WordPress core register a shutdown function on its own (source) the function shutdown_action_hook registered to be ran on shutdown, call do_action( ‘shutdown’ ); and little more (source). So, if you want to register a shutdown function in WordPress way just add your function on ‘shutdown’ hook: add_action( ‘shutdown’, ‘my_shutdown_callback’ ); function my_shutdown_callback() { error_log(‘Goodbye’); } … Read more
The first link on Google is to https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/wp_mail/ which says that wp_mail is in wp-includes/pluggable.php It also has the full function source code showing that the first active line of the function is: $atts = apply_filters( ‘wp_mail’, compact( ‘to’, ‘subject’, ‘message’, ‘headers’, ‘attachments’ ) ); … which suggests that if you hook into the filter … Read more
Create a cron job for a function which checks the file size and runs unlink( WP_CONTENT_DIR . ‘/debug.log’ ) if necessary.
@Wyck was right, ( well sorta 😛 ) you can set error logs but 1) You need to enable debugging 2) ini_set(‘log_errors’, 1); or 0 for false 3) You need to set a log location via ini_set(‘error_log, $location) Once you have that set you can then if need be test if said file exists via … Read more
I am assuming that you already followed the tutorials on setting up xDebug on PHP installation and PhpStorm. Let me know if you need some help with that. I am using xDebug Helper extension on Chrome. Install it too. With the extension installed: In PhpStorm, go to Run > Start Listening for PHP Debug Connections. … Read more
On WP side the only handling it does is setting log to WP_CONTENT_DIR . ‘/debug.log’ if WP_DEBUG_LOG is enabled (highly bad idea in production environment as public location). If I remember right the very early implementations of this constant allowed to customize the path, but that’s no longer the case. In my experience ini_set( ‘log_errors’, … Read more
There’s a native PHP function get_included_files() for that. Simply attach it to an action on the hook from where you want to know it. The first one is muplugins_loaded and the last accessible on is shutdown. add_action( ‘muplugins_loaded’, function() { $files = get_included_files(); foreach ( $files as $f ) echo $f.'<br>’; // or… var_dump( $files … Read more
After disabling all plugins I was able to narrow down which one was affecting the log output. The client had installed Speed of Light plugin to provide caching and compression which was also effecting wp_debug capabilities.
What is the time zone setup in your admin -> settings -> general page? WordPress overrides & kind of disregards php’s timezone & uses this own settings , if haven’t set this – default is UTC+0 Update: according to https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/39595 – wordpress has forced this to be UTC
I’ve frequently seen this used in Apache 2.2: <Files “debug.log”> Order allow,deny Deny from all </Files> but that’s deprecated in Apache 2.4: The Allow, Deny, and Order directives, provided by mod_access_compat, are deprecated and will go away in a future version. You should avoid using them, and avoid outdated tutorials recommending their use. I just … Read more