Receive email notifications whenever a fatal error occurs on your WordPress site.
This plugin hooks into PHP's shutdown functions to send you a notification whenever a fatal error (or other error level, configurably) is detected on your site.
Unlike traditional uptime monitoring services, which will only notify you if your entire site is down, this plugin can notify you when an error is detected on any page or process on your site.
Automatic plugin and theme updates often introduce problems that you aren't aware of until they're reported by your visitors. Fatal Error Notify lets you address these issues as they occur and before they cause significant problems.
Fatal Error Notify Pro includes several additional features, like Slack notifications, the ability to hide the plugin settings, logging of recorded errors, out of memory handling, multisite support, and more.
Fatal Error Notify Pro also includes integrations with Gravity Forms, WooCommerce, WPForms, WP Fusion and WP Mail SMTP and can send notifications when errors are logged in those plugins.
Yes, you can use the filter fen_ignore_error, like so:
function fen_ignore_error( $ignore, $error ) {
if( $error['file'] == '/home/username/public_html/wp-includes/class-phpass.php' ) {
$ignore = true;
}
return $ignore;
}
add_filter( 'fen_ignore_error', 'fen_ignore_error', 10, 2 );The $error variable is an array containing:
$error['type']: (int) The PHP error code$error['message']: (string) The error message$error['file']: (string) The path to the file that triggered the error$error['line']: (int) The line number that triggered the error
Yup, you bet! You can update the plugin settings using WP CLI, for example to set a default list of error levels, or a notification email address.
The two methods are get_option and update_option. For example:
wp fatal-error-notify get_option slack_notifications
Will tell you if Slack notifications are enabled on the site.
wp fatal-error-notify update_option notification_email email@domain.com
Will update the notification email for the site.
You can also update options on multiple sites using xargs:
wp site list --field=url | xargs -n1 -I {} sh -c 'wp --url={} fatal-error-notify update_option notification_email email@domain.com'
If you are updating options that are stored as arrays (for example levels or plugins) you can use JSON-formatted values. For an example, use get_option first on the field you are trying to update.
- You can clone the GitHub repository:
https://github.com/verygoodplugins/fatal-error-notify.git - Or download it directly as a ZIP file:
https://github.com/verygoodplugins/fatal-error-notify/archive/master.zip
This will download the latest copy of Fatal Error Notify.
If you find an issue, please open a GitHub issue!
You can report security bugs through the Patchstack Vulnerability Disclosure Program. The Patchstack team help validate, triage and handle any security vulnerabilities. Report a security vulnerability.
This is a developer's portal for Fatal Error Notify and should not be used for support. Please visit the support page if you need to submit a support request.
- Tested for WordPress 6.9
- Added - Memory reservation for better out-of-memory error handling
- Added - Settings link on the plugins page
- Added - Automatically deactivate the free version when Pro is activated
- Added - Object cache support for rate limiting
- Added -
fen_rate_limit_timefilter for customizing the rate limit duration - Improved - Notifications now include the full request URL with protocol and domain
- Improved - Server paths are now stripped from file paths in notifications
- Improved - Out-of-memory error messages are normalized to prevent duplicate notifications
- Improved - "chmod" warnings are now ignored by default
- Improved - Better referrer handling (hidden when same as request URL)
- Improved - User login name is now shown instead of just the user ID
- Improved - Test notifications no longer call an undefined function
- Fixed - Deprecated constant
E_STRICTremoved for PHP 8.4 compatibility - Fixed - Rate limiting now properly includes the file path in the hash
- Tested for WordPress 6.5.0
- Added nonce further secure to admin test error action
- Improved - Removed some uncommon error types
- Fixed test error endpoint being accessible by non-admins
- Tested for WordPress 6.3.0
- Improved - "mkdir" warnings will be ignored by default
- Tested for WordPress 6.2.0
- Added WP CLI endpoint for updating plugin settings
- Fixed typo (misplaced parenthesis) checking
WARNINGlevel errors in v1.4.6
- Tested for WordPress 6.1.0
- Improved - Moved actions to
shutdownaction priority 1, to fix cases where other plugins generate notices or warnings duringshutdownafter a fatal error - Improved - "rmdir" warnings will be ignored by default
- Fixed
unlinkwarnings still triggering notifications ifunlinkwas the first part of the error string
- Tested for WordPress 5.9
- Improved - "unlink" warnings will be ignored by default (see https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordfence-notification-error-wordfenceclass-php/#post-15187940)
- Added upgrade prompt in notification email
- Tested for WordPress 5.8
- Moved upgrade nag to top of settings page to prevent layout issues on smaller screens
- Tested for WordPress 5.6
- Fixed PHP notice when HTTP referrer was missing
- Added fen_use_wp_mail filter
- Tested for WordPress 5.4
- Added error level descriptions
- Tested for WordPress 5.3
- Added request URI, HTTP Referrer, and current user ID to notifications
- Added "Send Test" button
- Rate limiting so notifications are only sent once per hour
- Added filter to ignore errors
- Updated branding
- Added link to Pro version
- Initial release