wordpress plugin error handling

I am looking for a way to handle errors for a custom post type with its own custom fields. This is all part of a plugin I’m writing, however, after extensive research the only way I found is through sessions (or similar) and show it on the next page, (in which case it would save the changes).

Is there any other way of handling errors and preventing WordPress from saving the post type if something is wrong? If so how? I figured WP_Error class would work, but without luck.

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If anyone can help, that would be great!

Thanks!

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  1. WordPress have WP_Error class for checking WordPress errors and error messages since version 2.1.0. WordPress use object of WP_Error class for reporting error from several WP function. However, we can use this object in plugin or theme to handle error within WordPress. This class containing verious useful method for managing error.

    All methods

    <?php
    //Creating instance of error class
    $error = new WP_Error( 'not_found', 'Page Not Found', 'Page Data' );
    
    //Add new error to object
    $error->add( 'not_match', 'Field Not Match' );
    
    //Return all error codes from object
    $data = $error->get_error_codes();
    print_r( $data );
    //Output: Array ( [0] => not_found [1] => not_match )
    
    //Return first error code
    echo $error->get_error_code();
    //Output: not_found
    
    //Return all error message
    $data = $error->get_error_messages();
    print_r( $data );
    //Output: Array ( [0] => Page Not Found [1] => Field Not Match )
    
    //Return error message by error code
    $data = $error->get_error_messages( 'not_match' );
    print_r( $data );
    //Output: Array ( [0] => Field Not Match )
    
    //Return first error message if no code are given
    echo $error->get_error_message();
    //Output: Page Not Found
    
    //Return first error message for given error code
    echo $error->get_error_message( 'not_match' );
    //Output: Field Not Match
    
    //Return first error data
    echo $error->get_error_data();
    //Output: Page Data
    
    //Return error data from error code.
    echo $error->get_error_data( 'not_found' );
    //Output: Page Data
    
    //add error data to error code
    //syntex: add_data( $data, $code );
    $error->add_data( 'Some data', 'not_match' );
    echo $error->get_error_data( 'not_match' );
    //Output: Some data
    
    //Check whether variable is a WordPress Error.
    //return bool True, if WP_Error. False, if not WP_Error.
    $data = is_wp_error( $error );
    var_dump( $data );
    //Output: bool(true)
    

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