Don’t Mess Up Prod

I created a simple WordPress plugin called Don’t Mess Up Prod, which adds a little environment indicator to your admin bar. If you flip around between multiple environments (local, dev, staging, prod), you might find it useful. It has definitely saved me a few headaches. This was also partly an exercise in releasing a plugin on wordpress.org for the first time in 20 years. I found the process a bit easier in than expected, but it also helped to be using the right tools. One of those tools was the WordPress Coding Standards. The rules are opinionated but leave a distinct code smell. They’re also being enforced in the code review process now. I had already applied my own ruleset to the project, so it made things fairly straight-forward. The other tool that saved a ton of time was 10up’s plugin deploy actions. They make it super simple to tag a release and have it automagically get bundled up and submitted to the plugin repository. It saved a ton of time trying to faff about with SVN.…