Ping Watcher 1.0.1 RC

Does Ping Watcher work with WordPress 7.1 and PHP 8.1.12? A smoke test was performed on .

Summary

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

Memory usage: 13.87 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 version7.1
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/ping-watcher/
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Pages 4

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=ping-watcher%2Fpingwatcher.php&plugin_status=all&paged=1&s&_wpnonce=3701876c39
Aspect after-activation
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.583 s
Memory usage 4.25 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Settings → PingWatcher

Page screenshot: Settings → PingWatcher
URL /wp-admin/options-general.php?page=pingwatcher.php
Aspect menu-item
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.499 s
Memory usage 4.25 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 0.222 s
Memory usage 4.61 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Dashboard ‹ Test site — WordPress

Page screenshot: Dashboard ‹ Test site — WordPress
URL /wp-admin/index.php
Aspect new-meta-boxes
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.788 s
Memory usage 4.24 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Benchmark

URL Load time Memory usage
Inactive Active Change Inactive Active Change
/wp-admin/index.php1.545 s0.760 s-0.785 s4.23 MiB4.24 MiB+ 18.7 KiB
/wp-admin/edit.php0.560 s0.563 s+0.003 s4.28 MiB4.3 MiB+ 17.55 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php2.236 s2.022 s-0.214 s6.78 MiB6.82 MiB+ 40.89 KiB
/wp-admin/upload.php1.369 s1.310 s-0.059 s4.25 MiB4.25 MiB+ 136 bytes
/wp-admin/options-writing.php0.560 s0.542 s-0.018 s4.22 MiB4.22 MiB+ 4.13 KiB
/wp-admin/media-new.php0.792 s0.571 s-0.221 s4.21 MiB4.22 MiB+ 12.33 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category0.546 s0.926 s+0.380 s4.22 MiB4.24 MiB+ 17.5 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page1.916 s1.580 s-0.336 s6.76 MiB6.79 MiB+ 36.42 KiB
/wp-admin/options-discussion.php0.750 s1.450 s+0.700 s4.23 MiB4.22 MiB- 3.37 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-comments.php0.563 s0.592 s+0.029 s4.24 MiB4.24 MiB+ 144 bytes
/0.308 s0.194 s-0.114 s4.6 MiB4.61 MiB+ 8.16 KiB
Average 1.013 s0.955 s-0.058 s4.73 MiB4.74 MiB+ 13.87 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.

PO File
PHP
Language % Lines of code Comment lines Files
PO File58.5%4672745
PHP41.5%331731
Total 798 347 6

PHP Code Analysis | More results »

Lines of code 334
Total complexity 42
Median class complexity 0.0
Median method complexity 0.0
Most complex class
Most complex function mitt_pw_options_page()
Classes 0
Methods 0
Functions 13

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

Meta Boxes

{
    "dashboard": {
        "mitt_pw_ping_error_widget": {
            "title": "Ping Watcher",
            "context": "normal"
        }
    }
}

PHP Error Log 1 lines

[11-Sep-2026 09:29:47 UTC] PHP Deprecated:  Function unregister_setting was called with an argument that is <strong>deprecated</strong> since version 4.7.0! <code>$sanitize_callback</code> is deprecated. The callback from <code>register_setting()</code> is used instead. in /wp-includes/functions.php on line 6260
See also: All tests for this plugin, How to Hide Ping Watcher Admin Menus and Widgets