imknight
4/28/2015 - 3:27 PM

This little hack enables fatal error logging for your site, without creating an error log that is insanely big.

This little hack enables fatal error logging for your site, without creating an error log that is insanely big.

<?php
/**
 * These three lines should go in your wp-config.php 
 */
define( 'WP_DEBUG', true );
define( 'WP_DEBUG_LOG', true );
define( 'WP_DEBUG_DISPLAY', false );
<?php
/**
 * This changes logging to only log fatal errors. This file should go in your mu-plugins directory.
 */

// Set the error logging to only log fatal errors
error_reporting( E_ERROR );

// Optional: change the location of your error log, it might be wise to put it outside your WP content dir.
// If you don't change it, the default place for this log is debug.log in your WP_CONTENT_DIR.
ini_set( 'error_log', WP_CONTENT_DIR . '/fatal-error.log' );

// Disable Akismets awfully verbose logging
add_filter( 'akismet_debug_log', '__return_false' );