Debug Bar

One of the goals at our meetup two weeks ago was to find ways to improve the developer experience on WordPress.com VIP. As a first step, we’re rolling out the Debug Bar to all VIP developers.

If you have Administrator access to a VIP site and have read- or write-access to the VIP SVN repo, the Debug Bar will be automatically enabled for you.

You can use the Debug Bar for quick troubleshooting of your sites such as examining how WordPress interprets the page request and the resulting WP_Query object. You will also get a summary of all queries on the page and a breakdown of any remote requests, which is very useful in tracking and fixing down slow performing pieces of your sites.

(If you haven’t already, we also recommend installing the Debug Bar in your development environment.)

What else can we add to to the Debug Bar to make it more useful? Let us know in the comments below.