Ray

Ray is a beautiful, lightweight desktop app that helps you debug your app. There’s a free demo available that can be unlocked with a license .

After installing this plugin, you can use the ray() function to quickly dump stuff. Any variable(s) that you pass to ray() will be displayed.

Here some examples:

ray('Hello world'); ray(['a' => 1, 'b' => 2])->color('red'); ray('multiple', 'arguments', 'are', 'welcome'); ray()->showQueries();

There are many other helper functions available on Ray that allow you to display things that can help you debug such as runtime and memory usage , queries that were executed , and much more.

Full Documentation

The extensive documentation can be found here .

It contains the installation instructions for WordPress.

After it is installed you can use any of the framework agnostic and WordPress specific functions .