Provides a useful function for debugging in Wordpress that gets sent to wp-content/debug.log

wp_trace_log.php

<?php
// Useage looks like: trace_log($awesomeVar);

if (!function_exists('trace_log')) {
	function trace_log ($log)  {
		if (true === WP_DEBUG) {
			if (is_array($log) || is_object($log)) {
				error_log(print_r($log, true));
			} else {
				error_log($log);
			}
		}
	}
}