Comments on: 9 Must-Have Tools for WordPress Developers

By: Ganesh

Ganesh — Wed, 28 Aug 2019 16:25:21 +0000

Thanks Will Morris. I’am really impressed with the articles on this website. You have a huge essential knowledge based articles for not only wordpress but other platforms. I did not know about Cyberduck. Thanks.

By: Anthony Tran

Anthony Tran — Tue, 09 Jul 2019 13:02:55 +0000

In reply to Jason. I agree it will be interesting to see how the Flywheel WP Engine acquisition pans out. I'm thinking with all the great WordPress minds in those two companies they will find ways to improve things.

By: Anthony Tran

Anthony Tran — Tue, 09 Jul 2019 13:00:37 +0000

In reply to Frank M. Thank you Frank for sharing! These look like great tools as well.

By: Frank M

Frank M — Tue, 09 Jul 2019 09:35:34 +0000

Great article!
It is always interesting to hear about useful tools.

For text editors, I would include Visual Studio Code https://code.visualstudio.com/

1. Free and open source

2. Runs on Windows, Mac and LInux

3. Built-in support for HTML and CSS with Emmets (fast entering many HTML/CSS structures with very few key strokes (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5guZjNDcVnA).

4. A wide variety of extensions for most programming languages and all kind of functions purposes, e.g. version control via integration with Git or Subversion (SVN), VIM editor functions, HTML viewer, Excel viewer and CSV file column viewer. I have found extensions for almost any need that I have encountered.

By: Ben Siegfried

Ben Siegfried — Mon, 08 Jul 2019 18:29:44 +0000

ServerPress Desktop Server is my favorite local dev environment tool

By: Jason

Jason — Mon, 08 Jul 2019 18:20:04 +0000

In reply to John Gill. I just started using Laragon as well.. it seems to be easier to get up and running compare to XAMPP or any of the others I've tried. I love the ability to instantly spawn a fresh WordPress site! I had a really rough time with Flywheel, it didn't seem stable on Windows, at least. I hear it's better on Mac.. I'm assuming WP Engine is going to re-vamp that tool at some point in the future, can't wait to see what they do..

By: John Gill

John Gill — Mon, 08 Jul 2019 07:20:30 +0000

I used to use Desktop Server for local development but have recently been using Laragon (which is free) – it’s light on resources and very fast.

By: Anthony Tran

Anthony Tran — Wed, 03 Jul 2019 12:23:15 +0000

In reply to DanRose. That is awesome news Dan! Happy to be part of your toolset and thanks for the recommendation =)

By: DanRose

DanRose — Tue, 02 Jul 2019 16:15:46 +0000

Beaverbuilder has been a Godsend for my web development (I manage a few small websites, and don't have lots of HTML experience). WebDrive is the FTP client tool that I use and it works flawlessly. Can't imagine using anything else. Connects to tons of cloud servers/services as well.

By: Marc Palmer

Marc Palmer — Fri, 28 Jun 2019 13:26:58 +0000

GitHub has offered free private repos since January of 2019, so the Gitlab comment about offering them is a bit odd because there’s no difference at all.