Debugging with WP_DEBUG in Wordpress - Interactive Code Practice

Practice - 5 Tasks

1fill in blank

easy

Complete the code to enable debugging in WordPress by setting WP_DEBUG to true.

Wordpress

define('WP_DEBUG', [1]);

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Atrue

Bnull

Cfalse

D1

Attempts:

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💡 Hint

Common Mistakes

Setting WP_DEBUG to false disables debugging.

Using 1 instead of true works but true is preferred for clarity.

Setting WP_DEBUG to true turns on debugging mode in WordPress.

2fill in blank

medium

Complete the code to log errors to a file by enabling WP_DEBUG_LOG.

Wordpress

define('WP_DEBUG_LOG', [1]);

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A0

Bfalse

Cnull

Dtrue

Attempts:

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💡 Hint

Common Mistakes

Setting WP_DEBUG_LOG to false disables logging.

For logging to work, WP_DEBUG must also be true.

Setting WP_DEBUG_LOG to true saves errors to wp-content/debug.log.

3fill in blank

hard

Fix the error in the code to hide errors from displaying on the site by setting WP_DEBUG_DISPLAY correctly.

Wordpress

define('WP_DEBUG_DISPLAY', [1]);

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A1

Bfalse

Cnull

Dtrue

Attempts:

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💡 Hint

Common Mistakes

Setting WP_DEBUG_DISPLAY to true shows errors on the site.

Using 1 instead of false will show errors.

Setting WP_DEBUG_DISPLAY to false hides errors from showing on the website.

4fill in blank

hard

Fill both blanks to enable debugging and log errors but hide them from displaying on the site.

Wordpress

define('WP_DEBUG', [1]);
define('WP_DEBUG_DISPLAY', [2]);

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Atrue

Bfalse

Cnull

D1

Attempts:

3 left

💡 Hint

Common Mistakes

Setting WP_DEBUG to false disables debugging.

Setting WP_DEBUG_DISPLAY to true shows errors publicly.

Enable debugging with true and hide errors from display with false.

5fill in blank

hard

Fill all three blanks to enable debugging, log errors to a file, and hide errors from displaying on the site.

Wordpress

define('WP_DEBUG', [1]);
define('WP_DEBUG_LOG', [2]);
define('WP_DEBUG_DISPLAY', [3]);

Drag options to blanks, or click blank then click option'

Afalse

Btrue

Attempts:

3 left

💡 Hint

Common Mistakes

Confusing true and false values for these constants.

Not enabling WP_DEBUG disables all debugging features.

Set WP_DEBUG and WP_DEBUG_LOG to true to enable debugging and logging. Set WP_DEBUG_DISPLAY to false to hide errors on the site.