Title: WordPress Debug will not work
Last modified: October 25, 2017

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# WordPress Debug will not work

 *  [Rydium](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rydium/)
 * (@rydium)
 * [8 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-debug-will-not-work/)
 * Hi,
 * I am stumped here. I have enabled Debug in my wp-config and it doesn’t create
   the debug.log file or log anything. I have tried creating the debug.log manually
   and that doesn’t log either.
 * I am stumped.
 * wp-content folder is 755
 * I have added
    define(‘WP_DEBUG’, true); // Turn on WP Debugging define(‘WP_DEBUG_LOG’,
   true); // Log errors to wp_debug.log define(‘WP_DEBUG_DISPLAY’, false); // Turns
   off error reporting on the front end
 * Any ideas?

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 *  Moderator [Steven Stern (sterndata)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sterndata/)
 * (@sterndata)
 * Volunteer Forum Moderator
 * [8 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-debug-will-not-work/#post-9621337)
 * Why are you looking for a debug log entry? What problem are you trying to solve?
 *  Thread Starter [Rydium](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rydium/)
 * (@rydium)
 * [8 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-debug-will-not-work/#post-9621433)
 * I bought a plugin which is not working correctly and the developer asked me to
   turn on debugging and send the log.
 * I cant understand why I cant get it to work, all the articles make it sound easy
   enough to enable.
 *  Moderator [Steven Stern (sterndata)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sterndata/)
 * (@sterndata)
 * Volunteer Forum Moderator
 * [8 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-debug-will-not-work/#post-9622846)
 * WP only writes to wp-content/debug.log if it encounters PHP errors. If there 
   are none, no log. It’s possible that the plugin is misbehaving without triggering
   a formal error.

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
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 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [Steven Stern (sterndata)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sterndata/)
 * Last activity: [8 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-debug-will-not-work/#post-9622846)
 * Status: not resolved

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