WP News and Scrolling Widgets 5.0.4

Does WP News and Scrolling Widgets work with WordPress 6.8.2 and PHP 8.1.12? A smoke test was performed on .

Summary

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

Memory usage: 166.61 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 version6.8.2
PHP version8.1.12
MySQL version10.6.10
PHP memory limit512M
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&anylc_nonce=f7a5b677ad
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=60b7588f92
Aspect after-activation
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.361 s
Memory usage 3.62 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 0.147 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 0.202 s
Memory usage 3.54 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 1.523 s
Memory usage 6 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Benchmark

URL Load time Memory usage
Inactive Active Change Inactive Active Change
/wp-admin/index.php0.360 s0.290 s-0.070 s3.51 MiB3.63 MiB+ 127.45 KiB
/wp-admin/edit.php0.209 s0.180 s-0.029 s3.57 MiB3.7 MiB+ 129.45 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php0.802 s0.688 s-0.114 s6.06 MiB6.43 MiB+ 378.75 KiB
/wp-admin/upload.php0.573 s0.320 s-0.253 s3.52 MiB3.63 MiB+ 113.19 KiB
/wp-admin/options-writing.php0.215 s0.195 s-0.020 s3.5 MiB3.62 MiB+ 117.18 KiB
/wp-admin/media-new.php0.279 s0.376 s+0.097 s3.49 MiB3.61 MiB+ 125.38 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category0.181 s0.268 s+0.087 s3.5 MiB3.63 MiB+ 130.55 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page0.608 s0.622 s+0.014 s6.05 MiB6.42 MiB+ 374.59 KiB
/wp-admin/options-discussion.php0.337 s0.449 s+0.112 s3.5 MiB3.61 MiB+ 113.68 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-comments.php0.215 s0.202 s-0.013 s3.52 MiB3.63 MiB+ 113.18 KiB
/0.312 s0.200 s-0.112 s3.43 MiB3.54 MiB+ 109.32 KiB
Average 0.372 s0.345 s-0.027 s3.97 MiB4.13 MiB+ 166.61 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
Language % Lines of code Comment lines Files
PHP57.7%3,6411,21234
PO File29.2%1,8459524
JavaScript6.5%412247
CSS5.3%334135
JSON1.3%8302
Total 6,315 2,201 52

PHP Code Analysis | More results »

Lines of code 1,994
Total complexity 499
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

[16-Jul-2025 15:32:08 UTC] PHP Warning:  Undefined array key "anylc_nonce" in /wp-content/plugins/sp-news-and-widget/wpos-analytics/includes/class-anylc-admin.php on line 268
See also: All tests for this plugin, How to Hide WP News and Scrolling Widgets Admin Menus and Meta Boxes