Remove/hide Author, Date, Category Like Entry-Meta 2.1
Does "Remove/hide Author, Date, Category Like Entry-Meta" work with WordPress 7.0 and PHP 8.1.12? A smoke test was performed on .
Summary
Errors
| 10 | PHP warnings |
| No JavaScript exceptions | |
| All test pages loaded successfully | |
| No resource errors |
Performance
Memory usage: 4.37 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 | 7.0 |
|---|---|
| PHP version | 8.1.12 |
| MySQL version | 10.6.10 |
| PHP memory limit | 512M |
Plugin Info
| Last updated | |
|---|---|
| Active installs | 10,000+ |
| WordPress.org page | https://wordpress.org/plugins/removehide-author-date-category-like-entry-meta/ |
| Badges |
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Pages 3
Plugins ‹ Test site — WordPress
| URL | /wp-admin/plugins.php?plugin_status=all&paged=1&s |
|---|---|
| Requested URL | /wp-admin/plugins.php?action=activate&plugin=removehide-author-date-category-like-entry-meta%2Fremove-author-date-and-category-metadata.php&plugin_status=all&paged=1&s&_wpnonce=932b9c9ce6 |
| Aspect | after-activation |
| HTTP status | 200 |
| Load time | 0.589 s |
| Memory usage | 3.9 MiB |
| JS errors | None |
| Resource errors | None |
Settings → Remove Author,date & Entry-Meta
| URL | /wp-admin/options-general.php?page=remove-a-d-c |
|---|---|
| Aspect | menu-item |
| HTTP status | 200 |
| Load time | 0.620 s |
| Memory usage | 3.89 MiB |
| JS errors | None |
| Resource errors | None |
Test site – Just another WordPress site
| URL | / |
|---|---|
| Aspect | front-page |
| HTTP status | 200 |
| Load time | 0.261 s |
| Memory usage | 4.23 MiB |
| JS errors | None |
| Resource errors | None |
Benchmark
| URL | Load time | Memory usage | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Inactive | Active | Change | Inactive | Active | Change | |
| /wp-admin/index.php | 0.835 s | 0.743 s | -0.092 s | 3.92 MiB | 3.93 MiB | + 10.6 KiB |
| /wp-admin/edit.php | 0.544 s | 0.562 s | +0.018 s | 3.98 MiB | 3.99 MiB | + 10.6 KiB |
| /wp-admin/post-new.php | 2.260 s | 2.356 s | +0.096 s | 6.56 MiB | 6.57 MiB | + 15.04 KiB |
| /wp-admin/upload.php | 0.733 s | 0.733 s | +0.000 s | 3.89 MiB | 3.88 MiB | - 6.49 KiB |
| /wp-admin/options-writing.php | 0.571 s | 0.505 s | -0.066 s | 3.86 MiB | 3.86 MiB | - 2.81 KiB |
| /wp-admin/media-new.php | 1.013 s | 0.582 s | -0.431 s | 3.85 MiB | 3.86 MiB | + 5.38 KiB |
| /wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category | 0.556 s | 1.004 s | +0.448 s | 3.86 MiB | 3.87 MiB | + 10.55 KiB |
| /wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page | 1.535 s | 1.868 s | +0.333 s | 6.55 MiB | 6.56 MiB | + 10.55 KiB |
| /wp-admin/options-discussion.php | 0.670 s | 0.645 s | -0.025 s | 3.86 MiB | 3.86 MiB | - 6.31 KiB |
| /wp-admin/edit-comments.php | 1.179 s | 0.890 s | -0.289 s | 3.88 MiB | 3.88 MiB | - 6.81 KiB |
| / | 0.317 s | 0.201 s | -0.116 s | 4.23 MiB | 4.23 MiB | + 7.77 KiB |
| Average | 0.928 s | 0.917 s | -0.011 s | 4.4 MiB | 4.41 MiB | + 4.37 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 | 76.5% | 143 | 31 | 1 | |
| CSS | 23.5% | 44 | 0 | 1 | |
| Total | 187 | 31 | 2 | ||
PHP Code Analysis | More results »
| Lines of code | 147 |
|---|---|
| Total complexity | 20 |
| Median class complexity | 0.0 |
| Median method complexity | 0.0 |
| Most complex class | — |
| Most complex function | remove_a_d_c() |
| Classes | 0 |
|---|---|
| Methods | 0 |
| Functions | 9 |
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 5
- radc_remove_author
- radc_remove_category
- radc_remove_comment
- radc_remove_date
- radc_remove_edit
PHP Error Log 10 lines
[21-May-2026 18:52:02 UTC] PHP Warning: Undefined variable $author_out in /wp-content/plugins/removehide-author-date-category-like-entry-meta/remove-author-date-and-category-metadata.php on line 147
[21-May-2026 18:52:02 UTC] PHP Warning: Undefined variable $date_out in /wp-content/plugins/removehide-author-date-category-like-entry-meta/remove-author-date-and-category-metadata.php on line 160
[21-May-2026 18:52:02 UTC] PHP Warning: Undefined variable $category_out in /wp-content/plugins/removehide-author-date-category-like-entry-meta/remove-author-date-and-category-metadata.php on line 173
[21-May-2026 18:52:02 UTC] PHP Warning: Undefined variable $comment_out in /wp-content/plugins/removehide-author-date-category-like-entry-meta/remove-author-date-and-category-metadata.php on line 186
[21-May-2026 18:52:02 UTC] PHP Warning: Undefined variable $edit_out in /wp-content/plugins/removehide-author-date-category-like-entry-meta/remove-author-date-and-category-metadata.php on line 198
[21-May-2026 18:52:17 UTC] PHP Warning: Undefined variable $author_out in /wp-content/plugins/removehide-author-date-category-like-entry-meta/remove-author-date-and-category-metadata.php on line 147
[21-May-2026 18:52:17 UTC] PHP Warning: Undefined variable $date_out in /wp-content/plugins/removehide-author-date-category-like-entry-meta/remove-author-date-and-category-metadata.php on line 160
[21-May-2026 18:52:17 UTC] PHP Warning: Undefined variable $category_out in /wp-content/plugins/removehide-author-date-category-like-entry-meta/remove-author-date-and-category-metadata.php on line 173
[21-May-2026 18:52:17 UTC] PHP Warning: Undefined variable $comment_out in /wp-content/plugins/removehide-author-date-category-like-entry-meta/remove-author-date-and-category-metadata.php on line 186
[21-May-2026 18:52:17 UTC] PHP Warning: Undefined variable $edit_out in /wp-content/plugins/removehide-author-date-category-like-entry-meta/remove-author-date-and-category-metadata.php on line 198