Advanced Ads 2.0.9

Does Advanced Ads work with WordPress 6.8.2 and PHP 8.1.12? A smoke test was performed on .

Summary

Errors
1PHP deprecation warnings
No JavaScript exceptions
All test pages loaded successfully
No resource errors
Performance

Memory usage: 704.12 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 version6.8.2
PHP version8.1.12
MySQL version10.6.10
PHP memory limit512M
Plugin Info
Last updated
Active installs 100,000+
WordPress.org page https://wordpress.org/plugins/advanced-ads/
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Pages 19

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=96c79ac250
Aspect after-activation
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.573 s
Memory usage 4.58 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Advanced Ads

Page screenshot: Advanced Ads
URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=advanced-ads
Aspect menu-item
HTTP status 200
Load time 1.062 s
Memory usage 4.4 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Advanced Ads → Ads 

Page screenshot: Advanced Ads → Ads 
URL /wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=advanced_ads&new=new
Aspect menu-item
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.915 s
Memory usage 4.59 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#modal-group-new
Requested URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=advanced-ads-groups
Aspect menu-item
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.469 s
Memory usage 4.29 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Advanced Ads → Placements

Page screenshot: Advanced Ads → Placements
URL /wp-admin/edit.php?post_type=advanced_ads_plcmnt
Aspect menu-item
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.447 s
Memory usage 4.4 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Advanced Ads → Tools

Page screenshot: Advanced Ads → Tools
URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=advanced-ads-tools
Aspect menu-item
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.272 s
Memory usage 4.21 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 0.860 s
Memory usage 4.27 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 0.329 s
Memory usage 4.2 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 0.350 s
Memory usage 4.2 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Advanced Ads → Settings → Ad Blocker

Page screenshot: Advanced Ads → Settings → Ad Blocker
URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=advanced-ads-settings
Aspect menu-item-tab
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.329 s
Memory usage 4.2 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 0.320 s
Memory usage 4.2 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 0.357 s
Memory usage 4.2 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 0.289 s
Memory usage 4.2 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 0.326 s
Memory usage 4.2 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 0.279 s
Memory usage 3.78 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 0.362 s
Memory usage 4.29 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

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 0.828 s
Memory usage 6.84 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 0.661 s
Memory usage 6.82 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 1.326 s
Memory usage 6.42 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Benchmark

URL Load time Memory usage
Inactive Active Change Inactive Active Change
/wp-admin/index.php0.426 s0.470 s+0.044 s3.51 MiB4.29 MiB+ 800.98 KiB
/wp-admin/edit.php0.263 s0.233 s-0.030 s3.57 MiB4.34 MiB+ 791.31 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php0.907 s1.027 s+0.120 s6.06 MiB6.84 MiB+ 797.23 KiB
/wp-admin/upload.php0.775 s0.367 s-0.408 s3.52 MiB4.21 MiB+ 705.76 KiB
/wp-admin/options-writing.php0.285 s0.221 s-0.064 s3.5 MiB4.19 MiB+ 710.26 KiB
/wp-admin/media-new.php0.354 s0.209 s-0.145 s3.49 MiB4.19 MiB+ 718.44 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category0.241 s0.282 s+0.041 s3.5 MiB4.21 MiB+ 722.78 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page0.711 s1.040 s+0.329 s6.05 MiB6.82 MiB+ 791.3 KiB
/wp-admin/options-discussion.php0.389 s0.278 s-0.111 s3.5 MiB4.19 MiB+ 707.38 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-comments.php0.546 s0.217 s-0.329 s3.52 MiB4.21 MiB+ 705.77 KiB
/0.423 s0.238 s-0.185 s3.49 MiB3.78 MiB+ 294.08 KiB
Average 0.484 s0.417 s-0.067 s3.98 MiB4.66 MiB+ 704.12 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.

PHP
JavaScript
Language % Lines of code Comment lines Files
PHP73.1%39,64622,340513
JavaScript13.5%7,3151,43988
JSX4.4%2,37315833
Sass2.8%1,505120
CSS2.7%1,49111316
PO File2.3%1,2477011
JSON0.7%35902
SVG0.3%181055
XML0.2%8302
YAML0.1%4902
Markdown0.0%401
Total 54,253 24,752 733

PHP Code Analysis | More results »

Lines of code 32,848
Total complexity 7,269
Median class complexity 13.0
Median method complexity 2.0
Most complex class Advanced_Ads_Display_Conditions
Most complex function AdvancedAds\Importers\Ads_WP_Ads::importampforwp_ads()
Classes 267
Methods 2,069
Functions 85

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 6

User Metadata wp_usermeta 1

Custom Post Types 2

ID Name
advanced_adsAds
advanced_ads_plcmntAd Placements

Sidebar Widgets 1

ID Name
advads_ad_widgetAdvanced Ads

Meta Boxes

{
    "dashboard": {
        "advads-dashboard-widget": {
            "title": "Advanced Ads",
            "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 1 lines

[15-Jul-2025 19:15:54 UTC] PHP Deprecated:  Optional parameter $options declared before required parameter $ad is implicitly treated as a required parameter in /wp-content/plugins/advanced-ads/classes/display-conditions.php on line 208
See also: All tests for this plugin, How to Hide Advanced Ads Admin Menus and More