WP News and Scrolling Widgets 4.5

Does WP News and Scrolling Widgets work with WordPress 5.8 and PHP 7.4.8? A smoke test was performed on .

Summary

Errors
1PHP notices
No JavaScript exceptions
All test pages loaded successfully
No resource errors
Performance

Memory usage: 145.76 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 version5.8
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=9454306400
Aspect after-activation
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.590 s
Memory usage 3.14 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 0.142 s
Memory usage 3.11 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 0.204 s
Memory usage 3 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 2.143 s
Memory usage 4.69 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Benchmark

URL Load time Memory usage
Inactive Active Change Inactive Active Change
/wp-admin/index.php0.343 s0.288 s-0.055 s3.08 MiB3.2 MiB+ 119.22 KiB
/wp-admin/edit.php0.193 s0.225 s+0.032 s3.11 MiB3.3 MiB+ 187.8 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php1.829 s1.277 s-0.552 s5.27 MiB5.54 MiB+ 284.09 KiB
/wp-admin/upload.php0.584 s0.341 s-0.243 s3.03 MiB3.14 MiB+ 108.9 KiB
/wp-admin/options-writing.php0.225 s0.138 s-0.087 s3.02 MiB3.11 MiB+ 92.25 KiB
/wp-admin/media-new.php0.248 s0.187 s-0.061 s3.01 MiB3.11 MiB+ 109.07 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category0.191 s0.197 s+0.006 s3.04 MiB3.15 MiB+ 110.6 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page0.890 s1.089 s+0.199 s5.26 MiB5.53 MiB+ 279.67 KiB
/wp-admin/options-discussion.php0.229 s0.313 s+0.084 s3 MiB3.11 MiB+ 108.76 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-comments.php0.216 s0.208 s-0.008 s3.04 MiB3.15 MiB+ 108.92 KiB
/0.281 s0.228 s-0.053 s2.91 MiB3 MiB+ 94.12 KiB
Average 0.475 s0.408 s-0.067 s3.43 MiB3.58 MiB+ 145.76 KiB

Code Statistics

Note: Third-party libraries and minified JS/CSS files are excluded from these statistics where possible, so the numbers you see here may be lower than those reported by other tools.

PHP
PO File
JavaScript
Language % Lines of code Comment lines Files
PHP74.1%2,88694326
PO File11.2%4381914
JavaScript10.1%395207
CSS4.5%17685
JSON0.1%202
Total 3,897 1,162 44

PHP Code Analysis | More results »

Lines of code 2,040
Total complexity 502
Median class complexity 14.0
Median method complexity 2.0
Most complex class Wpos_Anylc_Admin
Most complex function wpnw_get_news_shortcode()
Classes 11
Methods 58
Functions 41

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

Meta Boxes

{
    "news": {
        "wpnw-post-metabox-pro": {
            "title": "More Premium - Settings",
            "context": "normal"
        }
    }
}

PHP Error Log 1 lines

[17-Aug-2021 13:08:38 UTC] PHP Notice:  wp_enqueue_script() was called <strong>incorrectly</strong>. "wp-editor" script should not be enqueued together with the new widgets editor (wp-edit-widgets or wp-customize-widgets). Please see <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/article/debugging-in-wordpress/">Debugging in WordPress</a> for more information. (This message was added in version 5.8.0.) in /wp-includes/functions.php on line 5535
See also: All tests for this plugin, How to Hide WP News and Scrolling Widgets Admin Menus and Meta Boxes