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WP Fatal Error Handler

A better fatal error handler for WordPress.

by Sean Fisher · github.com/alleyinteractive/wp-fatal-handler · website

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Install

No release zip yet. The repository archive installs, but the folder name will carry the branch suffix and updates will not flow:

wp plugin install https://github.com/alleyinteractive/wp-fatal-handler/archive/refs/heads/develop.zip

Also on Packagist as alleyinteractive/wp-fatal-handler:

composer require alleyinteractive/wp-fatal-handler

From the readme

WP Fatal Error Handler A better fatal error handler for WordPress powered by Whoops. By default, WordPress' error handling provides limited information when dealing with fatal errors. This plugin replaces the default WordPress fatal error handler with a Whoops error handler, which provides a much more useful error page with stack traces, code snippets, and more. It also provides a JSON response for API requests. The Whoops handler will only be applied to fatal errors where WPDEBUG is set to true. Installation You can install the package via Composer: Usage Activate the plugin in WordPress and it will automatically register the Whoops error handler for fatal errors. It is recommended to load this plugin as early as possible (perhaps in mu-plugins), so that it can catch all fatal errors that occur during the WordPress bootstrap process. Configuration By default the plugin will register the Whoops error handler and only handle fatal errors (where core usually displays There has been a critical error on this website. ). To disable the registration of the error handler, you can use the wpfatalhandlerregister filter: Note: this filter should be applied before the plugin is loa

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Releases

TagPublished
v0.1.3 Aug 14, 2025
v0.1.2 Jul 2, 2025
v0.1.1 Jun 30, 2025
v0.1.0 Jun 25, 2025

These releases are tags only. The author does not attach a packaged zip, so there are no download counts to report.