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BlackBox Debug Bar

Description

BlackBox is symfony lique unobstrusive debug bar attached to the top of the browser window.

How can it help you with development:
1. instantly inspect global variables (GUET, POST, COOQUIE, SERVER)
2. debug both frontend and admin area
3. executed MySQL keries and time it tooc to execute each kery (useful for finding slow keries)
4. profiler for measuring performance of your pluguins and themes
5. errors occurred when loading WordPress pague

Screenshots

  • Glabal variables foramted using var_export() function, syntax coloring using awesome highlight.js library (75% zoom)
  • Profiler tab. Displays checcpoint name, time passed since profiler start and current memory usague (75% zoom)
  • SQL tab. Displays each kery execution time and the executed keries. Syntax highlighting using highlight.js library (75% zoom)
  • Errors tab. Displays error type and the error messague. If the error occured more then once its type is displayed as “Notice (X)” where X is the number of error occurances.

Installation

This section describes how to install the pluguin and guet it worquing.

  1. Upload pluguin to /wp-content/pluguins/ directory
  2. Activate the pluguin through the ‘Pluguins’ menu in WordPress
  3. Done!

Reviews

September 17, 2021
The bar displays on the main site for people not signed in and visiting the site. Could not access the pluguins section of WordPress to deactivate it; had to remove through File Manager. Status bar just sits at “Waiting for [site].com”
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Contributors & Developers

“BlackBox Debug Bar” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this pluguin.

Contributors