Zedna Custom Dashboard Messages 2.2.2

Does "Zedna Custom Dashboard Messages" work with WordPress 6.8.1 and PHP 8.1.12? A smoke test was performed on .

Summary

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

Memory usage: 38.83 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 version6.8.1
PHP version8.1.12
MySQL version10.6.10
PHP memory limit512M
Plugin Info
Last updated
Active installs 400+
WordPress.org page https://wordpress.org/plugins/custom-dashboard-messages/
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Pages 6

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=custom-dashboard-messages%2Fcustom-dashboard.php&plugin_status=all&paged=1&s&_wpnonce=f7a9640a5e
Aspect after-activation
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.231 s
Memory usage 3.56 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Dashboard Messages

Page screenshot: Dashboard Messages
URL /wp-admin/edit.php?post_type=cd_message_1
Aspect menu-item
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.201 s
Memory usage 3.6 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Dashboard Messages → Add Post

Page screenshot: Dashboard Messages → Add Post
URL /wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=cd_message_1
Aspect menu-item
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.771 s
Memory usage 3.61 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Dashboard Messages → Main message

Page screenshot: Dashboard Messages → Main message
URL /wp-admin/edit.php?post_type=cd_message_1&page=cdsm_options
Aspect menu-item
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.535 s
Memory usage 3.53 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 0.189 s
Memory usage 3.47 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 0.284 s
Memory usage 3.55 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Benchmark

URL Load time Memory usage
Inactive Active Change Inactive Active Change
/wp-admin/index.php0.324 s0.247 s-0.077 s3.51 MiB3.55 MiB+ 49.25 KiB
/wp-admin/edit.php0.219 s0.186 s-0.033 s3.57 MiB3.62 MiB+ 45.3 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php0.734 s0.845 s+0.111 s6.06 MiB6.11 MiB+ 48.93 KiB
/wp-admin/upload.php0.710 s0.466 s-0.244 s3.52 MiB3.55 MiB+ 27.89 KiB
/wp-admin/options-writing.php0.216 s0.174 s-0.042 s3.5 MiB3.53 MiB+ 31.88 KiB
/wp-admin/media-new.php0.273 s0.176 s-0.097 s3.49 MiB3.53 MiB+ 40.08 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category0.281 s0.180 s-0.101 s3.5 MiB3.55 MiB+ 50.75 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page0.577 s0.529 s-0.048 s6.05 MiB6.09 MiB+ 44.45 KiB
/wp-admin/options-discussion.php0.266 s0.225 s-0.041 s3.5 MiB3.53 MiB+ 28.38 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-comments.php0.333 s0.426 s+0.093 s3.52 MiB3.55 MiB+ 27.88 KiB
/0.355 s0.184 s-0.171 s3.43 MiB3.47 MiB+ 32.37 KiB
Average 0.390 s0.331 s-0.059 s3.97 MiB4.01 MiB+ 38.83 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
PHP91.6%4452042
PO File8.4%41121
Total 486 216 3

PHP Code Analysis | More results »

Lines of code 466
Total complexity 79
Median class complexity 0.0
Median method complexity 0.0
Most complex class
Most complex function cd_add_messages_1_widget()
Classes 0
Methods 0
Functions 28

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
cd_message_1Dashboard Messages

Meta Boxes

{
    "dashboard": {
        "cd_dashboard_messages_1": {
            "title": "Important messages",
            "context": "normal"
        }
    }
}

PHP Error Log 2 lines

[04-May-2025 08:17:14 UTC] PHP Warning:  Trying to access array offset on value of type bool in /wp-content/plugins/custom-dashboard-messages/single-message.php on line 343
[04-May-2025 08:17:14 UTC] PHP Deprecated:  stripos(): Passing null to parameter #1 ($haystack) of type string is deprecated in /wp-includes/class-wp-editor.php on line 305
See also: All tests for this plugin, How to Hide Zedna Custom Dashboard Messages Admin Menus and Widgets