Custom Dashboard Widgets 1.3.1

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

Summary

Errors
2PHP deprecation warnings
No JavaScript exceptions
All test pages loaded successfully
1Resource 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: 0.047 seconds
The average page load time increased by this amount after activating the plugin.

Environment
WordPress version6.8.1
PHP version8.1.12
MySQL version10.6.10
PHP memory limit512M
Plugin Info
Last updated
Active installs 7,000+
WordPress.org page https://wordpress.org/plugins/custom-dashboard-widgets/
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Pages 4

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-widgets%2Fcustom-dashboard-widgets.php&plugin_status=all&paged=1&s&_wpnonce=92557771c2
Aspect after-activation
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.238 s
Memory usage 3.53 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Settings → Dashboard Widgets

Page screenshot: Settings → Dashboard Widgets
URL /wp-admin/options-general.php?page=dashboard-widgets
Aspect menu-item
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.490 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

Page screenshot: Test site – Just another WordPress site
URL /
Aspect front-page
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.169 s
Memory usage 3.44 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 0.343 s
Memory usage 3.51 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Benchmark

URL Load time Memory usage
Inactive Active Change Inactive Active Change
/wp-admin/index.php0.334 s0.352 s+0.018 s3.51 MiB3.51 MiB- 472 bytes
/wp-admin/edit.php0.184 s0.236 s+0.052 s3.57 MiB3.58 MiB+ 7.14 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php0.739 s0.701 s-0.038 s6.06 MiB6.07 MiB+ 11.53 KiB
/wp-admin/upload.php0.549 s0.486 s-0.063 s3.52 MiB3.51 MiB- 10.27 KiB
/wp-admin/options-writing.php0.218 s0.190 s-0.028 s3.5 MiB3.49 MiB- 6.27 KiB
/wp-admin/media-new.php0.266 s0.233 s-0.033 s3.49 MiB3.49 MiB+ 1.92 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category0.196 s0.205 s+0.009 s3.5 MiB3.52 MiB+ 12.59 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page0.615 s1.105 s+0.490 s6.05 MiB6.06 MiB+ 7.05 KiB
/wp-admin/options-discussion.php0.265 s0.415 s+0.150 s3.5 MiB3.49 MiB- 9.77 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-comments.php0.405 s0.218 s-0.187 s3.52 MiB3.51 MiB- 10.27 KiB
/0.293 s0.438 s+0.145 s3.43 MiB3.44 MiB+ 3.61 KiB
Average 0.369 s0.416 s+0.047 s3.97 MiB3.97 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
PHP72.6%738241
CSS15.9%16201
PO File10.7%1092191
HTML0.7%701
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

[01-May-2025 16:58:09 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
[01-May-2025 16:58:09 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
See also: All tests for this plugin, How to Hide Custom Dashboard Widgets Admin Menus and Widgets