Best error plugins for WordPress
The most popular error plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. WP Maximum Execution Time Exceeded leads with 20K+ active installs, ahead of Link Juice Keeper (10K+) and WPS Bidouille (9K+). All 63 plugins tagged “error” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 10 error plugins
- 1.
WP Maximum Execution Time ExceededThe most installed error plugin, with 20K+ active installs. Rated 4.8 from 9 reviews, last updated 5 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 5.6.23.
- 2.
Link Juice Keeper10K+ active installs. Rated 4.7 from 15 reviews, updated 2 months ago.
- 3.WPS Bidouille
9K+ active installs. Rated 4.9 from 54 reviews, updated 2 months ago.
- 4.
Fatal Error Notify6K+ active installs. Rated 4.8 from 18 reviews, updated 8 months ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.9.11.
- 5.
Enable CORS5K+ active installs. Only 3 reviews so far, updated 1 week ago.
- 6.HTTP 410 (Gone) responses
4K+ active installs. Rated 4.6 from 21 reviews, updated 3 months ago.
- 7.
BugSnag Error Monitoring plugin2K+ active installs. Rated 3.7 from 9 reviews, updated 6 months ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.9.11.
- 8.
404 to Home1K+ active installs. Only 3 reviews so far, last updated 9 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.7.39.
- 9.404 Simple Redirect
900+ active installs. Only 3 reviews so far, last updated 8 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 3.4.2.
- 10.404 Notifier
600+ active installs. Only 2 reviews so far, last updated 4 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.0.18.
All 63 plugins tagged “error”

WP Maximum Execution Time Exceeded
Down in the last 7 days:1#1,234by Johnnie5 years ago
Did you receive a message, "Maximum execution time of 30 seconds exceeded?" Not anymore. Just Plug'n-Play. It's that easy!
- Installs
- 20K+
- Rating
- 4.8(9)
- Downloads
- 42/day

Link Juice Keeper
Down in the last 7 days:18#1,994by George Pattichis2 months ago
Improve your SEO and keep your link juice by automatically redirecting all 404 errors to any page/post/url. User friendly options and log feature.
- Installs
- 10K+
- Rating
- 4.7(15)
- Downloads
- 56/day
WPS Bidouille
Down in the last 7 days:2#2,185by NicolasKulka2 months ago
WPS Bidouille provides information about your WordPress and contains optimization tools.
- Installs
- 9K+
- Rating
- 4.9(54)
- Downloads
- 42/day

Fatal Error Notify
Down in the last 7 days:7#2,905by Jack Arturo8 months ago
Receive email notifications when errors occur on your WordPress site.
- Installs
- 6K+
- Rating
- 4.8(18)
- Downloads
- 39/day

Enable CORS
Down in the last 7 days:13#2,938by Dev Kabir13 days ago
Please read the plugin description before installing to ensure compatibility and avoid potential issues. This plugin will be free forever.
- Installs
- 5K+
- Rating
- 3.7(3)
- Downloads
- 95/day
HTTP 410 (Gone) responses
Down in the last 7 days:2#3,271by Matt Calvert3 months ago
Sends HTTP 410 (Gone) responses for deleted content, telling search engines the page is permanently removed.
- Installs
- 4K+
- Rating
- 4.6(21)
- Downloads
- 34/day

BugSnag Error Monitoring plugin
Down in the last 7 days:15#5,027by SmartBear6 months ago
Automatically detects errors & crashes on your WordPress site using BugSnag to notify you by email, chat or issues system.
- Installs
- 2K+
- Rating
- 3.7(9)
- Downloads
- 94/day

404 to Home
Down in the last 7 days:19#5,663by burak10 years ago
Redirect all 404 pages to homepage with very simple way.
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 5.0(3)
- Downloads
- 11/day
404 Simple Redirect
Down in the last 7 days:9#7,221by JordiPlana9 years ago
This plugin hooks the normal Wordpress workflow in order to determine if the request is processing will cause a 404 HTTP error.
- Installs
- 900+
- Rating
- 5.0(3)
- Downloads
- 8/day
404 Notifier
Down in the last 7 days:7#8,331by Crowd Favorite4 years ago
Log 404 (file not found) errors on your site and get them delivered to you via e-mail or RSS.
- Installs
- 600+
- Rating
- 3.0(2)
- Downloads
- 11/day

Better 404 Redirect To Homepage
Down in the last 7 days:40#8,643by Anh Tran3 years ago
Auto redirects all 404 error links to homepage.
- Installs
- 500+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Custom Error Pages
Up in the last 7 days:9#8,796by Jesin A3 years ago
Create custom 401 and 403 error pages with any WordPress theme without writing a single line of code, set it up and forget it.
- Installs
- 500+
- Rating
- 5.0(12)
- Downloads
- 6/day

Rollbar
Up in the last 7 days:90#9,917by rollbar1 month ago
Official Rollbar full-stack error tracking for WordPress supported by Rollbar, Inc.
- Installs
- 400+
- Rating
- 4.0(3)
- Downloads
- 67/day

Custom Error Messages for Gravity Forms
Down in the last 7 days:42#10,052by Zbynek Nedoma3 years ago
Adds custom error messages to Gravity Forms inputs
- Installs
- 300+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 6/day

Whitespace Fixer for XML Sitemap
Up in the last 7 days:118#10,077by Turbo Addons1 month ago
Fixes XML declaration errors in sitemaps and RSS by removing leading whitespace. Just activate, no setup required.
- Installs
- 300+
- Rating
- 5.0(3)
- Downloads
- 11/day

BugFu Console Debugger
Down in the last 7 days:111#10,851by Federico Andrioli3 years ago
Log/Debug the PHP code in your Theme/Plugin with your Browser Console (no extension needed)
- Installs
- 300+
- Rating
- 4.8(17)
- Downloads
- 10/day

F4 Error Pages
Up in the last 7 days:47#11,466by FAKTOR VIER1 month ago
With this simple plugin you can assign custom pages (with custom content etc.) as error pages. This works for 404 (page not found) and 403 (forbidden/ …
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 11/day
Debug Log
Down in the last 7 days:8#13,142by Andrew Klimek10 years ago
View and Delete the debug log from the Tools menu. Extremely light and simple.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Safe Mode
Down in the last 7 days:21#16,309by Uffe Fey8 years ago
Makes it possible to enable safe mode for WordPress. In safe mode, plugins will not be loaded and the default theme (if installed) will be activated.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 4.2(5)
- Downloads
- 0/day

WP Output Log File
Up in the last 7 days:99#16,427by 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

410 Delete Pages SEO
Up in the last 7 days:35#17,002by edsteep6 years ago
Force 410 HTTP Status on listed pages, or just articles/pages that no longer exist.
- Installs
- 90+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Disable Errors in Plugins
Down in the last 7 days:15#18,123by Marin Atanasov10 years ago
A WordPress plugin that simply disables error reporting and error logging for all plugins.
- Installs
- 80+
- Rating
- 5.0(4)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Error Notify Slack
Up in the last 7 days:58#20,353by Max2 years ago
Receive Slack notifications whenever errors occurs on your site.
- Installs
- 50+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 3/day

404 Widget for Google
Up in the last 7 days:87#20,587by Dave McHale7 years ago
Add Google search capabilities to your site's 404 "page not found" template.
- Installs
- 50+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day

KolorWeb Log Manager
Up in the last 7 days:270#20,668by Vincenzo Casu4 months ago
Really one click enable/disable debugging, clear debug.log, search, sort, and filter errors. See new errors automatically without refreshing.
- Installs
- 50+
- Rating
- 5.0(3)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Report an error
#21,364by ortox11 years ago
With this plugin visitors will be able to report typos or mistakes seen on your websites.
- Installs
- 50+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Custom 404 Handler
Down in the last 7 days:1,078#21,602by jfkconsulting1 year ago
Customized 404 page, error logging with analysis, automatic redirects and export functionality.
- Installs
- 40+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
HTD 404
Up in the last 7 days:80#21,672by JoshuaPack11 years ago
This plugin will simply allow you to point to a page to serve up if you get a 404 error. Also it marks it as 404.
- Installs
- 40+
- Rating
- 4.3(3)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Hide Login Errors
Up in the last 7 days:69#22,852by Amy Green7 years ago
Login errors in WordPress can be used by hackers to guess whether they entered wrong username or password.
- Installs
- 40+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Custom Error Log
Down in the last 7 days:610#23,308by Dan Bahrami12 years ago
A tool for logging and monitoring custom errors, making debugging complex PHP a breeze.
- Installs
- 30+
- Rating
- 5.0(5)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Hagakure
Up in the last 7 days:59#23,701by Tarosky Inc.5 months ago
A WordPress plugin to clarify meaningless errors like "Allowed memory size of xxxxxxxx bytes exhausted".
- Installs
- 30+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 11/day

Error Monitor & Notifier
Down in the last 7 days:356#28,167by 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
Easy Admin Notification
Up in the last 7 days:4#28,756by Remi Corson14 years ago
Tested up to 3.3.1 Stable Tag: 1.4 Adds the ability to create easily notification in the admin panel
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day
WP Report Error
#31,109by Daddydesign15 years ago
Plugin that inserts "WP report error" link into page.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
View WP Error Log
Down in the last 7 days:458#34,529by MMDeveloper12 years ago
Easy Wordpress Error Logs
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Disqus Count JS Fix
Up in the last 7 days:5,217#35,142by Avishay Bar11 years ago
This plugin fixes the 'split' error caused by Disqus Plugin. This Plugin was developed by Geektime's dev team for internal purposes onl …
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

LH Javascript Error log
Down in the last 7 days:1,810#37,906by shawfactor5 years ago
Log Javascript errors from your browser to your wordpress error log.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
WP Viewer Log
#39,785by Sergio9 years ago
Lets see how many errors have had in the present day through a widget, configure your wp-config.php and see the file log.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Error Establishing DB Connection Monitor
Up in the last 7 days:7,839#40,382by allgen7 years ago
A simple solution to error establishing a database connection problem in Wordpress environment. This is solving stopping problem of mysql in linux env …
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Visibility Viewer
#41,086by fkaufusi10 years ago
What is Visibility Viewer?
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
PHP Errors Widget
Up in the last 7 days:1,168#41,494by t1gr0u17 years ago
Display PHP errors on the Dashboard.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Email 404
#43,591by jfoucher15 years ago
Send the site administrator an email when someone encounters a 404 error on your blog
- 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
CleverError
#45,528by tompod13 years ago
CleverError intelligently replace your old 404 'Page Not Found'-page with a supercharged version with an internal site search.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 3.3(3)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Debug Log Parser
Down in the last 7 days:5,039#46,251by blackus3r12 years ago
Debug Log Parser is a tool to parse your Wordpress debug-file and manage your error-handling.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 3.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day
WP JavaScript Error Logger
Down in the last 7 days:3,986#46,283by Pär Thernström13 years ago
A plugin that will log JavaScript-errors that occurs on the front-end of your website. Errors are logged to a non-public custom post type.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 6/day

Easy Error Log
#47,984by Sabbir Sam9 months ago
Effortlessly track and manage WordPress debug.log on your WordPress site. Streamline the debugging process with Easy Error Log.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 3/day
WP Admin Error Handler
#48,242by Gilbert Pellegrom14 years ago
Taming WordPress and PHP errors and displaying them properly.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Safe Function Call
#48,260by Scott Reilly1 year ago
Safely and easily call functions that may not be available (such as those provided by a plugin that gets deactivated)
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Front-end javascript error monitoring with Bugsnag
Up in the last 7 days:9,026#58,777by Sander de Kroon4 years ago
Easily add Bugsnag error monitoring for your front-end.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day