WP News and Scrolling Widgets 4.2.1

Does WP News and Scrolling Widgets work with WordPress 5.4.2 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: 182.72 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 version5.4.2
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=6e7c005f78
Aspect after-activation
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.354 s
Memory usage 3.74 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 0.164 s
Memory usage 3.63 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 0.212 s
Memory usage 3.39 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 0.870 s
Memory usage 3.77 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Benchmark

URL Load time Memory usage
Inactive Active Change Inactive Active Change
/wp-admin/index.php0.338 s0.422 s+0.084 s3.64 MiB3.8 MiB+ 162.02 KiB
/wp-admin/edit.php0.204 s0.298 s+0.094 s3.67 MiB3.76 MiB+ 92.07 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php1.262 s1.452 s+0.190 s5.43 MiB5.97 MiB+ 549.85 KiB
/wp-admin/upload.php0.498 s0.443 s-0.055 s3.5 MiB3.65 MiB+ 154.09 KiB
/wp-admin/options-writing.php0.394 s0.163 s-0.231 s3.58 MiB3.64 MiB+ 60.79 KiB
/wp-admin/media-new.php0.229 s0.194 s-0.035 s3.48 MiB3.63 MiB+ 156.3 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category0.173 s0.183 s+0.010 s3.58 MiB3.67 MiB+ 91.3 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page1.027 s1.045 s+0.018 s5.42 MiB5.94 MiB+ 535.05 KiB
/wp-admin/options-discussion.php0.328 s0.283 s-0.045 s3.48 MiB3.64 MiB+ 154.71 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-comments.php0.216 s0.199 s-0.017 s3.59 MiB3.68 MiB+ 90.23 KiB
/0.328 s0.286 s-0.042 s3.43 MiB3.39 MiB- 36.52 KiB
Average 0.454 s0.452 s-0.003 s3.89 MiB4.07 MiB+ 182.72 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