WP Local Toolbox

Through constants defined in wp-config, you can disable plugins, disable the loading of external files, set search engine visibility, display or hide the admin bar, display the server name and change the color of the admin bar, or literally anything else you can think of. All without touching the database, so you can push and pull without worrying.

For support, pull requests, and discussion: https://github.com/joeguilmette/wp-local-toolbox

Admin Bar

Change the color of your admin bar and display the name of the current server environment. Green for local, orange for staging, and of course, red for production. You can also force the front end admin bar to hide, to display, and can even set it to display when logged out.

• WPLT_SERVER: The name of your server environment. It will be displayed in the admin bar at browser widths greater than 1030px. If left undefined, the plugin will make no changes to the admin bar.

  If not defined as PRODUCTION or LIVE, the plugin will enable ‘Discourage search engines from indexing this site’ to prevent your development and staging servers from being indexed. This option is not stored in the database, so your production server will still look to the actual setting on the Reading page.

• WPLT_COLOR: Determines the color of the admin bar. You can set this to any CSS color. If left undefined, will use the following defaults:

  • PRODUCTION / LIVE: red
  • STAGING / TESTING: orange
  • LOCAL / DEV: green

  WPLT_ADMINBAR: Show or hide the admin bar on the frontend. FALSE will force it to be hidden, TRUE will force it to display, ALWAYS will display the admin bar even when logged out. These settings will override the ‘Show toolbar’ setting in the ‘Users > Your Profile’ options panel and add_filter('show_admin_bar', '__return_false'); in functions.php, but doesn’t attempt to overcome any CSS based hiding of the admin bar.

  In wp-config.php:

  // set server environment to 'LOCAL'
  define('WPLT_SERVER', 'local');
  
  // set admin bar color to #800080
  define('WPLT_COLOR', 'purple');
  
  // show the admin bar even when logged out
  define('WPLT_ADMINBAR', 'always');
  

  Disable Plugins

  Pass a serialized array in this constant to disable plugins. This does not store any data in the database, so plugins that are manually deactivated or activated through the admin panel will stay so.

  In order for this feature to function properly, WP Local Toolbox must be installed as an mu-plugin. You can read more about mu-plugins here: https://codex.wordpress.org/Must_Use_Plugins. We’re investigating ways to avoid this requirement; if you have any ideas we’d love to hear it!

  • WPLT_DISABLED_PLUGINS: A serialized array of plugins to disable.

  In wp-config.php:

  // deactivate a set of plugins
  define('WPLT_DISABLED_PLUGINS', serialize(
      array(
          'hello-dolly.php',
          'w3-total-cache/w3-total-cache.php',
          'updraftplus/updraftplus.php',
          'wordpress-https/wordpress-https.php'
      )
  ));
  

  Post Update Notifications

  Receive notifications when any page, post, or attachment is added or updated. Notifications can be received via email, or can be sent to a Slack channel via their Incoming WebHook API.

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