Best debugging plugins for WordPress
The most popular debugging plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. Freesoul Deactivate Plugins leads with 8K+ active installs, ahead of Fatal Error Notify (6K+) and Debug Log Manager Tool (3K+). All 118 plugins tagged “debugging” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 10 debugging plugins
- 1.
Freesoul Deactivate PluginsThe most installed debugging plugin, with 8K+ active installs. Rated 4.8 from 104 reviews, updated 1 week ago.
- 2.
Fatal Error Notify6K+ active installs. Rated 4.8 from 18 reviews, updated 8 months ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.9.11.
- 3.
Debug Log Manager Tool3K+ active installs. Rated 5.0 from 22 reviews, updated 4 months ago.
- 4.
WP Safe Mode2K+ active installs. Rated 4.3 from 8 reviews, updated 1 month ago.
- 5.
Debug Log Viewer1K+ active installs. Only 3 reviews so far, updated 4 days ago.
- 6.
Debug Bar Console1K+ active installs. Rated 5.0 from 5 reviews, updated 6 months ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.9.11.
- 7.
Black Bar500+ active installs. Rated 5.0 from 9 reviews, updated 5 months ago.
- 8.
WP PHP Console500+ active installs. Rated 4.7 from 19 reviews, last updated 6 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 5.5.24.
- 9.Developer Loggers for Simple History
400+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 1 year ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.4.14.
- 10.Ray
400+ active installs. Rated 5.0 from 10 reviews, updated 10 months ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.8.12.
All 118 plugins tagged “debugging”

Freesoul Deactivate Plugins
Down in the last 7 days:5#2,361by Jose Mortellaro11 days ago
Load plugins only where you need them. No bloat, no conflicts, more speed. Deactivate plugins where they don't add anything useful.
- Installs
- 8K+
- Rating
- 4.8(104)
- Downloads
- 103/day

Fatal Error Notify
Down in the last 7 days:1#2,901by Jack Arturo9 months ago
Receive email notifications when errors occur on your WordPress site.
- Installs
- 6K+
- Rating
- 4.8(18)
- Downloads
- 37/day

Debug Log Manager Tool
Down in the last 7 days:13#3,702by Lukman Hussain Nakib4 months ago
Read, search, and clear WordPress debug logs from wp-admin. Toggle WP_DEBUG and inspect errors without FTP.
- Installs
- 3K+
- Rating
- 5.0(22)
- Downloads
- 40/day

WP Safe Mode
Down in the last 7 days:7#4,830by Marcus (aka @msykes)1 month ago
Disable plugins or switch themes for just you or the whole site for debugging, troubleshooting or accessing and restoring a broken website.
- Installs
- 2K+
- Rating
- 4.3(8)
- Downloads
- 15/day

Debug Log Viewer
Up in the last 7 days:43#5,790by Oleksandr Lysyi4 days ago
Effortlessly view, search, filter and manage your WordPress debug.log in the admin dashboard. Real-time monitoring and email alerts
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 4.0(3)
- Downloads
- 31/day

Debug Bar Console
Up in the last 7 days:32#6,506by Drew Jaynes7 months ago
Adds a PHP/SQL console to the Debug Bar. Requires the Debug Bar plugin.
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 5.0(5)
- Downloads
- 72/day

Black Bar
Down in the last 7 days:36#8,959by Gemini Labs5 months ago
Black Bar is an unobtrusive Debug Bar for WordPress developers that attaches itself to the bottom of the browser window.
- Installs
- 500+
- Rating
- 5.0(9)
- Downloads
- 23/day

WP PHP Console
Down in the last 7 days:28#9,135by Fulvio Notarstefano6 years ago
An implementation of PHP Console as a WordPress plugin. Use Chrome Dev Tools to debug your WordPress installation!
- Installs
- 500+
- Rating
- 4.7(19)
- Downloads
- 12/day
Developer Loggers for Simple History
Up in the last 7 days:5#9,165by Pär Thernström1 year ago
Useful loggers for SimpleHistory for developers during development of a site or to maintain a live site.
- Installs
- 400+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 9/day
Ray
Down in the last 7 days:159#9,830by freekmurze11 months ago
Easily debug WordPress sites using Ray.
- Installs
- 400+
- Rating
- 5.0(10)
- Downloads
- 23/day

Editor Cleanup For Elementor
Down in the last 7 days:88#12,607by Jose Mortellaro1 month ago
FDP add-on to clean up the editor of Elementor. The Elementor editor will be faster and without conflicts with other plugins.
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 6/day

Error Sniffing Pug
Up in the last 7 days:34#13,166by Service2Client LLC2 months ago
Turns a WordPress fatal error into a plain-language diagnosis, names the plugin at fault, emails you the reason, and prepares a bug report.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Phpinfo
Down in the last 7 days:14#15,840by Roland Rust19 years ago
Prints out your webservers php settings as well as other information about your WordPress installation.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 3.5(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day
DebugPress
Up in the last 7 days:4#15,965by Milan Petrovic4 months ago
Easy-to-use plugin for debugging and profiling website loading, SQL queries analysis, help with development, bug fixing, all in configurable popup.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 5.0(5)
- Downloads
- 11/day

WP Output Log File
#16,421by Reiji Sato1 month ago
Manage log files with custom directory and filename. Download and delete logs regardless of WP_DEBUG.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 5/day

Editor Cleanup For Oxygen
Down in the last 7 days:154#17,188by Jose Mortellaro1 month ago
FDP add-on to cleanup Oxygen in the backend. Your Oxygen backend will be faster and without conflicts with other plugins.
- Installs
- 90+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 5/day
BlackBox Debug Bar
Down in the last 7 days:24#17,546by Greg Winiarski13 years ago
BlackBox is a plugin for plugin and theme developers. It collects and displays useful debug information (errors, executed queries, globals, profiler).
- Installs
- 80+
- Rating
- 4.6(15)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Dev Info Bar
Down in the last 7 days:35#18,091by istvankrucsanyica7 years ago
A simple WordPress extension which adds itself to the admin bar, providing system information such as PHP, MySQL version and details of the WordPress …
- Installs
- 80+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 3/day

PostMeta Viewer
Up in the last 7 days:303#18,115by wpwebguru13 days ago
A powerful debugging tool for WordPress developers to inspect and analyze post meta (custom fields) across posts, pages, custom post types, taxonomy t …
- Installs
- 80+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 15/day

WP Email Debug
#18,318by Grant Derepas1 year ago
Never accidentally send users emails from your testing sites again!
- Installs
- 70+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 11/day

Editor Cleanup For Flatsome
Down in the last 7 days:116#20,056by Jose Mortellaro1 month ago
FDP add-on to clean up UX Builder, the editor of Flatsome. UX Builder will be faster and without conflicts with other plugins.
- Installs
- 60+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Error Notify Slack
Down in the last 7 days:128#20,537by Max2 years ago
Receive Slack notifications whenever errors occurs on your site.
- Installs
- 50+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 3/day

Admin Code Search
Up in the last 7 days:385#21,022by marbak4 months ago
Search code across active plugins, themes, and MU plugins directly from the WordPress admin.
- Installs
- 50+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 5/day
Where Am I
Up in the last 7 days:28#22,197by BjornW11 years ago
Adds a HTML comment in the head on the front-end with current server name and address. Description = Where Am I is a tiny WordPress plugin which ad …
- Installs
- 40+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 3/day

Editor Cleanup For Divi Builder
Down in the last 7 days:83#23,145by Jose Mortellaro1 month ago
FDP add-on to cleanup the frontend editor of Divi Builder. Your Divi Builder frontend editor will be faster and without conflicts with other plugins.
- Installs
- 30+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Page Detector
Down in the last 7 days:260#24,922by Jose Mortellaro1 month ago
It detects what kind of page you are visiting. Useful for debugging and problem solving.
- Installs
- 30+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 2/day
MCP Tracker
Up in the last 7 days:40#25,757by WPVibes6 months ago
Records and displays MCP-related REST API requests made to your WordPress site.
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 4/day

Tag Scout
Down in the last 7 days:13#26,555by zemraplugins5 months ago
Find out where your tracking code is installed. Tag Scout scans your front-end HTML and shows where tracking scripts live in your WordPress install.
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 2/day
Debug Media
Down in the last 7 days:735#28,103by Joe McGill10 years ago
Adds media debugging information to the Debug Bar.
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Error Monitor & Notifier
Down in the last 7 days:300#28,353by Mikhail Alferov1 year ago
Receive notifications with details when PHP errors occur on your WordPress site.
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day

WP Marvelous Debug
Down in the last 7 days:37#28,590by Pablo Pacheco6 years ago
Edit the debugging constants from wp-config, view the log file on the Dashboard and more debugging features.
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Editor Cleanup For WPBakery
Down in the last 7 days:250#29,026by Jose Mortellaro1 month ago
FDP add-on to cleanup the frontend editor of WPBakery page builder. Your WPBakery frontend editor will be faster and without conflicts with other plug …
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Admin Bar Queries
Up in the last 7 days:890#29,813by carmelosantana10 years ago
MySQL queries and load details added to your admin bar.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

LogIQ
#30,094by akmelias7 months ago
Stop digging through raw log files. LogIQ gives WordPress developers a smart, searchable, and beautiful debug log viewer — right inside the admin.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 2/day

Error Tracker
Down in the last 7 days:134#30,636by tsquare177 years ago
Error Tracker is a super lightweight plugin that allows you to easily integrate LogRocket and/or Sentry error tracking software into WordPress.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
System information
Down in the last 7 days:999#31,528by philippe12 years ago
Adds a system information page that include all the details on your WordPress configuration.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Apermo Xdebug
#33,750by Christoph Daum8 years ago
This plugin helps developers that use Xdebug.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Debug Bar Widgets
Down in the last 7 days:716#34,259by Chris Hardie2 years ago
Debug Bar Widgets adds a new panel to the Debug Bar that displays all registered widgets.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Query Monitor bbPress & BuddyPress Conditionals
Down in the last 7 days:190#34,641by Stephen Edgar12 years ago
Add bbPress and BuddyPress Conditionals to John Blackbourn's awesome Query Monitor
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day

CC-Sentry
#35,490by Clearcode9 years ago
This plugin integrates your WordPress site with Sentry error logging system.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Simple Email Sender
#37,158by Jiri2 years ago
A simple plugin to send emails from WordPress admin panel using SMTP, with enhanced debugging features.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Debug User/Post/Options Meta Data
Up in the last 7 days:5,387#37,488by franmc10 years ago
Debug User/Post/Options Meta Data plugin lets administrators debug users and posts meta data in a friendly view.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Plain Logger
Up in the last 7 days:6,682#38,944by hxh909 years ago
Requires at least: 3.9 Tested up to: 4.7 Stable tag: 1.1.2
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Editor Cleanup For Avada
Up in the last 7 days:6,242#39,462by Jose Mortellaro1 month ago
FDP add-on to cleanup the frontend editor of Avada. Your Avada frontend editor will be faster and without conflicts with other plugins.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
wp pear debug
Up in the last 7 days:5,745#39,561by silasco11 years ago
This plugin incorporates the pear php_debug library into wordpress.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 1/day
Post Type & Taxonomy Debug
Up in the last 7 days:2,128#39,872by nerdismftw.com7 years ago
Display a list of all registered post types and taxonomies including all properties. The list is expandable/collapsable. Use for debugging or educatio …
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Pretty Debug
#41,947by wycks13 years ago
A WordPress plugin that makes var_dump and print_r pretty!
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Admin Debug Tools
#43,777by tjdsneto1 year ago
Admin Debug Tools makes it easy to manage your site's logs and debug settings directly from the dashboard, without needing to edit backend files.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Titanium Error Intelligence
Down in the last 7 days:12,060#44,649by Admin Plugins2 months ago
Detect PHP error spikes, recurring patterns, request impact and source-version changes with grouped local diagnostics.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Speedix
Down in the last 7 days:10,252#44,805by Wp Core Tools1 month ago
Pinpoint exactly which plugins and hooks slow your site. Real-time PHP profiling with visual dashboard, health scores, and zero guesswork.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 8/day