Questions tagged [debug]
Basic techniques on debugging WordPress that can assist you on first hand.
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How do I see logs of critical errors of specific pages without enabling public debug for everyone?
I have a site that works well in production, say with N pages currenly being used by users.
I am doing some PHP scripting in one specific page and I want to debug some data. Usually in projects not ...
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How can I use xdebug with wp-cli
I'd like to use xdebug and vscode to debug a script I'm running via wp eval-file.
My launch.json is pretty basic.
{
"name": "Listen for Xdebug",
"...
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How to find code responsible for warnings from wp_cron runs?
I have a website created using wordpress, which is hosted on accuwebhosting.com
Recently I have been getting emails with the subject line
"Cron user@server cd wpfolder && /usr/local/bin/...
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Finding plugin that makes this part of page (finding sweetwinsprizes.info virus's origin)
I have a website with several plugins installed. in 70% of page loading everything is OK and header is something like this:
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<link rel=&...
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Error entries in debug.log
I have enabled error logging in wp-config.php
define( 'WP_DEBUG', true );
if ( WP_DEBUG ) {
define( 'WP_DEBUG_LOG', true );
define( 'WP_DEBUG_DISPLAY', false );
}
and I see that debug.log writes a ...
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ERROR during Wordpress Installation "There has been a critical error on this website."
I am installing the wordpress 5.8.6 version...but during the installtion I got this error..
I'm trying to resolve it by renaming the plugin folder name and by also debuging mode in true mode...but all ...
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Platform sh site setup in localhost gets Cookie error
I have setup up a WordPress project from Platform sh in my local host. I get get the project by using the platform get [id] command. I Imported the database in my localhost and configured the wp-...
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How WP works with DB during cron job running?
I have to create script for daily import data from external source to WordPress website.
It worked fine on my local machine. But when I run this import on wpengine, I get duplicate entries despite ...
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"-2" Postfix added at the end of the permalink [duplicate]
I know -2 comes due to having duplicate names either in post/pages or media files.
But I don't have any such duplicate name. In fact, I tried installing WordPress from scratch and tried to create a ...
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WordPress Throwing Deprecated Errors on its own Files
My WordPress Website is throwing PHP Deprecated Errors on wp-include files.
I am novice WordPress Developer working on my site.
I am being flooded by these errors and extremely high CPU consumption on ...
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Automated WordPress update failed to complete - but all updates fail with code -1
I have a WordPress website on my Ubuntu machine. I do use auto-updates and auto-updates for plugins. After I logged in recently I saw that a couple of plugins didn't update, as well as WordPress ...
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Internal server error when enabling Multisite in WordPress
Currently I am working on WordPress and I have added some line such as define('WP_ALLOW_MULTISITE',true); and after refreshing the page, this content shown on display:
The server encountered an ...
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Submenu items not working anymore
Not sure where I am going wrong here... Submenu items in my website have stopped working across entire site with custom links/anchor tags.
Examples:
https://bell.works/new-jersey/on-the-block/
(Sub ...
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when I Try to Create new Post or Page it goes Draft(I can't post Anything)
I have Done Some Debugging is there:
1, Deactivate Plugins
2, Switch Themes
3, Update plugins & themes
4, update the WordPress version
5, in functions.php :
function remove_dashboard_widgets() {
...
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Wordpress not available to file using wp-env for xdebug requests
I'm using Wp-env to develop a plugin as it's a pretty robust wrapper for Docker that includes phpunit and xdebug.
However, I have been struggling to get xDebug working.
From my_plugin directory run ...
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Why does my site generate .bt files?
I'm trying to understand what .bt files are. I cleaned a bunch of malicious code and files from my site as detected by Wordfence (plugin) and ran a new scan. Wordfence showed the creation of several ....
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My wordpress site memory exhausted more than 1GB trying to debug with default
My wordpress site memory is exhausted
[02-Nov-2022 08:41:33 UTC] PHP Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 1073741824 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 262144 bytes) in /home/ahzabcollections/...
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Any wordpress development tool to query its functions?
I'm developing Wordpress advanced sites. I have to do a lot of functionalities programmatically, and I need to call a lot of Wordpress functions to access to database with specific queries, get data ...
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Running xDebug and NPM at the same time?
I'm wondering whether the following is possible.
WordPress scripts is set up in the theme folder.
xDebug is set up in the WP installation folder.
So for each, a separate folder should be opened in VS ...
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3,840 cronjobs with no action!
I have a site which constantly has nearly 4,000 cronjobs with no action. If I delete a number of these jobs they come right back, generally to the same number.
I've tried switching back to the Twenty ...
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Wordpress 6.x / PHP 8.x deprecated warnings in development environment
The problem:
I want to run Wordpress 6.x with PHP 8.x in development mode - meaning define('WP_DEBUG', true); but Wordpress 6.x partial support for PHP 8.x throws a lot of deprecated warnings which do ...
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Solution to White Screen of Death that does not require Web Server access?
I'm working on a live website, updated a plugin and got the dreaded White Screen of Death. I know exactly how to resolve the problem; simply deactivate or delete the plugin I upgraded.
The problem is ...
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How do you change error reporting to only show errors in WordPress?
I'm working on a development site that has some plugins that produce notices. It's a bit annoying during development when you only want to see the errors your own code produces.
How can you turn off ...
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Unable to get a simple plugin admin page to work
Even though I have years of software development experience, I am new to WP & PHP development, so please bear with me.
After reading through the plugin manual, I started with a WP plugin boiler ...
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Can't get rid of JQMIGRATE: Migrate is installed, version 3.3.2. Manually updated all the libralies and site. 5.8.2
Answers I found here are about the older versions of WordPress when it were transitioning into a new version of jQuery. (This is version 5.8.2)
Since the one from WordPress is not logging active, I ...
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strange characters in debug file
recently I get a weird log in WordPress debug file
[09-Dec-2021 20:26:57 UTC] 03AGdBq27pjsLRdeIVXfN_q2XMOOFf1OY3rFj5GIEfJHVBrzTHplTE0-...
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Debugging JS errors
I'm struggling with this error and would appreciate some help.
Wordpress with the MasterStudy theme and then MasterStudy LMS plugin. Elementor on top. Everything up to date. I have a caching plugin, ...
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Where exactly do I write define( 'WP_DEBUG', true ) in wp-config file
would anybody know where I would write WP_DEBUG in wp_config file. I don't see it there.
I would like to check why my javascript is not working. I have enqueued everything with php in the functions....
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Home Dashboard Screen Options always change
Like any other WordPress user I have installed a few Themes and Plugins.
I recently noticed that the boxes on my Home Dashboard change every now and then and only 3 of them they are always there:
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Can not login to wordpress site after resolving white screen of death
I had a white screen of death that I was somewhat able to resolve. I updated PHP from 7.0 to 7.3.2, removed BOM from wp-config.php, and deleted wp super cache plugin. From looking at others issues ...
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Debugging in WordPress at Theme installation [duplicate]
I am trying to upload a Theme. But I am getting message Please select a file.
I placed below code in wp-config.php file.
define( 'WP_DEBUG', true );
define( 'WP_DEBUG_DISPLAY', false );
define( '...
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How to get the full stack trace for WordPress "table doesn't exist" error in debug.log?
I'm getting a WordPress "table doesn't exist" error in my debug.log, but unlike most errors it doesn't give a full stack trace to help me isolate the code. Anyone know how to tell WordPress ...
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WP_Debug not displaying anything
In wp-config.php I have included:
define('WP_DEBUG', true);
define('WP_DEBUG_LOG', true);
As I understand, this should display certain information on every page, also if there are no errors. However, ...
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There is no any line related the error but it says critical error
My website says critical error on website after add my custom code but there is no any line related my custom code in log file.There are only 2 repater lines and they are standard for my website, not ...
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Display Custom Taxonomy Dropdown posts
I wanna display posts of my custom taxonomy in a dropdown list, I mean I create a filter for taxonomies in my custom post type I have 2 different types which contains some sub-category & in that ...
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Can Someone Help me to Correct my shortcode for displaying a category?
Actually the problem is in this code that is, If I put the id directly in "terms" of any post type like; [arts-list 10], then this type of post which contains this id displays the posts on ...
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Correct my shortcode for displaying a category?
function diwp_create_shortcode_arts_post_type(){
$atts = shortcode_atts( array(
'type' => ' ',
), $atts );
$args = array(
'post_type' => 'arts'...
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var_dump() and print_r() display null in php
I am trying to debug php and it would help me if I could display some variables.
When I add var_dump($value) and print_r($value) to functions.php they show Null.
When I add var_dump($value) and ...
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File is executed twice if plugin is activating
I have an issue with my plugin. I run an function if the plugin is activating this function include a file. But if I activate the plugin the file is included twice. Is this normal or an bug in ...
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Why does WordPress keep showing me error messages?
I'm trying to hide error messages on a WordPress installation on a shared hosting. I added the following code to my config.
ini_set('display_errors','Off');
ini_set('error_reporting', E_ALL );
define('...
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Fatal error: wp-settings.php on line 199
I'd love to know how to get back into wp-admin and get my site back online.
I contacted GoDaddy tech support again today and the PHP is supposedly updating.. Wordpress has been complaining about the ...
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Access "wp site health info" data from plugin
I wanted to know if a third party plugin can access "WordPress site health info" data. If yes, than what is the correct procedure to do that?
Thank you.
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WordPress admin menu gap when debug mode is enabled?
After the recent update of WordPress, version 5.5.1.
Whenever I enabled the debug mode, there is a 2em gap between WordPress admin menu and the bar.
.php-error #adminmenuback, .php-error #...
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How to find line of code causing wordpress deprecation notices
My Site gives a few errors about notices and depreciations that I would like to fix. For example:
Got error 'PHP message: PHP Deprecated: add_option was called with an argument that is deprecated ...
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error log is going to the wrong location, WP_DEBUG_LOG is ignored
My WordPress error log is going to /var/log/php-fpm/www-error.log. That's not where I want it. In fact, it took me too long to figure that out. (I'm new to WP and PHP).
I've tried to redirect it with ...
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How to display only specific Error types in debug.log? No notices, warnings, etc
I can't find the right way to make it work.
I tried many things, like putting this in wp-config.php
define('WP_DEBUG', true);
define('WP_DEBUG_DISPLAY', false);
define('WP_DEBUG_LOG', 'wp-content/...
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PHP-FPM Wordpress Debug
Is there any way to get WP_DEBUG to log errors when running PHP-FPM?
define( 'WP_DEBUG_LOG', true );
define( 'WP_DEBUG_DISPLAY', false );
define( 'SAVEQUERIES', true );
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How to fix the admin menu margin-top bug in WordPress 5.5?
I recently updated a WordPress instance from 5.4 to 5.5 to end up with an annoying margin-top in the admin area, above the menu directly.
I deactivated all plugins, switched themes, did some ...
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How to show the error causing the 'There has been a critical error on your website'?
I'm getting the error: 'There has been a critical error on your website. Learn more about debugging in WordPress.'.
How do I display which error I'm getting in the frontend?
I have these three lines ...
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How to implement Sentry on Wordpress? [closed]
I need Sentry to track errors in my project code, the unofficial plugin for wordpress seems to be useless. How should I fix it?
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