Black Bar
Black Bar is an unobtrusive Debug Bar for WordPress developers that attaches itself to the bottom of the browser window.
5(9 reviews)
·600 active installs·Updated 4 months agoAs of April 2026, Black Bar is a WordPress debug plugin with 600 active installations and a 5/5 rating from 9 reviews. It has been downloaded 38K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 6.1+ and PHP 7.4+. Available on WordPress.org since 2018. Top alternative: WP Crontrol.
5/59 reviews
600active installs
38K+total downloads
8 yearssince 2018
Overview
Black Bar is an unobtrusive Debug Bar for WordPress developers. It collects and displays errors, executed SQL queries, slow actions and hooks, theme templates, global variables, and provides a profiler.
How it helps you with development:
- Debug your code with the Console
- Inspect global variables (COOKIE, GET, POST, SERVER, SESSION, WP_Screen)
- Measure performance of your code with the Profiler
- View any PHP errors that occur when loading a page in the Console
- View executed MySQL queries along with execution time and backtrace
- View template files of the active theme in loaded order
- View the 50 slowest action and filter hooks along with callbacks ordered by priority
Ratings & Reviews
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Compatibility
| WordPress | 6.1+ requiredTested up to 6.9.4 |
| PHP | 7.4+ required |
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Changelog
4.1.4 (2024-05-08)
- Added “blackbar/hooks/all” filter hook
- Added highlighting of major WordPress hooks
- Added support for static callables used for hook callbacks in Site Reviews
- Change minimum PHP version to 7.4
- Change minimum WordPress version to 6.1
Contributors
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