WordPress Popular Posts 5.2.1

Does WordPress Popular Posts work with WordPress 5.4.2 and PHP 7.2.16? A smoke test was performed on .

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: 211.86 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 version5.4.2
PHP version7.2.16
MySQL version8.0.15
PHP memory limit256M
Plugin Info
Last updated
Active installs 200,000+
WordPress.org page https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-popular-posts/
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Pages 5

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=wordpress-popular-posts%2Fwordpress-popular-posts.php&plugin_status=all&paged=1&s&_wpnonce=636c9b6b5b
Aspect after-activation
HTTP status 200
Load time 1.492 s
Memory usage 3.8 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Settings → WordPress Popular Posts

Page screenshot: Settings → WordPress Popular Posts
URL /wp-admin/options-general.php?page=wordpress-popular-posts
Aspect menu-item
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.617 s
Memory usage 4.29 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 0.211 s
Memory usage 3.48 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Dashboard ‹ Test site — WordPress

Page screenshot: Dashboard ‹ Test site — WordPress
URL /wp-admin/index.php
Aspect new-meta-boxes
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.308 s
Memory usage 3.87 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 0.916 s
Memory usage 4.33 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Benchmark

URL Load time Memory usage
Inactive Active Change Inactive Active Change
/wp-admin/index.php0.319 s0.319 s+0.000 s3.64 MiB3.87 MiB+ 233.14 KiB
/wp-admin/edit.php0.218 s0.318 s+0.100 s3.67 MiB3.89 MiB+ 229.93 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php1.194 s1.403 s+0.209 s5.43 MiB5.69 MiB+ 270.91 KiB
/wp-admin/upload.php0.557 s0.374 s-0.183 s3.5 MiB3.72 MiB+ 229.6 KiB
/wp-admin/options-writing.php0.166 s0.165 s-0.001 s3.58 MiB3.71 MiB+ 135.43 KiB
/wp-admin/media-new.php0.208 s0.189 s-0.019 s3.48 MiB3.7 MiB+ 229.04 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category0.164 s0.162 s-0.002 s3.58 MiB3.81 MiB+ 229.95 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page1.037 s0.987 s-0.050 s5.42 MiB5.68 MiB+ 264.09 KiB
/wp-admin/options-discussion.php0.495 s0.333 s-0.162 s3.48 MiB3.71 MiB+ 229.35 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-comments.php0.204 s0.203 s-0.001 s3.59 MiB3.81 MiB+ 228.83 KiB
/0.334 s0.258 s-0.076 s3.43 MiB3.48 MiB+ 50.18 KiB
Average 0.445 s0.428 s-0.017 s3.89 MiB4.1 MiB+ 211.86 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 2

Options wp_options 4

Sidebar Widgets 1

ID Name
wppWordPress Popular Posts

Meta Boxes

{
    "dashboard": {
        "wpp_trending_dashboard_widget": {
            "title": "Trending now",
            "context": "normal"
        }
    }
}

PHP Error Log

The log file is empty.

See also: All tests for this plugin, How to Hide WordPress Popular Posts Admin Menus and Widgets