It’s easy to miss some of the excellent tools that WordPress provides you to make your blog excellent. With a busy lifestyle, it’s easy to miss some of the great tools out there to improve your business. You aren’t always going to catch when a new WordPress tool becomes available but you can still find out about them here with a summary of what they can do for you. 

You may not have heard of many of these great tools that will not only improve productivity but will offer you more exciting options. Here is a look at the latest tools for WordPress development that you’ll want to know about. 

<h2>WordPress Hooks Directory</h2>

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Check out the <a href="http://adambrown.info/p/wp_hooks">WordPress Hooks Directory</a> to learn more about plugin development. It’s great for finding hooks that were renamed in new version, find new hooks in each version, look up deprecated hooks and read more about most popular hooks.  Hooks are the best way to make WordPress plugin-friendly and more flexible. 

<h2>WordPress Gear</h2>

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You can find <a href="http://wpgear.org/">WordPress Gear</a> which is a collection of developer tools that work with WordPress. It’s a website that is meant to be community driven to allow people to add or remove useful information. You’ll find information on things like debug tools, PHP frameworks, theme tools and meta fields. 

<h2>Flaticon Fonts</h2>

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Another big development tool that you should be using in WordPress is <a href="http://www.flaticon.com/font-face">Flaticon Fonts</a>. With mobile browsing being huge right now, it’s essential that your icon fonts are able to load properly and without delay. Flaticon’s Icon Fonts tool allows you to put theme icons into the theme and it will increase the page speed. 

<h2>Theme Unit Test</h2>

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You need a great way to test your theme and now you can. WordPress has created a <a href="https://codex.wordpress.org/Theme_Unit_Test">theme unit test </a>which installs a huge list of different scenarios for testing the image in different sizes and post types. It will save you hours of work with an install and a few clicks. 

You’ll definitely want to check out Debug This, Developer, WordPress Codex and Theme Test Drive if you’re looking for all of the most handy WordPress developer tools out there. 
