At LUBUS, we have been fortunate enough to work on different kinds of projects, which have helped us learn & explore.WordPress. We try our best to avoid using plugins for every other requirement that can be simply implemented with a few lines of code, but there are scenarios. When plugins come in handy. For us, these plugins are tools & utilities which help us perform? Tasks during development. These plugins have been helping us a lot on our various projects. We are sharing them in a series of articles covering 5 plugins in each post, along with scenarios when we used them.
Note:
These plugins are to be used during development on your dev servers. Don’t keep them when you move to production.
Cleaning Database
With migrations come lots of orphaned data, which sits in the database and takes up space. WP-Optimize can help in cleaning the unwanted data. Also, handy to perform schedule database cleanup.
Working With Transientis
Development involving 3rd third-party API involves,s working with external transient for caching and performance. Though it is easy to delete them via a single line of code, but Transients Manager plugin provides a UI to manage the site’s transients. You can view, search, edit, and delete transients.
Cloning Post/Pages
When working on a project from scratch with no data, it can be handy to create a few of them with the required content & clone them. The Duplicate Post plugin lets you do the same by easily creating a duplicate of a post or page as a draft.
Cloning Menus
Started working on the new project, need to work around several menus, and don’t want to repeat or want to save a copy. It’s a good idea to clone it. The Duplicate Menu plugin can help in cloning the menu with one click.
Importing & Exporting Widgets
Want to migrate website content along with widgets? Widget Importer & Exporter is the perfect plugin to help you move widgets from one website to another. Also handy for creating? backup of widgets.
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