WP News and Scrolling Widgets 4.2.2

Does WP News and Scrolling Widgets work with WordPress 5.5.1 and PHP 7.4.8? 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: 167.71 KiB
The average PHP memory usage increased by this amount after activating by the plugin.

Page speed impact: 0.061 seconds
The average page load time increased by this amount after activating the plugin.

Environment
WordPress version5.5.1
PHP version7.4.8
MySQL version8.0.21
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=e1f80b15ed
Aspect after-activation
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.462 s
Memory usage 2.73 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 0.172 s
Memory usage 2.69 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 0.260 s
Memory usage 2.65 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 0.643 s
Memory usage 2.79 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Benchmark

URL Load time Memory usage
Inactive Active Change Inactive Active Change
/wp-admin/index.php0.500 s0.350 s-0.150 s2.75 MiB2.83 MiB+ 83.02 KiB
/wp-admin/edit.php0.257 s0.264 s+0.007 s2.8 MiB2.88 MiB+ 82.56 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php1.590 s3.044 s+1.454 s4.54 MiB5.08 MiB+ 550.36 KiB
/wp-admin/upload.php0.678 s0.426 s-0.252 s2.63 MiB2.7 MiB+ 76.7 KiB
/wp-admin/options-writing.php0.185 s0.177 s-0.008 s2.64 MiB2.69 MiB+ 44.67 KiB
/wp-admin/media-new.php0.215 s0.186 s-0.029 s2.6 MiB2.68 MiB+ 78.74 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category0.208 s0.185 s-0.023 s2.64 MiB2.72 MiB+ 77.77 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page1.537 s1.497 s-0.040 s4.53 MiB5.06 MiB+ 541.95 KiB
/wp-admin/options-discussion.php0.494 s0.327 s-0.167 s2.61 MiB2.68 MiB+ 77.18 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-comments.php0.240 s0.235 s-0.005 s2.65 MiB2.78 MiB+ 141.34 KiB
/0.360 s0.244 s-0.116 s2.56 MiB2.65 MiB+ 90.56 KiB
Average 0.569 s0.630 s+0.061 s3 MiB3.16 MiB+ 167.71 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