Report - Custom Author Byline 1.2

Does Custom Author Byline work with WordPress 6.8.2 and PHP 8.1.12? A smoke test was performed on 2025-07-18 23:16:55 UTC.

Summary

Errors

4	PHP warnings
	No JavaScript exceptions
	All test pages loaded successfully
	No resource errors

Performance

Memory usage: 2.91 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	2011-06-08T15:57:00+00:00
Active installs	1,000+
WordPress.org page	https://wordpress.org/plugins/custom-author-byline/
Badges	Get badge code

Pages 4

Plugins ‹ Test site — WordPress

URL	/wp-admin/plugins.php?plugin_status=all&paged=1&s
Requested URL	/wp-admin/plugins.php?action=activate&plugin=custom-author-byline%2Fcustom-author-byline.php&plugin_status=all&paged=1&s&_wpnonce=caa48612f6
Aspect	after-activation
HTTP status	200
Load time	0.265 s
Memory usage	3.53 MiB
JS errors	None
Resource errors	None

Test site – Just another WordPress site

URL	/
Aspect	front-page
HTTP status	200
Load time	0.178 s
Memory usage	3.44 MiB
JS errors	None
Resource errors	None

Add Post ‹ Test site — WordPress

URL	/wp-admin/post-new.php
Aspect	new-meta-boxes
HTTP status	200
Load time	0.698 s
Memory usage	6.07 MiB
JS errors	None
Resource errors	None

Add Page ‹ Test site — WordPress

URL	/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page
Aspect	new-meta-boxes
HTTP status	200
Load time	0.652 s
Memory usage	6.06 MiB
JS errors	None
Resource errors	None

Benchmark

URL	Load time			Memory usage
URL	Inactive	Active	Change	Inactive	Active	Change
/wp-admin/index.php	0.355 s	0.294 s	-0.061 s	3.51 MiB	3.51 MiB	+ 8.51 KiB
/wp-admin/edit.php	0.212 s	0.235 s	+0.023 s	3.57 MiB	3.58 MiB	+ 8.91 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php	0.839 s	0.653 s	-0.186 s	6.06 MiB	6.07 MiB	+ 13.21 KiB
/wp-admin/upload.php	0.792 s	0.739 s	-0.053 s	3.52 MiB	3.52 MiB	- 8.5 KiB
/wp-admin/options-writing.php	0.235 s	0.213 s	-0.022 s	3.5 MiB	3.5 MiB	- 4.51 KiB
/wp-admin/media-new.php	0.282 s	0.205 s	-0.077 s	3.49 MiB	3.5 MiB	+ 3.69 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category	0.202 s	0.204 s	+0.002 s	3.5 MiB	3.52 MiB	+ 14.36 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page	0.764 s	0.640 s	-0.124 s	6.05 MiB	6.06 MiB	+ 8.73 KiB
/wp-admin/options-discussion.php	0.448 s	0.261 s	-0.187 s	3.5 MiB	3.5 MiB	- 8.01 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-comments.php	0.271 s	0.225 s	-0.046 s	3.52 MiB	3.52 MiB	- 8.51 KiB
/	0.319 s	0.217 s	-0.102 s	3.43 MiB	3.44 MiB	+ 4.09 KiB
Average	0.429 s	0.353 s	-0.076 s	3.97 MiB	3.97 MiB	+ 2.91 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

Language		%	Lines of code	Comment lines	Files
	PHP	100.0%	74	17	1
Total			74	17	1

PHP Code Analysis | More results »

Lines of code	74
Total complexity	18
Median class complexity	0.0
Median method complexity	0.0
Most complex class	—
Most complex function	cab_save_postdata()

Classes	0
Methods	0
Functions	5

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.

Meta Boxes

{
    "post": {
        "cab-new-meta-boxes": {
            "title": "Custom Author Byline",
            "context": "normal"
        }
    },
    "page": {
        "cab-new-meta-boxes": {
            "title": "Custom Author Byline",
            "context": "normal"
        }
    }
}

PHP Error Log 4 lines

[18-Jul-2025 23:17:15 UTC] PHP Warning:  Undefined array key "author_noncename" in /wp-content/plugins/custom-author-byline/custom-author-byline.php on line 80
[18-Jul-2025 23:17:18 UTC] PHP Warning:  Undefined array key "author_noncename" in /wp-content/plugins/custom-author-byline/custom-author-byline.php on line 80
[18-Jul-2025 23:17:22 UTC] PHP Warning:  Undefined array key "author_noncename" in /wp-content/plugins/custom-author-byline/custom-author-byline.php on line 80
[18-Jul-2025 23:17:25 UTC] PHP Warning:  Undefined array key "author_noncename" in /wp-content/plugins/custom-author-byline/custom-author-byline.php on line 80