Debug bar open
Add a Debug Bar to your WordPress website to debug and develop your themes, plugins, etc…
With the plugin you can find every variables you want to debug in the same place and use debug functions to display them.
Prerequisites
To fully help you to debug your website you need to add some code to your wp-config.php file.
define( 'WP_DEBUG', true ); // PHP errors, notices and warnings will be displayed
define( 'SAVEQUERIES', true ); // Display queries in current page
define( 'WP_DISABLE_FATAL_ERROR_HANDLER', true ); // Disable WP Fatal error handler
Usage of the debug functions
To debug a simple variable you can use:
To debug a variable and stop the process after you can use:
Debug a variable in the debug bar
This is one of the main aspect of the plugin, to debug variables in a separate place.
The most difficult task when you debug a variable is to deal with container width, with the plugin you have a debug bar where you can add the variables of the current page.
To add a variable to the debug bar you can use the function bellow:
You can add custom tabs in the debug bar to filter you variables:
What’s Whoops in the setting panel?
Whoops is the framework that we use to display error handling. (cf. Pretty error handler with stack frames)
