Paul Biron

<p>If you’re like me, you often have multiple versions of the same WordPress site open in different browser windows, e.g.,  production in one window and development in another window.</p>
<p>And if you’re like me, you have also unwittingly edited content in the production environment thinking you were doing so in the development environment or vice versa.</p>
<p>If so, then this plugin is for you!</p>
<p>It adds an indication of the current environment to the Admin Bar that is easier to see than examining the URL in your browser’s address bar.</p>
<h3>Out-of-the-box behavior</h3>
<p>Out-of-the-box, 2 different environments are recognized:</p>
<ul>
<li>Production
<ul>
<li>The node added to the Admin Bar has a red background (i.e., Stop/be careful with any changes you make).</li>
<li>If neither a staging, QA, nor development environment is detected, then <code>Prod</code> is displayed in the Admin Bar.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Development
<ul>
<li>The node added to the Admin Bar has a green background (i.e., Go ahead, it is safe to make changes).</li>
<li>If WP is running on localhost (either a loopback IP address or LAN IP address), then <code>Local</code> displays in the Admin Bar.</li>
<li>If WP_DEBUG is defined & true, then <code>Dev</code> displays in the Admin Bar.</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<h3>Customizing the out-of-the-box behavior</h3>
<p>Two additional environments are supported, but cannot be automatically detected:</p>
<ul>
<li>Staging
<ul>
<li>The node added to the Admin Bar has a yellow-ish background (i.e., Slow down, changes <em>might</em> make it into the production site).</li>
<li>For information on how to enable this environment, see the <a href="https://github.com/pbiron/shc-show-env/" rel="nofollow ugc">documentation</a>.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>QA
<ul>
<li>The node added to the Admin Bar has a blue background (i.e., “It’s cool”, changes you make won’t affect the production site).</li>
<li>For information on how to enable this environment, see the <a href="https://github.com/pbiron/shc-show-env/" rel="nofollow ugc">documentation</a>.</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>


Show Environment in Admin Bar

Super handy if you are click-happy with your mouse like me. Red "Prod" badge in admin bar is effective way to prevent you from accidentally messing up the production

Essential plugin when working in multiple environments

I'm like the author. I sometimes change admin color, but can never remember what color I set for Prod vs Dev.

Useful for developers like us

Add an indication to the Admin Bar of the environment WordPress is running in (e.g., Prod, Staging, QA, Dev, etc).

maxwellberkel

<p>WP Log viewer makes debugging your WordPress site easy and stress free.</p>
<h4>Features</h4>
<p>Some features of this plugin.</p>
<ul>
<li>Admin bar widget</li>
<li>Toggle debugging with a click</li>
<li>Smart download</li>
<li>One click error filtering</li>
<li>Clear log with one click</li>
<li>Group and list views</li>
<li>Sort entries by date</li>
<li>Auto refresh</li>
<li>Realtime search</li>
<li>Error color legend</li>
<li>Custom errors</li>
<li>Debugging status, size and last modified</li>
<li>Dashboard widget</li>
<li>Persistent settings</li>
</ul>
<h4>Admin Bar Widget</h4>
<p>The admin bar widget gives you glanceable information such as debug log mode and error count where ever you are in wp-admin.  You will always know when there are errors and can access the log viewer with on click for additional details.</p>
<h4>Toggle Debugging</h4>
<p>Now you can enable/disable debugging with a click.  No need to manually edit wp-config.php anymore.  Go to the help section, follow the easy instructions to enable this feature and you are ready to go.</p>
<h4>Smart Download</h4>
<p>When you click to download debug.log, a smart log version will be downloaded.  What is a smart log?  It’s a version of debug.log that is similar to group view.  Only a the latest unique entry for each error will be included.</p>
<p>This makes it much easier to analyse the file, scan for errors and skip all the redundancy.</p>
<h4>One Click Error Filtering</h4>
<p>You can filter errors with just one click on the error legend.  Click on multiple error types to filter by multiple error types.  Click a second time to deselect an error type.  This feature works great with custom errors.</p>
<h4>Clear Log</h4>
<p>Easily clear your debug.log file with one click.</p>
<h4>Group View</h4>
<p>Log entries are group making it much easier to see each unique error.  You can click to list the date and times when the error occured.  Grouped entries can be sorted by newest or latest.</p>
<h4>List View</h4>
<p>All log entries are listed by date and time and can be sorted by newest or latest.</p>
<h4>Sort By Date</h4>
<p>Log entries can be sorted by date by newest or latest in either list or group views.</p>
<h4>Automatic Refresh</h4>
<p>Log automatically refreshes to display new errors.  No need to manually refresh the screen.  However, there is a link to manually refresh if desired.</p>
<h4>Realtime Search</h4>
<p>Quickly search and find specific errors.</p>
<h4>Error Color Legend</h4>
<p>Errors are color coded to make it easier to identify certain errors such as fatal, notices, warnings, deprecated and database.</p>
<h4>Custom Errors</h4>
<p>Now you can easily define custom error messages.  When that error occures in your log file it can have it’s own color coding, count and label.  Testing for custom errors or issues is now much easier.</p>
<h4>Debug Status</h4>
<p>Debugging status is located at the top of the viewer and admin bar to make it easy to see if debugging is enabled or disabled.</p>
<p>You can also see log size and last modified timestamp.  This information automatically updates when changed.</p>
<h4>Dashboard Widget</h4>
<p>This widget gives you a quick summary regarding how many and what type of errors are in the log view.  You can also access the log viewer with just one click.</p>
<h4>Persistent Settings</h4>
<p>Customize your log viewer to your heart’s content.  Your settings such as view, sort order, sidebar folding and more persist accross logins.  When you login as your user, log viewer will be just like you left it.</p>


WP Log Viewer

Great

Useful plugin

Plugin could be useful, if it was updated and not conflict with a important plugin like Yoast.

Breaks down the Yoast settings page

One click enable/disable debugging, clear debug.log, search, sort, and filter errors.  See new errors automatically without refreshing.

Show Environment in Admin Bar vs WP Log Viewer