Title: Debugging a Plugin under 2.2
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Debugging a Plugin under 2.2

 *  [tomtvotw](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tomtvotw/)
 * (@tomtvotw)
 * [19 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/debugging-a-plugin-under-22/)
 * I’m a “first time” plugin developer – although with limited php development skills,
   and I’m having a problem.
 * When I try to activate my new plugin, I get a “Plugin could not be activated 
   because it triggered a fatal error.” message.
 * Unfortunately this doesn’t tell me what the fatal error actually was. Is there
   any way to get the actual error message?

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 *  [tmuka](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tmuka/)
 * (@tmuka)
 * [18 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/debugging-a-plugin-under-22/#post-574025)
 * is there an official technique for debugging these plugin error messages? are
   they logged somewhere behind the scenes?
 *  [buzink](https://wordpress.org/support/users/buzink/)
 * (@buzink)
 * [18 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/debugging-a-plugin-under-22/#post-574026)
 * yes, this very usefull new feature for users in 2.2, is a big problem for developpers.
 * maybe the specific php error message could be hidden in the html-source? In that
   way users won’t see it and the more adventurous plugin developers will find it.

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 * Last activity: [18 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/debugging-a-plugin-under-22/#post-574026)
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