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Tools that make WordPress website development easy
The use of WordPress as a content management system has gained huge popularity in recent years due to the robust features it offers web developers. We are going to talk about essential WordPress tools that make web development an effortless task. The tools to be introduced differ in their area of functionality but all of them contribute to effortless WordPress website development.
Tools for website design
uilang: An exceptional tool from WordPress that helps developers focus on creating interactive elements including tabs, overlays and galleries into WordPress websites. It aids in doing the job quickly and effortlessly. The best thing about uilang is that it is a UI-focused programming language.
IconsFlow: Being one of the amazing tools for web designing, it enables designers to create high-quality icons. IconsFlow is idealised by a number of web designers because of the fact that it can be used without utilising any of the photo editing software like Photoshop.
Tools for website development
InstantWP: This WordPress tool aids in testing the installed themes in an effortless manner. Plugins can also be tested quickly and efficiently in a few minutes. One of the exceptional features of this tool includes the ability to convert any Windows machine in a WordPress theme server. Additionally, it can run on a single USB key.
IntelliJ IDEA: Being a developer friendly tool, IntelliJ IDEA focuses more on JavaScript and other Java environments. It also offers a variety of development tools for those developers who work with PHP, HTML as well as CSS programming language, thus utilising everything that is required in WordPress website development basically.
Debugging tools
Theme Check plugin: Theme Check serves as a great theme development tool. It helps developers conduct the test to ensure that the developed themes match with the review standards outlined by WordPress.org theme directory. Tests are run through a simple admin menu to display the results at once.
Debug bar: As an ultimate web development tool, DebugBar helps you add a debug menu to WordPress admin that enables displaying cache, queries, error logs and other such information. It also assists in tracking all the SQL queries and displaying them on the main action bar right at the admin area.
Testing tools
BugMuncher: BugMuncher serves as an ideal web development tool. It is ideal for web developers in order to get bug reports of the websites. The tool aids to get the most important information that is critical to have with users such as JavaScript errors, versions of the browsers, installed plugins, and other such technical information.
Uptime Robot: Uptime Robot serves as the half monitor of your WordPress websites. Uptime Robot has been designed to provide 50 monitors to run five-minute interval checks on the websites. The notifications come via mails and thus you remain aware of the checks that have been done on your website and the results that have been generated.
Tools for productivity
Dropbox: Dropbox is a cloud-based storage and file synchronisation service that gives access to the files either from your desktop computer or your mobile device. The tool enables users to share files and other critical information with clients anywhere and at any point. Other productivity apps can also be integrated to work with the tool.
Google Apps: Google offers a set of tools and free apps to aid users to share and create important documents with clients and employees. To offer real-time updates of the projects, Google video conferencing could help in this effort. This ensures the delivery of the updated information to the clients in the most critical way.