Report - Category Posts Widget 4.9.19

Does Category Posts Widget work with WordPress 6.7.2 and PHP 8.1.12? A smoke test was performed on 2025-03-10 22:54:26 UTC.

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: 20.34 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 version	6.7.2
PHP version	8.1.12
MySQL version	10.6.10
PHP memory limit	512M

Plugin Info

Last updated	2025-04-02T21:12:00+00:00
Active installs	50,000+
WordPress.org page	https://wordpress.org/plugins/category-posts/
Badges	Get badge code

Pages 3

Plugins ‹ Test site — WordPress

URL	/wp-admin/plugins.php?plugin_status=all&paged=1&s
Requested URL	/wp-admin/plugins.php?action=activate&plugin=category-posts%2Fcat-posts.php&plugin_status=all&paged=1&s&_wpnonce=6777f8ae91
Aspect	after-activation
HTTP status	200
Load time	0.289 s
Memory usage	3.52 MiB
JS errors	None
Resource errors	None

Test site – Just another WordPress site

URL	/
Aspect	front-page
HTTP status	200
Load time	0.162 s
Memory usage	3.44 MiB
JS errors	None
Resource errors	None

Widgets ‹ Test site — WordPress

URL	/wp-admin/widgets.php
Aspect	new-sidebar-widgets
HTTP status	200
Load time	2.027 s
Memory usage	5.81 MiB
JS errors	None
Resource errors	None

Benchmark

URL	Load time			Memory usage
URL	Inactive	Active	Change	Inactive	Active	Change
/wp-admin/index.php	0.486 s	0.307 s	-0.179 s	3.48 MiB	3.51 MiB	+ 30.4 KiB
/wp-admin/edit.php	0.249 s	0.256 s	+0.007 s	3.54 MiB	3.57 MiB	+ 31.05 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php	0.899 s	1.190 s	+0.291 s	5.93 MiB	5.96 MiB	+ 40.33 KiB
/wp-admin/upload.php	0.573 s	0.629 s	+0.056 s	3.5 MiB	3.51 MiB	+ 13.64 KiB
/wp-admin/options-writing.php	0.220 s	0.192 s	-0.028 s	3.47 MiB	3.49 MiB	+ 17.63 KiB
/wp-admin/media-new.php	0.337 s	0.229 s	-0.108 s	3.46 MiB	3.49 MiB	+ 25.83 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category	0.227 s	0.173 s	-0.054 s	3.48 MiB	3.51 MiB	+ 36.5 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page	1.205 s	0.722 s	-0.483 s	5.92 MiB	5.95 MiB	+ 35.86 KiB
/wp-admin/options-discussion.php	0.284 s	0.237 s	-0.047 s	3.47 MiB	3.49 MiB	+ 14.13 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-comments.php	0.461 s	0.201 s	-0.260 s	3.49 MiB	3.51 MiB	+ 13.63 KiB
/	0.379 s	0.212 s	-0.167 s	3.47 MiB	3.44 MiB	- 35.26 KiB
Average	0.484 s	0.395 s	-0.088 s	3.93 MiB	3.95 MiB	+ 20.34 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

Language		%	Lines of code	Comment lines	Files
	JavaScript	72.0%	9,773	683	8
	PHP	18.5%	2,509	1,025	9
	CSS	6.2%	846	49	8
	HTML	2.3%	312	0	1
	JSON	0.6%	76	0	1
	XML	0.2%	28	0	1
	SVG	0.2%	22	0	1
Total			13,566	1,757	29

PHP Code Analysis | More results »

Lines of code	2,520
Total complexity	523
Median class complexity	31.0
Median method complexity	3.0
Most complex class	categoryPosts\Widget
Most complex function	categoryPosts\Virtual_Widget::getCSSRules()

Classes	4
Methods	55
Functions	36

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` 1

widget_category-posts

Sidebar Widgets 1

ID	Name
category-posts	Category Posts

PHP Error Log

The log file is empty.

Category Posts Widget 4.9.19