Post Expiration Date 1.3

Does Post Expiration Date work with WordPress 7.0.3 and PHP 8.1.12? A smoke test was performed on .

Summary

Errors
4PHP warnings
No JavaScript exceptions
All test pages loaded successfully
No resource errors
Performance

Memory usage: 21.38 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 version7.0.3
PHP version8.1.12
MySQL version10.6.10
PHP memory limit512M
Plugin Info
Last updated
Active installs 2,000+
WordPress.org page https://wordpress.org/plugins/post-expiration-date/
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Pages 5

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=post-expiration-date%2Fpost-expiration-date.php&plugin_status=all&paged=1&s&_wpnonce=4982469fb5
Aspect after-activation
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.653 s
Memory usage 3.9 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Settings → Post Expiration

Page screenshot: Settings → Post Expiration
URL /wp-admin/options-general.php?page=hugu_ped_option_setting
Aspect menu-item
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.567 s
Memory usage 3.9 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 0.228 s
Memory usage 4.24 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Add Post ‹ Test site — WordPress

Page screenshot: Add Post ‹ Test site — WordPress
URL /wp-admin/post-new.php
Aspect new-meta-boxes
HTTP status 200
Load time 1.486 s
Memory usage 6.61 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Add Page ‹ Test site — WordPress

Page screenshot: Add Page ‹ Test site — WordPress
URL /wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page
Aspect new-meta-boxes
HTTP status 200
Load time 1.608 s
Memory usage 6.59 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Benchmark

URL Load time Memory usage
Inactive Active Change Inactive Active Change
/wp-admin/index.php0.682 s0.575 s-0.107 s3.92 MiB3.95 MiB+ 24.8 KiB
/wp-admin/edit.php0.587 s0.608 s+0.021 s3.98 MiB4.01 MiB+ 25.73 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php2.315 s1.938 s-0.377 s6.56 MiB6.61 MiB+ 52.24 KiB
/wp-admin/upload.php0.888 s0.703 s-0.185 s3.89 MiB3.89 MiB+ 6.4 KiB
/wp-admin/options-writing.php0.637 s0.979 s+0.342 s3.86 MiB3.87 MiB+ 10.39 KiB
/wp-admin/media-new.php0.699 s0.624 s-0.075 s3.85 MiB3.87 MiB+ 18.59 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category0.606 s0.535 s-0.071 s3.86 MiB3.89 MiB+ 23.76 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page1.954 s2.326 s+0.372 s6.55 MiB6.59 MiB+ 47.77 KiB
/wp-admin/options-discussion.php0.667 s0.698 s+0.031 s3.86 MiB3.87 MiB+ 6.89 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-comments.php0.573 s0.574 s+0.001 s3.88 MiB3.89 MiB+ 6.39 KiB
/0.317 s0.230 s-0.087 s4.23 MiB4.24 MiB+ 12.23 KiB
Average 0.902 s0.890 s-0.012 s4.4 MiB4.42 MiB+ 21.38 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
PHP100.0%253411
Total 253 41 1

PHP Code Analysis | More results »

Lines of code 266
Total complexity 40
Median class complexity 14.0
Median method complexity 1.0
Most complex class DropdownOptionSetting
Most complex function hugu_ped_save_expire_date_meta()
Classes 1
Methods 7
Functions 11

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.

Meta Boxes

{
    "post": {
        "hugu_ped_expire_date_metabox": {
            "title": "Expiration Date",
            "context": "side"
        }
    },
    "page": {
        "hugu_ped_expire_date_metabox": {
            "title": "Expiration Date",
            "context": "side"
        }
    }
}

PHP Error Log 4 lines

[10-Aug-2026 04:13:40 UTC] PHP Warning:  Trying to access array offset on value of type bool in /wp-content/plugins/post-expiration-date/post-expiration-date.php on line 199
[10-Aug-2026 04:13:47 UTC] PHP Warning:  Trying to access array offset on value of type bool in /wp-content/plugins/post-expiration-date/post-expiration-date.php on line 199
[10-Aug-2026 04:13:53 UTC] PHP Warning:  Trying to access array offset on value of type bool in /wp-content/plugins/post-expiration-date/post-expiration-date.php on line 199
[10-Aug-2026 04:13:58 UTC] PHP Warning:  Trying to access array offset on value of type bool in /wp-content/plugins/post-expiration-date/post-expiration-date.php on line 199
See also: All tests for this plugin, How to Hide Post Expiration Date Admin Menus and Meta Boxes