Trigger Browsersync

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1. ★★★★★ mark l chaves

   6.7y ago

   Thank goodness we have the Trigger Browsersync WordPress plugin by Sami Greenbury. And, I love the way it piggy backs onto Browsersync (loose coupling). You will need to follow the install instructions carefully. And, the big prerequisite is knowing how to set up Browsersync of course. Knowing Gulp would be even better. If you aren’t comfortable wading through PHP and JavaScript, this plugin might be too intimidating. But, I highly recommend giving it a try because it will save you tons of dev time. Assuming you have a local WordPress dev env and are working on a lot of WordPress sites. I did find a teeny bug (typo) that can be easily fixed. If you run into it too, then change “emssage” to “message” on line 275 in the trigger-browsersync.php file. I posted about this in the support forum. If you have any issues at all with the set up, I suggest turning on your PHP debugging and telling the Trigger Browsersync plugin to log events via a filter. See the plugin details page. A couple FYIs 1) This plugin does not seem to watch PHP and CSS updates. I have Gulp file that instantiates Browsersync reloads my browser on any PHP and CSS file changes. This setup runs perfectly with this plugin. I didn’t have to change a thing in my Gulp file. 2) There has not been any plugin updates for 9 months at the time of this post. This topic was modified 6 years, 6 months ago by mark l chaves. Reason: Typo and reformatting This topic was modified 6 years, 6 months ago by mark l chaves. Reason: Changed Closing Notes to FYIs

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2. ★★★★★ certainlyakey

   7.0y ago

   Strangely it doesn’t work if you add the new TriggerBrowsersync(); call to a theme’s functions.php (i added it to an include that is git ignored), but it does work if you do as the author said, put it into mu-plugins. Excellent plugin, thanks!

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3. ★★★★★ octoninjacat

   8.5y ago

   This is fantastic! I’m using this with the JointsWP theme and it works flawlessly. Definitely a must use plugin!

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Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 7.4.8 · WP 6.0.1

Growth timeline

Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow

1. 2024-06-04 20+ → 10+ down after 88 days in tier
2. 2024-03-08 10+ → 20+ up after 15 days in tier
3. 2024-02-22 20+ → 10+ down after 2 days in tier
4. 2024-02-20 10+ → 20+ up after 93 days in tier
5. 2023-11-19 20+ → 10+ down after 184 days in tier
6. 2023-05-19 10+ → 20+ up after 13 days in tier
7. 2023-05-06 20+ → 10+ down after 7 days in tier
8. 2023-04-29 10+ → 20+ up

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Trigger Browsersync: 10+ active installs, 4.7★ (3 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-08-31. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/trigger-browsersync