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Ray

Easily debug WordPress sites using Ray.

By freekmurze·Debug·Free
5(10 reviews)
·500 active installs·Updated 3 months ago
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As of April 2026, Ray is a WordPress debug plugin with 500 active installations and a 5/5 rating from 10 reviews. It has been downloaded 35K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 5.5+ and PHP 8.0+. Available on WordPress.org since 2021. Top alternative: WP Crontrol.

5/510 reviews
500active installs
35K+total downloads
5 yearssince 2021

Overview

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…

Read full description on WordPress.org

Ratings & Reviews

510 reviews
5 ★
10
4 ★
0
3 ★
0
2 ★
0
1 ★
0

Compatibility

WordPress5.5+ requiredTested up to 6.8.5
PHP8.0+ required

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Frequently Asked Questions

Changelog

You can find the changelog at GitHub.

View full changelog on WordPress.org

Contributors

freekmurzefreekmurze
Plugin Info
Version
1.7.10
Last Updated
Dec 10, 2025
WP Requires
5.5+
Tested Up To
6.8.5
PHP Requires
8.0+
Active Installs
500
Downloads
35K+
Added
Jan 13, 2021
Business
Free

Tags

debugdebuggingdeveloperdevelopment

Developer

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freekmurze
2 plugins0.0M+ total installs
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