Display Environment Type
Active Installs
1,000+
Last Updated
December 19, 2025
First Released
August 21, 2020
Download History (Last one month)
WordPress 5.5 introduced a way to differentiate between environment types (development, staging, production). This plugin shows your site’s environment type in the admin bar and the dashboard “At a Glance” widget.
To gain additional control — for example, setting the environment or other values from the WP admin (when wp-config.php is writable) — consider installing our other plugin 0 Day Analytics.
Recommended Plugins
- 0 Day Analytics — a powerful plugin for sites that need more insight into errors and runtime behavior. It includes a Cron manager, a Transient manager (database-backed), DB manager, Snippet manager, Mail manager, Plugin Version Switcher available from the Plugins page and many more.
- Install and activate the plugin from the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress.
Colors are intentionally fixed to avoid confusion. If colors were configurable, they’d need to be identical across all related servers to remain consistent.
Custom environment types were briefly supported in WordPress 5.5 but were removed in 5.5.1. This plugin does not support custom types.
By default, the environment type is shown only to users with administrative capabilities. This avoids exposing a prominent colored indicator to regular subscribers and other non-admin users.
For additional control, use the det_display_environment_type filter hook. Example:
function rt_det_display_filter( $display ) {
// Disable the environment type display for user ID 2.
return ( get_current_user_id() !== 2 );
}
add_filter( 'det_display_environment_type', 'rt_det_display_filter' );
Changelog
1.6.0 (2025-12-18)
- Code improvements. Added the Gutenberg menu. 0 Day Analytics introduced.
1.5.0 (2024-07-01)
- Code improvements; shows the constants’ values regardless of the
WP_DEBUGconstant. WP Control plugin introduced.
1.4.0 (2024-04-07)
- Code improvements and UI fixes — show the icon on mobile and set colors in the “At a Glance” widget. Added WordPress version in the drop-down menu.
1.3.5 (2025-04-04)
- Added a drop-down submenu with WP constants and their values (enabled / disabled).
1.3.4 (2024-12-20)
- Added a filter hook to modify the environment’s display name (thanks @erniecom).
1.3.3 (2024-07-05)
- Internationalization improvements by @tekapo.
1.3.2 (2023-11-10)
- Accessibility improvements by @mrwweb.
1.3.1 (2022-03-30)
- Skip loading the CSS file on the front end if the toolbar is hidden (thanks @tflight).
1.3 (2020-08-25)
- Code refactor (thank you, @markjaquith).
- Environment type now hidden by default for subscribers.
1.2.1 (2020-08-23)
- Removed the distracting hover effect (thank you, @markjaquith).
- Hardening against XSS (props @markjaquith).
1.2 (2020-08-21)
- Adds a filter hook to allow you to determine whether the environment is displayed.
1.1 (2020-08-21)
- Added a conditional front-end display (admins only).
- Improved plugin initialization.
1.0.2 (2020-08-21)
- Removed the (unstyled) display on the front-end admin bar.
- Added a FAQ section to the readme file.
1.0.1 (2020-08-21)
- Fixed the plugin description and plugin URI.
1.0 (2020-08-20)
- Initial release.
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Available Versions
| Version | Download | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 1.6.0 | Download | Stable |
| 1.5.0 | Download | Stable |
| 1.4.1 | Download | Stable |
| 1.4.0 | Download | Stable |
| 1.3.5 | Download | Stable |
| 1.3.4 | Download | Stable |
| 1.3.3 | Download | Stable |
| 1.3.2 | Download | Stable |
| 1.3.1 | Download | Stable |
| 1.3 | Download | Stable |
| 1.2.1 | Download | Stable |
| 1.2 | Download | Stable |
| 1.1 | Download | Stable |
| 1.0.2 | Download | Stable |
| 1.0.1 | Download | Stable |
| 1.0 | Download | Stable |
| Development | Download | Trunk |
