Tools and services

Recommended development plugins and local environments, none of them required

Id wp-tools-services Applies to pluginthememodule Status active Enforceable needs judgement Tags wordpresstoolinglocal-development

These are recommendations, not requirements. Nothing here is enforced and no check will score a repository against it. Use what helps.

Development plugins and utilities

Query Monitor
FakerPress
Regenerate Thumbnails
Transients Manager
WP Crontrol
User Switching

Local development environments

wordpress-develop Docker environment (great for core contribution)
Lando (Docker-based CLI with WordPress recipe)
LocalWP (cross-platform GUI bundled with WP-CLI, Adminer, Xdebug support and easy MySQL client access)

WordPress PHP
PHPCS setup, namespacing, bootstrapping and the defensive habits we expect in PHP
WordPress hooks
When to add custom actions and filters, and how to pick arguments and priorities