WP News and Scrolling Widgets 4.1

Does WP News and Scrolling Widgets work with WordPress 5.0 and PHP 7.0.16? A smoke test was performed on .

Summary

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

Memory usage: 97.78 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 version5.0
PHP version7.0.16
MySQL version5.7.17
PHP memory limit256M
Plugin Info
Last updated
Active installs 10,000+
WordPress.org page https://wordpress.org/plugins/sp-news-and-widget/
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Pages 4

News ‹ Test site — WordPress

Page screenshot: News ‹ Test site — WordPress
URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=wp-news-and-scrolling-widgets
Requested URL /wp-admin/plugins.php?action=activate&plugin=sp-news-and-widget%2Fsp-news-and-widget.php&plugin_status=all&paged=1&s&_wpnonce=ea13c7cca3
Aspect after-activation
HTTP status 200 OK
Load time 0.102 s
Memory usage 3.32 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

News

Page screenshot: News
URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=wp-news-and-scrolling-widgets
Aspect menu-item
HTTP status 200 OK
Load time 0.039 s
Memory usage 3.21 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 OK
Load time 0.088 s
Memory usage 2.99 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 OK
Load time 0.118 s
Memory usage 3.29 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Benchmark

URL Load time Memory usage
Inactive Active Change Inactive Active Change
/wp-admin/index.php0.148 s0.041 s-0.107 s3.22 MiB3.37 MiB+ 147.84 KiB
/wp-admin/edit.php0.122 s0.048 s-0.074 s3.25 MiB3.33 MiB+ 81.48 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php0.489 s0.312 s-0.177 s4.92 MiB5.01 MiB+ 88.03 KiB
/wp-admin/upload.php0.045 s0.045 s+0.000 s3.15 MiB3.23 MiB+ 79.92 KiB
/wp-admin/options-writing.php0.089 s0.048 s-0.041 s3.14 MiB3.22 MiB+ 80.35 KiB
/wp-admin/media-new.php0.044 s0.041 s-0.003 s3.07 MiB3.21 MiB+ 144.35 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category0.123 s0.043 s-0.080 s3.17 MiB3.25 MiB+ 81.29 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page0.456 s0.269 s-0.187 s4.9 MiB4.98 MiB+ 80.77 KiB
/wp-admin/options-discussion.php0.029 s0.039 s+0.010 s3.07 MiB3.21 MiB+ 144.35 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-comments.php0.083 s0.044 s-0.039 s3.18 MiB3.26 MiB+ 80.08 KiB
/0.098 s0.094 s-0.004 s2.93 MiB2.99 MiB+ 67.06 KiB
Average 0.157 s0.093 s-0.064 s3.45 MiB3.55 MiB+ 97.78 KiB

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 5

Custom Post Types 1

ID Name
newsNews

Sidebar Widgets 3

ID Name
sp_news_widgetLatest News Widget
sp_news_s_widgetLatest News Scrolling Widget
sp_news_sthumb_widgetLatest News with thumb

PHP Error Log 2 lines

[10-Dec-2018 04:42:27 UTC] PHP Notice:  edit_form_advanced is <strong>deprecated</strong> since version 5.0.0! Use block_editor_meta_box_hidden_fields instead. This action is still supported in the classic editor, but is deprecated in the block editor. in /wp-includes/functions.php on line 4112
[10-Dec-2018 04:42:29 UTC] PHP Notice:  edit_form_advanced is <strong>deprecated</strong> since version 5.0.0! Use block_editor_meta_box_hidden_fields instead. This action is still supported in the classic editor, but is deprecated in the block editor. in /wp-includes/functions.php on line 4112
See also: All tests for this plugin, How to Hide WP News and Scrolling Widgets Admin Menus and Meta Boxes