Looking for WordPress theme and plugin development software? Check out our comprehensive list of top tools and platforms for creating custom themes and plugins. Whether you’re a beginner or an experienced developer, these software options will help you streamline your workflow and build stunning WordPress websites.

WordPress theme and plugin software

• PhpStorm Excellent non-free IDE with a strong focus on productivity and speed.
• Xdebug There are several important features in the debugger, such as dump, trace stack, and profile.
• WinSCP Secure file transfer, folder synchronization, remote editing, and backup are all available.
• Uniform Server Portable WAMP stack with up-to-date components
• Internet Explorer Collection Having numerous Internet Explorer for testing is simple with this collection.
• Cobian Backup backup of local files
• Dropbox backup storage offsite (in context of WP)
• HeidiSQL Client for MySQL
• Balsamiq Mockups design of user interfaces
• Console2 interface with a command line
• Firefox Portable Those plugins aren’t going to operate on their own.
• Firebug do I need to explain? 🙂
• HTML Validator merges with the view from the source
• YSlow performance
• Page Speed performance
• Web Developer various nifties
• SEO Doctor On-page SEO audit with no fluff
• View Source Chart page source view that is color-coded and foldable

WordPress plugins 

• BackupBuddy migration and backup
• WordPress Console cool, handy, but glitches at times
• Codestyling Localization For translations, this is a requirement.
• list hook (shameless plug) several functions for hooks debug
• Theme-Check performs a series of tests on the theme to ensure that it meets the official repository theme criteria
• Core Control highly excellent for debugging file system, network, and wp-cron access.
• Codex Generator (shameless plug) filling up and researching functions Codex

Version control 

Local Development Environments

• Local by Flywheel
• XAMPP
• DesktopServer
• MAMP
• WampServer
• Vagrant
• Docker

Debugging Tools

• Xdebug
• Query Monitor
• Debug Bar
• Log Deprecated Notices
• Theme Check

Theme Development Frameworks

• Underscores
• Genesis Framework
• Cherry Framework
• Thesis
• Hybrid Core
• Beans

Plugin Development Frameworks

• WordPress Plugin Boilerplate
• Pluginception
• Pimple
• Titan Framework
• Redux Framework
• Carbon Fields

Browser Developer Tools

• Chrome DevTools
• Firefox Developer Tools
• Safari Web Inspector
• Microsoft Edge Developer Tools

Considering 

• Chrome Firefox is already slow and has a lot of addons for developers.

Deprecated

• • Notepad++ – Since installing NetBeans, I’ve hardly ever used it.
  • PHPXref – NetBeans makes it easy to navigate code.
  • WP Tuner – Unfortunately, the performance profiling was not maintained and was broken with WP3.
  • MoWeS – It had become too inconvenient to deal with component upgrades and stability concerns (Apache started to crash all the time)
  • NetBeans – switched to PhpStorm
  • eAccelerator – modern version don’t provide object cache, somewhat unstable (occasional crashes)
  • webgrind – PhpStorm can now interpret and show profiler logs, so there’s no need for it.
  • CSE HTML Validator – On top of everything else, I never get to utilise it.
  • MySQL Query Browser – HeidiSQL has taken its place.

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