Tiny Projects Inspired by WordPress

WordPress development has inspired core developers to code up some interesting utilities, tools and toolchains to aid in the deployment and development processes. Like the notorious `bumpbot` (compresses scripts and styles, bumps their version numbers) and `potbot` (generates pot files), there other at least a dozen other tools that are not only useful, but open-source and available for download.

Tiny Projects Inspired By WordPress

Ready to look into some of the most interesting ones?

Browse Happy

svn co https://code.svn.wordpress.org/browsehappy/ browsehappy

Browse Happy

https://browsehappy.com/ is a tiny WordPress one-page theme which you can clone and run yourself. The theme keeps track of popular browser version with its fetch_version routine, that uses the Wikipedia API to get Latest stable software release version numbers. Versions cached in the database using the Transients API

Dotorg API Reference

svn co https://code.svn.wordpress.org/dotorg-api-reference/ dotorg-api-reference

The WordPress.org API Reference WordPress plugin, called WordPress Docs, that creates three custom post types – Functions, Classes and Hooks. An additional utility powered by BackPress hydrates these post types from the files in a working WordPress root.

WordPress API Documentation

After installing the WordPress Docs plugin, you’ll have to create a config.php file in the script directory and fill in the WordPress database credentials and root directory. Run php wpapi.php from the command line. This will start parsing and generating post content for the chosen database.

IRC Logger

svn co https://code.svn.wordpress.org/irc-logger/ irc-logger

A PHP-based IRC bot that logs channel activity. This is the package that powers WordPress IRC Logs, complete with the frontend and the logging bot complete with Nick and Channel service authentication etc. The bot can attend to multiple channels. The bot is under the rez-bot nickname in WordPress IRC channels.

WordPress IRC Logger

Logs are stored in SQLite databases. The frontend allows for searching and filtering.

Jobs

svn co https://code.svn.wordpress.org/jobs/ jobs

Jobs is a full-fledged job queue and scheduling system written in PHP. The documentation is quite good at explaining things, however you need to be sure that you know what you’re doing and why you’re doing it, since not everything works out of the box.

WordPress Jobs

The package includes a front-facing web interface as well.

lockd

svn co https://code.svn.wordpress.org/lockd/ lockd
svn co https://code.svn.wordpress.org/elockd/ elockd

WordPress lockd

lockd is a lock server daemon coded in PHP, while elockd is its Erlang version. lockd manages private and shared locks, releases and requests via remote sockets. A highly useful and lightweight library for synchronization of local and remote resources.

lockd clients are also included, with easy to use and remember connect, inspect, lock and release methods. The Erlang version is said to run faster.

Netmon

svn co https://code.svn.wordpress.org/netmon/ netmon

An SNMP server monitoring tool with a nice PHP and JS front-end and a Python-powered backend.

WordPress Network Monitor

WordPress Plugin Readme Parser

svn co https://code.svn.wordpress.org/plugin-readme-parser/ plugin-readme-parser

This is a WordPress plugin that parses and validates WordPress plugin readme files. In fact the package contains two separate plugins – Markdown Extra, by Michel Fortin, and Org Readme Validator.

WordPress Plugin Readme Validator

Once activated, the Readme Validator can be spawned by adding a validator GET request to the URL. A live and working version of the plugin validator can be found here.

WildCache

svn co https://code.svn.wordpress.org/wildcache/ wildcache

https://wildcache.wordpress.com/ says it all, but in short, WildCache is a multi-purpose, file-based caching proxy with the ability to implement additional plugins in PHP. WildCache accepts HTTP methods – GET/POST, PUT, DELETE and HEAD. It comes with 5 simple plugins to get you started, supporting logging, clustering and distribution. WildCache is very lightly documented and virtually non-maintained (several years old), but still appears to be an interesting, lightweight tool that can teach one a lot about caching and invalidation methods.


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