Follow Buttons by AddThis 4.2.7

Does Follow Buttons by AddThis work with WordPress 6.8.1 and PHP 8.1.12? A smoke test was performed on .

Summary

Errors
5PHP warnings
No JavaScript exceptions
All test pages loaded successfully
7Resource errors (CSS, JS, images, fonts and so on.)
  • 4 net::ERR_NAME_NOT_RESOLVED
  • 3 net::ERR_FAILED
Performance

Memory usage: 176.04 KiB
The average PHP memory usage increased by this amount after activating by the plugin.

Page speed impact: 0.027 seconds
The average page load time increased by this amount after activating the plugin.

Environment
WordPress version6.8.1
PHP version8.1.12
MySQL version10.6.10
PHP memory limit512M
Plugin Info
Last updated
Active installs 10,000+
WordPress.org page https://wordpress.org/plugins/addthis-follow/
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Pages 8

Plugins ‹ Test site — WordPress

Page screenshot: Plugins ‹ Test site — WordPress
URL /wp-admin/plugins.php?plugin_status=all&paged=1&s
Requested URL /wp-admin/plugins.php?action=activate&plugin=addthis-follow%2Faddthis-follow.php&plugin_status=all&paged=1&s&_wpnonce=890fa03672
Aspect after-activation
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.570 s
Memory usage 3.71 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

AddThis

Page screenshot: AddThis
URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=addthis_registration#/registration
Requested URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=addthis_registration
Aspect menu-item
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.576 s
Memory usage 3.67 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors
[
    {
        "status": null,
        "statusText": null,
        "url": "https://s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js?ver=6.8.1",
        "errorString": "net::ERR_NAME_NOT_RESOLVED"
    },
    {
        "status": null,
        "statusText": null,
        "url": "https://www.addthis.com/darkseid/test/ping",
        "errorString": "net::ERR_FAILED"
    },
    {
        "status": null,
        "statusText": null,
        "url": "https://www.addthis.com/darkseid/plugins/wpf/v/4.2.7/site/",
        "errorString": "net::ERR_FAILED"
    }
]

AddThis → Advanced Settings

Page screenshot: AddThis → Advanced Settings
URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=addthis_advanced_settings#/advanced
Requested URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=addthis_advanced_settings
Aspect menu-item
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.295 s
Memory usage 3.67 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors
[
    {
        "status": null,
        "statusText": null,
        "url": "https://s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js?ver=6.8.1",
        "errorString": "net::ERR_NAME_NOT_RESOLVED"
    }
]

AddThis → Follow Buttons

Page screenshot: AddThis → Follow Buttons
URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=addthis_follow_buttons#/follow
Requested URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=addthis_follow_buttons
Aspect menu-item
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.244 s
Memory usage 3.67 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors
[
    {
        "status": null,
        "statusText": null,
        "url": "https://s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js?ver=6.8.1",
        "errorString": "net::ERR_NAME_NOT_RESOLVED"
    },
    {
        "status": null,
        "statusText": null,
        "url": "https://www.addthis.com/darkseid/test/ping",
        "errorString": "net::ERR_FAILED"
    }
]

Test site – Just another WordPress site

Page screenshot: Test site – Just another WordPress site
URL /
Aspect front-page
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.191 s
Memory usage 3.52 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors
[
    {
        "status": null,
        "statusText": null,
        "url": "https://s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js?ver=6.8.1",
        "errorString": "net::ERR_NAME_NOT_RESOLVED"
    }
]

Add Post ‹ Test site — WordPress

Page screenshot: Add Post ‹ Test site — WordPress
URL /wp-admin/post-new.php
Aspect new-meta-boxes
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.644 s
Memory usage 6.31 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Add Page ‹ Test site — WordPress

Page screenshot: Add Page ‹ Test site — WordPress
URL /wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page
Aspect new-meta-boxes
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.602 s
Memory usage 6.23 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Widgets ‹ Test site — WordPress

Page screenshot: Widgets ‹ Test site — WordPress
URL /wp-admin/widgets.php
Aspect new-sidebar-widgets
HTTP status 200
Load time 1.604 s
Memory usage 6 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Benchmark

URL Load time Memory usage
Inactive Active Change Inactive Active Change
/wp-admin/index.php0.351 s0.289 s-0.062 s3.51 MiB3.69 MiB+ 185.88 KiB
/wp-admin/edit.php0.200 s0.190 s-0.010 s3.57 MiB3.75 MiB+ 185.12 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php0.794 s1.155 s+0.361 s6.06 MiB6.31 MiB+ 251.63 KiB
/wp-admin/upload.php0.585 s0.506 s-0.079 s3.52 MiB3.69 MiB+ 167.72 KiB
/wp-admin/options-writing.php0.224 s0.194 s-0.030 s3.5 MiB3.67 MiB+ 171.7 KiB
/wp-admin/media-new.php0.320 s0.232 s-0.088 s3.49 MiB3.67 MiB+ 179.9 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category0.214 s0.181 s-0.033 s3.5 MiB3.69 MiB+ 190.57 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page0.602 s0.623 s+0.021 s6.05 MiB6.23 MiB+ 183.16 KiB
/wp-admin/options-discussion.php0.434 s0.507 s+0.073 s3.5 MiB3.67 MiB+ 168.2 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-comments.php0.266 s0.470 s+0.204 s3.52 MiB3.69 MiB+ 167.7 KiB
/0.303 s0.245 s-0.058 s3.43 MiB3.52 MiB+ 84.81 KiB
Average 0.390 s0.417 s+0.027 s3.97 MiB4.14 MiB+ 176.04 KiB

Code Statistics

Note: Third-party libraries and minified JS/CSS files are excluded from these statistics where possible, so the numbers you see here may be lower than those reported by other tools.

JavaScript
PHP
HTML
PO File
Language % Lines of code Comment lines Files
JavaScript31.6%8,7271,13584
PHP22.7%6,2863,34832
HTML22.4%6,192106109
PO File9.7%2,6711,0312
CSS6.0%1,64628715
JSON4.7%1,29804
SVG1.4%39208
Markdown1.3%35203
XML0.3%7312
Total 27,637 5,908 259

PHP Code Analysis | More results »

Lines of code 6,284
Total complexity 1,299
Median class complexity 17.5
Median method complexity 3.0
Most complex class AddThisFeature
Most complex function AddThisSharingButtonsFeature::upgradeIterative4()
Classes 30
Methods 262
Functions 2

Additions

Things that the plugin adds to the site. This section is not intended to be comprehensive. The test tool only looks for a few specific types of added content.

Options wp_options 5

Sidebar Widgets 2

ID Name
addthis_tool_by_class_name_widgetAddThis Tool
addthis_global_options_widgetAddThis Script

Meta Boxes

{
    "post": {
        "at_widget": {
            "title": "AddThis Tools",
            "context": "advanced"
        }
    },
    "page": {
        "at_widget": {
            "title": "AddThis Tools",
            "context": "advanced"
        }
    }
}

PHP Error Log 5 lines

[01-May-2025 07:40:58 UTC] PHP Warning:  Undefined array key "cms_version" in /wp-content/plugins/addthis-follow/backend/AddThisPlugin.php on line 203
[01-May-2025 07:40:58 UTC] PHP Warning:  Undefined array key "php_version" in /wp-content/plugins/addthis-follow/backend/AddThisPlugin.php on line 207
[01-May-2025 07:41:22 UTC] PHP Warning:  Undefined array key "cms_version" in /wp-content/plugins/addthis-follow/backend/AddThisPlugin.php on line 237
[01-May-2025 07:41:22 UTC] PHP Warning:  Undefined array key "php_version" in /wp-content/plugins/addthis-follow/backend/AddThisPlugin.php on line 241
[01-May-2025 07:41:22 UTC] PHP Warning:  Undefined property: AddThisRegistrationFeature::$globalLayersJsonField in /wp-content/plugins/addthis-follow/backend/AddThisPlugin.php on line 264
See also: All tests for this plugin, How to Hide Follow Buttons by AddThis Admin Menus and Meta Boxes