Smart Slider 3 3.5.1.18

Does Smart Slider 3 work with WordPress 6.3 and PHP 8.1.12? A smoke test was performed on .

Summary

Errors
2PHP deprecation warnings
1JavaScript exceptions
All test pages loaded successfully
No resource errors
Performance

Memory usage: 1000.25 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 version6.3
PHP version8.1.12
MySQL version10.6.10
PHP memory limit512M
Plugin Info
Last updated
Active installs 900,000+
WordPress.org page https://wordpress.org/plugins/smart-slider-3/
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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=smart-slider-3%2Fsmart-slider-3.php&plugin_status=all&paged=1&s&_wpnonce=1de3a50b76
Aspect after-activation
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.692 s
Memory usage 5.1 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Smart Slider

Page screenshot: Smart Slider
URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=smart-slider3
Aspect menu-item
HTTP status 200
Load time 1.057 s
Memory usage 4.13 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Smart Slider → Help center

Page screenshot: Smart Slider → Help center
URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=smart-slider3-help
Aspect menu-item
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.758 s
Memory usage 3.93 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Smart Slider → Go Pro

Page screenshot: Smart Slider → Go Pro
URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=smart-slider3-go-pro
Aspect menu-item
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.554 s
Memory usage 3.9 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 0.333 s
Memory usage 4.02 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Widgets ‹ Test site — WordPress

Page screenshot: Widgets ‹ Test site — WordPress
URL /wp-admin/widgets.php
Aspect new-sidebar-widgets
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.982 s
Memory usage 6.37 MiB
JS errors
[
    {
        "message": "SyntaxError: Unexpected identifier",
        "trace": null,
        "code": null
    }
]
Resource errors None

Benchmark

URL Load time Memory usage
Inactive Active Change Inactive Active Change
/wp-admin/index.php0.328 s0.436 s+0.108 s2.82 MiB3.7 MiB+ 895.36 KiB
/wp-admin/edit.php0.212 s0.223 s+0.011 s2.85 MiB4.24 MiB+ 1.39 MiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php0.773 s1.130 s+0.357 s5.21 MiB6.44 MiB+ 1.23 MiB
/wp-admin/upload.php0.593 s0.304 s-0.289 s2.77 MiB3.67 MiB+ 923.41 KiB
/wp-admin/options-writing.php0.250 s0.184 s-0.066 s2.76 MiB3.6 MiB+ 859.41 KiB
/wp-admin/media-new.php0.478 s0.368 s-0.110 s2.74 MiB3.58 MiB+ 859.41 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category0.205 s0.265 s+0.060 s2.76 MiB3.73 MiB+ 991.13 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page0.597 s0.840 s+0.243 s5.21 MiB6.38 MiB+ 1.17 MiB
/wp-admin/options-discussion.php0.289 s0.301 s+0.012 s2.75 MiB3.6 MiB+ 875.41 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-comments.php0.418 s0.231 s-0.187 s2.78 MiB3.63 MiB+ 873.85 KiB
/0.426 s0.216 s-0.210 s3.13 MiB3.96 MiB+ 849.61 KiB
Average 0.415 s0.409 s-0.006 s3.25 MiB4.23 MiB+ 1000.25 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.

PO File
PHP
Language % Lines of code Comment lines Files
PO File61.2%79,3656,25317
PHP38.5%49,8946,700743
SVG0.3%414027
JSON0.0%3802
JavaScript0.0%12012
CSS0.0%603
Total 129,729 12,953 804

PHP Code Analysis | More results »

Lines of code 46,912
Total complexity 8,256
Median class complexity 6.0
Median method complexity 1.0
Most complex class Nextend\Framework\Asset\Css\Less\LessCompiler
Most complex function Nextend\SmartSlider3\Slider\Feature\Responsive::__construct()
Classes 640
Methods 3,637
Functions 13

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.

Database Tables 6

Options wp_options 2

Sidebar Widgets 1

ID Name
smartslider3Smart Slider

Capabilities 4

PHP Error Log 2 lines

[09-Aug-2023 03:37:27 UTC] PHP Deprecated:  json_decode(): Passing null to parameter #1 ($json) of type string is deprecated in /wp-content/plugins/smart-slider-3/Nextend/SmartSlider3/Settings.php on line 17
[09-Aug-2023 03:37:27 UTC] PHP Deprecated:  preg_match(): Passing null to parameter #2 ($subject) of type string is deprecated in /wp-content/plugins/smart-slider-3/Nextend/SmartSlider3/Install/Install.php on line 21
See also: All tests for this plugin, How to Hide Smart Slider 3 Admin Menus