Bing Custom Search for WordPress 2.6.3

Does "Bing Custom Search for WordPress" work with WordPress 6.8.2 and PHP 8.1.12? A smoke test was performed on .

Summary

Errors
1PHP warnings
No JavaScript exceptions
All test pages loaded successfully
No resource errors
Performance

Memory usage: 8.1 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 version6.8.2
PHP version8.1.12
MySQL version10.6.10
PHP memory limit512M
Plugin Info
Last updated
Active installs 100+
WordPress.org page https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-bing-search/
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Pages 3

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=wp-bing-search%2Fwp-bing-search.php&plugin_status=all&paged=1&s&_wpnonce=1cec88349e
Aspect after-activation
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.334 s
Memory usage 3.53 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Settings → Bing Search

Page screenshot: Settings → Bing Search
URL /wp-admin/options-general.php?page=wp_bing_search
Aspect menu-item
HTTP status 200
Load time 1.513 s
Memory usage 3.53 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 0.575 s
Memory usage 3.44 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Benchmark

URL Load time Memory usage
Inactive Active Change Inactive Active Change
/wp-admin/index.php0.363 s0.299 s-0.064 s3.51 MiB3.52 MiB+ 14.53 KiB
/wp-admin/edit.php0.212 s0.210 s-0.002 s3.57 MiB3.59 MiB+ 14.53 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php0.823 s0.649 s-0.174 s6.06 MiB6.08 MiB+ 18.16 KiB
/wp-admin/upload.php0.760 s0.469 s-0.291 s3.52 MiB3.52 MiB- 2.88 KiB
/wp-admin/options-writing.php0.208 s0.189 s-0.019 s3.5 MiB3.5 MiB+ 1.12 KiB
/wp-admin/media-new.php0.277 s0.351 s+0.074 s3.49 MiB3.5 MiB+ 9.31 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category0.186 s0.303 s+0.117 s3.5 MiB3.52 MiB+ 19.98 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page0.753 s0.935 s+0.182 s6.05 MiB6.06 MiB+ 13.69 KiB
/wp-admin/options-discussion.php0.279 s0.275 s-0.004 s3.5 MiB3.5 MiB- 2.38 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-comments.php0.218 s0.183 s-0.035 s3.52 MiB3.52 MiB- 2.88 KiB
/0.308 s0.186 s-0.122 s3.43 MiB3.44 MiB+ 5.91 KiB
Average 0.399 s0.368 s-0.031 s3.97 MiB3.98 MiB+ 8.1 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
XML
PO File
Language % Lines of code Comment lines Files
PHP56.8%6614547
XML26.2%30505
PO File16.0%186633
CSS1.0%1201
Total 1,164 517 16

PHP Code Analysis | More results »

Lines of code 591
Total complexity 117
Median class complexity 32.0
Median method complexity 2.0
Most complex class WP_Bing_Search_Theme_Compatibility
Most complex function WP_Bing_Search_Theme_Compatibility::switch_post_object_to_bing()
Classes 4
Methods 50
Functions 0

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.

No new entries found.

PHP Error Log 1 lines

[20-Jul-2025 22:35:53 UTC] PHP Warning:  Trying to access array offset on value of type null in /wp-content/plugins/wp-bing-search/includes/wp_bing_search_settings.php on line 269
See also: All tests for this plugin, How to Hide the "Bing Search" Admin Menu