Essential Sublime Text Plugins for WordPress Development

Despite the recent Coda 2 update, I find myself doing almost all of my web coding in Sublime Text 2, an excellent and extensible editor for Mac, Windows and Linux.

Specifically for WordPress development, I’ve found at least three tools worth installing. (If you’re new to Sublime Text, I recommend installing the Sublime Package Control extension first).

WordPress Package, based on the TextMate bundle. Provides useful autocompletions for functions and some snippets. This one is a huge time saver, and along with the ~~ZenCoding~~ Emmet plugin, couldn’t imagine going without it.
Search WordPress Codex. Does what it says, especially useful for directly looking up a function definition.
SublimePhpTidy, helps format PHP code to conform to WordPress Coding Standards.

Nettuts provides more great tips on using Sublime Text.

I’d be glad to hear of any other useful plugins/hints!

Screenshot of WordPress reference in Sublime Text 2

Daniel Koskinen

June 13, 2012

Web

coding, editors, sublime text, WordPress

14 responses to “Essential Sublime Text Plugins for WordPress Development”

Richard Guay

September 7, 2012 at 4:11 pm

I like the FileTemplate package. I have used it to create a WordPress plugin template that gets me moving with a new template.

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Nick Nasty

September 12, 2012 at 4:28 pm

Hi,

Thanks for the 3 you listed. I was hoping you could expand the post to include ALL the packages one needs to install if you are new to sublime text 2 and are trying to set it up for WordPress since your page was one of the first two that came up when i searched for that.

I appreciate the help you provided! Keep on keeping on bro!

Thanks,

NN

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Daniel

December 10, 2012 at 12:38 pm

Nick, the ones I’ve listed in this post are the only ones I currently have installed that relate in any way to WordPress. I’d like to hear of any others though!

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seriousprod

January 6, 2013 at 7:04 am

Thanks for the post! I’ve been using Sublime for months and didn’t discover Package Control until today. I’m really excited about seeing what these packages can do for my workflow.

Just a heads up– it looks like development on Zen Coding has ended and moved to a new project called Emmet. http://docs.emmet.io/

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Daniel

January 7, 2013 at 9:05 am

@seriousprod: Thanks for the tip regarding Emmet/ZenCoding, hadn’t noticed!

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Nick Nasty

January 7, 2013 at 9:44 am

It’s so damn hard to change over. Been using Dreamweaver since 1998, and even though it is almost completely useless now, just notepad with an extra thousands buttons i never use, I can’t seem to get into the grove with any other IDE.

Like a comfortable ratty pair of smelly slippers I refuse to break in the new ones. I think my problem is that I work remotely so am missing the environment where people around me are using Sublime and busting my chops for Dreamweaver. lol.

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January 7, 2013 at 5:32 pm

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Jure

January 30, 2013 at 7:58 pm

Hi, can I ask, what there are you using for Sublime? 🙂

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1. Jure
  
  January 30, 2013 at 7:58 pm
  
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2. Daniel Koskinen
  
  February 21, 2013 at 11:35 pm
  
  Jure: It’s Blackboard
  
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Nic Dienstbier (@dnstbr)

March 21, 2013 at 1:54 am

Hey there, just wanted to drop by and let everyone know I’ve made a plugin for Sublime Text 2 and 3 that allows you to edit posts, pages, custom post types, settings, and taxonomy terms for a WordPress site from within Sublime. You can also upload a media attachment and assign it as a featured image on a post or page.

You can find out more here: http://dnstbr.me/labs/sublpress/

I’m looking for feedback and comments on how it can be improved or how you can see yourself using it. Thanks! 😀

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1. Daniel Koskinen
  
  March 21, 2013 at 3:01 pm
  
  Wow Nic, that looks really cool. Congratulations on the hard work! I’ll be sure to test it out and reference in this post. Can site settings be connected to Sublime projects? Say if I open a project, that would automatically select a specific site?
  
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johnsmith

April 15, 2014 at 9:30 am

Nice Post

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