Smart Slider 3 3.5.1.27
Does Smart Slider 3 work with WordPress 6.8.1 and PHP 8.1.12? A smoke test was performed on .
Summary
Errors
| 2 | PHP deprecation warnings |
| No JavaScript exceptions | |
| All test pages loaded successfully | |
| No resource errors |
Performance
Memory usage: 967.78 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 version | 6.8.1 |
|---|---|
| PHP version | 8.1.12 |
| MySQL version | 10.6.10 |
| PHP memory limit | 512M |
Plugin Info
| Last updated | |
|---|---|
| Active installs | 900,000+ |
| WordPress.org page | https://wordpress.org/plugins/smart-slider-3/ |
| Badges |
|
Pages 6
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=ef8867ea08 |
| Aspect | after-activation |
| HTTP status | 200 |
| Load time | 0.553 s |
| Memory usage | 5.85 MiB |
| JS errors | None |
| Resource errors | None |
Smart Slider
| URL | /wp-admin/admin.php?page=smart-slider3 |
|---|---|
| Aspect | menu-item |
| HTTP status | 200 |
| Load time | 0.862 s |
| Memory usage | 4.88 MiB |
| JS errors | None |
| Resource errors | None |
Smart Slider → Help center
| URL | /wp-admin/admin.php?page=smart-slider3-help |
|---|---|
| Aspect | menu-item |
| HTTP status | 200 |
| Load time | 0.709 s |
| Memory usage | 4.74 MiB |
| JS errors | None |
| Resource errors | None |
Smart Slider → Go Pro
| URL | /wp-admin/admin.php?page=smart-slider3-go-pro |
|---|---|
| Aspect | menu-item |
| HTTP status | 200 |
| Load time | 0.439 s |
| Memory usage | 4.66 MiB |
| JS errors | None |
| Resource errors | None |
Test site – Just another WordPress site
| URL | / |
|---|---|
| Aspect | front-page |
| HTTP status | 200 |
| Load time | 0.262 s |
| Memory usage | 4.31 MiB |
| JS errors | None |
| Resource errors | None |
Widgets ‹ Test site — WordPress
| URL | /wp-admin/widgets.php |
|---|---|
| Aspect | new-sidebar-widgets |
| HTTP status | 200 |
| Load time | 1.438 s |
| Memory usage | 7.04 MiB |
| JS errors | None |
| Resource errors | None |
Benchmark
| URL | Load time | Memory usage | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Inactive | Active | Change | Inactive | Active | Change | |
| /wp-admin/index.php | 0.363 s | 0.830 s | +0.467 s | 3.51 MiB | 4.44 MiB | + 950.98 KiB |
| /wp-admin/edit.php | 0.210 s | 0.262 s | +0.052 s | 3.57 MiB | 4.59 MiB | + 1.02 MiB |
| /wp-admin/post-new.php | 1.319 s | 1.113 s | -0.206 s | 6.06 MiB | 7.29 MiB | + 1.22 MiB |
| /wp-admin/upload.php | 0.640 s | 0.352 s | -0.288 s | 3.52 MiB | 4.41 MiB | + 903.03 KiB |
| /wp-admin/options-writing.php | 0.288 s | 0.215 s | -0.073 s | 3.5 MiB | 4.37 MiB | + 884.93 KiB |
| /wp-admin/media-new.php | 0.294 s | 0.197 s | -0.097 s | 3.49 MiB | 4.36 MiB | + 884.93 KiB |
| /wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category | 0.224 s | 0.231 s | +0.007 s | 3.5 MiB | 4.4 MiB | + 916.2 KiB |
| /wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page | 0.631 s | 0.810 s | +0.179 s | 6.05 MiB | 7.23 MiB | + 1.18 MiB |
| /wp-admin/options-discussion.php | 0.273 s | 0.415 s | +0.142 s | 3.5 MiB | 4.37 MiB | + 884.93 KiB |
| /wp-admin/edit-comments.php | 0.225 s | 0.214 s | -0.011 s | 3.52 MiB | 4.39 MiB | + 884.93 KiB |
| / | 0.316 s | 0.214 s | -0.102 s | 3.43 MiB | 4.25 MiB | + 830.91 KiB |
| Average | 0.435 s | 0.441 s | +0.006 s | 3.97 MiB | 4.92 MiB | + 967.78 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.
| Language | % | Lines of code | Comment lines | Files | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PO File | 58.2% | 79,347 | 6,313 | 17 | |
| PHP | 36.6% | 49,962 | 6,873 | 742 | |
| JavaScript | 4.9% | 6,685 | 1,052 | 22 | |
| SVG | 0.3% | 414 | 0 | 27 | |
| JSON | 0.0% | 38 | 0 | 2 | |
| CSS | 0.0% | 6 | 0 | 3 | |
| Total | 136,452 | 14,238 | 813 | ||
PHP Code Analysis | More results »
| Lines of code | 47,144 |
|---|---|
| Total complexity | 8,335 |
| 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 | 3,646 |
| 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
- wp_nextend2_image_storage
- wp_nextend2_section_storage
- wp_nextend2_smartslider3_generators
- wp_nextend2_smartslider3_sliders
- wp_nextend2_smartslider3_sliders_xref
- wp_nextend2_smartslider3_slides
Options wp_options 2
- n2_ss3_version
- widget_smartslider3
Sidebar Widgets 1
| ID | Name |
|---|---|
| smartslider3 | Smart Slider |
Capabilities 4
- smartslider
- smartslider_config
- smartslider_edit
- smartslider_delete
PHP Error Log 2 lines
[30-Apr-2025 18:12:58 UTC] PHP Deprecated: json_decode(): Passing null to parameter #1 ($json) of type string is deprecated in /wp-content/plugins/smart-slider-3/Nextend/SmartSlider3/Settings.php on line 17
[30-Apr-2025 18:12:58 UTC] PHP Deprecated: preg_match(): Passing null to parameter #2 ($subject) of type string is deprecated in /wp-content/plugins/smart-slider-3/Nextend/SmartSlider3/Install/Install.php on line 21