WordPress

This plugin integrates Rollbar into your WordPress installation.

Installation

Through WordPress Plugin directory

The easiest way to install the plugin is from the WordPress Plugin directory. If you have an existing WordPress installation and you want to add Rollbar:

1. In your WordPress administration panel go to Plugins → Add New.
2. Search for "Rollbar" and find Rollbar by Rollbar in the search results.
3. Click Install Now next to the Rollbar plugin.
4. In Plugins → Installed plugins find Rollbar and click activate underneath.
5. Log into your Rollbar account dashboard.
6. Go to Settings → Project Access Tokens.
7. Copy the token value under post_client_item and post_server_item.
8. Navigate to Settings → Rollbar.
9. Enable PHP error logging and/or Javascript error logging depending on your needs.
10. Paste the tokens you copied in step 7 in Access Token section.
11. Provide the name of your environment in Environment. By default, the environment will be taken from WP_ENV environment variable if it's set otherwise it's blank. We recommend to fill this out either with development or production.
12. Pick a minimum logging level. Only errors at that or higher level will be reported. For reference: PHP Manual: Predefined Error Constants.
13. Click Save Changes.

Warning: This installation method might not be suitable for complex WordPress projects. The plugin installed this way will be self-contained and include all of the required dependencies for itself and rollbar/rollbar-php library. In complex projects, this might lead to version conflicts between dependencies and other plugins/packages. If this is an issue in your project, we recommend the "Advanced" installation method. For more information why this might be important for you, read Using Composer with WordPress.

Through wpackagist (if you manage your project with Composer) recommended

This is a recommended way to install Rollbar plugin for advanced projects. This way ensures the plugin and all of its' dependencies are managed by Composer.

1. If your WordPress project is not managed with Composer yet, we suggest looking into upgrading your WordPress: Using Composer with WordPress.
2. In your composer.json add wpackagist-plugin/rollbar to your require section, i.e.:

  "require": {
    "php": ">=5.5",
    "wpackagist-plugin/rollbar": "*"
  }

3. Issue command composer install in the root directory of your WordPress project.
4. In Plugins → Installed plugins find Rollbar and click Activate underneath.
5. Log into your Rollbar account dashboard.
6. Go to Settings → Project Access Tokens.
7. Copy the token value under post_client_item and post_server_item.
8. Navigate to Tools → Rollbar.
9. Enable PHP error logging and/or Javascript error logging depending on your needs.
10. Paste the tokens you copied in step 7 in Access Token section.
11. Provide the name of your environment in Environment. By default, the environment will be taken from WP_ENV environment variable if it's set otherwise it's blank.
12. Pick a minimum logging level. Only errors at that or higher level will be reported. For reference: PHP Manual: Predefined Error Constants.
13. Click Save Changes.

Configuration

rollbar_js_config filter

Allows a plugin to modify the JS config passed to Rollbar.

You can use this e.g. to add the currently logged in user to the person field
of the payload. With this change, you could have this plugin:

<?php
class RollbarWPUser {

  public function __construct(){
    add_filter( 'rollbar_js_config', array($this, 'rollbar_js_config') );
  }

  function rollbar_js_config($config) {
    if(is_user_logged_in()) {
      $user = wp_get_current_user();  
      
      if(empty($config['payload']['person'])) {
        $config['payload']['person'] = array(
          'id' => $user->ID,
          'username' => $user->user_login,
          'email' => $user->user_email
        );
      }
    }

    return $config;
  }
  
}

rollbar_plugin_settings filter

Allows you to manually adjust the settings of the plugin, in case you want to add additional processing after the settings get fetched from the database.

<?php
function adjust_rollbar_settings($settings)
{
  // ...
}

add_filter( 'rollbar_plugin_settings', 'adjust_rollbar_settings' );

Setting the access token in your source code or server configuration

It's possible to set up your access token in your wp-config.php file:

define('ROLLBAR_ACCESS_TOKEN', '...');

Or you can set the ROLLBAR_ACCESS_TOKEN environment variable.

If you set those up, the plugin will automatically fetch the access token accordingly.

Help / Support

If you run into any issues, please email us at [email protected]

For bug reports, please open an issue on GitHub.

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For more information on rollbar-php, please see the docs here.