KL Debug

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)

Requirements

This plugin requires at least PHP 7.2.

How to install the plugin

1. Upload the plugin files to the /wp-content/plugins/kl-debug directory, or install the plugin through the WordPress plugins screen directly.
2. Activate the plugin through the \’Plugins\’ screen in WordPress
3. Use the Tools->KL Debug screen to configure the plugin

1. 

   Debug bar open

2. 

   Settings interface

3. 

   Pretty error handler with stack frames(powered by Whoops)

1.0.5

• [Added] Tested up to WordPress 6.0
• [Updated] Composer dependencies

1.0.4

• [Added] Tested up to WordPress 5.8.2

1.0.3

• [Added] Tested up to WordPress 5.7.2

1.0.2

• [Added] Optimize autoload.php
• [Fixed] autoload.php require path that can cause error 500

1.0.1

• [Fixed] jQuery error when plugin installed on WordPress 5.5

1.0

• [Added] Initial release