[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #60802: Enable debug mode / debug options in site health

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#60802: Enable debug mode / debug options in site health
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 Reporter:  amykamala        |      Owner:  (none)
     Type:  feature request  |     Status:  new
 Priority:  normal           |  Milestone:  Awaiting Review
Component:  Site Health      |    Version:
 Severity:  minor            |   Keywords:
  Focuses:                   |
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 Debugging is a necessity for any developer and for WordPress users in
 general. As it stands now debug mode and the related debug options can
 only be enabled through manually editing the wp-config file to add or
 adjust wp-config constants. This makes debugging harder to access for
 everyone, and even more difficult to access for users that are either not
 familiar with ftp/ssh or who only have wp-admin access and not access to
 the filesystem.

 Adding toggle options for debugging mode in the Site Health tools wp-admin
 page would make troubleshooting errors and issues easier and more
 accessible for all users with administrator access. As a bonus, this would
 also decrease the demand on web host technical support because users would
 be more equipt to identify plugin conflicts, php errors and other issues
 independently.

 Proposed Site Health Options:

 - 'Enable debugging on/off' -- WP_DEBUG true/false with false as default
 and subtext about only setting to true/on for troubleshooting bc of
 adverse performance effects.
 - 'Enable debug log on/off' -- WP_DEBUG_LOG true/false - set to true/on as
 default and
 - Site Health could and should have a tab to view contents of debug logs
 within wp-admin (maybe -tail 30 or the last 30-50 results, potentially
 could improve on this to hide duplicate entries, to hide warnings and
 notices and to grep/search for keywords)
 - 'Show errors on front end on/off' - WP_DEBUG-DISPLAY true/false with a
 default to false so as not to expose debugging to end users and this could
 also have a toggle option to display errors only in wp-admin pages and not
 on the front end
 - Debugging should be set to never display on the front end in the first
 place as a default (ever), that could probably be it's own ticket
 - This could be expanded on to include toggle settings for SCRIPT_DEBUG
 and SAVEQUERIES constants

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Ticket URL: <https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/60802>
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