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Turn on WordPress Error Reporting

Comment out the top line there, and add the rest to your wp-config.php file to get more detailed error reporting from your WordPress site. Definitely don't do this live, do it for local development and testing. 

// define('WP_DEBUG', false);

define('WP_DEBUG', true);
define('WP_DEBUG_LOG', true);
define('WP_DEBUG_DISPLAY', false);
@ini_set('display_errors', 0);

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  1. Rakshit

    Nice one Chris. Thanks.

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  2. geopaL

    for a live website I would recommend:

    
define('WP_DEBUG', false);

@ini_set('log_errors','On');
@ini_set('display_errors','Off');
@ini_set('error_log','phperrors.log'); // path to server-writable log file

    don’t forget to drop a phperrors.log file inside your remote directory with write permissions

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  3. sagalbot

    Not sure where the errors get reported to with this turned on.. is there a log file somewhere?

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    • sagalbot

      Answered my own question on the codex.

      /**
      * This will log all errors notices and warnings to a file called debug.log in
      * wp-content (if Apache does not have write permission, you may need to create
      * the file first and set the appropriate permissions (i.e. use 666) )
      */
      define(‘WP_DEBUG’, true);
      define(‘WP_DEBUG_LOG’, true);
      define(‘WP_DEBUG_DISPLAY’, false);
      @ini_set(‘display_errors’,0);

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