WP News and Scrolling Widgets 4.2

Does WP News and Scrolling Widgets work with WordPress 5.3.2 and PHP 7.2.16? A smoke test was performed on .

Summary

Errors
No PHP errors, warnings or notices
No JavaScript exceptions
All test pages loaded successfully
No resource errors
Looks good! No problems were detected.
Performance

Memory usage: 179.85 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 version5.3.2
PHP version7.2.16
MySQL version8.0.15
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=09fbb325ea
Aspect after-activation
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.441 s
Memory usage 3.71 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
Load time 0.169 s
Memory usage 3.61 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 0.250 s
Memory usage 3.38 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 1.006 s
Memory usage 3.72 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Benchmark

URL Load time Memory usage
Inactive Active Change Inactive Active Change
/wp-admin/index.php0.309 s0.283 s-0.026 s3.61 MiB3.71 MiB+ 98.05 KiB
/wp-admin/edit.php0.238 s0.262 s+0.024 s3.64 MiB3.73 MiB+ 84.07 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php1.333 s1.537 s+0.204 s5.36 MiB5.89 MiB+ 539.65 KiB
/wp-admin/upload.php0.504 s0.490 s-0.014 s3.48 MiB3.62 MiB+ 146.09 KiB
/wp-admin/options-writing.php0.172 s0.175 s+0.003 s3.56 MiB3.61 MiB+ 52.79 KiB
/wp-admin/media-new.php0.448 s0.217 s-0.231 s3.46 MiB3.6 MiB+ 147.67 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category0.194 s0.195 s+0.001 s3.56 MiB3.64 MiB+ 83.3 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page1.228 s1.243 s+0.015 s5.35 MiB5.87 MiB+ 532.85 KiB
/wp-admin/options-discussion.php0.253 s0.258 s+0.005 s3.46 MiB3.61 MiB+ 146.71 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-comments.php0.240 s0.222 s-0.018 s3.57 MiB3.65 MiB+ 82.23 KiB
/0.309 s0.215 s-0.094 s3.32 MiB3.38 MiB+ 64.97 KiB
Average 0.475 s0.463 s-0.012 s3.85 MiB4.03 MiB+ 179.85 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

The log file is empty.

See also: All tests for this plugin, How to Hide WP News and Scrolling Widgets Admin Menus and Meta Boxes