Report - Exclude Category Widget 1.0

Does Exclude Category Widget work with WordPress 7.0.2 and PHP 8.1.12? A smoke test was performed on 2026-07-22 20:17:54 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: 1.09 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	7.0.2
PHP version	8.1.12
MySQL version	10.6.10
PHP memory limit	512M

Plugin Info

Last updated	2016-03-31T10:32:00+00:00
Active installs	800+
WordPress.org page	https://wordpress.org/plugins/exclude-category-widget/
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Pages 3

Plugins ‹ Test site — WordPress

URL	/wp-admin/plugins.php?plugin_status=all&paged=1&s
Requested URL	/wp-admin/plugins.php?action=activate&plugin=exclude-category-widget%2Fexclude-category-widget.php&plugin_status=all&paged=1&s&_wpnonce=1b8aec8fe0
Aspect	after-activation
HTTP status	200
Load time	0.597 s
Memory usage	3.89 MiB
JS errors	None
Resource errors	None

Test site – Just another WordPress site

URL	/
Aspect	front-page
HTTP status	200
Load time	0.270 s
Memory usage	4.23 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	1.686 s
Memory usage	6.43 MiB
JS errors	None
Resource errors	None

Benchmark

URL	Load time			Memory usage
URL	Inactive	Active	Change	Inactive	Active	Change
/wp-admin/index.php	0.841 s	0.637 s	-0.204 s	3.92 MiB	3.93 MiB	+ 7.09 KiB
/wp-admin/edit.php	0.602 s	0.732 s	+0.130 s	3.98 MiB	3.99 MiB	+ 7.09 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php	2.337 s	2.052 s	-0.285 s	6.56 MiB	6.57 MiB	+ 11.52 KiB
/wp-admin/upload.php	0.826 s	0.768 s	-0.058 s	3.89 MiB	3.88 MiB	- 10.31 KiB
/wp-admin/options-writing.php	0.600 s	0.583 s	-0.017 s	3.86 MiB	3.86 MiB	- 6.32 KiB
/wp-admin/media-new.php	1.075 s	1.039 s	-0.036 s	3.85 MiB	3.85 MiB	+ 1.88 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category	0.570 s	0.606 s	+0.036 s	3.86 MiB	3.87 MiB	+ 7.05 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page	1.686 s	1.547 s	-0.139 s	6.55 MiB	6.56 MiB	+ 7.05 KiB
/wp-admin/options-discussion.php	0.687 s	0.704 s	+0.017 s	3.86 MiB	3.85 MiB	- 9.82 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-comments.php	0.574 s	0.607 s	+0.033 s	3.88 MiB	3.87 MiB	- 10.32 KiB
/	0.320 s	0.257 s	-0.063 s	4.23 MiB	4.23 MiB	+ 7.13 KiB
Average	0.920 s	0.867 s	-0.053 s	4.41 MiB	4.41 MiB	+ 1.09 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

Language		%	Lines of code	Comment lines	Files
	PHP	100.0%	46	13	1
Total			46	13	1

PHP Code Analysis | More results »

Lines of code	48
Total complexity	8
Median class complexity	7.0
Median method complexity	1.5
Most complex class	ExcludeCategory
Most complex function	ExcludeCategory::widget()

Classes	1
Methods	4
Functions	1

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.

Options `wp_options` 1

widget_excludecategory

Sidebar Widgets 1

ID	Name
excludecategory	Exclude Category Widget

PHP Error Log

The log file is empty.

Exclude Category Widget 1.0