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: 60059
Limit reached: 200 at 47650
| Position | Plugin | Total downloads | Active | Star Rating | Tested up to |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 60 | Regenerate Thumbnails | 19016475 | 1000000 | 4.6 | 5.7.8 |
| 166 | Query Monitor | 5332375 | 100000 | 4.9 | 6.0.3 |
| 275 | Force Regenerate Thumbnails | 3202759 | 400000 | 4.7 | 6.1 |
| 308 | User Switching | 2922650 | 200000 | 4.9 | 6.0.3 |
| 319 | WP Crontrol | 2768916 | 200000 | 4.5 | 6.0.3 |
| 605 | Debug Bar | 1246896 | 30000 | 4.2 | 6.1 |
| 811 | Regenerate Thumbnails Advanced | 858165 | 100000 | 3.8 | 6.1 |
| 1076 | Debug Bar ElasticPress | 557344 | 800 | 5 | 6.0.3 |
| 1318 | Advanced Cron Manager | 411854 | 30000 | 4.7 | 6.0.3 |
| 2196 | Debug Bar Console | 192152 | 2000 | 5 | 3.4.2 |
| 2346 | WP Debugging | 172352 | 7000 | 5 | 6.0.3 |
| 2563 | Debug Bar Extender | 150293 | 1000 | 4.6 | 3.2.1 |
| 2739 | OTF Regenerate Thumbnails | 133651 | 10000 | 4.6 | 4.1.37 |
| 2775 | Debug This | 130245 | 4000 | 4.8 | 6.1 |
| 3101 | Debug Bar Cron | 107632 | 1000 | 5 | trunk |
| 3725 | Debug Info | 80490 | 7000 | 5 | 5.8.6 |
| 3730 | WP-Cron Control | 80356 | 4000 | 3.5 | 4.8.21 |
| 3778 | YYDevelopment – Tag Manager – Header Body And Footer | 78919 | 20000 | 4.8 | 6.0.3 |
| 3808 | Debug Bar Actions and Filters Addon | 77695 | 800 | 4.5 | 6.0.3 |
| 3974 | Debug | 73352 | 3000 | 4.6 | 6.0.3 |
| 4008 | An Official TraceMyIP Tracker with email alerts | 72433 | 2000 | 4.5 | 6.1 |
| 4242 | WP-Cron Status Checker | 66069 | 5000 | 4.3 | 6.0.3 |
| 4429 | Cron GUI | 61641 | 1000 | 4.6 | 3.3.2 |
| 4930 | Debug Queries | 51318 | 30 | 3.8 | 4.3.30 |
| 4971 | Timber Debug Bar | 50737 | 1000 | 0 | 5.8.6 |
| 4995 | Debug Bar Slow Actions | 50382 | 400 | 4.8 | 4.9.22 |
| 5182 | ONet Regenerate Thumbnails | 47598 | 3000 | 4.5 | 4.5.28 |
| 5748 | User Switching in Admin Bar | 40090 | 3000 | 4.9 | 6.0.3 |
| 5989 | Cronjob Scheduler | 37468 | 2000 | 4.4 | 5.4.12 |
| 6165 | Debug Bar Rewrite Rules | 35890 | 1000 | 5 | 5.7.0 |
| 6296 | YYDevelopment – Show Pages ID | 34595 | 8000 | 5 | 6.0.3 |
| 6494 | Crony Cronjob Manager | 32574 | 1000 | 4.3 | 5.9.5 |
| 6835 | Kint Debugger | 29943 | 2000 | 4.8 | 5.0.18 |
| 6836 | Debug Bar List Script & Style Dependencies | 29916 | 500 | 5 | 4.7.25 |
| 7208 | Debug Bar Post Types | 27199 | 100 | 4 | 4.9.22 |
| 7406 | Debug Bar Constants | 25878 | 90 | 5 | 4.9.22 |
| 7874 | Debug Bar Transients | 23191 | 100 | 5 | 4.7.25 |
| 7898 | Template Debugger | 23096 | 2000 | 5 | 5.4.12 |
| 8295 | Debug Bar Shortcodes | 21096 | 100 | 5 | 4.4.29 |
| 9014 | Debug Bar Remote Requests | 18290 | 70 | 5 | 3.9.39 |
| 9032 | BlackBox | 18240 | 100 | 4.6 | 3.5.2 |
| 10444 | Fast User Switching | 13912 | 3000 | 4.1 | 5.5.11 |
| 10817 | WP Cron HTTP Auth | 13109 | 800 | 5 | 6.1 |
| 11425 | Cron Logger | 11863 | 1000 | 4.6 | 5.8.6 |
| 11449 | Debug Bar – Enable WP_DEBUG from admin dashboard | 11823 | 500 | 1.8 | 6.0.3 |
| 11589 | utopia38/U-CRON – Easy Pseudo Cron Jobbys for WordPress | 11543 | 50 | 0 | 2.5 |
| 12293 | EasyCron | 10380 | 300 | 5 | 5.5.11 |
| 12441 | WP Cron Cleaner | 10166 | 500 | 3.4 | 6.1 |
| 12491 | Cron Jobs | 10104 | 1000 | 5 | 5.9.5 |
| 12608 | Kint PHP Debugger | 9921 | 300 | 5 | 5.1.15 |
| 13143 | WPX Cron Manager Light | 9164 | 100 | 4 | 5.8.6 |
| 13746 | Debug Bar Rewrite rules | 8434 | 100 | 0 | 5.0.18 |
| 13864 | Query monitor Twig profile | 8296 | 60 | 0 | 6.0.0 |
| 13894 | YYDevelopment – Advanced 301 and 302 Redirect | 8266 | 900 | 5 | 6.0.3 |
| 14445 | Get URL Cron | 7758 | 1000 | 5 | 6.1 |
| 14570 | Improved Cron | 7645 | 300 | 4.3 | 4.3.30 |
| 14624 | Debug “unexpected output” During Plugin Activation | 7587 | 50 | 5 | 3.6.1 |
| 15513 | FFF Cron Manager | 6820 | 300 | 4.4 | 3.5.2 |
| 15639 | YYDevelopment – Fast Whatsapp Chat Button | 6706 | 1000 | 5 | 6.0.3 |
| 15858 | Debug Toolkit | 6528 | 100 | 5 | 5.1.15 |
| 15924 | Debug wp_redirect() | 6481 | 100 | 4.8 | 6.1 |
| 16489 | WordPress Debug | 6054 | 10 | 0 | 4.4.29 |
| 16673 | amr cron manager | 5921 | 500 | 5 | 5.5.11 |
| 16932 | Debug Bar Taxonomies | 5745 | 50 | 0 | 4.9.22 |
| 17016 | wp pear debug | 5695 | 10 | 0 | 4.3.30 |
| 17131 | Formitable Development Kit | 5634 | 1000 | 5 | 5.6.10 |
| 17458 | Run External Crons | 5440 | 200 | 5 | 3.4.2 |
| 17787 | AsynCRONous bbPress Subscriptions | 5250 | 200 | 5 | 5.4.12 |
| 17902 | Debug Bar Screen Info | 5187 | 40 | 5 | 4.5.28 |
| 18109 | BugFu Console Debugger | 5080 | 400 | 5 | 5.8.6 |
| 18199 | WP Mail Debugger | 5033 | 500 | 5 | 5.7.8 |
| 18388 | TFS Acronymit | 4933 | 0 | 4.5 | 4.3.30 |
| 18389 | TFS Acronymit | 4933 | 0 | 4.5 | 4.3.30 |
| 18650 | Debug MO Translations | 4795 | 10 | 5 | 6.1 |
| 18775 | Debug Bar Post Meta | 4737 | 20 | 5 | 3.4.2 |
| 19210 | 4535 | 0 | 0 | 2.9.2 | |
| 19338 | Development Theme 2 | 4486 | 70 | 3.2 | 3.7.40 |
| 19608 | Regenerate Thumbnails Reminder | 4372 | 60 | 5 | 4.0.37 |
| 19625 | YYDevelopment – Back To The Top Button | 4364 | 900 | 5 | 6.0.3 |
| 19740 | Acronyms 2 | 4317 | 200 | 4.6 | 6.0.3 |
| 19745 | Local Development | 4312 | 100 | 5 | 6.0.3 |
| 19768 | Debug Bar Post Meta | 4305 | 40 | 5 | 5.5.11 |
| 19819 | Debug Meta Data | 4281 | 100 | 5 | 5.4.0 |
| 19820 | WooCommerce Debug Bar | 4281 | 20 | 1 | 3.4.2 |
| 20763 | Debug Bar Query Tracer | 3921 | 10 | 1 | 3.2.1 |
| 21224 | YYDevelopment – Show Pages URL List | 3767 | 600 | 3.3 | 6.0.3 |
| 21236 | Debug Log – Config Tool | 3763 | 700 | 5 | 6.0.3 |
| 21500 | Mail Debug for WooCommerce | 3679 | 300 | 5 | 5.7.8 |
| 21532 | Debug Bar Super Globals | 3667 | 30 | 5 | 3.4.2 |
| 21716 | DebugPress | 3613 | 100 | 5 | 6.0.3 |
| 21736 | Debug Bar Cache Lookup | 3607 | 10 | 3 | 4.5.28 |
| 21781 | Mail Debug | 3591 | 10 | 0 | 2.7.1 |
| 21851 | Debug Elementor | 3566 | 100 | 5 | 5.2.17 |
| 21872 | WP Debug Logger | 3560 | 10 | 0 | 4.7.25 |
| 21925 | Surbma | Jetpack Offline Mode | 3544 | 100 | 4 | 5.8.6 |
| 22408 | Debugger Plugin | 3393 | 20 | 4.5 | 3.6.1 |
| 22594 | Debug Bar bbPress | 3336 | 10 | 5 | 3.5.2 |
| 22679 | Cron Developers Demo | 3311 | 10 | 0 | |
| 22853 | WP E-Mail Debug | 3259 | 40 | 5 | 4.3.30 |
| 22860 | Comment Location Tracker | 3258 | 50 | 0 | 3.5.2 |
| 22924 | Simple Debug | 3243 | 10 | 3.7 | 3.5.2 |
| 22965 | oik bwtrace | 3234 | 40 | 5 | 6.0.3 |
| 23058 | Debug Media | 3204 | 50 | 5 | 4.7.0 |
| 23245 | Debug Bar Roles and Capabilities | 3153 | 10 | 5 | 3.9.39 |
| 23302 | Cronycle Content | 3139 | 10 | 0 | 6.0.3 |
| 23423 | Debug Bar – Sidebars & Widgets | 3109 | 10 | 0 | 3.9.39 |
| 23473 | YYDevelopment – Page & Post Notes | 3098 | 1000 | 5 | 6.0.3 |
| 23492 | Hit an External Cron | 3095 | 10 | 0 | 4.6-alpha |
| 23771 | Debug Bar Localization | 3025 | 30 | 5 | 4.5.28 |
| 24144 | Disable Admin WP Cron Notice For UpdraftPlus | 2925 | 100 | 0 | 5.6.10 |
| 24846 | Simple Cron | 2767 | 20 | 2.3 | 3.5.2 |
| 24919 | Debug Bar Query Count Alert | 2749 | 10 | 5 | 3.7.40 |
| 25131 | Scrape and Debug | 2703 | 100 | 0 | 5.8.6 |
| 25296 | Debug Bar Hook Log | 2668 | 10 | 4 | 4.0.37 |
| 25404 | Debug Bar Plugin Activation | 2647 | 10 | 5 | 4.5.28 |
| 25605 | Find Slow Functions & Actions & Filters & Hooks | 2602 | 0 | 3.6 | 6.0.3 |
| 25620 | Debug Log | 2599 | 300 | 5 | 4.5.28 |
| 25834 | DP Debug Menu | 2559 | 200 | 5 | 5.6.10 |
| 26108 | Debug Bar Widgets | 2511 | 20 | 0 | 6.0.3 |
| 26291 | Regenerate Thumbnails HTML | 2475 | 60 | 5 | 4.7.25 |
| 26367 | Debug Robot | 2462 | 10 | 0 | 3.4.2 |
| 26782 | Checking Variables (Dev. Tool) | 2385 | 20 | 4 | 4.4.29 |
| 27059 | Query Monitor bbPress & BuddyPress Conditionals | 2335 | 20 | 5 | 4.5.28 |
| 27725 | YYDevelopment – Portfolio Gallery | 2228 | 30 | 0 | 6.0.3 |
| 27756 | Attendance Register | 2223 | 50 | 5 | 5.8.6 |
| 28025 | WPDelayCron | 2177 | 100 | 5 | 4.5.28 |
| 28194 | Debug Bar Custom Info | 2152 | 30 | 5 | 3.9.39 |
| 29119 | YYDevelopment – Accessibility | 2012 | 200 | 5 | 6.0.3 |
| 29612 | MultiSite System Cron | 1943 | 20 | 5 | 4.2.34 |
| 29922 | debug-printr | 1900 | 20 | 0 | 5.7.8 |
| 29983 | Cron Debug Log | 1893 | 10 | 0 | 3.5.2 |
| 30290 | SM Debug Bar | 1851 | 10 | 0 | 3.3.2 |
| 30399 | WP Development Utilities | 1837 | 0 | 0 | 2.6.3 |
| 30417 | Database Debugging Tools for Developers | 1834 | 10 | 5 | 4.7.25 |
| 30441 | Simple Debug Info Panel | 1831 | 70 | 5 | 5.7.8 |
| 30590 | Admin’s Debug Tool | 1811 | 10 | 0 | 4.2.34 |
| 30668 | YYDevelopment – Phone Button | 1802 | 300 | 0 | 6.0.3 |
| 30692 | Cron Tasks Viewer | 1800 | 90 | 5 | 4.0.37 |
| 30757 | Development Mode for Jetpack | 1792 | 40 | 0 | 5.5.11 |
| 30908 | YYDevelopment – Advanced Related Posts | 1774 | 60 | 0 | 6.0.3 |
| 31778 | debugWP | 1667 | 10 | 5 | 3.5.2 |
| 31810 | Admin Enable Debug DZS | 1663 | 200 | 5 | 4.9.22 |
| 31853 | Buddypress Pagetrace | 1659 | 0 | 0 | 3.1.4 |
| 32313 | YYDevelopment – SEO Keywords Data | 1610 | 70 | 5 | 6.0.3 |
| 32390 | YYDevelopment – Subscribe To Comments Checkbox | 1602 | 100 | 5 | 6.0.3 |
| 32490 | Acronym Manager | 1592 | 10 | 5 | 3.2.1 |
| 33138 | Theme Development Preview | 1524 | 20 | 3 | 4.5.28 |
| 33445 | YYDevelopment – Mobile Contact Line | 1496 | 300 | 5 | 6.0.3 |
| 33602 | Octrace Support Pro | 1481 | 50 | 5 | 5.9.5 |
| 34151 | Ultimate DebugBar | 1430 | 10 | 5 | 5.8.6 |
| 34337 | WP Cron Pixie | 1413 | 10 | 5 | 6.1 |
| 35301 | Easy Debug Info | 1330 | 10 | 5 | 4.0.37 |
| 35355 | Debug Tool | 1326 | 10 | 0 | 4.9.22 |
| 35539 | Advanced Cron Scheduler | 1312 | 40 | 5 | 6.1 |
| 36147 | Debugging Translation | 1263 | 0 | 0 | 3.2.1 |
| 36231 | Debug Bar Toggle | 1257 | 10 | 5 | 3.5.2 |
| 36317 | G Debugger | 1251 | 0 | 5 | 5.0.18 |
| 36523 | YYDevelopment – Comments Alert Notification | 1236 | 40 | 0 | 6.0.3 |
| 36787 | Development Environment | 1214 | 0 | 5 | 5.0.18 |
| 37235 | Pretty Debug | 1180 | 10 | 5 | 3.5.2 |
| 37373 | Clear Debug.log Cron | 1170 | 100 | 0 | 3.5.2 |
| 37711 | Debug Log Manager | 1147 | 100 | 5 | 6.0.3 |
| 37788 | Development Debug Backtraces | 1143 | 0 | 0 | 4.2.34 |
| 37855 | Manual cron | 1138 | 10 | 0 | 4.4.29 |
| 38138 | Debug Bar Tracer | 1121 | 0 | 0 | 3.9.39 |
| 38552 | Frontend Debugger | 1095 | 0 | 5 | 4.3.30 |
| 38806 | Debug tools | 1079 | 10 | 5 | 3.7.40 |
| 38934 | UM User Switching | 1070 | 10 | 0 | 4.9.22 |
| 38983 | Development Notice | 1068 | 0 | 0 | 2.8 |
| 39126 | Apermo Xdebug | 1058 | 0 | 5 | 4.9.22 |
| 39340 | WP Live Debug | 1044 | 10 | 0 | 4.9.22 |
| 39504 | wolkenkraft.com Krumo Debug Plugin | 1035 | 10 | 0 | 3.7.40 |
| 39631 | Development Environment Notification | 1028 | 10 | 5 | 3.9.39 |
| 39735 | Scripts Styles Debug Bar | 1022 | 10 | 0 | 4.1.37 |
| 39910 | Debug Status Display Footer | 1010 | 80 | 5 | 6.0.3 |
| 39918 | Debug Log Parser | 1010 | 10 | 3 | 3.9.39 |
| 40361 | DeMomentSomTres Debug | 986 | 0 | 0 | 5.1.15 |
| 40515 | Attrace | 977 | 10 | 0 | 5.5.11 |
| 40792 | TIVWP-DM Development Manager | 962 | 10 | 0 | 4.0.37 |
| 40802 | Change WP Cron Request URL | 961 | 20 | 0 | 5.5.11 |
| 41124 | Cron Tasks Viewer | 943 | 50 | 0 | 6.0.3 |
| 41746 | Debug Assistant | 910 | 80 | 0 | 6.0.3 |
| 41822 | IDS View | 907 | 0 | 0 | 4.2.34 |
| 42300 | Untrace Derferreing Service | 884 | 0 | 0 | 3.6.1 |
| 42352 | JK Development Console | 882 | 10 | 5 | 4.0.37 |
| 42392 | KB_DEBUG | 880 | 0 | 0 | 3.2.1 |
| 43030 | WP Cron Viewer and Manager | 849 | 10 | 0 | 4.9.22 |
| 43902 | Xdebug Output Handler | 804 | 10 | 0 | 3.5-alpha-21751 |
| 44269 | Taylor’s Debug Toggle | 787 | 10 | 1 | 4.1.37 |
| 44733 | KL Debug | 765 | 10 | 5 | 6.0.3 |
| 44762 | StaticPress Auto Builder | 764 | 10 | 0 | 4.9.22 |
| 46096 | Debug Editor | 705 | 10 | 0 | 5.3.14 |
| 46356 | DeMomentSomTres Debug Text Domain | 694 | 0 | 5 | 5.1.15 |
| 46412 | Arrested Development | 692 | 0 | 0 | 4.1.37 |
| 46459 | Template File Name Debugger | 690 | 0 | 0 | 4.3.30 |
| 46618 | Debug User/Post/Options Meta Data | 684 | 10 | 5 | 4.5.28 |
| 46755 | Spot view Cron Job | 679 | 10 | 5 | |
| 47092 | WPMS Cron List | 664 | 0 | 0 | 4.1.37 |
| 47303 | SEO Debug Bar | 655 | 0 | 5 | 4.8.21 |
| 47650 | Query Monitor GiveWP | 641 | 0 | 0 | 4.9.22 |
| 200 | TOTALS | 38911902 |