Report - Vertical News Scroller 1.25

Does Vertical News Scroller work with WordPress 6.8.1 and PHP 8.1.12? A smoke test was performed on 2025-05-01 19:15:29 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: insignificant.
The plugin didn't make the site noticeably slower.

Environment

WordPress version	6.8.1
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=1d85d6f8d9
Aspect	after-activation
HTTP status	200
Load time	0.338 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	0.299 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	0.186 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	1.319 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	0.341 s	0.294 s	-0.047 s	3.51 MiB	3.55 MiB	+ 41.81 KiB
/wp-admin/edit.php	0.202 s	0.202 s	+0.000 s	3.57 MiB	3.61 MiB	+ 36.29 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php	0.766 s	0.646 s	-0.120 s	6.06 MiB	6.11 MiB	+ 46.18 KiB
/wp-admin/upload.php	0.641 s	0.503 s	-0.138 s	3.52 MiB	3.54 MiB	+ 18.88 KiB
/wp-admin/options-writing.php	0.229 s	0.203 s	-0.026 s	3.5 MiB	3.52 MiB	+ 22.88 KiB
/wp-admin/media-new.php	0.296 s	0.239 s	-0.057 s	3.49 MiB	3.52 MiB	+ 31.07 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category	0.238 s	0.206 s	-0.032 s	3.5 MiB	3.55 MiB	+ 41.74 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page	0.605 s	0.622 s	+0.017 s	6.05 MiB	6.09 MiB	+ 41.7 KiB
/wp-admin/options-discussion.php	0.258 s	0.269 s	+0.011 s	3.5 MiB	3.52 MiB	+ 19.38 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-comments.php	0.427 s	0.208 s	-0.219 s	3.52 MiB	3.54 MiB	+ 18.88 KiB
/	0.306 s	0.412 s	+0.106 s	3.43 MiB	3.47 MiB	+ 38.16 KiB
Average	0.392 s	0.346 s	-0.046 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