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display-environment-type

Display Environment Type

Displays WordPress 5.5's environment type setting in the admin bar and the "At a Glance" dashboard widget.

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32.9 Open evidence Open API Open on WordPress.org
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0 build-decision rows missing links

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Download Momentum

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Source Evidence

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complaint support · high severity · relevance 0.91
Can I set custom color for my environment types?

Can I set custom color for my environment types?: users show missing feature, migration, setup pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: monitor staging health, updates, cache state, cron jobs, and maintenance exceptions
Proof Blocked card complete hosting operations and site health Evidence linked to opportunity
Would it be possible to define a REST API in this plugin that can be used by other installations to get the custom colors from the url defined in the plugin?
complaint support · medium severity · relevance 0.93
Other Plugin incompatibility

Other Plugin incompatibility: users show bugs, compatibility, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: monitor staging health, updates, cache state, cron jobs, and maintenance exceptions
Proof Blocked card complete hosting operations and site health Evidence linked to opportunity
Other Plugin incompatibility Hello, I really like the “Display Environment Type” plugin and I use it on my WordPress site.
mixed support · medium severity · relevance 0.78
Feature request: extensible environment types

Feature request: extensible environment types: users show compatibility, missing feature, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: monitor staging health, updates, cache state, cron jobs, and maintenance exceptions
Proof Blocked card complete hosting operations and site health Evidence linked to opportunity
Feature request: extensible environment types I wanted to add a more descriptive environment type to support for instance Lando dev environment (on top of Docker).
complaint support · medium severity · relevance 0.69
It displays the WP Engine staging as Production

It displays the WP Engine staging as Production: users show compatibility pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: monitor staging health, updates, cache state, cron jobs, and maintenance exceptions
Proof Blocked card complete hosting operations and site health Evidence linked to opportunity
It displays the WP Engine staging as Production The plugin returns the WP Engine staging as Production The plugin returns the WP Engine staging as Production Thanks for reporting this.
mixed support · medium severity · relevance 0.66
Drop-down Submenu on Staging Sites Unreadable

Drop-down Submenu on Staging Sites Unreadable: users show bugs pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: monitor staging health, updates, cache state, cron jobs, and maintenance exceptions
Proof Blocked card complete hosting operations and site health Evidence linked to opportunity
Drop-down Submenu on Staging Sites Unreadable Love the new drop-down submenus.
praise review · medium severity · relevance 0.62
Nice little helper

Nice little helper: users show compatibility, missing feature, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: monitor staging health, updates, cache state, cron jobs, and maintenance exceptions
Proof Blocked card complete hosting operations and site health Evidence linked to opportunity
Nice little helper Have you ever accidentally added test content to a productive website?
praise review · medium severity · relevance 0.5
This is what a developer needs

This is what a developer needs: users show missing feature, setup pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: monitor staging health, updates, cache state, cron jobs, and maintenance exceptions
Proof Blocked card complete hosting operations and site health Evidence linked to opportunity
No settings hassle – just install and get to work seamlessly.
praise review · medium severity · relevance 0.44
Helpful Reminder

Helpful Reminder: users show support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: monitor staging health, updates, cache state, cron jobs, and maintenance exceptions
Proof Blocked card complete hosting operations and site health Evidence linked to opportunity
Helpful Reminder Easy to see reminder of which version of the site I’m on.
praise review · medium severity · relevance 0.38
Yes, you are working on the live site – PAY ATTENTION!

Yes, you are working on the live site – PAY ATTENTION!: praise conversation with limited structured signal.

Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: monitor staging health, updates, cache state, cron jobs, and maintenance exceptions
Proof Blocked card complete hosting operations and site health Evidence linked to opportunity
Yes, you are working on the live site – PAY ATTENTION! I switch a LOT between production sites and a clone made for testing, when creating a real staging environment is not possible. More than once, I have unintentionally made changes to the wrong instance of the site. That’s no fun. Display Environment Type makes it very clear what I’m working on, when I sh

Competitor Context

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Query Monitor weak incumbent · intel 78.4 · weakness 64.1
weak incumbent
4 unresolved support thread(s) 16 collected complaint signal(s) bugs compatibility 2 source links Proof Blocked Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: developers, agencies, and technical site owners · Wedge: preflight debug code changes, compatibility risks, rollback paths, and debug evidence
source 1 source 2
WP PHP Console praise owner · intel 72.3 · weakness 61.6
praise owner
stale update history 7 collected complaint signal(s) bugs compatibility 2 source links Proof Blocked Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: developers, agencies, and technical site owners · Wedge: preflight debug code changes, compatibility risks, rollback paths, and debug evidence
source 1 source 2
Simple Session Support praise owner · intel 71.3 · weakness 62.1
praise owner
stale update history 8 collected complaint signal(s) support missing feature 2 source links Investigate Pain Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: developers, agencies, and technical site owners · Wedge: preflight development code changes, compatibility risks, rollback paths, and debug evidence
source 1 source 2
Yoast Test Helper praise owner · intel 68.8 · weakness 51.8
praise owner
10 collected complaint signal(s) bugs missing feature 2 source links Proof Blocked Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, SEO consultants, and agencies · Wedge: monitor yoast drift, schema/indexing failures, and client-readable search-impact fixes
source 1 source 2
Monkeyman Rewrite Analyzer praise owner · intel 68.8 · weakness 55.1
praise owner
stale update history 5 collected complaint signal(s) compatibility support 2 source links Proof Blocked Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: developers, agencies, and technical site owners · Wedge: preflight debug code changes, compatibility risks, rollback paths, and debug evidence
source 1 source 2
What The File praise owner · intel 68.2 · weakness 51.2
praise owner
11 collected complaint signal(s) bugs compatibility 2 source links Proof Blocked Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site builders and agencies · Wedge: detect template layout regressions, widget breakage, and client-visible update issues
source 1 source 2
WP Secure Maintenance praise owner · intel 62.4 · weakness 48.6
praise owner
stale update history below-average rating compatibility support 2 source links Proof Blocked Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: monitor maintenance health, updates, cache state, cron jobs, and maintenance exceptions
source 1 source 2
What Template praise owner · intel 55.3 · weakness 39.0
praise owner
stale update history 1 collected complaint signal(s) bugs missing feature 2 source links Proof Blocked Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: developers, agencies, and technical site owners · Wedge: preflight debug code changes, compatibility risks, rollback paths, and debug evidence
source 1 source 2

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Collected Signals

9 shown from 9 collected
mixed Drop-down Submenu on Staging Sites Unreadable support · 2025-04-09T15:37:48+00:00 · medium severity · development

Drop-down Submenu on Staging Sites Unreadable: users show bugs pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Drop-down Submenu on Staging Sites Unreadable Love the new drop-down submenus.
bugs quality developer change safety and site customization Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: monitor staging health, updates, cache state, cron jobs, and maintenance exceptions
source plugin
praise Helpful Reminder (5 stars) review · 2025-04-09T15:30:47+00:00 · medium severity · development

Helpful Reminder: users show support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Helpful Reminder Easy to see reminder of which version of the site I’m on.
support easy developer change safety and site customization Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: monitor staging health, updates, cache state, cron jobs, and maintenance exceptions
source plugin
mixed Feature request: extensible environment types support · 2024-12-18T10:28:05+00:00 · medium severity · development

Feature request: extensible environment types: users show compatibility, missing feature, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Feature request: extensible environment types I wanted to add a more descriptive environment type to support for instance Lando dev environment (on top of Docker).
compatibility missing feature support reliable developer change safety and site customization Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: monitor staging health, updates, cache state, cron jobs, and maintenance exceptions
source plugin
praise This is what a developer needs (5 stars) review · 2024-01-24T08:02:46+00:00 · medium severity · development

This is what a developer needs: users show missing feature, setup pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: No settings hassle – just install and get to work seamlessly.
missing feature setup developer change safety and site customization Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: monitor staging health, updates, cache state, cron jobs, and maintenance exceptions
source plugin
complaint Other Plugin incompatibility support · 2023-09-24T00:34:10+00:00 · medium severity · development

Other Plugin incompatibility: users show bugs, compatibility, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Other Plugin incompatibility Hello, I really like the “Display Environment Type” plugin and I use it on my WordPress site.
bugs compatibility missing feature support developer change safety and site customization Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: monitor staging health, updates, cache state, cron jobs, and maintenance exceptions
source plugin
praise Yes, you are working on the live site – PAY ATTENTION! (5 stars) review · 2022-04-26T14:21:29+00:00 · medium severity · development

Yes, you are working on the live site – PAY ATTENTION!: praise conversation with limited structured signal.

Evidence: Yes, you are working on the live site – PAY ATTENTION! I switch a LOT between production sites and a clone made for testing, when creating a real staging environment is not possible. More than once, I have unintentionally made changes to the wrong instance of the site. That’s no fun. Display Environment Type makes it very clear what I’m working on, when I sh
developer change safety and site customization Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: monitor staging health, updates, cache state, cron jobs, and maintenance exceptions
source plugin
complaint It displays the WP Engine staging as Production support · 2020-11-19T18:46:02+00:00 · medium severity · development

It displays the WP Engine staging as Production: users show compatibility pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: It displays the WP Engine staging as Production The plugin returns the WP Engine staging as Production The plugin returns the WP Engine staging as Production Thanks for reporting this.
compatibility reporting developer change safety and site customization Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: monitor staging health, updates, cache state, cron jobs, and maintenance exceptions
source plugin
complaint Can I set custom color for my environment types? support · 2020-08-25T08:59:32+00:00 · high severity · development

Can I set custom color for my environment types?: users show missing feature, migration, setup pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Would it be possible to define a REST API in this plugin that can be used by other installations to get the custom colors from the url defined in the plugin?
missing feature migration setup reliable developer change safety and site customization Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: monitor staging health, updates, cache state, cron jobs, and maintenance exceptions
source plugin
praise Nice little helper (5 stars) review · 2020-08-21T10:56:07+00:00 · medium severity · development

Nice little helper: users show compatibility, missing feature, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Nice little helper Have you ever accidentally added test content to a productive website?
compatibility missing feature support setup developer change safety and site customization Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: monitor staging health, updates, cache state, cron jobs, and maintenance exceptions
source plugin