SleekView Kanban for Debug Bar
SleekView Kanban reads Debug Bar captured entries from the WordPress debug log, groups them into severity lanes like notice, warning, error, and deprecated, and lets your team drag entries between lanes to acknowledge or archive without leaving wp-admin.
♾️ Lifetime License available
Why Debug Bar entries fit a kanban view
Debug Bar wraps the WordPress core debug pipeline so admins see PHP notices, warnings, deprecations, and SQL queries on the front-end toolbar. With a logging add-on, each captured entry is also written to the debug.log file or a stored logs table with a severity level, a component, a request URL, and a backtrace.
The default toolbar shows the entries for the current request, which is great for one slow page but breaks down once a team needs to triage a week of stored debug noise. SleekView Kanban reads the same stored entries and groups them by the severity field, which is the natural pipeline lane for a PHP debug log. Each card surfaces the component, the message, the request URL, and a relative time stamp so a developer scans a lane without expanding every backtrace.
Dragging a card between lanes writes a triage status back to the entry row in the stored logs table, so an acknowledged notice drops out of the active board, an archived warning leaves a clean audit trail, and a snoozed deprecation is hidden until the next release. Bulk drags update every selected row in one transaction, so a flood of identical notices from a single bad deploy can be acknowledged in one sweep.
Workflow
From Debug Bar toolbar to triage board
Point at the debug log
debug.log as the source. SleekView reads severity, component, message, URL, and timestamp.
Pick severity as the lane
Choose card fields
Enable triage drops
Sample board
Sample Debug Bar triage kanban board
Comparison
Default toolbar vs SleekView Kanban
Default debug toolbar
- Toolbar shows entries for current request only, not the whole site week
- No bulk acknowledge across hundreds of repeat notices after a single deploy
- Triage state lives in developer memory, never on a column in the log row
- No snooze flow, so noisy components keep cluttering every dev session
- Stored log view is a flat sortable table that hides the shape of the noise
SleekView Kanban
- Groups stored Debug Bar entries by severity with live counts per lane
- Drag from notice to acknowledged to clear known core notices off the board
- Card fronts show component, request URL, message, and a relative time stamp
- Snoozed lane keeps repeating deprecations out of the active triage view
- Capability gates restrict fatal archives to senior developer roles only
Features
What SleekView Kanban gives you for Debug Bar
Triage across the whole site
Debug Bar focuses the toolbar on the current request, which is blind to the rest of the traffic. The kanban groups stored entries by severity across every request, so a fatal stands out instead of hiding in one toolbar.
Bulk acknowledge after deploys
After a deploy and the same notice fires across a thousand requests, select every row in the notice lane and drag to acknowledged in one move. The log row keeps its backtrace and the audit trail records who triaged it.
Scope by component or URL
A filter bar narrows lanes by component, URL pattern, date range, or user role. Saved filters are per-user, so a developer chasing WooCommerce deprecations keeps a focused board while a teammate watches errors on cron.
Audience
Three teams using the Debug Bar kanban
Backend developers
Backend developers watch the warning and error lanes after every deploy to confirm no new PHP issues slipped past unit tests and to chase the worst regressions before they hit production.
Plugin authors shipping
Plugin authors filter the board to their own component and clear notices from their plugin before shipping each new release to the WordPress plugin directory for review and update.
Incident responders
On-call responders open the error lane during an incident, see fatal errors ranked together with their full backtraces, and triage them in one place rather than scrolling toolbar panels.
The bigger picture
Why a kanban beats a toolbar for debug
Debug data is noisy. Debug Bar is the gold standard for surfacing what happens inside a single WordPress request, but the default toolbar is built for one developer staring at one slow page in front of them. The moment a team needs to triage thousands of stored entries across a week of traffic, the per-request toolbar model breaks down because severity, component, and time are buried under the request itself rather than promoted to lanes you can scan.
A kanban board fixes that shape. Lanes give developers instant counts of where every entry sits on the severity spectrum, drag-and-drop turns triage decisions into a single gesture instead of a per-row dropdown change, and filters let each developer scope the board to the components or URL patterns they actually own. The same Debug Bar logs power a different mental model that matches how engineering teams triage a week of debug noise rather than one slow page in isolation, and that change closes incidents faster.
Questions
Common questions about SleekView Kanban for Debug Bar
The default Debug Bar toolbar surfaces entries for the current request only and does not store them across requests. SleekView reads stored debug entries from a logging add-on table or a parsed debug.log file, so a stored log source is required for the kanban lanes to render entries.
Yes. A typical setup keeps a rolling week of debug entries in the stored log, which is plenty for a triage board to render lanes. Older entries roll off automatically through whatever retention rule the logging add-on enforces, and SleekView reads whatever sits inside the window.
Acknowledge is a status change, not a delete. The original entry stays in the stored log table with its full backtrace and an added triage flag, so anyone with read access can still inspect it. Cron-driven retention can prune acknowledged rows later on whatever schedule fits your audit policy.
Yes. SleekView views are configuration only, so you can build one board filtered to WooCommerce components and another to admin requests from the same stored log table. Each developer picks a default board, and admins pin shared boards into the sidebar for the engineering team.
SleekView reads the severity column on every page load, so a new severity label shows up automatically as its own lane at the end of the board. You can drag it into the right position, assign a color, and decide which fields the lane cards should surface.
Each entry card opens a side panel showing the full backtrace exactly as Debug Bar captured it, the SQL query text where the entry came from a database hook, and the component and request URL. Developers can triage, archive, or snooze without opening the original Debug Bar toolbar.
Yes. SleekView respects WordPress capabilities, so you can require a senior developer capability before a card lands in the archived lane for the fatal severity. Junior developers acknowledge notices and deprecations, but only senior staff close out a fatal row in production triage.
SleekView reads and writes the existing stored debug log table without adding shadow tables for debug entries. The triage status sits in a small extension column the kanban manages, and uninstalling SleekView leaves every entry, severity label, and backtrace exactly where the add-on wrote it.
Pricing
More than 1000+
happy customers
Explore our flexible licensing options tailored to your needs. Upgrade your license anytime to access more features, or opt for a lifetime license for ongoing value, including lifetime updates and lifetime support. Our hassle-free upgrade process ensures that our platform can grow with you, starting from whichever plan you choose.
Lifetime ♾️
Most popular
EUR
once
- Unlimited websites
- Lifetime updates
- Lifetime support
...or get the Bundle Deal
and save €250 🎁
The Bundle (unlimited sites)
Pay once, own it forever
Elevate your WordPress site with our exclusive plugin bundle that includes all of our premium plugins in one package. Enjoy lifetime updates and lifetime support. Save significantly compared to buying plugins individually.
What’s included
-
SleekAI
-
SleekByte
-
SleekMotion
-
SleekPixel
-
SleekRank
-
SleekView
€749
Continue to checkout