Publish To Apple News 2.7.1

Does Publish To Apple News work with WordPress 6.8.2 and PHP 8.1.12? A smoke test was performed on .

Summary

Errors
6PHP warnings
No JavaScript exceptions
All test pages loaded successfully
No resource errors
Performance

Memory usage: 260.46 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 version6.8.2
PHP version8.1.12
MySQL version10.6.10
PHP memory limit512M
Plugin Info
Last updated
Active installs 5,000+
WordPress.org page https://wordpress.org/plugins/publish-to-apple-news/
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Pages 5

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=publish-to-apple-news%2Fapple-news.php&plugin_status=all&paged=1&s&_wpnonce=b79ed24524
Aspect after-activation
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.326 s
Memory usage 4.13 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Apple News

Page screenshot: Apple News
URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=apple_news_index
Aspect menu-item
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.328 s
Memory usage 3.74 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Apple News → Settings

Page screenshot: Apple News → Settings
URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=apple-news-options
Aspect menu-item
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.194 s
Memory usage 3.73 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Apple News → Automation

Page screenshot: Apple News → Automation
URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=apple-news-automation
Aspect menu-item
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.441 s
Memory usage 3.73 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 0.190 s
Memory usage 3.63 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Benchmark

URL Load time Memory usage
Inactive Active Change Inactive Active Change
/wp-admin/index.php0.347 s0.289 s-0.058 s3.51 MiB3.75 MiB+ 246.4 KiB
/wp-admin/edit.php0.255 s0.204 s-0.051 s3.57 MiB3.83 MiB+ 266.7 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php0.776 s0.596 s-0.180 s6.06 MiB6.46 MiB+ 408.84 KiB
/wp-admin/upload.php0.530 s0.599 s+0.069 s3.52 MiB3.75 MiB+ 228.12 KiB
/wp-admin/options-writing.php0.188 s0.161 s-0.027 s3.5 MiB3.73 MiB+ 232.11 KiB
/wp-admin/media-new.php0.244 s0.226 s-0.018 s3.49 MiB3.73 MiB+ 240.3 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category0.177 s0.176 s-0.001 s3.5 MiB3.75 MiB+ 250.98 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page0.592 s0.613 s+0.021 s6.05 MiB6.38 MiB+ 338.35 KiB
/wp-admin/options-discussion.php0.309 s0.231 s-0.078 s3.5 MiB3.73 MiB+ 228.61 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-comments.php0.183 s0.401 s+0.218 s3.52 MiB3.75 MiB+ 228.11 KiB
/0.269 s0.183 s-0.086 s3.43 MiB3.63 MiB+ 196.6 KiB
Average 0.352 s0.334 s-0.017 s3.97 MiB4.22 MiB+ 260.46 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
JSON
Language % Lines of code Comment lines Files
PHP82.6%16,2229,161111
JSON10.0%1,97406
JavaScript5.4%1,06418814
CSS1.9%38318
Total 19,643 9,350 139

PHP Code Analysis | More results »

Lines of code 15,292
Total complexity 2,331
Median class complexity 13.0
Median method complexity 2.0
Most complex class Apple_News
Most complex function Apple_Exporter\Theme::initialize_options()
Classes 83
Methods 637
Functions 20

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.

Options wp_options 9

PHP Error Log 6 lines

[17-Jul-2025 06:04:34 UTC] PHP Warning:  Trying to access array offset on value of type bool in /wp-content/plugins/publish-to-apple-news/includes/class-apple-news.php on line 440
[17-Jul-2025 06:04:34 UTC] PHP Warning:  Trying to access array offset on value of type bool in /wp-content/plugins/publish-to-apple-news/includes/class-apple-news.php on line 440
[17-Jul-2025 06:04:34 UTC] PHP Warning:  Trying to access array offset on value of type bool in /wp-content/plugins/publish-to-apple-news/includes/class-apple-news.php on line 440
[17-Jul-2025 06:04:38 UTC] PHP Warning:  Trying to access array offset on value of type bool in /wp-content/plugins/publish-to-apple-news/includes/class-apple-news.php on line 440
[17-Jul-2025 06:04:38 UTC] PHP Warning:  Trying to access array offset on value of type bool in /wp-content/plugins/publish-to-apple-news/includes/class-apple-news.php on line 440
[17-Jul-2025 06:04:38 UTC] PHP Warning:  Trying to access array offset on value of type bool in /wp-content/plugins/publish-to-apple-news/includes/class-apple-news.php on line 440
See also: All tests for this plugin, How to Hide Publish To Apple News Admin Menus