Nerd-created plugin could shave hours off WordPress development projects

Not many developers would spend 300 hours of their free time spread out over eighteen months to make things easier at work. And not just his work, but the work of any one who develops using WordPress. But Kelly Meath isn’t just any developer, he’s a Nerd.

Kelly created the WordPress Developer Tools Plugin to speed up WordPress Development. He said it could potentially shave 30 hours off WP projects. Though Kelly developed the plugin, which anyone can download from WordPress.org, he made it open source last month so other people could add to the development of the plugin.

What does it do?

“It creates an admin user interface for many of the code-only enabled features in WordPress,” Kelly said. “It also adds many commonly used JavaScript libraries that we use at The Nerdery. It will also render theme template code snippets with details on where to place the code.

“Another bonus is that it acts as a ‘WordPress plugin admin UI frame-work’ so creating a new feature takes less than an hour (documentation on how to add new features is coming soon). Think of it as a collection of commonly sought after WordPress plugins rolled into one.”

So far the plugin has been downloaded nearly 2000 times and got a nice mention from Smashing Magazine.