Report - List category posts 0.86

Does List category posts work with WordPress 5.9 and PHP 7.4.8? A smoke test was performed on 2022-01-25 23:49:08 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: 19.01 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	5.9
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=04f922ab02
Aspect	after-activation
HTTP status	200
Load time	0.225 s
Memory usage	3.28 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	0.148 s
Memory usage	3.23 MiB
JS errors	None
Resource errors	None

Test site – Just another WordPress site

URL	/
Aspect	front-page
HTTP status	200
Load time	0.312 s
Memory usage	3.36 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	1.289 s
Memory usage	5.2 MiB
JS errors	None
Resource errors	None

Benchmark

URL	Load time			Memory usage
URL	Inactive	Active	Change	Inactive	Active	Change
/wp-admin/index.php	0.375 s	0.228 s	-0.147 s	3.36 MiB	3.38 MiB	+ 19.12 KiB
/wp-admin/edit.php	0.155 s	0.166 s	+0.011 s	3.39 MiB	3.41 MiB	+ 18.41 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php	0.785 s	0.917 s	+0.132 s	6.14 MiB	6.17 MiB	+ 22.68 KiB
/wp-admin/upload.php	0.381 s	0.311 s	-0.070 s	3.24 MiB	3.26 MiB	+ 17.98 KiB
/wp-admin/options-writing.php	0.224 s	0.125 s	-0.099 s	3.24 MiB	3.24 MiB	+ 1.84 KiB
/wp-admin/media-new.php	0.210 s	0.183 s	-0.027 s	3.22 MiB	3.24 MiB	+ 18.16 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category	0.179 s	0.160 s	-0.019 s	3.25 MiB	3.28 MiB	+ 27.06 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page	0.787 s	0.662 s	-0.125 s	6.14 MiB	6.16 MiB	+ 18.27 KiB
/wp-admin/options-discussion.php	0.225 s	0.276 s	+0.051 s	3.22 MiB	3.23 MiB	+ 18.47 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-comments.php	0.233 s	0.179 s	-0.054 s	3.26 MiB	3.34 MiB	+ 81.97 KiB
/	0.278 s	0.187 s	-0.091 s	3.4 MiB	3.36 MiB	- 34.86 KiB
Average	0.348 s	0.309 s	-0.040 s	3.81 MiB	3.82 MiB	+ 19.01 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	62.4%	2,237	692	16
	PO File	37.4%	1,342	487	12
	CSS	0.2%	6	0	1
Total			3,585	1,179	29

PHP Code Analysis | More results »

Lines of code	1,944
Total complexity	473
Median class complexity	23.0
Median method complexity	2.0
Most complex class	CatList
Most complex function	ListCategoryPostsWidget::widget()

Classes	11
Methods	118
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

The log file is empty.

List category posts 0.86