Debug Bar Screen Info

1. 

   New Screen Info Panel

Can it be used on live site ?

This plugin is only meant to be used for development purposes, but shouldn’t cause any issues if run on a production site.

Why should I be interested in the screen info ?

Because you can use it to conditionally include files, add help tabs, enqueue scripts and styles etc for the admin pages. Lean loading FTW 😉

Where does the screen info come from ?

The screen info is retrieved via the get_current_screen() function and contains a WP_Screen object.

Role of WP_Screen

This is a concrete class that is instantiated in the WordPress $screen global. It is primarily used to create and customize WordPress admin screens (as of WordPress 3.3).

More information in the Codex

Why won’t the plugin activate ?

Have you read what it says in the beautiful red bar at the top of your plugins page ? As it says there, the Debug Bar plugin needs to be active for this plugin to work. If the Debug Bar plugin is not active, this plugin will automatically de-activate itself.

1.1.5

• Hard-code the text-domain for better compatibility with GlotPress.
• Make loading of text-domain compatible with use of the plugin in the must-use plugins directory.
• Updated the pretty print class to v1.6.0.
• Tested & found compatible with WP 4.5
• Minor tidying up

1.1.4

• Updated the pretty print class.
• Tested & found compatible with WP 4.4
• Minor tidying up

1.1.3

• Fix compatibility with the Plugin Dependencies plugin
• Updated the pretty print class which now allows for limiting of the recursion depth.
• Tested & found compatible with WP 4.2
• Minor tidying up
• Updated language files

1.1.2

• Fix for parentage not being set as admin bar is loaded too early – issue #5. Thanks grappler for reporting.

1.1.1

• Variable values are now pretty printed with type indication by default.

1.1.0

• Merge with Jrf‘s version of the same:
  • Now displays all available properties
  • Displays current screen id + property count at top of panel and link to WP_Screen at the bottom
  • Limits visibility to admin site as it’s not relevant on the front-end
  • Auto-disables itself when Debug Bar is not activated
  • Added some css styling
  • Made text strings translatable, added .pot file and a Dutch translation

1.0.0

• First release