Introduction to Debugging
Debugging is the process of finding out and removing bugs.
No matter how smartly we try to code or follow coding standards, there are always some bugs that creep into the code when we least expect them. Since having bugs in the code is inevitable, in order to be better and faster at developing software solutions, one must learn and hone their debugging skills for the platform they are developing on and the programming language they are using.
WordPress primarily consists of:
- PHP for server side dynamic content
- HTML for page markup
- CSS for styling the HTML markup
- JavaScript for client side dynamic content
- MySQL database
Each of these has their own debugging techniques and tools, which we’ll cover in the advanced section of the course. Initially, we’ll start with WordPress in general and some of the tools and methods that WordPress and some plugins provide that enable us to get started with debugging.