Report - WordPress Popular Posts 7.3.2

Testing Suspended

Testing of this plugin has been temporarily suspended due to an error. It will automatically resume when a new plugin version is released.

Does WordPress Popular Posts work with WordPress 6.8.1 and PHP 8.1.12? A smoke test was performed on 2025-06-12 14:48:22 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: 185.47 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	2025-06-16T19:52:00+00:00
Active installs	100,000+
WordPress.org page	https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-popular-posts/
Badges	Get badge code

Pages 5

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=653bed6352
Aspect	after-activation
HTTP status	200
Load time	0.297 s
Memory usage	3.69 MiB
JS errors	None
Resource errors	None

Settings → WordPress Popular Posts

URL	/wp-admin/options-general.php?page=wordpress-popular-posts
Aspect	menu-item
HTTP status	200
Load time	0.486 s
Memory usage	3.84 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	3.59 MiB
JS errors	None
Resource errors	None

Dashboard ‹ Test site — WordPress

URL	/wp-admin/index.php
Aspect	new-meta-boxes
HTTP status	200
Load time	0.445 s
Memory usage	3.67 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	1.323 s
Memory usage	5.95 MiB
JS errors	None
Resource errors	None

Benchmark

URL	Load time			Memory usage
URL	Inactive	Active	Change	Inactive	Active	Change
/wp-admin/index.php	0.314 s	0.305 s	-0.009 s	3.51 MiB	3.67 MiB	+ 170.89 KiB
/wp-admin/edit.php	0.180 s	0.192 s	+0.012 s	3.57 MiB	3.73 MiB	+ 166.85 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php	0.767 s	0.687 s	-0.080 s	6.06 MiB	6.39 MiB	+ 334.23 KiB
/wp-admin/upload.php	0.609 s	0.719 s	+0.110 s	3.52 MiB	3.67 MiB	+ 149.34 KiB
/wp-admin/options-writing.php	0.218 s	0.260 s	+0.042 s	3.5 MiB	3.65 MiB	+ 153.74 KiB
/wp-admin/media-new.php	0.262 s	0.235 s	-0.027 s	3.49 MiB	3.65 MiB	+ 161.94 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category	0.196 s	0.180 s	-0.016 s	3.5 MiB	3.67 MiB	+ 172.7 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page	0.601 s	0.612 s	+0.011 s	6.05 MiB	6.31 MiB	+ 265.75 KiB
/wp-admin/options-discussion.php	0.311 s	0.267 s	-0.044 s	3.5 MiB	3.65 MiB	+ 150.24 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-comments.php	0.391 s	0.197 s	-0.194 s	3.52 MiB	3.67 MiB	+ 149.9 KiB
/	0.320 s	0.211 s	-0.109 s	3.43 MiB	3.6 MiB	+ 164.61 KiB
Average	0.379 s	0.351 s	-0.028 s	3.97 MiB	4.15 MiB	+ 185.47 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

CSS

Language		%	Lines of code	Comment lines	Files
	PHP	65.7%	6,716	2,750	55
	JavaScript	16.1%	1,644	34	9
	CSS	13.2%	1,354	53	14
	JSON	4.8%	490	0	10
	SVG	0.2%	16	0	2
Total			10,220	2,837	90

PHP Code Analysis | More results »

Lines of code	5,481
Total complexity	1,226
Median class complexity	8.0
Median method complexity	2.0
Most complex class	WordPressPopularPosts\Admin\Admin
Most complex function	WordPressPopularPosts\Query::build_query()

Classes	40
Methods	219
Functions	5

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 3

wp_popularpostsdata
wp_popularpostssummary
wp_popularpoststransients

Options `wp_options` 3

widget_wpp
wpp_settings_config
wpp_ver

Sidebar Widgets 1

ID	Name
wpp	WordPress Popular Posts

Meta Boxes

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

PHP Error Log

The log file is empty.

WordPress Popular Posts 7.3.2