{"id":8336,"date":"2011-05-23T06:57:27","date_gmt":"2011-05-23T10:57:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/info.template-help.com\/?p=8336"},"modified":"2016-02-23T06:05:06","modified_gmt":"2016-02-23T11:05:06","slug":"how-to-use-magento-debug-tool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/how-to-use-magento-debug-tool.html","title":{"rendered":"How to use Magento debug tool (Template Path Hints)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\r\n<p>This  tutorial will show you how to use the Magento debugging tools to easily locate  the module names and core source files. <\/p>\r\n<p>Let\u2019s see  what advantages give us the Magento debug tools. Here you can see the default  Magento store home page without any products installed. You can hardly say what  each block does and how to edit it. <\/p>\r\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/info.template-help.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/mag-dev-tools-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/info.template-help.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/mag-dev-tools-1-300x263.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"mag-dev-tools-1\" width=\"300\" height=\"263\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-8340\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/mag-dev-tools-1-300x263.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/mag-dev-tools-1-150x132.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/mag-dev-tools-1.jpg 952w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\r\n<p>With the  Debug tools you can see the module system name and core file. <\/p>\r\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/info.template-help.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/mag-dev-tools-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/info.template-help.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/mag-dev-tools-2-300x263.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"mag-dev-tools-2\" width=\"300\" height=\"263\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-8341\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/mag-dev-tools-2-300x263.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/mag-dev-tools-2.jpg 952w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\r\n<p>To enable  the debug tools open the Magento admin panel, go to <strong>System &gt; Configuration<\/strong> page. In the Current Configuration Scope  block (left column top block) select <strong>Default  Store View<\/strong>. <\/p>\r\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/info.template-help.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/mag-dev-tools-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/info.template-help.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/mag-dev-tools-3-300x154.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"mag-dev-tools-3\" width=\"300\" height=\"154\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-8342\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/mag-dev-tools-3-300x154.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/mag-dev-tools-3.jpg 899w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\r\n<p> Now scroll  down and click the <strong>Developer<\/strong> link  and open the <strong>Debug<\/strong> tab. <\/p>\r\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/info.template-help.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/mag-dev-tools-4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/info.template-help.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/mag-dev-tools-4-300x61.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"mag-dev-tools-4\" width=\"300\" height=\"61\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-8343\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/mag-dev-tools-4-300x61.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/mag-dev-tools-4.jpg 707w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\r\n<p>For the  options <strong>Template Path Hints<\/strong> and <strong>Add Block Names to Hints <\/strong>uncheck the  Use default checkbox and select Yes. Then click <strong>Save Config<\/strong> button in the top left corner. <\/p>\r\n<p><\/p>\r\n<p><\/p>\r\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This tutorial will show you how to use the Magento debugging tools to easily locate the module names and core source files. Let\u2019s see what advantages give us the Magento debug tools. Here you can see the default Magento store home page without any products installed. You can hardly say what each block does and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[729],"tags":[934,2407],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8336"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8336\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}