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Meet wpshell – the power of WordPress at your prompt

November 13, 2011 by Thorsten 6 Comments

Developing in WordPress is a lot of fun for me and there are great plugins that make developing and debugging WordPress code really simple. Debug-Bar, Debug-Bar-Extender and Debug-Console are my favorite WordPress plugins to do this. But if you really live in WordPress code all day long you might sometimes wish that you can just […]

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Development

debugging, featured, wordpress cli, wordpress debugging, wordpress shell, wpshell

Snippet – Spot bad queries in WordPress the quick&dirty way

September 23, 2011 by Thorsten 0 Comments

Here’s a little piece of code I use for debugging when I evaluate sites and themes which I don’t know in detail. I simply drop this in a file and include this file from within the themes’ functions.php or simply by dropping it in wp-content/mu-plugins as something like 0-my-debugging.php or the like. Then all you […]

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Snippets

debug, debugging, explain, http_request_args, log queries, query

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