Smart Slider 3 3.5.1.19

Does Smart Slider 3 work with WordPress 6.4.1 and PHP 8.1.12? A smoke test was performed on .

Summary

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

Memory usage: 971 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 version6.4.1
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=65e4e6d2f2
Aspect after-activation
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.796 s
Memory usage 5.69 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 0.817 s
Memory usage 4.7 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 0.873 s
Memory usage 4.54 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 0.437 s
Memory usage 4.47 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 0.243 s
Memory usage 4.21 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 2.543 s
Memory usage 6.63 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Benchmark

URL Load time Memory usage
Inactive Active Change Inactive Active Change
/wp-admin/index.php0.401 s0.525 s+0.124 s3.38 MiB4.27 MiB+ 910.05 KiB
/wp-admin/edit.php0.234 s0.363 s+0.129 s3.41 MiB4.45 MiB+ 1.04 MiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php1.081 s1.106 s+0.025 s5.46 MiB6.71 MiB+ 1.25 MiB
/wp-admin/upload.php0.732 s0.440 s-0.292 s3.32 MiB4.24 MiB+ 937.27 KiB
/wp-admin/options-writing.php0.232 s0.231 s-0.001 s3.32 MiB4.17 MiB+ 874.1 KiB
/wp-admin/media-new.php0.335 s0.311 s-0.024 s3.29 MiB4.15 MiB+ 874.1 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category0.211 s0.203 s-0.008 s3.31 MiB4.21 MiB+ 922.8 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page0.634 s0.873 s+0.239 s5.45 MiB6.64 MiB+ 1.19 MiB
/wp-admin/options-discussion.php0.326 s0.271 s-0.055 s3.3 MiB4.17 MiB+ 890.1 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-comments.php0.266 s0.244 s-0.022 s3.34 MiB4.2 MiB+ 888.55 KiB
/0.313 s0.218 s-0.095 s3.36 MiB4.15 MiB+ 816.49 KiB
Average 0.433 s0.435 s+0.002 s3.72 MiB4.67 MiB+ 971 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%49,9066,707743
SVG0.3%414027
JSON0.0%3802
JavaScript0.0%12012
CSS0.0%603
Total 129,741 12,960 804

PHP Code Analysis | More results »

Lines of code 46,924
Total complexity 8,260
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-Nov-2023 02:36:23 UTC] PHP Deprecated:  json_decode(): Passing null to parameter #1 ($json) of type string is deprecated in /wp-content/plugins/smart-slider-3/Nextend/SmartSlider3/Settings.php on line 17
[09-Nov-2023 02:36:23 UTC] PHP Deprecated:  preg_match(): Passing null to parameter #2 ($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