Smart Slider 3 3.5.1.26

Does Smart Slider 3 work with WordPress 6.7.2 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: 957.46 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 version6.7.2
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=3bb24cc344
Aspect after-activation
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.570 s
Memory usage 5.8 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 0.755 s
Memory usage 4.82 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 0.621 s
Memory usage 4.68 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 0.592 s
Memory usage 4.6 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 0.268 s
Memory usage 4.28 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 1.652 s
Memory usage 7 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Benchmark

URL Load time Memory usage
Inactive Active Change Inactive Active Change
/wp-admin/index.php0.328 s0.438 s+0.110 s3.48 MiB4.39 MiB+ 930.88 KiB
/wp-admin/edit.php0.199 s0.300 s+0.101 s3.54 MiB4.55 MiB+ 1.01 MiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php0.762 s1.100 s+0.338 s5.93 MiB7.22 MiB+ 1.3 MiB
/wp-admin/upload.php0.563 s0.322 s-0.241 s3.5 MiB4.36 MiB+ 885.36 KiB
/wp-admin/options-writing.php0.246 s0.207 s-0.039 s3.47 MiB4.32 MiB+ 864.84 KiB
/wp-admin/media-new.php0.375 s0.241 s-0.134 s3.46 MiB4.31 MiB+ 864.84 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category0.205 s0.189 s-0.016 s3.48 MiB4.35 MiB+ 896.1 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page0.553 s0.847 s+0.294 s5.92 MiB7.13 MiB+ 1.21 MiB
/wp-admin/options-discussion.php0.267 s0.282 s+0.015 s3.48 MiB4.32 MiB+ 864.84 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-comments.php0.435 s0.226 s-0.209 s3.5 MiB4.34 MiB+ 864.84 KiB
/0.297 s0.207 s-0.090 s3.48 MiB4.22 MiB+ 759.08 KiB
Average 0.385 s0.396 s+0.012 s3.93 MiB4.87 MiB+ 957.46 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.

PO File
PHP
Language % Lines of code Comment lines Files
PO File58.2%79,3476,31317
PHP36.6%49,9406,873742
JavaScript4.9%6,6851,05222
SVG0.3%414027
JSON0.0%3802
CSS0.0%603
Total 136,430 14,238 813

PHP Code Analysis | More results »

Lines of code 47,122
Total complexity 8,332
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 3,645
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

[11-Feb-2025 17:26:18 UTC] PHP Deprecated:  json_decode(): Passing null to parameter #1 ($json) of type string is deprecated in /wp-content/plugins/smart-slider-3/Nextend/SmartSlider3/Settings.php on line 17
[11-Feb-2025 17:26:18 UTC] PHP Deprecated:  preg_match(): Passing null to parameter #2 ($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