Report - Custom Dashboard Widgets 1.3.1

Does Custom Dashboard Widgets work with WordPress 6.8.2 and PHP 8.1.12? A smoke test was performed on 2025-07-16 21:50:01 UTC.

Summary

Errors

2	PHP deprecation warnings
	No JavaScript exceptions
	All test pages loaded successfully
1	Resource error (CSS, JS, images, fonts and so on.) 1 net::ERR_NAME_NOT_RESOLVED

Performance

Memory usage: 633.45 bytes
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	2020-11-24T11:21:00+00:00
Active installs	7,000+
WordPress.org page	https://wordpress.org/plugins/custom-dashboard-widgets/
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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-dashboard-widgets%2Fcustom-dashboard-widgets.php&plugin_status=all&paged=1&s&_wpnonce=a016c5ea74
Aspect	after-activation
HTTP status	200
Load time	0.250 s
Memory usage	3.53 MiB
JS errors	None
Resource errors	None

Settings → Dashboard Widgets

URL	/wp-admin/options-general.php?page=dashboard-widgets
Aspect	menu-item
HTTP status	200
Load time	0.518 s
Memory usage	3.52 MiB
JS errors	None
Resource errors	`[ { "status": null, "statusText": null, "url": "http://websites.unitone.ps/aghrady/wp-admin/images/loading.gif", "errorString": "net::ERR_NAME_NOT_RESOLVED" } ]`

Test site – Just another WordPress site

URL	/
Aspect	front-page
HTTP status	200
Load time	0.195 s
Memory usage	3.44 MiB
JS errors	None
Resource errors	None

Dashboard ‹ Test site — WordPress

URL	/wp-admin/index.php
Aspect	new-meta-boxes
HTTP status	200
Load time	0.376 s
Memory usage	3.51 MiB
JS errors	None
Resource errors	None

Benchmark

URL	Load time			Memory usage
URL	Inactive	Active	Change	Inactive	Active	Change
/wp-admin/index.php	0.353 s	0.380 s	+0.027 s	3.51 MiB	3.51 MiB	- 472 bytes
/wp-admin/edit.php	0.213 s	0.181 s	-0.032 s	3.57 MiB	3.58 MiB	+ 7.14 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php	0.831 s	0.645 s	-0.186 s	6.06 MiB	6.07 MiB	+ 11.53 KiB
/wp-admin/upload.php	0.772 s	0.519 s	-0.253 s	3.52 MiB	3.51 MiB	- 10.27 KiB
/wp-admin/options-writing.php	0.220 s	0.214 s	-0.006 s	3.5 MiB	3.49 MiB	- 6.27 KiB
/wp-admin/media-new.php	0.265 s	0.249 s	-0.016 s	3.49 MiB	3.49 MiB	+ 1.92 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category	0.213 s	0.198 s	-0.015 s	3.5 MiB	3.52 MiB	+ 12.59 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page	0.621 s	0.635 s	+0.014 s	6.05 MiB	6.06 MiB	+ 7.05 KiB
/wp-admin/options-discussion.php	0.443 s	0.263 s	-0.180 s	3.5 MiB	3.49 MiB	- 9.77 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-comments.php	0.290 s	0.207 s	-0.083 s	3.52 MiB	3.51 MiB	- 10.27 KiB
/	0.309 s	0.399 s	+0.090 s	3.43 MiB	3.44 MiB	+ 3.61 KiB
Average	0.412 s	0.354 s	-0.058 s	3.97 MiB	3.97 MiB	+ 633.45 bytes

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

CSS

PO File

Language		%	Lines of code	Comment lines	Files
	PHP	72.6%	738	24	1
	CSS	15.9%	162	0	1
	PO File	10.7%	109	219	1
	HTML	0.7%	7	0	1
Total			1,016	243	4

PHP Code Analysis | More results »

Lines of code	761
Total complexity	32
Median class complexity	0.0
Median method complexity	0.0
Most complex class	—
Most complex function	cdw_DashboardWidgets()

Classes	0
Methods	0
Functions	7

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

{
    "dashboard": {
        "custom_dashboard_widget": {
            "title": "Dashboard",
            "context": "normal"
        }
    }
}

PHP Error Log 2 lines

[16-Jul-2025 21:50:18 UTC] PHP Deprecated:  Function screen_icon is <strong>deprecated</strong> since version 3.8.0 with no alternative available. in /wp-includes/functions.php on line 6121
[16-Jul-2025 21:50:18 UTC] PHP Deprecated:  Function get_screen_icon is <strong>deprecated</strong> since version 3.8.0 with no alternative available. in /wp-includes/functions.php on line 6121