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: 59457
Limit reached: 200 at 47889
| Position | Plugin | Total downloads | Active | Star Rating | Tested up to |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 51 | Regenerate Thumbnails | 18215206 | 1000000 | 4.6 | 5.7.5 |
| 181 | Query Monitor | 4076330 | 100000 | 4.9 | 5.9 |
| 247 | Force Regenerate Thumbnails | 2972570 | 500000 | 4.7 | 4.0.34 |
| 303 | User Switching | 2468199 | 200000 | 4.9 | 5.9 |
| 329 | WP Crontrol | 2201967 | 200000 | 4.9 | 5.9 |
| 589 | Debug Bar | 1121423 | 30000 | 4.2 | 5.5.8 |
| 802 | Regenerate Thumbnails Advanced | 788716 | 100000 | 3.9 | 5.9 |
| 1323 | Advanced Cron Manager | 367870 | 30000 | 4.7 | 5.9 |
| 2108 | Debug Bar Console | 188390 | 2000 | 5 | 3.4.2 |
| 2464 | Debug Bar Extender | 147961 | 1000 | 4.6 | 3.2.1 |
| 2698 | OTF Regenerate Thumbnails | 127609 | 10000 | 4.6 | 4.1.34 |
| 2774 | Debug This | 122316 | 5000 | 4.8 | 5.9 |
| 2827 | WP Debugging | 118133 | 5000 | 5 | 5.9 |
| 3120 | Debug Bar Cron | 100712 | 1000 | 5 | trunk |
| 3502 | Debug Objects | 82875 | 400 | 4.7 | 4.9.19 |
| 3608 | WP-Cron Control | 78862 | 5000 | 3.5 | 4.8.18 |
| 3643 | Debug Bar ElasticPress | 77679 | 800 | 5 | 5.8.3 |
| 3803 | Debug Info | 72673 | 7000 | 5 | 5.8.3 |
| 4020 | Debug Bar Actions and Filters Addon | 67815 | 800 | 4.5 | 4.8.18 |
| 4104 | Debug | 65507 | 3000 | 4.6 | 5.7.5 |
| 4327 | An Official TraceMyIP Tracker with email alerts | 60687 | 2000 | 4.9 | 5.9 |
| 4342 | Cron GUI | 60465 | 2000 | 4.6 | 3.3.2 |
| 4642 | WP-Cron Status Checker | 53697 | 5000 | 4.3 | 5.8.3 |
| 4751 | YYDevelopment – Tag Manager – Header Body And Footer | 51432 | 10000 | 4.9 | 5.9 |
| 4777 | Debug Queries | 50973 | 30 | 3.8 | 4.3.27 |
| 5031 | ONet Regenerate Thumbnails | 47144 | 4000 | 4.5 | 4.5.25 |
| 5277 | Timber Debug Bar | 44025 | 1000 | 0 | 5.8.3 |
| 5304 | Debug Bar Slow Actions | 43733 | 500 | 4.8 | 4.9.19 |
| 5944 | Cronjob Scheduler | 36161 | 2000 | 4.4 | 5.4.9 |
| 5982 | User Switching in Admin Bar | 35773 | 3000 | 4.9 | 5.9 |
| 6431 | Debug Bar Rewrite Rules | 31539 | 1000 | 5 | 5.7.0 |
| 6635 | Crony Cronjob Manager | 29921 | 1000 | 4.3 | 5.7.5 |
| 6835 | Kint Debugger | 28529 | 2000 | 4.8 | 5.0.15 |
| 7137 | Debug Bar List Script & Style Dependencies | 26556 | 500 | 5 | 4.7.22 |
| 7431 | YYDevelopment – Show Pages ID | 24718 | 6000 | 5 | 5.9 |
| 7525 | Debug Bar Post Types | 24076 | 100 | 4 | 4.9.19 |
| 7832 | Debug Bar Constants | 22541 | 100 | 5 | 4.9.19 |
| 7912 | Template Debugger | 22072 | 2000 | 5 | 5.4.9 |
| 8089 | Debug Bar Transients | 21257 | 100 | 5 | 4.7.22 |
| 8595 | WP-Cron Dashboard | 19077 | 900 | 0 | 4.1.34 |
| 8879 | BlackBox | 18053 | 100 | 4.6 | 3.5.2 |
| 8928 | Debug Bar Shortcodes | 17898 | 100 | 5 | 4.4.26 |
| 10509 | Debug Bar Remote Requests | 13274 | 80 | 5 | 3.9.35 |
| 10788 | Fast User Switching | 12693 | 3000 | 4.5 | 5.5.8 |
| 11419 | utopia38/U-CRON – Easy Pseudo Cron Jobbys for WordPress | 11466 | 60 | 0 | 2.5 |
| 11821 | Debug Bar – Enable WP_DEBUG from admin dashboard | 10729 | 600 | 1.8 | 5.8.3 |
| 12411 | EasyCron | 9858 | 300 | 5 | 5.5.8 |
| 12722 | Kint PHP Debugger | 9390 | 300 | 5 | 5.1.12 |
| 12944 | Cron Logger | 9099 | 1000 | 4.7 | 5.8.3 |
| 12974 | WP Cron HTTP Auth | 9055 | 600 | 5 | 5.9 |
| 13126 | WPX Cron Manager Light | 8880 | 200 | 4 | 5.8.3 |
| 13370 | WP Cron Cleaner | 8568 | 500 | 3.4 | 5.8.3 |
| 14032 | Debug Bar Rewrite rules | 7851 | 100 | 0 | 5.0.15 |
| 14565 | Improved Cron | 7347 | 400 | 4.3 | 4.3.27 |
| 14567 | Debug “unexpected output” During Plugin Activation | 7344 | 50 | 5 | 3.6.1 |
| 15070 | Cron Jobs | 6887 | 800 | 5 | 5.7.5 |
| 15382 | FFF Cron Manager | 6633 | 300 | 4.4 | 3.5.2 |
| 16679 | Debug Toolkit | 5690 | 100 | 5 | 5.1.12 |
| 16708 | YYDevelopment – Advanced 301 and 302 Redirect | 5673 | 700 | 5 | 5.9 |
| 16835 | wp pear debug | 5595 | 10 | 0 | 4.3.27 |
| 16984 | amr cron manager | 5491 | 500 | 5 | 5.5.8 |
| 17059 | Debug Bar Taxonomies | 5448 | 70 | 0 | 4.9.19 |
| 17257 | Run External Crons | 5319 | 300 | 5 | 3.4.2 |
| 17722 | WordPress Debug | 5041 | 20 | 0 | 4.4.26 |
| 17763 | AsynCRONous bbPress Subscriptions | 5019 | 200 | 5 | 5.4.9 |
| 17779 | Debug Bar Screen Info | 5009 | 50 | 5 | 4.5.25 |
| 17784 | Debug wp_redirect() | 5008 | 100 | 4.8 | 5.7.5 |
| 18062 | YYDevelopment – Fast Whatsapp Chat Button | 4858 | 1000 | 5 | 5.9 |
| 18075 | TFS Acronymit | 4854 | 0 | 4.5 | 4.3.27 |
| 18383 | Formitable Development Kit | 4688 | 1000 | 5 | 5.6.7 |
| 18619 | Debug Bar Post Meta | 4582 | 40 | 5 | 3.4.2 |
| 19032 | Development Theme 2 | 4398 | 80 | 3.2 | 3.7.37 |
| 19042 | 4392 | 0 | 0 | 2.9.2 | |
| 19080 | BugFu Console Debugger | 4370 | 300 | 5 | 5.8.3 |
| 19242 | Debug MO Translations | 4296 | 10 | 5 | 5.8.3 |
| 19283 | Regenerate Thumbnails Reminder | 4284 | 70 | 5 | 4.0.34 |
| 19382 | WP Mail Debugger | 4249 | 400 | 5 | 5.7.5 |
| 19431 | Get URL Cron | 4229 | 700 | 5 | 5.9 |
| 19660 | WooCommerce Debug Bar | 4126 | 30 | 1 | 3.4.2 |
| 19976 | Debug Bar Post Meta | 4008 | 50 | 5 | 5.5.8 |
| 20012 | Debug Meta Data | 3993 | 90 | 5 | 5.4.0 |
| 20484 | Debug Bar Query Tracer | 3822 | 10 | 1 | 3.2.1 |
| 21276 | Debug Bar Super Globals | 3546 | 40 | 5 | 3.4.2 |
| 21370 | Mail Debug | 3514 | 10 | 0 | 2.7.1 |
| 21654 | Query monitor Twig profile | 3415 | 60 | 0 | 5.9.0 |
| 21667 | Local Development | 3412 | 100 | 5 | 5.8.3 |
| 21735 | Acronyms 2 | 3393 | 100 | 4.6 | 5.6.7 |
| 21837 | Debug Elementor | 3357 | 100 | 5 | 5.2.14 |
| 22126 | Surbma | Jetpack Offline Mode | 3268 | 100 | 4 | 5.8.3 |
| 22248 | Cron Developers Demo | 3234 | 10 | 0 | |
| 22266 | Debugger Plugin | 3228 | 20 | 4.5 | 3.6.1 |
| 22400 | Mail Debug for WooCommerce | 3190 | 300 | 5 | 5.7.5 |
| 22486 | Simple Debug | 3166 | 10 | 3.7 | 3.5.2 |
| 22518 | Comment Location Tracker | 3159 | 60 | 0 | 3.5.2 |
| 22810 | WP Debug Logger | 3075 | 10 | 0 | 4.7.22 |
| 22949 | Debug Media | 3039 | 60 | 5 | 4.7.0 |
| 22962 | Debug Bar Cache Lookup | 3036 | 10 | 3 | 4.5.25 |
| 23165 | Debug Bar – Sidebars & Widgets | 2988 | 10 | 0 | 3.9.35 |
| 23181 | Debug Bar bbPress | 2984 | 10 | 5 | 3.5.2 |
| 23406 | Hit an External Cron | 2930 | 10 | 0 | 4.6-alpha |
| 23482 | Debug Bar Roles and Capabilities | 2910 | 20 | 5 | 3.9.35 |
| 23872 | WP E-Mail Debug | 2820 | 50 | 5 | 4.3.27 |
| 24004 | Debug Bar Localization | 2794 | 30 | 5 | 4.5.25 |
| 24457 | Simple Cron | 2690 | 30 | 2.3 | 3.5.2 |
| 24587 | oik bwtrace | 2665 | 40 | 5 | 5.8.3 |
| 24634 | Debug Bar Query Count Alert | 2650 | 10 | 5 | 3.7.37 |
| 25153 | Debug Bar Hook Log | 2536 | 10 | 4 | 4.0.34 |
| 25390 | Debug Log | 2489 | 300 | 5 | 4.5.25 |
| 25508 | Debug Bar Plugin Activation | 2471 | 20 | 5 | 4.5.25 |
| 25631 | Scrape and Debug | 2450 | 100 | 0 | 5.8.3 |
| 25679 | DebugPress | 2441 | 70 | 5 | 5.9 |
| 25869 | Debug Robot | 2407 | 10 | 0 | 3.4.2 |
| 25886 | DP Debug Menu | 2405 | 200 | 5 | 5.6.7 |
| 26224 | YYDevelopment – Show Pages URL List | 2342 | 300 | 3.3 | 5.9 |
| 26286 | Regenerate Thumbnails HTML | 2332 | 50 | 5 | 4.7.22 |
| 26533 | Debug Bar Widgets | 2288 | 20 | 0 | 5.9 |
| 26544 | Checking Variables (Dev. Tool) | 2286 | 20 | 4 | 4.4.26 |
| 26891 | Query Monitor bbPress & BuddyPress Conditionals | 2225 | 20 | 5 | 4.5.25 |
| 27580 | Disable Admin WP Cron Notice For UpdraftPlus | 2114 | 100 | 0 | 5.9 |
| 27945 | Debug Bar Custom Info | 2052 | 30 | 5 | 3.9.35 |
| 27981 | WPDelayCron | 2045 | 100 | 5 | 4.5.25 |
| 28027 | Find Slow Functions & Actions & Filters & Hooks | 2037 | 0 | 3.6 | 5.8.3 |
| 28682 | YYDevelopment – Back To The Top Button | 1943 | 400 | 5 | 5.9 |
| 29273 | MultiSite System Cron | 1866 | 10 | 5 | 4.2.31 |
| 29719 | Cron Debug Log | 1804 | 10 | 0 | 3.5.2 |
| 29802 | WP Development Utilities | 1793 | 0 | 0 | 2.6.3 |
| 29870 | Cronycle Content | 1783 | 20 | 0 | 5.7.5 |
| 29939 | SM Debug Bar | 1774 | 10 | 0 | 3.3.2 |
| 30348 | Database Debugging Tools for Developers | 1722 | 10 | 5 | 4.7.22 |
| 30713 | Admin’s Debug Tool | 1678 | 10 | 0 | 4.2.31 |
| 30730 | Simple Debug Info Panel | 1676 | 80 | 5 | 5.7.5 |
| 30803 | Cron Tasks Viewer | 1668 | 100 | 5 | 4.0.34 |
| 31309 | Development Mode for Jetpack | 1605 | 50 | 0 | 5.5.8 |
| 31326 | Buddypress Pagetrace | 1604 | 0 | 0 | 3.1.4 |
| 31637 | debugWP | 1568 | 10 | 5 | 3.5.2 |
| 32067 | YYDevelopment – Portfolio Gallery | 1523 | 30 | 0 | 5.9 |
| 32192 | YYDevelopment – Advanced Related Posts | 1509 | 40 | 0 | 5.9 |
| 32468 | Acronym Manager | 1481 | 10 | 5 | 3.2.1 |
| 32788 | Theme Development Preview | 1447 | 20 | 3 | 4.5.25 |
| 33104 | YYDevelopment – Page & Post Notes | 1419 | 600 | 0 | 5.9 |
| 33822 | YYDevelopment – Subscribe To Comments Checkbox | 1347 | 80 | 5 | 5.9 |
| 34133 | YYDevelopment – SEO Keywords Data | 1321 | 50 | 5 | 5.9 |
| 35068 | Easy Debug Info | 1242 | 10 | 5 | 4.0.34 |
| 35370 | Debugging Translation | 1219 | 0 | 0 | 3.2.1 |
| 35397 | YYDevelopment – Accessibility | 1216 | 100 | 0 | 5.9 |
| 35460 | Attendance Register | 1211 | 60 | 5 | 5.8.3 |
| 35559 | Debug Tool | 1205 | 20 | 0 | 4.9.19 |
| 35679 | YYDevelopment – Phone Button | 1195 | 200 | 0 | 5.9 |
| 35782 | WP Cron Pixie | 1187 | 10 | 5 | 5.5.8 |
| 35900 | Debug Bar Toggle | 1179 | 10 | 5 | 3.5.2 |
| 36220 | Ultimate DebugBar | 1155 | 10 | 5 | 5.8.3 |
| 36933 | Pretty Debug | 1103 | 10 | 5 | 3.5.2 |
| 36993 | Development Debug Backtraces | 1099 | 0 | 0 | 4.2.31 |
| 37078 | Clear Debug.log Cron | 1093 | 100 | 0 | 3.5.2 |
| 37179 | G Debugger | 1086 | 0 | 5 | 5.0.15 |
| 37474 | YYDevelopment – Comments Alert Notification | 1068 | 30 | 0 | 5.9 |
| 37978 | Manual cron | 1038 | 10 | 0 | 4.4.26 |
| 37982 | Development Environment | 1037 | 0 | 5 | 5.0.15 |
| 37987 | Frontend Debugger | 1037 | 0 | 5 | 4.3.27 |
| 38053 | Debug Bar Tracer | 1033 | 0 | 0 | 3.9.35 |
| 38338 | Debug tools | 1013 | 10 | 5 | 3.7.37 |
| 38343 | Development Notice | 1013 | 0 | 0 | 2.8 |
| 38392 | YYDevelopment – Mobile Contact Line | 1009 | 200 | 0 | 5.9 |
| 38712 | Admin Enable Debug DZS | 990 | 80 | 5 | 4.9.19 |
| 39028 | Development Environment Notification | 973 | 10 | 5 | 3.9.35 |
| 39471 | wolkenkraft.com Krumo Debug Plugin | 947 | 10 | 0 | 3.7.37 |
| 39499 | WP Live Debug | 945 | 10 | 0 | 4.9.19 |
| 39718 | Scripts Styles Debug Bar | 933 | 10 | 0 | 4.1.34 |
| 39719 | Debug Log Parser | 933 | 10 | 3 | 3.9.35 |
| 39823 | UM User Switching | 927 | 10 | 0 | 4.9.19 |
| 39957 | DeMomentSomTres Debug | 920 | 0 | 0 | 5.1.12 |
| 40243 | Apermo Xdebug | 904 | 0 | 5 | 4.9.19 |
| 40415 | TIVWP-DM Development Manager | 896 | 10 | 0 | 4.0.34 |
| 40530 | Attrace | 889 | 10 | 0 | 5.5.8 |
| 40758 | debug-printr | 878 | 10 | 0 | 5.7.5 |
| 40858 | Octrace Support | 873 | 30 | 5 | 5.7.5 |
| 41071 | IDS View | 863 | 0 | 0 | 4.2.31 |
| 41398 | KB_DEBUG | 847 | 0 | 0 | 3.2.1 |
| 41521 | Untrace Derferreing Service | 840 | 0 | 0 | 3.6.1 |
| 41691 | Debug Status Display Footer | 831 | 70 | 5 | 5.8.3 |
| 42024 | JK Development Console | 816 | 10 | 5 | 4.0.34 |
| 42514 | WP Cron Viewer and Manager | 793 | 10 | 0 | 4.9.19 |
| 42655 | Change WP Cron Request URL | 785 | 10 | 0 | 5.5.8 |
| 43212 | Xdebug Output Handler | 760 | 0 | 0 | 3.5-alpha-21751 |
| 43287 | Debug Assistant | 756 | 80 | 0 | 5.1.12 |
| 43759 | Cron Tasks Viewer | 734 | 40 | 0 | 5.2.14 |
| 43814 | Taylor’s Debug Toggle | 732 | 10 | 1 | 4.1.34 |
| 45351 | StaticPress Auto Builder | 665 | 10 | 0 | 4.9.19 |
| 45796 | Template File Name Debugger | 646 | 0 | 0 | 4.3.27 |
| 45982 | DeMomentSomTres Debug Text Domain | 639 | 0 | 5 | 5.1.12 |
| 45994 | retraced | 638 | 0 | 0 | 5.6.7 |
| 46033 | Arrested Development | 637 | 0 | 0 | 4.1.34 |
| 46175 | WPMS Cron List | 631 | 0 | 0 | 4.1.34 |
| 46226 | Debug User/Post/Options Meta Data | 629 | 10 | 5 | 4.5.25 |
| 46356 | Spot view Cron Job | 624 | 10 | 5 | |
| 46511 | Debug Editor | 617 | 10 | 0 | 5.3.11 |
| 47153 | Consolari Debug Logger | 591 | 0 | 0 | 4.1.34 |
| 47212 | SEO Debug Bar | 588 | 0 | 5 | 4.8.18 |
| 47822 | Query Monitor GiveWP | 563 | 0 | 0 | 4.9.19 |
| 47889 | WP Cron per Action | 560 | 10 | 0 | 4.6.22 |
| 200 | TOTALS | 34686801 |