Black Bar
Black Bar is an unobtrusive Debug Bar for WordPress developers that attaches itself to the bottom of the browser window. It is a rewrite of blackbox-debug-bar by Grzegorz Winiarski which appears to be abandoned as it has not been updated since 2013.
How it helps you with development:
- Displays any PHP errors that occur when loading a page
- Displays executed MySQL queries and the time it took to execute each query
- Displays the loaded template files of the active theme
- Inspect global variables (COOKIE, GET, POST, SERVER, SESSION)
- Use the Console for debugging your plugins and themes
- Use the Profiler for measuring the performance of your plugins and themes
Download & install the zip archive
The plugin package installer can be downloaded from the WP2E project tab called “code”.
1 – Select the version to download if this option is available otherwise the “latest” version of the main plugin will be used.
2 – After downloading the zip archive install the plugin package installer in you local environment and activate the script from the plugin list.
3 – Under the section “Plugins” of the admin dashboard you should see a new “Dependencies & Licenses” link. Follow the instructions from this panel to finalize the installation of the missing dependencies.
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- Give a name to your project
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- Download the Installer Package
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- Install & activate the plugin locally
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- Install the suggested dependencies
Tips: Use the WP2E panel to add/suggest new dependencies to the local installation. Press F5 in the list of dependencies if the changes are not displayed right away.