Report - List category posts 0.83.1

Does List category posts work with WordPress 5.7.1 and PHP 7.4.8? A smoke test was performed on 2021-04-15 05:25:55 UTC.

Summary

Errors

3	PHP warnings
	No JavaScript exceptions
	All test pages loaded successfully
	No resource errors

Performance

Memory usage: 14.97 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	5.7.1
PHP version	7.4.8
MySQL version	8.0.21
PHP memory limit	256M

Plugin Info

Last updated	2026-02-16T20:33:00+00:00
Active installs	80,000+
WordPress.org page	https://wordpress.org/plugins/list-category-posts/
Badges	Get badge code

Pages 4

Plugins ‹ Test site — WordPress

URL	/wp-admin/plugins.php?plugin_status=all&paged=1&s
Requested URL	/wp-admin/plugins.php?action=activate&plugin=list-category-posts%2Flist-category-posts.php&plugin_status=all&paged=1&s&_wpnonce=7cdc3e4e2d
Aspect	after-activation
HTTP status	200
Load time	0.370 s
Memory usage	2.8 MiB
JS errors	None
Resource errors	None

Settings → List Category Posts

URL	/wp-admin/options-general.php?page=list-category-posts
Aspect	menu-item
HTTP status	200
Load time	0.167 s
Memory usage	2.69 MiB
JS errors	None
Resource errors	None

Test site – Just another WordPress site

URL	/
Aspect	front-page
HTTP status	200
Load time	0.215 s
Memory usage	2.66 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	0.605 s
Memory usage	2.87 MiB
JS errors	None
Resource errors	None

Benchmark

URL	Load time			Memory usage
URL	Inactive	Active	Change	Inactive	Active	Change
/wp-admin/index.php	0.265 s	0.264 s	-0.001 s	2.82 MiB	2.84 MiB	+ 22.48 KiB
/wp-admin/edit.php	0.185 s	0.209 s	+0.024 s	2.86 MiB	2.88 MiB	+ 22.48 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php	0.898 s	0.923 s	+0.025 s	5.02 MiB	5.06 MiB	+ 34.66 KiB
/wp-admin/upload.php	0.478 s	0.261 s	-0.217 s	2.7 MiB	2.72 MiB	+ 21.34 KiB
/wp-admin/options-writing.php	0.271 s	0.155 s	-0.116 s	2.71 MiB	2.7 MiB	- 10.68 KiB
/wp-admin/media-new.php	0.231 s	0.159 s	-0.072 s	2.67 MiB	2.69 MiB	+ 21.52 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category	0.193 s	0.322 s	+0.129 s	2.77 MiB	2.79 MiB	+ 22.42 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page	1.195 s	0.634 s	-0.561 s	5.01 MiB	5.04 MiB	+ 30.25 KiB
/wp-admin/options-discussion.php	0.320 s	0.285 s	-0.035 s	2.67 MiB	2.7 MiB	+ 21.83 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-comments.php	0.235 s	0.228 s	-0.007 s	2.78 MiB	2.8 MiB	+ 21.33 KiB
/	0.263 s	0.215 s	-0.048 s	2.71 MiB	2.66 MiB	- 42.95 KiB
Average	0.412 s	0.332 s	-0.080 s	3.16 MiB	3.17 MiB	+ 14.97 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

PO File

Language		%	Lines of code	Comment lines	Files
	PHP	60.8%	2,005	564	15
	PO File	39.0%	1,287	463	11
	CSS	0.2%	6	0	1
Total			3,298	1,027	27

PHP Code Analysis | More results »

Lines of code	1,725
Total complexity	431
Median class complexity	23.0
Median method complexity	2.0
Most complex class	CatList
Most complex function	ListCategoryPostsWidget::widget()

Classes	11
Methods	110
Functions	8

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` 2

numberposts
widget_listcategorypostswidget

Sidebar Widgets 1

ID	Name
listcategorypostswidget	List Category Posts

PHP Error Log 3 lines

[15-Apr-2021 05:26:19 UTC] PHP Warning:  scandir(/wp-content/themes/twentyseventeen/list-category-posts/): failed to open dir: No such file or directory in /wp-content/plugins/list-category-posts/include/lcp-templater.php on line 108
[15-Apr-2021 05:26:19 UTC] PHP Warning:  scandir(): (errno 2): No such file or directory in /wp-content/plugins/list-category-posts/include/lcp-templater.php on line 108
[15-Apr-2021 05:26:19 UTC] PHP Warning:  Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /wp-content/plugins/list-category-posts/include/lcp-templater.php on line 108

List category posts 0.83.1