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Link to a better place at the Common WordPress Errors documentation #354

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ramonanextend opened this issue May 25, 2022 · 1 comment
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At this article:
https://wordpress.org/support/article/common-wordpress-errors/
there's a link ("The WP_DEBUG feature often provides additional information.") that points to:
https://wordpress.org/support/article/editing-wp-config-php/#wp-debug
which should explain WP_DEBUG. But that page doesn't even mention the WP_DEBUG. I think the "common-wordpress-errors" page should link to a different page, either of there:

URL of the Page with the Issue

https://wordpress.org/support/article/common-wordpress-errors/

Section of Page with the issue

Just above the 3rd heading, where this text is: "The WP_DEBUG feature often provides additional information"

Why is this a problem?

The page links to a documentation that doesn't even mention the linked text. Because of that users can't learn how to use the WP_DEBUG to debug issues on their sites.

Probably the linked article was changed but the URL was not updated, as the anchored element (wordpress.org/support/article/editing-wp-config-php/#wp-debug) doesn't exist anymore.

Suggested Fix

The "common-wordpress-errors" page should link to a different page, either of these:

@ramonanextend ramonanextend added the tracking issue Use to track a series of related issues. label May 25, 2022
@stevenlinx stevenlinx self-assigned this May 26, 2022
@stevenlinx stevenlinx added user documentation (HelpHub) Improvements or additions to end-user documentation and removed tracking issue Use to track a series of related issues. labels May 26, 2022
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