Local is used for local development and testing, so please enable debug as a default: define( 'WP_DEBUG', true ); define( 'WP_DEBUG_LOG', true ); also, please add auth keys and salts to wp-config.php

Salts will be in the next update :slight_smile: Regarding WP_DEBUG, that will most likely be a toggle of some sort in a future version. Some themes/plugins still throw an absurd amount of notices and that can look bad for Local if people aren’t familiar with WP_DEBUG

They shouldn’t use themes that throws a lot of warnings :wink:

If people only had WP_DEBUG on by default when they develop, we wouldn’t see that absurd amount of notices. Hopefully, the toggle isn’t too far into the future.

+1 since the idea of local is ease of use :slight_smile: Would suggest the wp-debug-log to be set to a file in the logs directory. There is a constant for that in WP

+1 for the log in the logs directory (btw, the path is set using ini_set( 'error_log', PATH . '/debug.log' ); ) … also, somebody might write an addon to display the debug.log in Local

@soderlind Here’s an addon that Daniel Griffiths wrote for Local when it was still Pressmatic: [image] Section214/pressmatic-addon-logs Contribute to Section214/pressmatic-addon-logs development by creating an account on GitHub.

@clay Nice :slight_smile: Do you have a list of known addons? Plan to write one, but no point in reinventing the wheel.

@soderlind https://local.getflywheel.com/community/t/what-add-ons-are-available/338

I misread the WP docs, the constant is WP_DEBUG_LOG and when true, this will set the debug log to wp-content/debug.log; if ( WP_DEBUG_LOG ) { ini_set( 'log_errors', 1 ); ini_set( 'error_log', WP_CONTENT_DIR . '/debug.log' ); } in other words; you could set the error_log with ini_set, but Wor…

Wp-config.php, enable debug

Feature requests

clay December 13, 2016, 8:07pm 5

I totally agree but not everyone using Local is actually developing themes/plugins.

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Wp-config.php, enable debug

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