Vertical News Scroller 1.5

Does Vertical News Scroller work with WordPress 5.0.3 and PHP 7.0.16? A smoke test was performed on .

Summary

Errors
2PHP notices
No JavaScript exceptions
All test pages loaded successfully
No resource errors
Performance

Memory usage: 18.78 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 version5.0.3
PHP version7.0.16
MySQL version5.7.17
PHP memory limit256M
Plugin Info
Last updated
Active installs 6,000+
WordPress.org page https://wordpress.org/plugins/vertical-news-scroller/
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Pages 4

Plugins ‹ Test site — WordPress

Page screenshot: Plugins ‹ Test site — WordPress
URL /wp-admin/plugins.php?plugin_status=all&paged=1&s
Requested URL /wp-admin/plugins.php?action=activate&plugin=vertical-news-scroller%2FnewsScroller.php&plugin_status=all&paged=1&s&_wpnonce=9d3b694d33
Aspect after-activation
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.241 s
Memory usage 3.19 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Manage Scrolling News

Page screenshot: Manage Scrolling News
URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=Scrollnews-settings
Aspect menu-item
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.363 s
Memory usage 3.16 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 0.272 s
Memory usage 2.93 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 0.617 s
Memory usage 3.22 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Benchmark

URL Load time Memory usage
Inactive Active Change Inactive Active Change
/wp-admin/index.php0.223 s0.241 s+0.018 s3.22 MiB3.24 MiB+ 18.55 KiB
/wp-admin/edit.php0.184 s0.190 s+0.006 s3.25 MiB3.27 MiB+ 18.52 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php1.018 s0.845 s-0.173 s4.92 MiB4.94 MiB+ 25.66 KiB
/wp-admin/upload.php0.491 s0.324 s-0.167 s3.15 MiB3.16 MiB+ 18.44 KiB
/wp-admin/options-writing.php0.209 s0.135 s-0.074 s3.14 MiB3.16 MiB+ 18.44 KiB
/wp-admin/media-new.php0.186 s0.180 s-0.006 s3.07 MiB3.08 MiB+ 18.44 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category0.152 s0.154 s+0.002 s3.17 MiB3.19 MiB+ 18.44 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page1.027 s0.872 s-0.155 s4.9 MiB4.92 MiB+ 18.41 KiB
/wp-admin/options-discussion.php0.216 s0.226 s+0.010 s3.07 MiB3.09 MiB+ 18.44 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-comments.php0.185 s0.170 s-0.015 s3.18 MiB3.19 MiB+ 18.48 KiB
/0.397 s0.151 s-0.246 s2.92 MiB2.93 MiB+ 14.77 KiB
Average 0.390 s0.317 s-0.073 s3.45 MiB3.47 MiB+ 18.78 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.

Database Tables 1

Options wp_options 2

Sidebar Widgets 1

ID Name
verticalscrollVertical news scroll

PHP Error Log 2 lines

[10-Jan-2019 10:22:17 UTC] PHP Notice:  Undefined variable: search_term_ in /wp-content/plugins/vertical-news-scroller/newsScroller.php on line 410
[10-Jan-2019 10:22:17 UTC] PHP Notice:  Undefined variable: search_term_ in /wp-content/plugins/vertical-news-scroller/newsScroller.php on line 419
See also: All tests for this plugin, How to Hide the "Manage Scrolling News" Admin Menu