# Have setting for Xdebug to select either 'debug' or 'develop' (or both)

**URL:** <https://community.localwp.com/t/have-setting-for-xdebug-to-select-either-debug-or-develop-or-both/51707>\
**Category:** Feature requests\
**Tags:** xdebug, windows-11\
**Created:** [December 19, 2025, 9:14am UTC](https://community.localwp.com/t/have-setting-for-xdebug-to-select-either-debug-or-develop-or-both/51707 "2025-12-19T09:14:53Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Ruud](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.localwp.com/ruud/32/11052_2.png) [@Ruud](https://community.localwp.com/u/Ruud)\
**Post date:** [December 19, 2025, 9:14am UTC](https://community.localwp.com/t/have-setting-for-xdebug-to-select-either-debug-or-develop-or-both/51707/1 "2025-12-19T09:14:53Z")

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### What issue or error are you experiencing?

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When I want to want to see more informative and better presented errors I often enable Xdebug. The issue is that the site is then becoming very slow.

### What steps can be taken to replicate the issue? Feel free to include screenshots, videos, etc

Enable the ‘Xdebug’ option in the Local App for a website

### System Details

- **Local Version: 9.2.9**

- **Operating System (OS) and OS version: Window 11**

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### Feature request:

Instead of being able to do an ‘On/Off’ toggle for Xdebug, would it be possible to also differentiate between:

- xdebug.mode=debug, develop
- xdebug.mode=develop
- xdebug.mode=debug

Now I have to get into my php.ini for each project to remove the ‘debug’ part, which on my system is a seriously slowing down each request (like in seconds per request instead of couple of hundred of milliseconds)

Thanks,  
Ruud

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**Author:** ![Nick-B](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.localwp.com/nick-b/32/16140_2.png) [@Nick-B](https://community.localwp.com/u/Nick-B)\
**Post date:** [December 19, 2025, 1:41pm UTC](https://community.localwp.com/t/have-setting-for-xdebug-to-select-either-debug-or-develop-or-both/51707/2 "2025-12-19T13:41:20Z")

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Hi @Ruud! Thank you for bringing this up. I’ve changed your post to a Feature Request for now so that others can vote, comment and follow along. I’ll pass it along to the dev team as well.

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**Author:** ![system](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.localwp.com/system/32/1_2.png) [@system](https://community.localwp.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [March 19, 2026, 1:42pm UTC](https://community.localwp.com/t/have-setting-for-xdebug-to-select-either-debug-or-develop-or-both/51707/3 "2026-03-19T13:42:19Z")

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