[WordPress] Writing Messages to the WordPress Debug Log

00-log.php

<?php

/**
 * Prints a message to the debug file that can easily be called by any subclass.
 *
 * @param mixed $message      an object, array, string, number, or other data to write to the debug log
 * @param bool  $shouldNotDie whether or not the The function should exit after writing to the log
 *
 */
protected function log($message, $shouldNotDie = true)
{
    error_log(print_r($message, true));
    if ($shouldNotDie) {
        exit;
    }
}