Report - Co-Authors Plus 3.4.9

Does Co-Authors Plus work with WordPress 5.8 and PHP 7.4.8? A smoke test was performed on 2021-08-11 20:52:55 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: 119.5 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	5.8
PHP version	7.4.8
MySQL version	8.0.21
PHP memory limit	256M

Plugin Info

Last updated	2025-04-15T12:06:00+00:00
Active installs	30,000+
WordPress.org page	https://wordpress.org/plugins/co-authors-plus/
Badges	Get badge code

Pages 5

Plugins ‹ Test site — WordPress

URL	/wp-admin/plugins.php?plugin_status=all&paged=1&s
Requested URL	/wp-admin/plugins.php?action=activate&plugin=co-authors-plus%2Fco-authors-plus.php&plugin_status=all&paged=1&s&_wpnonce=6e4aab6405
Aspect	after-activation
HTTP status	200
Load time	0.281 s
Memory usage	3.4 MiB
JS errors	None
Resource errors	None

Users → Guest Authors

URL	/wp-admin/users.php?page=view-guest-authors
Aspect	menu-item
HTTP status	200
Load time	0.271 s
Memory usage	3.13 MiB
JS errors	None
Resource errors	None

Test site – Just another WordPress site

URL	/
Aspect	front-page
HTTP status	200
Load time	0.160 s
Memory usage	3 MiB
JS errors	None
Resource errors	None

Add New Post ‹ Test site — WordPress

URL	/wp-admin/post-new.php
Aspect	new-meta-boxes
HTTP status	200
Load time	1.142 s
Memory usage	5.39 MiB
JS errors	None
Resource errors	None

Add New Page ‹ Test site — WordPress

URL	/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page
Aspect	new-meta-boxes
HTTP status	200
Load time	0.766 s
Memory usage	5.38 MiB
JS errors	None
Resource errors	None

Benchmark

URL	Load time			Memory usage
URL	Inactive	Active	Change	Inactive	Active	Change
/wp-admin/index.php	0.313 s	0.226 s	-0.087 s	3.08 MiB	3.2 MiB	+ 120.04 KiB
/wp-admin/edit.php	0.320 s	0.211 s	-0.109 s	3.11 MiB	3.3 MiB	+ 190.91 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php	1.017 s	1.087 s	+0.070 s	5.27 MiB	5.39 MiB	+ 127.22 KiB
/wp-admin/upload.php	0.381 s	0.287 s	-0.094 s	3.03 MiB	3.14 MiB	+ 109.98 KiB
/wp-admin/options-writing.php	0.145 s	0.235 s	+0.090 s	3.02 MiB	3.11 MiB	+ 91.36 KiB
/wp-admin/media-new.php	0.218 s	0.215 s	-0.003 s	3.01 MiB	3.11 MiB	+ 110.78 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category	0.173 s	0.166 s	-0.007 s	3.04 MiB	3.15 MiB	+ 116.46 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page	0.865 s	0.671 s	-0.194 s	5.26 MiB	5.38 MiB	+ 124.87 KiB
/wp-admin/options-discussion.php	0.313 s	0.231 s	-0.082 s	3 MiB	3.11 MiB	+ 110.38 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-comments.php	0.219 s	0.278 s	+0.059 s	3.04 MiB	3.16 MiB	+ 116.25 KiB
/	0.317 s	0.250 s	-0.067 s	2.91 MiB	3 MiB	+ 96.23 KiB
Average	0.389 s	0.351 s	-0.039 s	3.43 MiB	3.55 MiB	+ 119.5 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

PO File

Language		%	Lines of code	Comment lines	Files
	PHP	62.6%	5,591	1,931	18
	PO File	27.1%	2,420	1,182	8
	Markdown	3.7%	328	0	2
	JavaScript	3.4%	300	87	2
	CSS	1.3%	117	1	2
	Bourne Shell	1.0%	85	6	1
	JSON	0.7%	62	0	1
	XML	0.2%	17	0	1
	make	0.1%	6	0	1
Total			8,926	3,207	36

PHP Code Analysis | More results »

Lines of code	5,587
Total complexity	981
Median class complexity	20.0
Median method complexity	1.0
Most complex class	CoAuthors_Plus
Most complex function	coauthors_wp_list_authors()

Classes	13
Methods	235
Functions	26

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.

Custom Post Types 1

ID	Name
guest-author	Guest Authors

Meta Boxes

{
    "post": {
        "coauthorsdiv": {
            "title": "Authors",
            "context": "side"
        }
    },
    "page": {
        "coauthorsdiv": {
            "title": "Authors",
            "context": "side"
        }
    }
}

PHP Error Log

The log file is empty.