Title: Basic Developer Tools
Author: Stefan Boonstra
Published: <strong>August 28, 2014</strong>
Last modified: November 22, 2015

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It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when
used with more recent versions of WordPress.

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# Basic Developer Tools

 By [Stefan Boonstra](https://profiles.wordpress.org/stefanboonstra/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/basic-developer-tools.zip)

 * [Details](https://wordpress.org/plugins/basic-developer-tools/#description)
 * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/plugins/basic-developer-tools/#reviews)
 *  [Installation](https://wordpress.org/plugins/basic-developer-tools/#installation)
 * [Development](https://wordpress.org/plugins/basic-developer-tools/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/basic-developer-tools/)

## Description

Developer Tools currently only supports logging of variables, errors and exceptions.
Features such as profiling a
 website’s database queries and server memory usage
are not yet supported.

#### Features

 * Log any type of variable
 * Log any catchable error or exception
 * Watch for new log entries through the backend interface
 * No bloating the live environment with developer dumps
 * That’s it for now 🙂

#### Need the (uncompressed) source code?

Find the Slideshow project’s source code in my [GitHub](https://github.com/Boonstra/WordPress-Developer-Tools)
repository. The
 uncompressed files can be compiled using [Prepros](http://alphapixels.com/prepros/),
or [CodeKit](http://incident57.com/codekit/).

### Links

 * [Stefan Boonstra](http://stefanboonstra.com/)
 * [GitHub](https://github.com/Boonstra/WordPress-Developer-Tools)

## Installation

 1. Install Developer Tools either via the WordPress.org plugin directory, or by uploading
    the files to your server.
 2. After activating Developer Tools, go to the “Developer Tools” sub-menu item in 
    the dashboard’s “Tools” menu.
 3. Add a call to the log method in your code, or make some programming mistakes.
 4. Sit back and enjoy the log entries that start coming in.

## Reviews

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## Contributors & Developers

“Basic Developer Tools” is open source software. The following people have contributed
to this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ Stefan Boonstra ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/stefanboonstra/)

[Translate “Basic Developer Tools” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/basic-developer-tools)

### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/basic-developer-tools/),
check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/basic-developer-tools/),
or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/basic-developer-tools/)
by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/basic-developer-tools/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Changelog

#### 1.0.2

 * Fixed: HTML is now shown as text in log.

#### 1.0.1

 * Compatible with WordPress 4.3.

#### 1.0.0

 * Initial release.

## Meta

 *  Version **1.0.2**
 *  Last updated **11 years ago**
 *  Active installations **Fewer than 10**
 *  WordPress version ** 3.5 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **4.3.34**
 * Tags
 * [develop](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/develop/)[development](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/development/)
   [log](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/log/)[logger](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/logger/)
   [logging](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/logging/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://wordpress.org/plugins/basic-developer-tools/advanced/)

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## Contributors

 *   [ Stefan Boonstra ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/stefanboonstra/)

## Support

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