Google News 2.5.1
Does Google News work with WordPress 7.1 and PHP 8.1.12? A smoke test was performed on .
Summary
Errors
| The plugin could not be activated | |
| 1 | PHP fatal errors |
| 1 | PHP deprecation warnings |
| No JavaScript exceptions | |
| No resource errors |
Performance
No data available.
Environment
| WordPress version | 7.1 |
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| PHP version | 8.1.12 |
| MySQL version | 10.6.10 |
| PHP memory limit | 512M |
Plugin Info
| Last updated | |
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| Active installs | 1,000+ |
| WordPress.org page | https://wordpress.org/plugins/google-news/ |
| Badges |
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Pages 1
Plugins ‹ Test site — WordPress
| URL | /wp-admin/plugins.php?plugin=google-news%2Fgoogle_news.php |
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| Requested URL | /wp-admin/plugins.php?action=activate&plugin=google-news%2Fgoogle_news.php&plugin_status=all&paged=1&s&_wpnonce=9f31d8ea90 |
| Aspect | after-activation |
| HTTP status | 200 |
| Load time | 0.696 s |
| Memory usage | 4.24 MiB |
| JS errors | None |
| Resource errors | None |
Benchmark
No benchmark data available.
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.
| Language | % | Lines of code | Comment lines | Files | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PHP | 100.0% | 707 | 73 | 1 | |
| Total | 707 | 73 | 1 | ||
PHP Code Analysis | More results »
| Lines of code | 707 |
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| Total complexity | 94 |
| Median class complexity | 94.0 |
| Median method complexity | 2.0 |
| Most complex class | google_news_plugin |
| Most complex function | google_news_plugin::admin_manage() |
| Classes | 1 |
|---|---|
| Methods | 16 |
| Functions | 0 |
Additions
No data available.
PHP Error Log 8 lines
[23-Aug-2026 21:07:42 UTC] PHP Deprecated: File rss.php is <strong>deprecated</strong> since version 3.0.0! Use wp-includes/class-simplepie.php instead. in /wp-includes/functions.php on line 6260
[23-Aug-2026 21:07:42 UTC] PHP Fatal error: Uncaught TypeError: Unsupported operand types: null & google_news_plugin in /wp-content/plugins/google-news/google_news.php:895
Stack trace:
#0 /wp-admin/includes/plugin.php(2382): include_once()
#1 /wp-admin/includes/plugin.php(673): plugin_sandbox_scrape()
#2 /wp-admin/plugins.php(60): activate_plugin()
#3 {main}
thrown in /wp-content/plugins/google-news/google_news.php on line 895
See also: All tests for this plugin