One question we get a lot at WebDevStudios is what to do when you receive the dreaded WordPress White Screen of Death. WordPress by default hides all error messages from displaying. This is for security reasons as error messages can actually help hackers penetrate your website.
So how do you display error messages in WordPress? Easy! Just add the line of code below to the top of your .htaccess file in the root directory of your WordPress website.
php_flag display_errors on
That’s it! Error messages will now display across your entire WordPress website.
Another method used to display WordPress error messages is the WP_DEBUG flag:
define(‘WP_DEBUG’, true);
Just drop that line of code in your wp-config.php file and errors will start displaying.
Remember to only use these techniques to help troubleshoot errors and remove it as soon as you are done.
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Do you have any idea how many hours could have been saved had I known this years ago?!? Thanks for the tip!
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Good tutorial, although for clarification purposes I would say you should add “Run-time” to the description of this, because you are talking about displaying php error messages.
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Thanks for an excellent article. .htaccess solution didn’t work for me as I got internal server error due to my server running in CGI mode. I then had to add the following lines in wp-config.php:
define(‘WP_DEBUG’, true);
@ini_set(‘log_errors’,'On’);
@ini_set(‘display_errors’,'On’);
@ini_set(‘error_log’,'/home/yourdefinedpath/phperrors.log’);
I then created a file phperrors.log and uploaded it to the webserver.
I found the path to phperrors.log by creating another path.php file and putting the following code in it:
Sorry the code is:
echo $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']
Please put a “;” at the end of above statement and enclose it in php brackets.
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