Live from WordPress.org · Sep 28, 2026

Best Debug Plugins for WordPress

270 plugins are tagged “debug” on WordPress.org. We rank them by active installs and score every one on update freshness, compatibility, ratings and support — so you can pick a safe one in seconds. The most popular right now is LW MWP Tools with 10+ active installs.

Plugins in category270

#1 by installsLW MWP Tools

Top-30 installs300+

Avg. health (this page)33/100

Best Debug Plugins for WordPress
Rank	Plugin	Active installs	Rating	Updated	Health
121	LW MWP Tools View resource usage, access and error logs, and more on the Liquid Web Managed WordPress… by Francis Smith	10+	★★★★★★★★★★ No reviews	8 years ago	23
122	Simple Log Viewer A simple plugin to log errors in real time in a metabox in the admin panel, too integrated… by Pedro Avelar	10+	★★★★★★★★★★ 5 (2)	2 months ago	64
123	Apermo Xdebug This plugin helps developers that use Xdebug. by Christoph Daum	10+	★★★★★★★★★★ 5 (1)	8 years ago	30
124	Development Assistant Toolkit for debugging and customer support. by Dmitry Pripa	10+	★★★★★★★★★★ 3 (2)	1 month ago	63
125	Show var_dump Results of "var_dump" shows in your dashboard after "Show var_dump" plugin install. by woodroots	10+	★★★★★★★★★★ No reviews	12 years ago	23
126	Debug Bar Hook Log Logs and displays a filterable list of all hooks called during the request, with their… by Will Anderson	10+	★★★★★★★★★★ 4 (1)	12 years ago	27
127	Checking Variables (Dev. Tool) Developers! Check your variables. by sujin2f	10+	★★★★★★★★★★ 4 (1)	11 years ago	27
128	WP Page Load Stats Display memory, page load time, average load time and query count in the footer of your… by Mike Jolley	10+	★★★★★★★★★★ 5 (9)	11 years ago	35
129	Ultimate DebugBar Ultimate debug bar for your Wordpress website. by Avram	10+	★★★★★★★★★★ 5 (3)	1 month ago	64
130	dbug Simple error debugging and logging functions. by postpostmodern	10+	★★★★★★★★★★ 1 (1)	9 years ago	18
131	Query Monitor bbPress & BuddyPress Conditionals Add bbPress and BuddyPress Conditionals to John Blackbourn's awesome Query Monitor by Stephen Edgar	10+	★★★★★★★★★★ 5 (1)	12 years ago	30
132	Xdebug Output Handler This WordPress Plugin collects the XDebug output and displayes it in the footer. Only use… by zerotop	10+	★★★★★★★★★★ No reviews	14 years ago	23
133	Another Show Hooks Show the origin of an action or filter hook sequentially which helps a developer to debug… by Exlac	10+	★★★★★★★★★★ 5 (5)	4 years ago	35
134	Custom Logs A sleek, modern plugin to manage WordPress debug logs with custom directories, levels, and… by Byron Jacobs	10+	★★★★★★★★★★ No reviews	1 year ago	32
135	Patchwing – Essential Debug Tools A developer tool for WordPress that provides real time server metrics, PHP configuration… by Nafiz	10+	★★★★★★★★★★ No reviews	6 months ago	44
136	Easy Error Log Effortlessly track and manage WordPress debug.log on your WordPress site. Streamline the… by Sabbir Sam	10+	★★★★★★★★★★ No reviews	8 months ago	38
137	MetaViewer – Debug Meta Data View and debug post meta, user meta, and custom fields in a clean admin table. by Usman Ali Qureshi	10+	★★★★★★★★★★ No reviews	1 month ago	57
138	MySQL Profiler Displays a list of each page's SQL queries and the functions calling them that can be… by tombenner	10+	★★★★★★★★★★ 4.2 (5)	15 years ago	32
139	TIVWP-DM Development Manager Install and manage development plugins by Gregory K. (@tivnet)	10+	★★★★★★★★★★ No reviews	12 years ago	23
140	Process Log Logging system. by EdwardBock	10+	★★★★★★★★★★ No reviews	3 years ago	23
141	WP Debug Robot An unobtrusive debugging tool for WordPress by Matthew Batchelder	10+	★★★★★★★★★★ No reviews	13 years ago	23
142	Bang System Logging Enable system logging for WordPress plugin and theme development. by Marcus Downing	10+	★★★★★★★★★★ No reviews	13 years ago	23
143	PCo Kint Kint debugger for WordPress - a powerful and modern PHP debugging tool. by Compute	10+	★★★★★★★★★★ 5 (1)	11 years ago	30
144	WpLoadGraph – Log and display server load of your WP site Stress testing tool for logging and measuring all requests to your WordPress website and… by Tekod lab.	10+	★★★★★★★★★★ No reviews	6 months ago	44
145	Admin's Debug Tool Admin-only tool for checking execution times and error output of current theme/plugins by pantsonhead	10+	★★★★★★★★★★ No reviews	11 years ago	23
146	Vanilla Bean – Error Mailer Monitor your website, plugins and themes. by vsmash	10+	★★★★★★★★★★ 5 (1)	5 years ago	30
147	Hikari Krumo Krumo is a debug tool able of collapsing array and object values so that it takes less…	10+	★★★★★★★★★★ No reviews	16 years ago	23
148	Pretty Debug A WordPress plugin that makes var_dump and print_r pretty! by wycks	10+	★★★★★★★★★★ 5 (1)	13 years ago	30
149	Output Buffer Tester This plugin helps to developers to find which plugin or theme closed their opened full page… by Nextendweb	10+	★★★★★★★★★★ No reviews	9 years ago	23
150	Debug Log Parser Debug Log Parser is a tool to parse your Wordpress debug-file and manage your… by blackus3r	10+	★★★★★★★★★★ 3 (2)	12 years ago	24

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