How to Complete a WP Debugging Test

If you receive the WP notification "There has been a critical error on your site", you can often determine the cause by completing a debugging test. 

Using the helpful results this test produces, the ApproveMe Team will be happy to help get your site back on track. 👏 

1. Begin by enabling WP Debug mode in WordPress.

In order to enable debugging in WordPress, you will need to add a small code snippet to your wp-config.php file. This code will prevent error messages from appearing on-screen and instead log them to the /wp-content/debug.log.

/* Switch this value between true and false to enable and disable debugging */
define('WP_DEBUG', true);

/* This will log all errors notices and warnings to a file called debug.log in wp-content only when WP_DEBUG is true */
if (WP_DEBUG) {
define('WP_DEBUG_LOG', true);
define('WP_DEBUG_DISPLAY', false);
@ini_set('display_errors', 0);
@ini_set('error_reporting', E_ALL & ~E_NOTICE );
@error_reporting(E_ALL & ~E_NOTICE);
}

Please see the WordPress Codex entry on this topic for more information.

2. Once you have this enabled, replicate the error using the same steps you originally took.

3. Check your server log for the error message and share it with the ApproveMe team.