Essential Developer Tools: My Findings

365i Performance Optimizer is an all-in-one plugin that makes your WordPress site faster with simple settings. It’s great for developers and site owners who want detailed control without editing code.

Plugin Link: https://wordpress.org/plugins/365i-performance-optimizer/

Environment Indicator adds a clear label to the WordPress admin bar showing which site environment you’re on. This helps users avoid mistakes on live sites. It’s ideal for anyone managing multiple WordPress environments, such as development, staging, and production.

Plugin Link: https://wordpress.org/plugins/365i-environment-indicator/

365i Queue Optimizer is a lightweight WordPress plugin that speeds up image processing and background tasks by improving ActionScheduler performance. It automatically checks your server and suggests the best settings. Great for sites using image optimization, WooCommerce, or other plugins that use ActionScheduler.

Plugin Link: https://wordpress.org/plugins/365i-queue-optimizer/

AI systems like ChatGPT and others often answer questions about your business, but they can get details wrong or mix you up with competitors.

AI Discovery Files solve this problem. These are special files on your website that clearly tell AI systems who you are, what you do, and how to describe your brand—like robots.txt, but for giving AI the correct information about your business.

Plugin Link: https://wordpress.org/plugins/ai-discovery-files/

Getting visitors to your website takes work, so you don’t want to lose them on a basic 404 error page. Most default 404 pages don’t help visitors find what they need, causing them to leave your site. With this plugin, you can easily create a custom 404 page that keeps visitors engaged and works with almost any theme.

Plugin Link: https://wordpress.org/plugins/404page/

This plugin automatically sends all 404 error pages to your homepage with a 301 redirect, helping keep your SEO ranking strong. It’s lightweight, has no settings or ads—just activate it, and it works in the background without slowing down your site.

Plugin Link: https://wordpress.org/plugins/404-to-homepage/

CloudGuard uses the cloud and a global CDN to protect your WordPress login page. With Cloudflare’s free geolocation, you can allow login access only from specific countries—blocking all others automatically. The plugin also shows unauthorized login attempts on a world map in your dashboard.

Plugin Link: https://wordpress.org/plugins/cloudguard/

A360 Insights is a privacy-friendly WordPress plugin that shows you how much of your website traffic comes from AI tools like ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity, as well as Google, Bing, social media, and referrals—all within your WordPress dashboard. It doesn’t use cookies, track IPs, or require any external analytics accounts. You can easily track your content’s performance without sacrificing user privacy, making it great for bloggers, marketers, agencies, and site owners.

Plugin Link: https://wordpress.org/plugins/a360-insights/

This plugin tracks which autoloaded options are actually used on each page of your site. It saves this info and, in the admin area, shows you which autoloaded options haven’t been used as you browse. After visiting all your pages, you can see which options likely no longer need to be autoloaded.

Plugin Link: https://wordpress.org/plugins/aaa-option-optimizer/

Post Views Counter lets you track and show how many times your posts or pages have been viewed. It gives you a clear and accurate view count directly in WordPress, with no extra tools or clutter.

Plugin Link: https://en-ca.wordpress.org/plugins/post-views-counter/ 

Below is a highlight link from a YouTuber explaining the plugin's functions in detail.

Plugin Link: https://wordpress.org/plugins/ableplayer/

This WordPress plugin lets you find products with certain attribute terms, remove them, and add different terms in bulk. It’s reusable for different attributes and terms, but is meant for developers familiar with WooCommerce attribute term IDs.

Key features:

• Find, remove, and add attribute terms
• Batch processing with adjustable size
• Tracks progress on the server
• Can resume and retry failed batches
• Provides detailed logs

Plugin Link: https://wordpress.org/plugins/abovewp-bulk-attribute-change/

Accelvia Content Protection is a WordPress plugin that protects your website content from theft. It uses advanced features like blocking developer tools, preventing screenshots, delivering encrypted HTML, and adding watermarks to images—even if they’re downloaded. No extra plugins needed.

Plugin Link: https://wordpress.org/plugins/accelvia-content-protection/

ACD Admin Designer lets you easily change the colors of your WordPress admin area. You can use the browser’s color picker, see live previews, and save your custom color scheme for a cleaner, branded look.

Plugin Link: https://wordpress.org/plugins/acd-admin-designer/

Plugin Link: https://wordpress.org/plugins/webp-converter-for-media/

Plugin Link: https://wordpress.org/plugins/multisite-content-sync/

Plugin Link: https://wordpress.org/plugins/ldap-ad-staff-employee-directory-search/

Acumenon is a lightweight WordPress plugin for creating professional documentation, knowledge bases, and help centers. It’s easy to use for both developers and non-technical users.

Key features:

• Modern, React-based admin panel
• Organize docs into groups with custom URLs
• Support for categories and tags
• Control who can access specific docs
• Ready for Right-to-Left languages
• Fast and minimal for better performance

Plugin Link: https://wordpress.org/plugins/acumenon/

The Add as Preferred Source on Google plugin adds a banner and button to your website, letting visitors easily add your site as a preferred source in their Google Search settings.

Plugin Link: https://wordpress.org/plugins/add-as-preferred-source/

The Announcement Notification Bar is a simple WordPress plugin for adding eye-catching announcement bars or sticky banners to your site. It helps you highlight promotions or important updates at the top or bottom of the screen without annoying your visitors. Unlike popups, this bar shows key messages like sales, shipping info, or alerts in a polite and effective way, making sure people notice them and stay engaged.

plugin Link: https://wordpress.org/plugins/announcement-notification-bar/

Browser Address Bar Colour Changer is a simple, secure plugin that lets you change the address bar colour in mobile browsers like Chrome for Android. This creates a more branded and immersive experience for mobile visitors. Just pick your colour in the WordPress settings—no coding needed.

Plugin Link: https://wordpress.org/plugins/browser-address-bar-color-changer/

Disable Right Click & Content Copy Protection is a WordPress plugin that helps protect your site’s content and images from being copied or downloaded without permission. It adds extra layers of security to keep your work safe.

Plugin Link: https://wordpress.org/plugins/disable-right-click-content-copy-protection/

WordPress normally lets you add extensions only to posts, not pages. This plugin lets you add any extension (like .html, .htm, .jsp, or others) to your pages too. You can choose and change the extension anytime, making it handy for managing multiple sites with different needs.

Plugin Link: https://en-ca.wordpress.org/plugins/add-any-extension-to-pages/

This lightweight plugin adds a language switcher to the WordPress admin bar, making it easy to change languages without going to your profile settings.

Plugin Link: https://wordpress.org/plugins/simple-admin-language-change/

Plugin Link: https://wordpress.org/plugins/easy-table-of-contents/

Plugin Link: https://wordpress.org/plugins/pages-with-category-and-tag/

SVG Support is an all-in-one solution for using SVGs in WordPress. It’s secure, flexible, and simple to use, letting you safely upload SVG files and access advanced features for both beginners and developers.

Plugin Link: https://wordpress.org/plugins/svg-support/

Plugin Link: https://wordpress.org/plugins/mobile-smart-app-banner/

Plugin Link: https://wordpress.org/plugins/user-role-editor/

Plugin Link: https://wordpress.org/plugins/addfunc-head-footer-code/

A classified listing plugin

Plugin Link: https://wordpress.org/plugins/wpadverts/

Admin Dashboard Last Edits is a simple, lightweight plugin that shows your most recently edited posts and pages on the WordPress admin dashboard.

Plugin Link: https://wordpress.org/plugins/admin-dashboard-last-edits/

This plugin lets you bookmark or favourite posts, pages, and custom content types. When you star a post, a shortcut link appears in the admin menu, making it easy to quickly access and edit your most-used content

Plugin Link: https://wordpress.org/plugins/my-admin-bookmarks/

Plugin Link: https://en-ca.wordpress.org/plugins/user-switching/

Admin Columns lets you easily customize and organize the columns you see in the WordPress admin lists for posts, pages, users, comments, and media.

Plugin Link: https://wordpress.org/plugins/codepress-admin-columns/

Plugin Link: https://wordpress.org/plugins/change-admin-logo/

Plugin Link: https://wordpress.org/plugins/featured-image-add-in-admin-column/

Pluigin Link: https://wordpress.org/plugins/dashboard-quick-link-widget/

Admin Help Docs is a WordPress plugin that lets you create custom help guides right in your admin dashboard. It makes it easy to remind yourself or help other admins manage tasks and settings.

Plugin Link: https://wordpress.org/plugins/admin-help-docs/

Plugin Link: https://wordpress.org/plugins/gf-discord/

Plugin Link: https://wordpress.org/plugins/gf-tools/

Broken Link Notifier is a WordPress plugin that watches for broken links as users browse your site and alerts you when it finds any. This helps keep your site user-friendly and protects your search rankings. It’s lightweight and avoids the slowdowns caused by full-site link scans.

Plugin Link: https://wordpress.org/plugins/broken-link-notifier/

What does it do?

• Lets you quickly “Edit post”
• “Edit with Elementor” (if you use it)
• Links to the Dashboard and, if available, WP Network
• Easy access to create new posts for public types
• Shortcuts to Menus, Widgets, Plugins, and Users
• Direct links to ACF, Yoast SEO, WooCommerce, FluentForms, GravityForms, and WPML (if installed)
• Add your own custom, role-restricted links from the settings page

Note: This plugin is under active development. Kindly send your ideas to  plugins@zodan.nl

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Plugin Link: https://wordpress.org/plugins/clear-cache-everywhere/

Plugin Link: https://wordpress.org/plugins/dev-debug-tools/

Plugin Link: https://wordpress.org/plugins/eri-file-library/

Plugin Link: https://wordpress.org/plugins/fake-user-detector/

Plugin Link: https://wordpress.org/plugins/mudrava-admin-tweaks/

Plugin Link: https://wordpress.org/plugins/adminease/

Plugin Link: https://en-ca.wordpress.org/plugins/notification/

Plugin Link: https://wordpress.org/plugins/admin-options-pages/

Plugin Link: https://wordpress.org/plugins/admin-optimizer/https://wordpress.org/plugins/admin-optimizer/

Plugin Link: https://wordpress.org/plugins/advance-wc-analytics/

Plugin Link: https://wordpress.org/plugins/adsimple-cookie-manager-for-wp/

Plugin Link: https://wordpress.org/plugins/ad-inserter/

Plugin Link: https://wordpress.org/plugins/ads-txt/

Plugin Link: https://wordpress.org/plugins/all-in-one-wp-security-and-firewall/

Plugin Link: https://en-ca.wordpress.org/plugins/google-sitemap-generator/

Plugin Link: https://wordpress.org/plugins/wpo365-login/

Plugin Link: https://en-ca.wordpress.org/plugins/backoffice-manager-for-firebase/

What does the plugin do?

• Let certain user roles preview or use a different installed theme
• Choose which roles can switch themes
• Optionally, allow selected roles to use a “switch theme/back” button on the front-end

The plugin is actively developed. Got feature ideas? Email plugins@zodan.nl

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