Mark Wilkinson @markwilkinson.dev 路 Nov 19 Top tip for all #WordPress users. Change the colour of your admin dashboard depending on whether your are dev, staging or live. Prevents confusion on which env you are in. I go for: Default - local/dev Blue - staging Sunrise - Live Do you do anything specific for specific environments?
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You could even write some code to automate the change based on the current env probably utilising wp_get_environment_type() developer.wordpress.org/reference/fu...
I use sunrise for dev 馃槤
Pretty sure there鈥檚 a plugin that does something similar - adds an environment label in the admin bar too (because we all know that we shouldn鈥檛 rely on colour alone to convey information, right? 馃榿).
I might build and release this soon, if you're interested in testing it? It's got day/night mode overrides and live preview changes, right from the admin bar. :D
I wrote a must-use plugin that checks the WP_ENVIRONMENT_TYPE constant, and adds an admin bar node with the environment name on a bold background colour. Green for local, orange for staging, red for production.
Even better: kill the staging environment youtu.be/bXlAc63Ga3c?...
Great advice! I usually code that in at the template level too, basing that on the current URL and programatically setting the top admin bar (so it's also visible on the front-end when editing)
I do pretty much the same, just with some color variations!