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title: "WP_DEBUG: enable error logging in WordPress"
url: "https://www.seopress.org/support/guides/wp_debug-enable-error-logging-in-wordpress/"
lang: en-US
updated: 2021-09-28
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# WP_DEBUG: enable error logging in WordPress

Our support team may ask you to activate the PHP constant “**WP\_DEBUG**” in order to retrieve the error logs from your site.

Here is the procedure to follow for this:

1. Connect to your server via FTP / SFTP (your host will help you with this if you do not have access and / or do not know how to do it).
2. In the WordPress installation directory, open the **wp\_config.php** file.
3. Add this: ``` define ('WP_DEBUG', true);
 define ('WP_DEBUG_LOG', true); ```
4. Save the file and send it back to your server by FTP.
5. The errors generated by your site will then be recorded in the **debug.log** file located in the **wp-content** folder.
6. Refresh the page of your site that generates the error so that it is saved in your debug file.
7. Send your file to our support team.
8. **Disable debug by deleting the 2 lines added previously or by passing the values “true” to “false”.**