Report - Category Posts Widget 4.9.21

Does Category Posts Widget work with WordPress 6.8.2 and PHP 8.1.12? A smoke test was performed on 2025-07-15 23:36:49 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: 27.39 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	6.8.2
PHP version	8.1.12
MySQL version	10.6.10
PHP memory limit	512M

Plugin Info

Last updated	2025-07-26T12:16:00+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=f16cb9ab83
Aspect	after-activation
HTTP status	200
Load time	0.290 s
Memory usage	3.55 MiB
JS errors	None
Resource errors	None

Test site – Just another WordPress site

URL	/
Aspect	front-page
HTTP status	200
Load time	0.192 s
Memory usage	3.46 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	1.602 s
Memory usage	5.85 MiB
JS errors	None
Resource errors	None

Benchmark

URL	Load time			Memory usage
URL	Inactive	Active	Change	Inactive	Active	Change
/wp-admin/index.php	0.382 s	0.323 s	-0.059 s	3.51 MiB	3.54 MiB	+ 30.33 KiB
/wp-admin/edit.php	0.214 s	0.194 s	-0.020 s	3.57 MiB	3.6 MiB	+ 30.61 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php	0.778 s	0.639 s	-0.139 s	6.06 MiB	6.11 MiB	+ 47.22 KiB
/wp-admin/upload.php	0.659 s	0.500 s	-0.159 s	3.52 MiB	3.54 MiB	+ 13.2 KiB
/wp-admin/options-writing.php	0.230 s	0.183 s	-0.047 s	3.5 MiB	3.52 MiB	+ 17.2 KiB
/wp-admin/media-new.php	0.298 s	0.297 s	-0.001 s	3.49 MiB	3.52 MiB	+ 25.39 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category	0.197 s	0.183 s	-0.014 s	3.5 MiB	3.54 MiB	+ 36.06 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page	0.605 s	0.624 s	+0.019 s	6.05 MiB	6.09 MiB	+ 42.74 KiB
/wp-admin/options-discussion.php	0.489 s	0.260 s	-0.229 s	3.5 MiB	3.52 MiB	+ 13.7 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-comments.php	0.405 s	0.204 s	-0.201 s	3.52 MiB	3.54 MiB	+ 13.2 KiB
/	0.328 s	0.197 s	-0.131 s	3.43 MiB	3.46 MiB	+ 31.69 KiB
Average	0.417 s	0.328 s	-0.089 s	3.97 MiB	4 MiB	+ 27.39 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	72.1%	9,775	683	8
	PHP	18.4%	2,499	1,015	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			13,558	1,747	29

PHP Code Analysis | More results »

Lines of code	2,510
Total complexity	521
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	54
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 4.9.21