8 Useful Plugins for Theme Developers

Posted on 01. Jun, 2010 by Ferman in Tools, Wordpress 7

When you are developing theme you need to view it before making it live or if you want to show the demo of the themes you need to have control on your WordPress and for this there are different plugins available, out of which i have collected only 8 useful plugins. If you know more do share with us.

1. Theme Switcher

Allow users to switch which theme they use on your WordPress, WordPress MU, or BuddyPress site. Includes a widget for easily putting the theme-switcher as a list or dropdown in your sidebar.

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2. Theme Switch and Preview

The plugin is great for theme development as you can tweak the template online without breaking stuff for visitors.

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3. Theme Test Drive

Theme Test Drive WordPress plugin allows you to safely test drive any theme on your blog as administrator, while visitors still use the default one.

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4. User Switching

This plugin allows you to quickly swap between user accounts in WordPress at the click of a button. You’ll be instantly logged out and logged in as your desired user.

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5. Maintenance Mode Plugin

This plugin adds a splash page to your blog that lets visitors know your blog is down for maintenance. Logged in administrators get full access to the blog including the front-end.

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6. WordPress Theme Demo Plugin

This plugin was designed to help web designers easily demo their WordPress themes.

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7. Raw HTML

This plugin lets you use raw HTML or any other code in your posts. One way to use it is to wrap a part of your post in special tags (below) to prevent WordPress from converting newlines to HTML paragraphs, escaping apostrophes and so on.

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8. TDO Mini Forms

This plugin can add themed custom posting and editing forms to your website that allows your readers (including non-registered) to contribute.

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Author : Ferman

Ferman Aziz is a designer, poet, writer and a good chess player. He is also the founder of PelFusion. You can follow him on twitter and facebook.