug Bar Shortcodes | 11136 | 200 | 5 | 4.4.21 |
| 12129 | WPX Cron Manager Light | 8066 | 300 | 4 | 5.0.8 |
| 12250 | WP Debugging | 7911 | 700 | 5 | 5.3.2 |
| 12421 | Acronyms | 7726 | 200 | 0 | 2.8.4 |
| 13153 | Kint PHP Debugger | 7001 | 500 | 5 | 5.1.4 |
| 13473 | EasyCron | 6715 | 300 | 5 | 4.2.26 |
| 13515 | Debug “unexpected output” During Plugin Activation | 6680 | 60 | 5 | 3.6.1 |
| 13649 | Improved Cron | 6553 | 600 | 4.3 | 4.3.22 |
| 13711 | Debug Bar Rewrite rules | 6501 | 200 | 0 | 5.0.8 |
| 14017 | Fast User Switching | 6240 | 1000 | 5 | 5.1.4 |
| 14278 | FFF Cron Manager | 6047 | 500 | 4.4 | 3.5.2 |
| 14326 | Debug Bar Remote Requests | 6005 | 80 | 5 | 3.9.30 |
| 14820 | WP Cron Cleaner | 5627 | 500 | 3.8 | 5.3.2 |
| 15268 | wp pear debug | 5352 | 10 | 0 | 4.3.22 |
| 16170 | Run External Crons | 4807 | 2000 | 5 | 3.4.2 |
| 16550 | Debug Bar – Enable WP_DEBUG from admin dashboard | 4596 | 400 | 3 | 5.3.2 |
| 16562 | TFS Acronymit | 4589 | 0 | 4.5 | 4.3.22 |
| 17070 | Debug Bar Taxonomies | 4335 | 100 | 0 | 4.9.13 |
| 17161 | Debug Bar Screen Info | 4291 | 100 | 5 | 4.5.13 |
| 17631 | Development Theme 2 | 4076 | 100 | 3.2 | 3.7.32 |
| 17706 | Regenerate Thumbnails Reminder | 4040 | 100 | 5 | 4.0.29 |
| 17750 | 4020 | 0 | 0 | 2.9.2 | |
| 18017 | amr cron manager | 3917 | 600 | 5 | 5.0.8 |
| 18553 | Debug Bar Post Meta | 3698 | 50 | 5 | 3.4.2 |
| 18853 | AsynCRONous bbPress Subscriptions | 3582 | 200 | 5 | 5.0.8 |
| 18893 | Regenerate thumbnails and delete unused | 3571 | 400 | 5 | 5.2.5 |
| 19039 | Debug wp_redirect | 3512 | 100 | 4.8 | 4.8.12 |
| 19142 | WooCommerce Debug Bar | 3470 | 60 | 1 | 3.4.2 |
| 19342 | Debug Bar Query Tracer | 3404 | 20 | 1 | 3.2.1 |
| 19646 | Mail Debug | 3304 | 10 | 0 | 2.7.1 |
| 19687 | WordPress Debug | 3290 | 30 | 0 | 4.4.21 |
| 20448 | Cron Developers Demo | 3058 | 10 | 0 | |
| 20832 | Debug Bar Super Globals | 2939 | 60 | 5 | 3.4.2 |
| 20878 | Simple Debug | 2925 | 10 | 3.7 | 3.5.2 |
| 20945 | Comment Location Tracker | 2908 | 70 | 0 | 3.5.2 |
| 21349 | Debugger Plugin | 2791 | 30 | 4.5 | 3.6.1 |
| 22015 | Debug Toolkit | 2621 | 100 | 5 | 5.1.4 |
| 22235 | Acronyms 2 | 2574 | 100 | 4.6 | 5.3.2 |
| 22299 | BugFu Console Debugger | 2559 | 200 | 5 | 5.2.5 |
| 22679 | Debug Bar – Sidebars & Widgets | 2469 | 10 | 0 | 3.9.30 |
| 22719 | Simple Cron | 2458 | 40 | 2.3 | 3.5.2 |
| 22806 | Debug MO Translations | 2441 | 10 | 5 | 4.9.13 |
| 22927 | Debug Bar Post Meta | 2413 | 50 | 5 | 4.9.13 |
| 22952 | WP Debug Logger | 2409 | 30 | 0 | 4.7.16 |
| 23270 | Debug Bar Query Count Alert | 2338 | 10 | 5 | 3.7.32 |
| 23872 | Debug Meta Data | 2225 | 80 | 5 | 5.3.2 |
| 23920 | Debug Robot | 2214 | 10 | 0 | 3.4.2 |
| 24081 | Debug Elementor | 2184 | 200 | 5 | 5.2.5 |
| 24087 | Debug Bar Cache Lookup | 2183 | 10 | 3 | 4.5.13 |
| 24089 | Hit an External Cron | 2182 | 20 | 0 | 4.6-alpha |
| 24105 | Debug Bar Hook Log | 2179 | 10 | 4 | 4.0.29 |
| 24678 | Surbma – Jetpack Development Mode | 2076 | 80 | 4 | 4.9.13 |
| 24692 | Debug Log | 2074 | 400 | 5 | 4.5.13 |
| 24772 | Debug Bar bbPress | 2059 | 10 | 5 | 3.5.2 |
| 25441 | WP E-Mail Debug | 1947 | 100 | 5 | 4.3.22 |
| 25478 | WP Debugger | 1941 | 40 | 0 | 4.0.29 |
| 25685 | Debug Bar Roles and Capabilities | 1908 | 20 | 5 | 3.9.30 |
| 25772 | Debug Media | 1895 | 80 | 5 | 4.7.0 |
| 25805 | Debug Bar Localization | 1890 | 40 | 5 | 4.5.13 |
| 25825 | Regenerate Thumbnails HTML | 1887 | 100 | 5 | 4.7.16 |
| 26047 | Checking Variables (Dev. Tool) | 1850 | 40 | 4 | 4.4.21 |
| 26216 | DP Debug Menu | 1825 | 100 | 5 | 4.9.13 |
| 26417 | Debug Bar Plugin Activation | 1792 | 20 | 0 | 4.5.13 |
| 26748 | Query Monitor bbPress & BuddyPress Conditionals | 1745 | 20 | 5 | 4.5.13 |
| 27160 | WP Development Utilities | 1686 | 0 | 0 | 2.6.3 |
| 27275 | WP Cron HTTP Auth | 1674 | 100 | 5 | 5.3.2 |
| 27332 | WPDelayCron | 1667 | 200 | 5 | 4.5.13 |
| 27616 | Cron Logger | 1633 | 300 | 5 | 5.2.5 |
| 27949 | Debug Bar Widgets | 1591 | 10 | 0 | 5.3.2 |
| 28035 | Cron Debug Log | 1579 | 10 | 0 | 3.5.2 |
| 28100 | SM Debug Bar | 1570 | 10 | 0 | 3.3.2 |
| 28117 | MultiSite System Cron | 1568 | 10 | 5 | 4.2.26 |
| 29059 | Buddypress Pagetrace | 1458 | 0 | 0 | 3.1.4 |
| 29122 | Database Debugging Tools for Developers | 1452 | 10 | 5 | 4.7.16 |
| 29129 | oik bwtrace | 1451 | 30 | 5 | 5.3.0 |
| 29349 | Debug Bar Custom Info | 1429 | 40 | 5 | 3.9.30 |
| 29727 | Admin’s Debug Tool | 1388 | 10 | 0 | 4.2.26 |
| 29814 | Cron Tasks Viewer | 1379 | 100 | 5 | 4.0.29 |
| 29832 | DT’s Debugger | 1376 | 100 | 0 | 5.3.2 |
| 30258 | debugWP | 1331 | 10 | 5 | 3.5.2 |
| 30443 | Local Development | 1311 | 0 | 5 | 5.4 |
| 30894 | SetCron | 1267 | 0 | 5 | 4.2.x |
| 31243 | Theme Development Preview | 1235 | 40 | 3 | 4.5.13 |
| 31858 | Simple Debug Info Panel | 1180 | 80 | 5 | 4.6.17 |
| 31934 | Acronym Manager | 1173 | 10 | 5 | 3.2.1 |
| 32227 | Formitable Development Kit | 1147 | 400 | 5 | 5.2.5 |
| 32576 | Cron Unsticky Posts | 1118 | 10 | 0 | 2.8 |
| 32587 | WP Simple Debug | 1117 | 90 | 5 | 4.4.21 |
| 32901 | Debugging Translation | 1093 | 0 | 0 | 3.2.1 |
| 34027 | Easy Debug Info | 1008 | 20 | 5 | 4.0.29 |
| 34579 | Development Debug Backtraces | 970 | 0 | 0 | 4.2.26 |
| 34903 | Debug Bar Toggle | 949 | 10 | 5 | 3.5.2 |
| 35400 | Disable WP_DEBUG | 913 | 10 | 1 | 3.6.1 |
| 35466 | Development Mode for Jetpack | 908 | 40 | 0 | 4.8.12 |
| 35541 | Pretty Debug | 904 | 10 | 5 | 3.5.2 |
| 35583 | Debug Tool | 901 | 40 | 0 | 4.9.13 |
| 35621 | Development Notice | 899 | 0 | 0 | 2.8 |
| 36082 | nostraCon WP Debug | 871 | 10 | 0 | 4.7.16 |
| 36103 | Debug tools | 870 | 10 | 5 | 3.7.28 |
| 36181 | Frontend Debugger | 865 | 0 | 5 | 4.3.22 |
| 36488 | Clear Debug.log Cron | 847 | 100 | 0 | 3.5.2 |
| 37369 | Debug Bar Tracer | 798 | 0 | 0 | 3.9.30 |
| 37850 | Manual cron | 773 | 10 | 0 | 4.4.21 |
| 37894 | Development Environment | 770 | 0 | 5 | 5.0.8 |
| 37926 | DeMomentSomTres Debug | 768 | 0 | 0 | 5.1.4 |
| 37969 | Development Environment Notification | 766 | 10 | 5 | 3.9.30 |
| 38205 | wolkenkraft.com Krumo Debug Plugin | 755 | 10 | 0 | 3.7.32 |
| 38369 | Cronycle Content | 746 | 10 | 0 | 5.3.2 |
| 38528 | Debug Notifier | 739 | 0 | 0 | 3.4.2 |
| 38657 | SO Turn On Debug | 733 | 20 | 0 | 5.2.5 |
| 38726 | Debug Log Parser | 730 | 10 | 3 | 3.9.30 |
| 38988 | Scripts Styles Debug Bar | 717 | 10 | 0 | 4.1.29 |
| 39079 | KB_DEBUG | 713 | 0 | 0 | 3.2.1 |
| 39549 | Mail Debug for WooCommerce | 692 | 100 | 5 | 5.3.2 |
| 39612 | TIVWP-DM Development Manager | 689 | 10 | 0 | 4.0.29 |
| 39615 | IDS View | 689 | 0 | 0 | 4.2.26 |
| 39642 | Untrace Derferreing Service | 687 | 0 | 0 | 3.6.1 |
| 39696 | Debug My Site | 685 | 30 | 5 | 5.1.4 |
| 39960 | Debuggify | 672 | 0 | 5 | 3.5.2 |
| 40150 | WP Cron Pixie | 663 | 10 | 5 | 5.3.2 |
| 40427 | WP Live Debug | 651 | 10 | 0 | 4.9.13 |
| 40950 | Xdebug Output Handler | 629 | 0 | 0 | 3.5-alpha-21751 |
| 41484 | WP Cron Viewer and Manager | 606 | 10 | 0 | 4.9.13 |
| 41495 | JK Development Console | 606 | 10 | 5 | 4.0.29 |
| 41965 | UM User Switching | 586 | 0 | 0 | 4.9.13 |
| 43240 | Taylor’s Debug Toggle | 533 | 10 | 1 | 4.1.29 |
| 43484 | WPMS Cron List | 523 | 0 | 0 | 4.1.29 |
| 43801 | YYDevelopment SEO Keywords Data | 509 | 10 | 0 | 5.3.2 |
| 44139 | DeMomentSomTres Debug Text Domain | 494 | 0 | 5 | 5.1.4 |
| 44271 | Disable Admin WP Cron Notice For UpdraftPlus | 489 | 30 | 0 | 4.9.13 |
| 44272 | User Switching Front | 489 | 20 | 0 | 4.7.16 |
| 44371 | Arrested Development | 485 | 0 | 0 | 4.1.29 |
| 44648 | Debug Status Display Footer | 474 | 70 | 5 | 5.2.5 |
| 45134 | Template File Name Debugger | 453 | 0 | 0 | 4.3.22 |
| 45243 | Spot view Cron Job | 449 | 10 | 5 | |
| 45268 | Apermo Xdebug | 448 | 0 | 5 | 4.9.13 |
| 45348 | Debug User/Post/Options Meta Data | 444 | 10 | 5 | 4.5.13 |
| 45458 | Consolari Debug Logger | 440 | 0 | 0 | 4.1.29 |
| 45559 | Ultimate DebugBar | 435 | 10 | 5 | 5.2.5 |
| 45609 | Comments Alert Notification | 433 | 0 | 0 | 5.3.2 |
| 46210 | StaticPress Auto Builder | 410 | 10 | 0 | 4.9.13 |
| 47137 | Admin Enable Debug DZS | 376 | 10 | 5 | |
| 47167 | G Debugger | 375 | 0 | 5 | 5.0.8 |
| 47272 | Debug Editor | 372 | 0 | 0 | 5.3.2 |
| 47366 | Mc Lennan Design & Development WOICT Event Search by date Widget | 369 | 0 | 5 | 3.5.2 |
| 47498 | Debug with TogetherJS | 364 | 0 | 0 | 4.5.13 |
| 47679 | WP Cron per Action | 356 | 10 | 0 | 4.6.17 |
| 47811 | SEO Debug Bar | 352 | 0 | 5 | 4.8.12 |
| 47869 | Cron Jobs | 350 | 20 | 5 | 5.3.2 |
| 48100 | Cron Tasks Viewer | 342 | 20 | 0 | 5.2.5 |
| 48469 | Debug Assistant | 329 | 10 | 0 | 5.1.4 |
| 49055 | Change WP Cron Request URL | 308 | 0 | 0 | 5.2.5 |
| 50228 | Development Mode | 268 | 0 | 0 | 4.7.16 |
| 50832 | Find Slow Functions & Actions & Filters & Hooks | 244 | 0 | 5 | 5.3.2 |
| 50895 | Debug Log List | 241 | 0 | 0 | 5.3.2 |
| 51210 | Wp Debug Log Plus | 230 | 0 | 0 | 4.9.13 |
| 51377 | Query Monitor GiveWP | 224 | 0 | 0 | 4.9.13 |
| 52389 | YYDevelopment Related Posts | 186 | 0 | 0 | 5.3.2 |
| 52399 | Debugly | 185 | 0 | 0 | 4.9.13 |
| 52563 | What The Cron | 179 | 0 | 0 | 5.3.2 |
| 53073 | Get URL Cron | 157 | 20 | 0 | 5.3.2 |
| 200 | TOTALS | 23118339 |