Advanced Ads 1.19.0

Does Advanced Ads work with WordPress 5.5 and PHP 7.2.16? A smoke test was performed on .

Summary

Errors
No PHP errors, warnings or notices
No JavaScript exceptions
All test pages loaded successfully
No resource errors
Looks good! No problems were detected.
Performance

Memory usage: 591.92 KiB
The average PHP memory usage increased by this amount after activating by the plugin.

Page speed impact: insignificant.
The plugin didn't make the site noticeably slower.

Environment
WordPress version5.5
PHP version7.2.16
MySQL version8.0.15
PHP memory limit256M
Plugin Info
Last updated
Active installs 100,000+
WordPress.org page https://wordpress.org/plugins/advanced-ads/
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Pages 17

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=advanced-ads%2Fadvanced-ads.php&plugin_status=all&paged=1&s&_wpnonce=470ff1724b
Aspect after-activation
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.547 s
Memory usage 4.92 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Advanced Ads

Page screenshot: Advanced Ads
URL /wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=advanced_ads&new=new
Aspect menu-item
HTTP status 200
Load time 2.302 s
Memory usage 4.92 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Advanced Ads → Overview 

Page screenshot: Advanced Ads → Overview 
URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=advanced-ads
Aspect menu-item
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.342 s
Memory usage 4.78 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Advanced Ads → Groups & Rotation

Page screenshot: Advanced Ads → Groups & Rotation
URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=advanced-ads-groups
Aspect menu-item
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.206 s
Memory usage 4.78 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Advanced Ads → Placements

Page screenshot: Advanced Ads → Placements
URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=advanced-ads-placements
Aspect menu-item
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.340 s
Memory usage 4.64 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Advanced Ads → Settings

Page screenshot: Advanced Ads → Settings
URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=advanced-ads-settings
Aspect menu-item
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.308 s
Memory usage 4.65 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Advanced Ads → Settings → AdSense

Page screenshot: Advanced Ads → Settings → AdSense
URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=advanced-ads-settings
Aspect menu-item-tab
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.348 s
Memory usage 4.5 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Advanced Ads → Settings → Pro

Page screenshot: Advanced Ads → Settings → Pro
URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=advanced-ads-settings
Aspect menu-item-tab
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.218 s
Memory usage 4.5 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Advanced Ads → Settings → Tracking

Page screenshot: Advanced Ads → Settings → Tracking
URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=advanced-ads-settings
Aspect menu-item-tab
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.220 s
Memory usage 4.5 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Advanced Ads → Settings → Licenses

Page screenshot: Advanced Ads → Settings → Licenses
URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=advanced-ads-settings
Aspect menu-item-tab
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.321 s
Memory usage 4.5 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Advanced Ads → Settings → Privacy

Page screenshot: Advanced Ads → Settings → Privacy
URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=advanced-ads-settings
Aspect menu-item-tab
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.253 s
Memory usage 4.5 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Advanced Ads → Settings → Support

Page screenshot: Advanced Ads → Settings → Support
URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=advanced-ads-settings
Aspect menu-item-tab
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.232 s
Memory usage 4.5 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Test site – Just another WordPress site

Page screenshot: Test site – Just another WordPress site
URL /
Aspect front-page
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.252 s
Memory usage 3.94 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Dashboard ‹ Test site — WordPress

Page screenshot: Dashboard ‹ Test site — WordPress
URL /wp-admin/index.php
Aspect new-meta-boxes
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.461 s
Memory usage 4.56 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Add New Post ‹ Test site — WordPress

Page screenshot: Add New Post ‹ Test site — WordPress
URL /wp-admin/post-new.php
Aspect new-meta-boxes
HTTP status 200
Load time 1.478 s
Memory usage 6.43 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Add New Page ‹ Test site — WordPress

Page screenshot: Add New Page ‹ Test site — WordPress
URL /wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page
Aspect new-meta-boxes
HTTP status 200
Load time 1.403 s
Memory usage 6.41 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 0.834 s
Memory usage 4.56 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Benchmark

URL Load time Memory usage
Inactive Active Change Inactive Active Change
/wp-admin/index.php0.458 s0.469 s+0.011 s3.96 MiB4.56 MiB+ 610.46 KiB
/wp-admin/edit.php0.199 s0.260 s+0.061 s3.99 MiB4.59 MiB+ 615.18 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php1.512 s1.784 s+0.272 s5.81 MiB6.43 MiB+ 633.59 KiB
/wp-admin/upload.php0.631 s0.479 s-0.152 s3.83 MiB4.47 MiB+ 665.26 KiB
/wp-admin/options-writing.php0.155 s0.166 s+0.011 s3.9 MiB4.46 MiB+ 571.16 KiB
/wp-admin/media-new.php0.199 s0.198 s-0.001 s3.8 MiB4.46 MiB+ 668.56 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category0.195 s0.225 s+0.030 s3.91 MiB4.5 MiB+ 608.25 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page1.391 s1.424 s+0.033 s5.8 MiB6.41 MiB+ 622.66 KiB
/wp-admin/options-discussion.php0.370 s0.363 s-0.007 s3.81 MiB4.46 MiB+ 667.27 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-comments.php0.260 s0.227 s-0.033 s3.91 MiB4.5 MiB+ 601.35 KiB
/0.307 s0.239 s-0.068 s3.69 MiB3.94 MiB+ 247.4 KiB
Average 0.516 s0.530 s+0.014 s4.22 MiB4.8 MiB+ 591.92 KiB

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

User Metadata wp_usermeta 2

Custom Post Types 1

ID Name
advanced_adsAds

Sidebar Widgets 1

ID Name
advads_ad_widgetAdvanced Ads

Meta Boxes

{
    "dashboard": {
        "advads_dashboard_widget": {
            "title": "Ads Dashboard",
            "context": "side"
        }
    },
    "post": {
        "advads-ad-settings": {
            "title": "Ad Settings",
            "context": "side"
        }
    },
    "page": {
        "advads-ad-settings": {
            "title": "Ad Settings",
            "context": "side"
        }
    }
}

Capabilities 5

PHP Error Log

The log file is empty.

See also: All tests for this plugin, How to Hide Advanced Ads Admin Menus and More