A Complete Guide to WordPress Debugging (Enabling WP_DEBUG + Other Tools)

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In a perfect world, you would never have a single issue that required debugging. But in the real world, you are bound to run into problems on your WordPress site that require a look under the hood.

To help you do this, WordPress includes its own built-in debugging mode and you can also find useful third-party tools to help you debug WordPress.

In this post, we'll dive into WordPress' built-in debug mode and ecuador phone number data show you how to enable it. Then, we'll also share some of the other ways you can debug your WordPress site.

Here's everything we'll cover:

An introduction to WordPress debug mode and debug logging
How to Enable WordPress Debug Mode (Three Methods)
Some other ways to debug WordPress
What does WP Debug do?
The core of the WordPress software is written in PHP , as are the plugins and themes.

If you're having trouble with your site, WordPress debug mode can help you figure out what's wrong by displaying all PHP errors, notices, and warnings.

Once you enable debug mode, you'll see messages like this whenever there's a problem ( even if it's not causing any immediate problems ):

WP_DEBUG error example on WordPress site