Developer Debug Tools 3.0.2

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: 585.08 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=6c52e4b771
Aspect after-activation
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.581 s
Memory usage 4.58 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 0.567 s
Memory usage 4.31 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 0.379 s
Memory usage 4.28 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 0.411 s
Memory usage 4.28 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 0.838 s
Memory usage 4.28 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 1.042 s
Memory usage 4.28 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 0.336 s
Memory usage 4.35 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Benchmark

URL Load time Memory usage
Inactive Active Change Inactive Active Change
/wp-admin/index.php1.121 s0.566 s-0.555 s3.78 MiB4.46 MiB+ 695.22 KiB
/wp-admin/edit.php0.499 s0.325 s-0.174 s3.79 MiB4.44 MiB+ 671.41 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php1.217 s1.063 s-0.154 s6.31 MiB6.94 MiB+ 644.11 KiB
/wp-admin/upload.php0.501 s0.669 s+0.168 s3.74 MiB4.34 MiB+ 607.33 KiB
/wp-admin/options-writing.php0.334 s0.504 s+0.170 s3.72 MiB4.29 MiB+ 584.63 KiB
/wp-admin/media-new.php0.502 s0.749 s+0.247 s3.71 MiB4.28 MiB+ 584.41 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category0.336 s0.414 s+0.078 s3.72 MiB4.3 MiB+ 599.03 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page0.900 s0.741 s-0.159 s6.3 MiB6.93 MiB+ 641.89 KiB
/wp-admin/options-discussion.php1.041 s0.353 s-0.688 s3.72 MiB4.28 MiB+ 579.36 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-comments.php0.491 s0.362 s-0.129 s3.74 MiB4.32 MiB+ 600.53 KiB
/0.391 s0.267 s-0.124 s4.12 MiB4.35 MiB+ 227.91 KiB
Average 0.667 s0.547 s-0.120 s4.24 MiB4.81 MiB+ 585.08 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
PHP69.8%19,9675,30586
JavaScript18.9%5,41578538
CSS11.2%3,2069339
Total 28,588 6,183 163

PHP Code Analysis | More results »

Lines of code 17,508
Total complexity 3,629
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 49
Methods 651
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

[10-Apr-2026 17:54:35 UTC] PHP Deprecated:  strip_tags(): Passing null to parameter #1 ($string) of type string is deprecated in /wp-admin/admin-header.php on line 41
[10-Apr-2026 17:54:37 UTC] PHP Deprecated:  strip_tags(): Passing null to parameter #1 ($string) of type string is deprecated in /wp-admin/admin-header.php on line 41
[10-Apr-2026 17:54:38 UTC] PHP Deprecated:  strip_tags(): Passing null to parameter #1 ($string) of type string is deprecated in /wp-admin/admin-header.php on line 41
[10-Apr-2026 17:54:39 UTC] PHP Deprecated:  strip_tags(): Passing null to parameter #1 ($string) of type string is deprecated in /wp-admin/admin-header.php on line 41
[10-Apr-2026 17:54:41 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