Title: Error reporting API?
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Error reporting API?

 *  [Sebastian](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sebstein/)
 * (@sebstein)
 * [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-reporting-api/)
 * In my plugin, I want to notify the admin of wrong settings or problems. So for
   example, if the admin submits the settings form, I check the input and want to
   inform him about values being wrong. However, it seems I have to come up with
   some custom code to keep track of the error message while processing the form.
 * This is a bit surprising, because e.g. in Drupal you have a simple
    [set_message() function](https://api.drupal.org/api/drupal/includes!bootstrap.inc/function/drupal_set_message/7)
   allowing to set a message, which is shown in a certain div on the page.
 * Am I just missing something or does something simple really not exist in WordPress?

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 *  Moderator [bcworkz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bcworkz/)
 * (@bcworkz)
 * [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-reporting-api/#post-4122917)
 * It’s not that simple, but perhaps you did miss [Class_Reference/WP_Error](http://codex.wordpress.org/Class_Reference/WP_Error).
 *  [Timothy Jacobs](https://wordpress.org/support/users/timothyblynjacobs/)
 * (@timothyblynjacobs)
 * [12 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-reporting-api/#post-4122929)
 * You can use the [admin notice](http://codex.wordpress.org/Plugin_API/Action_Reference/admin_notices)
   hook.

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 * Last activity: [12 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-reporting-api/#post-4122929)
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