Variable Inspector for WordPress

Variable Inspector allows you to easily inspect your PHP $variables in a visually clean manner at a central dashboard in wp-admin. It aims to be an easy and useful enough dev and debug tool.

It provides a single-line code to inspect your variable (see “How to Use” below). Nothing is shown to site visitors nor being output on the frontend, and the $variable content is nicely formatted for review using var_dump(), var_export() and print_r() on the inspector dashboard in wp-admin.

It’s a real time-saver for scenarios where Xdebug or even something like Ray is not ideal or simply an overkill. For example, when coding on a non-local environment via tools like Code Snippets, WPCodeBox, Scripts Organizer or Advanced Scripts. Additionally, because it is a regular WordPress plugin, you simply install, activate and use without the need for complicated configuration.

What Users Say “Huge time-saver when working with PHP variables.” ~Jeff Starr

“Works great! Love this thing.” ~Josh

“Every developer need it. You can debug easily every variable.” ~Pexle Chris

“All I need. Enough to test the function of snippets. Works flawless.” ~@tesig

“It does what it does very well, and doesn’t try to do everything.” ~@swb1

How to Use Simply place the following line anywhere in your code after the $variable_name you’d like to inspect:

do_action( 'inspect', [ 'variable_name', $variable_name ] );

If you’d like to record the originating PHP file and line number, append the PHP magic constants __FILE__ and __LINE__ as follows.

do_action( 'inspect', [ 'variable_name', $variable_name, __FILE__, __LINE__ ] );