Report - Vertical News Scroller 1.25

Does Vertical News Scroller work with WordPress 6.8.2 and PHP 8.1.12? A smoke test was performed on 2025-07-17 01:04:21 UTC.

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: 32.45 KiB
The average PHP memory usage increased by this amount after activating by the plugin.

Page speed impact: 0.040 seconds
The average page load time increased by this amount after activating the plugin.

Environment

WordPress version	6.8.2
PHP version	8.1.12
MySQL version	10.6.10
PHP memory limit	512M

Plugin Info

Last updated	2024-11-20T14:14:00+00:00
Active installs	6,000+
WordPress.org page	https://wordpress.org/plugins/vertical-news-scroller/
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Pages 4

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=478904127f
Aspect	after-activation
HTTP status	200
Load time	0.337 s
Memory usage	3.56 MiB
JS errors	None
Resource errors	None

Manage Scrolling News

URL	/wp-admin/admin.php?page=Scrollnews-settings
Aspect	menu-item
HTTP status	200
Load time	0.360 s
Memory usage	3.52 MiB
JS errors	None
Resource errors	None

Test site – Just another WordPress site

URL	/
Aspect	front-page
HTTP status	200
Load time	0.277 s
Memory usage	3.47 MiB
JS errors	None
Resource errors	None

Widgets ‹ Test site — WordPress

URL	/wp-admin/widgets.php
Aspect	new-sidebar-widgets
HTTP status	200
Load time	1.821 s
Memory usage	5.85 MiB
JS errors	None
Resource errors	None

Benchmark

URL	Load time			Memory usage
URL	Inactive	Active	Change	Inactive	Active	Change
/wp-admin/index.php	0.399 s	0.617 s	+0.218 s	3.51 MiB	3.55 MiB	+ 41.81 KiB
/wp-admin/edit.php	0.249 s	0.239 s	-0.010 s	3.57 MiB	3.61 MiB	+ 36.29 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php	0.933 s	0.829 s	-0.104 s	6.06 MiB	6.11 MiB	+ 46.18 KiB
/wp-admin/upload.php	0.724 s	0.499 s	-0.225 s	3.52 MiB	3.54 MiB	+ 18.88 KiB
/wp-admin/options-writing.php	0.277 s	0.358 s	+0.081 s	3.5 MiB	3.52 MiB	+ 22.88 KiB
/wp-admin/media-new.php	0.355 s	0.305 s	-0.050 s	3.49 MiB	3.52 MiB	+ 31.07 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category	0.240 s	0.254 s	+0.014 s	3.5 MiB	3.54 MiB	+ 41.74 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page	0.719 s	1.367 s	+0.648 s	6.05 MiB	6.09 MiB	+ 41.7 KiB
/wp-admin/options-discussion.php	0.348 s	0.317 s	-0.031 s	3.5 MiB	3.52 MiB	+ 19.38 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-comments.php	0.254 s	0.252 s	-0.002 s	3.52 MiB	3.54 MiB	+ 18.88 KiB
/	0.363 s	0.264 s	-0.099 s	3.43 MiB	3.47 MiB	+ 38.16 KiB
Average	0.442 s	0.482 s	+0.040 s	3.97 MiB	4 MiB	+ 32.45 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

JavaScript

Language		%	Lines of code	Comment lines	Files
	PHP	73.9%	1,249	26	1
	JavaScript	22.4%	379	16	2
	CSS	3.7%	63	7	2
Total			1,691	49	5

PHP Code Analysis | More results »

Lines of code	1,314
Total complexity	175
Median class complexity	49.0
Median method complexity	6.5
Most complex class	vns_VerticalScroll
Most complex function	vns_managenews()

Classes	1
Methods	4
Functions	16

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

wp_scroll_news

Options `wp_options` 2

scrollnews_messages
widget_vns_verticalscroll

Sidebar Widgets 1

ID	Name
vns_verticalscroll	Vertical news scroll

Capabilities 4

vns_vertical_news_scroller_view_news
vns_vertical_news_scroller_add_news
vns_vertical_news_scroller_edit_news
vns_vertical_news_scroller_delete_news

PHP Error Log

The log file is empty.

Vertical News Scroller 1.25