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Total downloads: 19,626
Active installs: 80
Total reviews: 15
Average rating: 4.6
Support threads opened: 0
Support threads resolved: 0 (0%)
Available in: 1 language(s)
Contributors: 1
Last updated: 3/4/2013 (4685 days ago)
Added to WordPress: 2/2/2011 (14 years old)
Minimum WordPress version: 3.0.0
Tested up to WordPress version: 3.5.2
Minimum PHP version: f

Maintenance & Compatibility

Maintenance score

Possibly abandoned • Last updated 4685 days ago • 15 reviews

24/100

Is BlackBox Debug Bar abandoned?

Possibly abandoned (last update 4685 days ago).

Compatibility

Requires WordPress: 3.0.0
Tested up to: 3.5.2
Requires PHP: f

Ratings

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Developers

Greg Winiarski (Owner)3

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Description

BlackBox is symfony like unobstrusive debug bar attached to the top of the browser window.

How can it help you with development:
1. instantly inspect global variables (GET, POST, COOKIE, SERVER)
2. debug both frontend and admin area
3. executed MySQL queries and time it took to execute each query (useful for finding slow queries)
4. profiler for measuring performance of your plugins and themes
5. errors occurred when loading WordPress page

Installation

This section describes how to install the plugin and get it working.

  1. Upload plugin to /wp-content/plugins/ directory
  2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
  3. Done!

Frequently Asked Questions

No FAQ available

Review feed

Anna Bansaghi
6/2/2018

Essential plugin in my developer toolset

Immediate feedback on a great majority of errors. Added a conditional red background to the Errors, and with this modification I have never miss even a notice anymore. Thank you very much!

Screenshots

  1. Glabal variables foramted using var_export() function, syntax coloring using awesome highlight.js library (75% zoom)

    Glabal variables foramted using var_export() function, syntax coloring using awesome highlight.js library (75% zoom)

  2. Profiler tab. Displays checkpoint name, time passed since profiler start and current memory usage (75% zoom)

    Profiler tab. Displays checkpoint name, time passed since profiler start and current memory usage (75% zoom)

  3. SQL tab. Displays each query execution time and the executed queries. Syntax highlighting using highlight.js library (75% zoom)

    SQL tab. Displays each query execution time and the executed queries. Syntax highlighting using highlight.js library (75% zoom)

  4. Errors tab. Displays error type and the error message. If the error occured more then once its type is displayed as "Notice (X)" where X is the number of error occurances.

    Errors tab. Displays error type and the error message. If the error occured more then once its type is displayed as "Notice (X)" where X is the number of error occurances.

Changelog

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