Developer Debug Tools 3.0.1.3

Does Developer Debug Tools work with WordPress 6.9.4 and PHP 8.1.12? A smoke test was performed on .

Summary

Errors
5PHP deprecation warnings
No JavaScript exceptions
All test pages loaded successfully
No resource errors
Performance

Memory usage: 568.4 KiB
The average PHP memory usage increased by this amount after activating by the plugin.

Page speed impact: insignificant.
The plugin didn't make the site noticeably slower.

Environment
WordPress version6.9.4
PHP version8.1.12
MySQL version10.6.10
PHP memory limit512M
Plugin Info
Last updated
Active installs 100+
WordPress.org page https://wordpress.org/plugins/dev-debug-tools/
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Pages 7

Plugins ‹ Test site — WordPress

Page screenshot: Plugins ‹ Test site — WordPress
URL /wp-admin/plugins.php?plugin_status=all&paged=1&s
Requested URL /wp-admin/plugins.php?action=activate&plugin=dev-debug-tools%2Fdev-debug-tools.php&plugin_status=all&paged=1&s&_wpnonce=2a75b56cab
Aspect after-activation
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.576 s
Memory usage 4.5 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Developer Debug Tools

Page screenshot: Developer Debug Tools
URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=dev-debug-welcome
Requested URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=dev-debug-dashboard
Aspect menu-item
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.504 s
Memory usage 4.29 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Developer Debug Tools → Tools

Page screenshot: Developer Debug Tools → Tools
URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=dev-debug-welcome
Requested URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=dev-debug-tools
Aspect menu-item
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.375 s
Memory usage 4.26 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Developer Debug Tools → Resources

Page screenshot: Developer Debug Tools → Resources
URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=dev-debug-welcome
Requested URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=dev-debug-resources
Aspect menu-item
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.398 s
Memory usage 4.26 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Developer Debug Tools → Settings

Page screenshot: Developer Debug Tools → Settings
URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=dev-debug-welcome
Requested URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=dev-debug-settings
Aspect menu-item
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.361 s
Memory usage 4.26 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Developer Debug Tools → Changelog

Page screenshot: Developer Debug Tools → Changelog
URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=dev-debug-welcome
Requested URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=dev-debug-changelog
Aspect menu-item
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.516 s
Memory usage 4.26 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Test site – Just another WordPress site

Page screenshot: Test site – Just another WordPress site
URL /
Aspect front-page
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.304 s
Memory usage 4.33 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Benchmark

URL Load time Memory usage
Inactive Active Change Inactive Active Change
/wp-admin/index.php0.402 s0.502 s+0.100 s3.78 MiB4.43 MiB+ 672.7 KiB
/wp-admin/edit.php0.341 s0.345 s+0.004 s3.78 MiB4.42 MiB+ 655.18 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php0.857 s0.892 s+0.035 s6.31 MiB6.92 MiB+ 622.68 KiB
/wp-admin/upload.php0.718 s0.567 s-0.151 s3.74 MiB4.32 MiB+ 590.37 KiB
/wp-admin/options-writing.php0.342 s0.515 s+0.173 s3.71 MiB4.27 MiB+ 567.66 KiB
/wp-admin/media-new.php0.570 s0.370 s-0.200 s3.7 MiB4.26 MiB+ 567.45 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category0.461 s0.356 s-0.105 s3.72 MiB4.28 MiB+ 581.29 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page0.721 s0.753 s+0.032 s6.3 MiB6.9 MiB+ 620.21 KiB
/wp-admin/options-discussion.php0.362 s0.349 s-0.013 s3.71 MiB4.26 MiB+ 562.39 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-comments.php0.312 s0.399 s+0.087 s3.73 MiB4.3 MiB+ 583.57 KiB
/0.284 s0.246 s-0.038 s4.11 MiB4.33 MiB+ 228.95 KiB
Average 0.488 s0.481 s-0.007 s4.24 MiB4.79 MiB+ 568.4 KiB

Code Statistics

Note: Third-party libraries and minified JS/CSS files are excluded from these statistics where possible, so the numbers you see here may be lower than those reported by other tools.

PHP
JavaScript
CSS
Language % Lines of code Comment lines Files
PHP70.3%19,0955,18384
JavaScript18.2%4,93572137
CSS11.5%3,1149338
Total 27,144 5,997 159

PHP Code Analysis | More results »

Lines of code 16,691
Total complexity 3,483
Median class complexity 31.0
Median method complexity 3.0
Most complex class Apos37\DevDebugTools\Metadata
Most complex function Apos37\DevDebugTools\Logs::render_easy_error_log()
Classes 48
Methods 633
Functions 24

Additions

Things that the plugin adds to the site. This section is not intended to be comprehensive. The test tool only looks for a few specific types of added content.

Options wp_options 3

User Metadata wp_usermeta 1

PHP Error Log 5 lines

[23-Mar-2026 07:37:30 UTC] PHP Deprecated:  strip_tags(): Passing null to parameter #1 ($string) of type string is deprecated in /wp-admin/admin-header.php on line 41
[23-Mar-2026 07:37:31 UTC] PHP Deprecated:  strip_tags(): Passing null to parameter #1 ($string) of type string is deprecated in /wp-admin/admin-header.php on line 41
[23-Mar-2026 07:37:33 UTC] PHP Deprecated:  strip_tags(): Passing null to parameter #1 ($string) of type string is deprecated in /wp-admin/admin-header.php on line 41
[23-Mar-2026 07:37:34 UTC] PHP Deprecated:  strip_tags(): Passing null to parameter #1 ($string) of type string is deprecated in /wp-admin/admin-header.php on line 41
[23-Mar-2026 07:37:35 UTC] PHP Deprecated:  strip_tags(): Passing null to parameter #1 ($string) of type string is deprecated in /wp-admin/admin-header.php on line 41
See also: All tests for this plugin, How to Hide Developer Debug Tools Admin Menus