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Show Environment in Admin Bar
Add an indication to the Admin Bar of the environment WordPress is running in (e.g., Prod, Staging, QA, Dev, etc).
The facts
- Rating
- 5★ from 3
- Active installs
- 200+
- Price
- Free
- Last updated
- 16 Jul 2024
- Added
- Aug 2017
- Requires WP
- 4.6
- Tested up to
- WP 6.6.7
- Downloads
- 15,048
Our analysis
AI-assistedShow Environment in Admin Bar is a WordPress plugin that helps you identify the current environment of your site directly from the Admin Bar. It provides visual cues for different environments, such as Production, Development, and Staging, reducing the risk of making changes in the wrong environment.
The plugin automatically detects Production and Development environments, displaying them with distinct background colours in the Admin Bar. You can also manually configure additional environments like Staging. This tool is useful for developers and site administrators managing multiple versions of a WordPress site.
Best for: This plugin suits developers and site administrators managing multiple WordPress environments.
What it does well
- ✓Indicates current environment in Admin Bar
- ✓Red, green, yellow, and blue backgrounds for different environments
- ✓Supports manual configuration for additional environments
- ✓Helps prevent accidental changes in the wrong environment
Where it falls short
- •Limited to predefined environments without automatic detection for some
Verdict
Show Environment in Admin Bar is a practical tool for enhancing site management. It effectively reduces the risk of errors when working across different environments.
From the developer
Paul Biron's own description of Show Environment in Admin Bar, lightly tidied.
If you’re like me, you often have multiple versions of the same WordPress site open in different browser windows, e.g., production in one window and development in another window.
And if you’re like me, you have also unwittingly edited content in the production environment thinking you were doing so in the development environment or vice versa.
If so, then this plugin is for you!
It adds an indication of the current environment to the Admin Bar that is easier to see than examining the URL in your browser’s address bar.
Out-of-the-box behavior
Out-of-the-box, 2 different environments are recognized:
- Production
- The node added to the Admin Bar has a red background (i.e., Stop/be careful with any changes you make).
- If neither a staging, QA, nor development environment is detected, then
Prodis displayed in the Admin Bar.
- The node added to the Admin Bar has a green background (i.e., Go ahead, it is safe to make changes).
- If WP is running on localhost (either a loopback IP address or LAN IP address), then
Localdisplays in the Admin Bar. - If WP_DEBUG is defined & true, then
Devdisplays in the Admin Bar.
Customizing the out-of-the-box behavior
Two additional environments are supported, but cannot be automatically detected:
- Staging
- The node added to the Admin Bar has a yellow-ish background (i.e., Slow down, changes might make it into the production site).
- For information on how to enable this environment, see the documentation.
- The node added to the Admin Bar has a blue background (i.e., “It’s cool”, changes you make won’t affect the production site).
- For information on how to enable this environment, see the documentation.
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