Inspect PHP variables on a central dashboard in wp-admin for convenient debugging.
As of April 2026, Variable Inspector is a WordPress debug plugin with 100 active installations and a 5/5 rating from 5 reviews. It has been downloaded 73K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 4.8+ and PHP 5.6+. Available on WordPress.org since 2022. Recently updated within the last 3 months. Top alternative: WP Crontrol.
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 plugi…
| WordPress | 4.8+ requiredTested up to 6.9.4 |
| PHP | 5.6+ required |
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