An in-browser PHP console for WordPress powered by PsySH
As of April 2026, WP Console is a WordPress dump plugin with 20K+ active installations and a 5/5 rating from 20 reviews. It has been downloaded 1.9M+ times in total. Requires WordPress 5.3.12+ and PHP 7.4+. Available on WordPress.org since 2019. Downloads are down 8% this week. Top alternative: Laravel DD for WordPress.
WP Console brings the renowned PsySH directly to your browser. PsySH serves as a runtime developer console, an interactive debugger, and a PHP REPL (Read-Eval-Print Loop).
To utilize WP Console, simply write your code within the code editor, then press Cmd-Enter (mac) or Ctrl-Enter (win/linux) to instantly view the output in your browser.
Moreover, you have the option to employ PsySH alongside wp-cli by executing the command wp shell. Notably, wp-cli comes with inherent compatibility for psysh. All that is required is the activation of WP Console to leverage this feature.
_dump as a more versatile alternative to var_dump, leveraging t…WP Console is an essential tool for quickly testing code and getting data about a site’s posts, post meta, and taxonomies. Plus, the author’s attention of bug-fixes is heroic.
Thanks for this awesome plugin. this helps a lot in debugging.
Can not even think of any WP site without it.
Keep up the good work.
Wp console is the perfect tool for developers. Debugging sites, manipulate data on database. Almost like anything a developer can do on local setup.
I love this plugin
I can’t imagine debugging without WP Console.
| WordPress | 5.3.12+ requiredTested up to 6.9.4 |
| PHP | 7.4+ required |
2.6.0 – November 08, 2025
* Added support for PHP 8.4.
2.5.1 – January 13, 2025
* Prevent HTML rendering in console output.
2.5.0 – November 17, 2024
* Breaking: Dropped support for PHP 5.6. The minimum PHP requirement is now 7.4.
* Refactored the dependency loading process for improved performance and maintainability.
* Fixed namespace compatibility issues for PHP 8.1+.
* Resolved deprecation warnings in recent WordPress ver…
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