WP News and Scrolling Widgets 4.3

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: 174.71 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 version5.5.1
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=590fb3ad9f
Aspect after-activation
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.623 s
Memory usage 2.74 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 0.170 s
Memory usage 2.7 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 2.66 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 0.931 s
Memory usage 2.81 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Benchmark

URL Load time Memory usage
Inactive Active Change Inactive Active Change
/wp-admin/index.php0.468 s0.326 s-0.142 s2.75 MiB2.85 MiB+ 93.67 KiB
/wp-admin/edit.php0.234 s0.279 s+0.045 s2.8 MiB2.89 MiB+ 97.15 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php1.593 s2.063 s+0.470 s4.54 MiB5.1 MiB+ 570.06 KiB
/wp-admin/upload.php0.840 s0.434 s-0.406 s2.63 MiB2.71 MiB+ 87.35 KiB
/wp-admin/options-writing.php0.189 s0.166 s-0.023 s2.64 MiB2.7 MiB+ 55.33 KiB
/wp-admin/media-new.php0.221 s0.197 s-0.024 s2.6 MiB2.69 MiB+ 89.4 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category0.202 s0.198 s-0.004 s2.64 MiB2.73 MiB+ 88.43 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page1.501 s1.491 s-0.010 s4.53 MiB5.08 MiB+ 557.65 KiB
/wp-admin/options-discussion.php0.423 s0.336 s-0.087 s2.61 MiB2.69 MiB+ 87.84 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-comments.php0.225 s0.243 s+0.018 s2.65 MiB2.73 MiB+ 88 KiB
/0.329 s0.231 s-0.098 s2.56 MiB2.66 MiB+ 106.96 KiB
Average 0.566 s0.542 s-0.024 s3 MiB3.17 MiB+ 174.71 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