How to activate WordPress Debug Mode?

You can enable the WordPress “debug mode” by editing a few lines in the wp-config.php file of your WordPress installation.

To enable debugging mode in WordPress, follow the steps:

1. Login to cPanel or log in to your site via FTP
2. Use the cPanel File Manager or your FTP client and edit the file wp-config.php
3. Copy the lines below to the file wp-config.php or if they already exist, change their values:

define( 'WP_DEBUG', true );
define( 'WP_DEBUG_LOG', true );
define( 'WP_DEBUG_DISPLAY', false );

Attention: Make sure that you copy the lines exactly as shown, don´t forget any semicolon or other characters!

4. 4. Paste the copied lines directly above the line /* That's all, stop editing! Happy publishing. */

After reloading the website, WordPress writes all PHP errors into the file debug.log. WordPress saves that file into the folder: wp-content/debug.log

If you want to see the debug log errors directly on the screen instead of needing to look into the debug.log file, change the line
define( 'WP_DEBUG_DISPLAY', false ); to
define( 'WP_DEBUG_DISPLAY', true );.

When we ask you to do so, please send us the debug.log file.
This file helps us to resolve issues you have with WP Staging.