WordPress 5 Cookbook

How to do it...

Take the following steps to set up error logs and display errors on the site:

1. Open the wp-config.php file in the main folder of your WordPress installation.
2. Set the WP_DEBUG option value to true, as shown in the following code:

define( 'WP_DEBUG', true );

3. Add the following code after the preceding line to enable error logs:

define( 'WP_DEBUG_LOG', true );

Now that we have configured the process of creating error logs and displaying the errors on the browser, we can test the process.

4. Open the functions.php file of your Twenty Twenty Child theme.

5. Add the following code line inside the enqueue_parent_styles function:

echo $html;

6. View any page from the frontend of the site.

Now, you will see a PHP notice generated and ...