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Error Log Monitor
Useful for spotting PHP errors until it becomes one itself.
HealthyDeclining
57/100
It provides helpful error visibility but suffers from messy uninstalls and annoying deactivation prompts.
Active installs
~25,000
our estimate · wp.org shows 20k+
Rating
4.3★
48 ratings
Trend · vs a year ago
-24%
Declining
115 → 88 installs/day
What to watch out for
- MINORnot updated in 8 months
Downloads over time
real new installs per day · release spikes shown separately from the trend2025-04-302025-08-082025-11-162026-02-232026-06-03
organicrelease spikerelease tailorganic trend · 14d rolling median
Declining · -24% in the last year
115/day a year ago→88/day today
Reviews
what people actually sayError Log Monitor is a genuinely useful debugging tool for catching PHP errors and warnings, but it carries real caveats around poor UX decisions, a messy uninstall process, and occasional site-breaking behaviour.
What people like
- +Effective at identifying PHP errors, warnings, and unstable plugins in real environments×5
- +Pro version adds valuable features like stack traces and context×2
- +Support is described as responsive and helpful×2
Common complaints
- −Plugin has caused site outages and required manual deactivation from the backend to recover×2
- −Blocks its own deactivation to force a feedback prompt before allowing uninstall
- −Leaves behind database tables, a cron job, and its own log folder after deletion — no clean uninstall
- −Requires an opt-in to send data through an external service, which users find unexpected for a local log viewer
- −UI is confusing — error log is surfaced as a widget rather than a dedicated admin page, making it hard to locate×2
- −Error messages when access/permission issues occur on the server side are unhelpful
- −May not be fully compatible with recent WordPress versions (6.7)
Review trustReviews look organic
- 4.31★Verified rating — holds steady vs the raw 4.30★
- 2%One-shot reviewers — most reviewers are active community members
Reviews per month · 5★ vs lower
2023-12-172025-03-112026-06-04
5★ reviews1–4★ reviews
All-time ratings · 48 total
Latest reviews · 49 analyzed
- 2024-12-17★★★★★Good enoughmartin94
- 2024-12-01★★★★★need to update for wordpress 6.7Mark C
- 2024-09-24★★★★★Extracts valuable information from the morass of log messagesBarry Brunning
- 2024-07-04★★★★★Pro is a life saverenmatthias
- 2023-11-30★★★★★Useful pluginJohn Dorner
- 2023-05-10★★★★★Gatekeeps disabling their pluginhappysolicitor
- 2023-04-12★★★★★Not BadDennis Bareis
- 2023-02-15★★★★★A Great Program with Good Supportsellnet111
- 2023-01-25★★★★★Excellent Pluginsahro
- 2023-01-23★★★★★Quite Good but No Display full Log Option (or other filtering)Dennis Bareis
Releases
recent versions from WordPress.org SVNFor developers & the curious
the raw signals behind the grade — none of this is on the friendly summary aboveDownload signals
Baselines are computed on organic days only — release spikes and their tails are excluded, so they're not inflated by the auto-update wave.
79
Baseline · median of last 7 organic days
101
Prior 7-day baseline
62
Floor · 25th percentile over 14 days
134
Mean release-day peak (30d)
80
Latest day · 2026-06-03(organic)
-21.8%
Week-over-week organic trend
Review signals
Concentration and drive-by metrics drive the review-burst and fake-review flags. 30–40% solo reviewers is normal; we only flag the extremes.
20%
Max month share · biggest single 30-day window
2.28
Distribution CV · <0.6 even, >1.5 bursty
76%
5★ share in analyzed sample
2%
Solo reviewers · only this one wp.org activity
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Volume velocity · last 6mo vs prior 6mo
4.33 → 4.31★
Sample avg · raw → solo-filtered