Title: Backend Error in dev environment
Last modified: August 30, 2016

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# Backend Error in dev environment

 *  Resolved [Rasso Hilber](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nonverbla/)
 * (@nonverbla)
 * [10 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/backend-error-in-dev-environment/)
 * Hi, just noticed that the plugin throws an error in my dev environment:
 *     ```
       Error
       Backend error.
       Notice: Constant WP_DEBUG already defined in /XXX/site/wp-config.php on line 143
       ```
   
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 *  Plugin Author [Jan-Peter](https://wordpress.org/support/users/starguide/)
 * (@starguide)
 * [10 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/backend-error-in-dev-environment/#post-6425883)
 * This occurs when WP_DEBUG is set to “true”. Will be fixed in the next release.
 *  Thread Starter [Rasso Hilber](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nonverbla/)
 * (@nonverbla)
 * [10 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/backend-error-in-dev-environment/#post-6425898)
 * yes, that’s what I thought. Needs a `!defined('WP_DEBUG')` check.
 *  Plugin Author [Jan-Peter](https://wordpress.org/support/users/starguide/)
 * (@starguide)
 * [10 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/backend-error-in-dev-environment/#post-6425907)
 * Well, that would only solve half the problem, since the backend still wouldn’t
   work, as long as WP_DEBUG is set to true. It would just solve the “already defined”
   problem. But I just took care of the underlying issue, so that the backend is
   no longer causing an error message if WP_DEBUG is set to true. Therefore we do
   not need that statement at all anymore.
 * Release should get pushed to wordpress.org in the next couple days.
 *  Plugin Author [Jan-Peter](https://wordpress.org/support/users/starguide/)
 * (@starguide)
 * [10 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/backend-error-in-dev-environment/#post-6426023)
 * Version 2.4.0 fixes this problem and the backend now works fine with WB_DEBUG
   enabled.

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 * Last activity: [10 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/backend-error-in-dev-environment/#post-6426023)
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