Title: Little Tools
Author: Alex Kirk
Published: July 30, 2024
Last modified: November 29, 2025

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# Little Tools

I have created a number of little tools that might be useful for you:

## 󠀁[WordPress Playground Step Library](https://akirk.github.io/playground-step-library/)󠁿

This is a tool for the [WordPress Playground](https://playground.wordpress.net/),
this amazing piece of software that lets you run WordPress without a server, just
in your browser. Because it can be hard to do more complex things with Blueprints,
[this tool provides you with a UI to quickly create blueprints](https://akirk.github.io/playground-step-library/)
and steps that do more than the ones that are provided by playground.

URL: [https://akirk.github.io/playground-step-library/](https://akirk.github.io/playground-step-library/)

Code: [https://github.com/akirk/playground-step-library](https://github.com/akirk/mastodon-api-tester)

## 󠀁[My Telex Plugins](https://akirk.github.io/mastodon-api-tester/)󠁿

I think [Telex (by Automattic)](https://telex.automattic.ai/) is an amazing way 
to create the WordPress blocks you need. But each is its own plugin! This tool allows
to bundle them.

URL: [https://akirk.github.io/my-telex-plugins/](https://akirk.github.io/my-telex-plugins/)

Code: [https://github.com/akirk/my-telex-plugins](https://github.com/akirk/my-telex-plugins)

## 󠀁[Mastodon API Tester](https://akirk.github.io/mastodon-api-tester/)󠁿

Use this to [connect to a Mastodon API compatible server](https://akirk.github.io/playground-step-library/),
like Mastodon itself, or a WordPress with the [Enable Mastodon Apps plugin](https://wordpress.org/plugins/enable-mastodon-apps/).
It shows and (locally) records all HTTP requests so that you can see what’s going
on.

URL: [https://akirk.github.io/mastodon-api-tester/](https://akirk.github.io/mastodon-api-tester/)

Code: [https://github.com/akirk/mastodon-api-tester](https://github.com/akirk/mastodon-api-tester)