WordPress Popular Posts 5.2.2

Does WordPress Popular Posts work with WordPress 5.5 and PHP 7.2.16? A smoke test was performed on .

Summary

Errors
4PHP notices
No JavaScript exceptions
All test pages loaded successfully
No resource errors
Performance

Memory usage: 213.08 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 version5.5
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=c97e2c8af1
Aspect after-activation
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.505 s
Memory usage 4.13 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 0.606 s
Memory usage 4.61 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 0.385 s
Memory usage 3.81 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 0.379 s
Memory usage 4.18 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 0.630 s
Memory usage 4.63 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Benchmark

URL Load time Memory usage
Inactive Active Change Inactive Active Change
/wp-admin/index.php0.465 s0.382 s-0.083 s3.96 MiB4.18 MiB+ 225.08 KiB
/wp-admin/edit.php0.214 s0.234 s+0.020 s3.99 MiB4.21 MiB+ 221.87 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php1.509 s1.881 s+0.372 s5.81 MiB6.08 MiB+ 274.84 KiB
/wp-admin/upload.php0.661 s0.466 s-0.195 s3.83 MiB4.04 MiB+ 221.54 KiB
/wp-admin/options-writing.php0.166 s0.172 s+0.006 s3.9 MiB4.03 MiB+ 127.37 KiB
/wp-admin/media-new.php0.192 s0.181 s-0.011 s3.8 MiB4.02 MiB+ 220.98 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category0.175 s0.181 s+0.006 s3.91 MiB4.12 MiB+ 221.88 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page1.427 s1.606 s+0.179 s5.8 MiB6.07 MiB+ 272.02 KiB
/wp-admin/options-discussion.php0.369 s0.245 s-0.124 s3.81 MiB4.02 MiB+ 221.29 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-comments.php0.301 s0.232 s-0.069 s3.91 MiB4.13 MiB+ 220.77 KiB
/0.323 s0.208 s-0.115 s3.69 MiB3.81 MiB+ 116.27 KiB
Average 0.527 s0.526 s-0.001 s4.22 MiB4.43 MiB+ 213.08 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 4 lines

[11-Aug-2020 20:02:15 UTC] PHP Notice:  register_rest_route was called <strong>incorrectly</strong>. The REST API route definition for <code>wordpress-popular-posts/v1/popular-posts</code> is missing the required <code>permission_callback</code> argument. For REST API routes that are intended to be public, use <code>__return_true</code> as the permission callback. Please see <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/article/debugging-in-wordpress/">Debugging in WordPress</a> for more information. (This message was added in version 5.5.0.) in /wp-includes/functions.php on line 5225
[11-Aug-2020 20:02:15 UTC] PHP Notice:  register_rest_route was called <strong>incorrectly</strong>. The REST API route definition for <code>wordpress-popular-posts/v1/popular-posts/widget/(?P<id>[\d]+)</code> is missing the required <code>permission_callback</code> argument. For REST API routes that are intended to be public, use <code>__return_true</code> as the permission callback. Please see <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/article/debugging-in-wordpress/">Debugging in WordPress</a> for more information. (This message was added in version 5.5.0.) in /wp-includes/functions.php on line 5225
[11-Aug-2020 20:02:18 UTC] PHP Notice:  register_rest_route was called <strong>incorrectly</strong>. The REST API route definition for <code>wordpress-popular-posts/v1/popular-posts</code> is missing the required <code>permission_callback</code> argument. For REST API routes that are intended to be public, use <code>__return_true</code> as the permission callback. Please see <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/article/debugging-in-wordpress/">Debugging in WordPress</a> for more information. (This message was added in version 5.5.0.) in /wp-includes/functions.php on line 5225
[11-Aug-2020 20:02:18 UTC] PHP Notice:  register_rest_route was called <strong>incorrectly</strong>. The REST API route definition for <code>wordpress-popular-posts/v1/popular-posts/widget/(?P<id>[\d]+)</code> is missing the required <code>permission_callback</code> argument. For REST API routes that are intended to be public, use <code>__return_true</code> as the permission callback. Please see <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/article/debugging-in-wordpress/">Debugging in WordPress</a> for more information. (This message was added in version 5.5.0.) in /wp-includes/functions.php on line 5225
See also: All tests for this plugin, How to Hide WordPress Popular Posts Admin Menus and Widgets