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Remove Category URL 1.2.0

Does Remove Category URL work with WordPress 6.9 and PHP 8.1.12? A smoke test was performed on 2025-12-03 02:47:36 UTC.

Summary

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Benchmark

URL	Load time			Memory usage
	Inactive	Active	Change	Inactive	Active	Change
/wp-admin/index.php	0.402 s	0.342 s	-0.060 s	3.77 MiB	3.93 MiB	+ 165.78 KiB
/wp-admin/edit.php	0.348 s	0.279 s	-0.069 s	3.78 MiB	3.97 MiB	+ 195.74 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php	0.832 s	0.652 s	-0.180 s	6.3 MiB	6.54 MiB	+ 245.66 KiB
/wp-admin/upload.php	0.614 s	0.424 s	-0.190 s	3.74 MiB	3.87 MiB	+ 138 KiB
/wp-admin/options-writing.php	0.316 s	0.286 s	-0.030 s	3.71 MiB	3.84 MiB	+ 136.19 KiB
/wp-admin/media-new.php	0.484 s	0.312 s	-0.172 s	3.7 MiB	3.84 MiB	+ 144.38 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category	0.295 s	0.284 s	-0.011 s	3.71 MiB	3.86 MiB	+ 155.05 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page	0.801 s	0.608 s	-0.193 s	6.29 MiB	6.53 MiB	+ 239.14 KiB
/wp-admin/options-discussion.php	0.344 s	0.368 s	+0.024 s	3.71 MiB	3.84 MiB	+ 132.68 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-comments.php	0.307 s	0.329 s	+0.022 s	3.73 MiB	3.86 MiB	+ 132.19 KiB
/	0.260 s	0.177 s	-0.083 s	4.1 MiB	4.23 MiB	+ 128.31 KiB
Average	0.455 s	0.369 s	-0.086 s	4.23 MiB	4.39 MiB	+ 164.83 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.

Language		%	Lines of code	Comment lines	Files
	PHP	98.6%	285	181	4
	Markdown	1.4%	4	0	1
Total			289	181	5

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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 3

• remove_category_url_install
• remove-category-url_version
• wbcr_rmcaturl__activated_on

Meta Boxes

{
    "dashboard": {
        "themeisle": {
            "title": "WordPress Guides/Tutorials",
            "context": "normal"
        }
    }
}

PHP Error Log 5 lines

[03-Dec-2025 02:47:54 UTC] PHP Deprecated:  Fetching multiple feeds with single SimplePie instance is deprecated since SimplePie 1.9.0, create one SimplePie instance per feed and use SimplePie::merge_items to get a single list of items. in /wp-includes/SimplePie/src/SimplePie.php on line 769
[03-Dec-2025 02:47:56 UTC] PHP Deprecated:  Function WP_Dependencies-&gt;add_data() was called with an argument that is <strong>deprecated</strong> since version 6.9.0! IE conditional comments are ignored by all supported browsers. in /wp-includes/functions.php on line 6131
[03-Dec-2025 02:47:56 UTC] PHP Deprecated:  Function WP_Dependencies-&gt;add_data() was called with an argument that is <strong>deprecated</strong> since version 6.9.0! IE conditional comments are ignored by all supported browsers. in /wp-includes/functions.php on line 6131
[03-Dec-2025 02:48:04 UTC] PHP Deprecated:  Function WP_Dependencies-&gt;add_data() was called with an argument that is <strong>deprecated</strong> since version 6.9.0! IE conditional comments are ignored by all supported browsers. in /wp-includes/functions.php on line 6131
[03-Dec-2025 02:48:04 UTC] PHP Deprecated:  Function WP_Dependencies-&gt;add_data() was called with an argument that is <strong>deprecated</strong> since version 6.9.0! IE conditional comments are ignored by all supported browsers. in /wp-includes/functions.php on line 6131

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