Title: Development Environment Notification
Author: Alex Phelps
Published: <strong>May 7, 2014</strong>
Last modified: August 15, 2015

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This plugin **hasn’t been tested with the latest 3 major releases of WordPress**.
It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when
used with more recent versions of WordPress.

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# Development Environment Notification

 By [Alex Phelps](https://profiles.wordpress.org/alexphelps3/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/development-environment-notification.zip)

 * [Details](https://twd.wordpress.org/plugins/development-environment-notification/#description)
 * [Reviews](https://twd.wordpress.org/plugins/development-environment-notification/#reviews)
 *  [Installation](https://twd.wordpress.org/plugins/development-environment-notification/#installation)
 * [Development](https://twd.wordpress.org/plugins/development-environment-notification/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/development-environment-notification/)

## Description

#### Ever confused between Development and Production when using Host Files?

This plugin adds a simple notification on the WP Admin bar to help the developer
know if they are looking at development or production environments without needing
to check host files and so on.

## Screenshots

 * [[
 * Admin bar notification when you’re logged in.
 * [[
 * Login screen notification so you know when you’re logging in.

## Installation

This section describes how to install the plugin and get it working.

 1. Drop into mu plugins or if your on a single site, can just activate like a regular
    plugin
 2. Define `define('DEVBAR_NOTIFY', true);` in your wp-config.php

## FAQ

  Does this work with Multisite?

Yes, this plugin is intended to be used as a mu plugin.

  How do I enable the notification?

Define `define('DEVBAR_NOTIFY', true);` in your wp-config.php and you’ll see the
notification.

## Reviews

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## Contributors & Developers

“Development Environment Notification” is open source software. The following people
have contributed to this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ Alex Phelps ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/alexphelps3/)

[Translate “Development Environment Notification” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/development-environment-notification)

### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/development-environment-notification/),
check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/development-environment-notification/),
or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/development-environment-notification/)
by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/development-environment-notification/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Changelog

#### 0.2

 * Add notification to the login screen as well

#### 0.1

 * Initial release

## Meta

 *  Version **0.1**
 *  Last updated **11 years ago**
 *  Active installations **10+**
 *  WordPress version ** 0.2 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **3.9.40**
 *  Language
 * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/development-environment-notification/)
 * Tags
 * [admin bar](https://twd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/admin-bar/)[development](https://twd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/development/)
   [development tools](https://twd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/development-tools/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://twd.wordpress.org/plugins/development-environment-notification/advanced/)

## Ratings

 5 out of 5 stars.

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## Contributors

 *   [ Alex Phelps ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/alexphelps3/)

## Support

Got something to say? Need help?

 [View support forum](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/development-environment-notification/)

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