Are you a WordPress user looking for ways to make your tasks easier? Look no further than these nifty tools that can be added to your Chrome browser. These apps and extensions can make working with WordPress delightful and are lightweight and easy to install. Plus, if you no longer need them, you can remove them from your browser.
1. WordPress Admin Bar Control
The WordPress Admin Bar Control can be added to Chrome if you want to hide the Admin bar. It takes up screen space and makes the page look cluttered. Click on the WordPress icon in your Chrome bar to make the Admin Bar disappear from your WordPress page. Click again and the bar will reappear.
2. WP Hive
If you’re finding the best plugin for your work is your go-to task, use the WP Hive Chrome extension to make your work even easier. This extension helps you find plugin vulnerabilities, compare between multiple plugins to choose the best one, and get crucial insights like page speed and memory consumption.
3. WordPress Style Editor
The WordPress Style Editor will help you style your WordPress theme. Using the developer tools in Chrome, you can access your theme stylesheet and make any changes you like. But these changes will be lost when you refresh your page. This extension will save the changes directly to the theme stylesheet, without the need for any FTP.
4. BuiltWith Technology Profiler
BuiltWith is a useful tool for developers and designers. Add this extension to your Chrome Browser and click on it to see what tools are used to build the webpage that you are currently viewing. BuiltWith can detect content management systems, analytic tools, frameworks, widgets, hosting software, and content delivery networks.
5. ExpressCurate
ExpressCurate is a high-quality content creation tool that helps with ideation, creation, search engine optimization, and publishing your post, all from the Chrome browser. Based on the keywords that you feed in and the pages that you browse, topics will be suggested. When you come across an interesting webpage, click on the Curate button in the toolbar, pick images and text. They will be added to a quoted comments field in a popup window.
6. Shareaholic for Google Chrome
Shareaholic for Google Chrome is a cool extension that lets users share instantly to many social platforms like Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, and about 250 additional services. You can also bookmark the webpages.
7. Eye Dropper
Eye Dropper is a great aid for developers. Add the extension to your browser and when you come across any color that catches your eye, simply click on the color. The extension will give you the exact code of the color used.
8. WordPress Site Manager
This extension needs you to enter the login details of all the WordPress sites you want to manage. WordPress Site Manager will store the information and allow you to access the sites’ main pages from your browser.
9. Grammarly
Grammarly is one Chrome extension that no blogger should skip. Once added to your browser, it will scour through your post and pick out all the language mistakes you make – spellings, punctuation, contextual errors – and place the error count at the bottom.
10. MultiPress
MultiPress helps you share links from anywhere and create new posts with ease. Before you use this extension, you have to install Press This bookmarklet (accessible from WordPress dashboard) in your bookmarks bar. While being logged into WordPress, if you find any snippets on the web that you want to copy, simply highlight the snippet and press the Press This bookmarklet in your browser. Images can be added using the Add Media button.
That’s the list of extensions that can make it easier for bloggers to work with WordPress. Have you tried any? Know of any Chrome extension that can make it easier for bloggers? Let us know in the comments below.
