Welcome Ad 1.5.0

Does Welcome Ad 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: 17.52 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 20+
WordPress.org page https://wordpress.org/plugins/welcome-ad/
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Pages 3

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=welcome-ad%2Fwelcome_ad.php&plugin_status=all&paged=1&s&_wpnonce=56e03a376a
Aspect after-activation
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.594 s
Memory usage 4.26 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Welcome Ad

Page screenshot: Welcome Ad
URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=welcome-ad
Aspect menu-item
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.771 s
Memory usage 4.22 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 0.208 s
Memory usage 4.63 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Benchmark

URL Load time Memory usage
Inactive Active Change Inactive Active Change
/wp-admin/index.php1.103 s0.804 s-0.299 s4.23 MiB4.24 MiB+ 19.62 KiB
/wp-admin/edit.php0.614 s0.585 s-0.029 s4.28 MiB4.3 MiB+ 18.94 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php2.159 s1.983 s-0.176 s6.78 MiB6.82 MiB+ 43.02 KiB
/wp-admin/upload.php1.374 s0.969 s-0.405 s4.25 MiB4.25 MiB+ 2.2 KiB
/wp-admin/options-writing.php0.623 s0.536 s-0.087 s4.22 MiB4.23 MiB+ 6.2 KiB
/wp-admin/media-new.php0.587 s0.639 s+0.052 s4.21 MiB4.22 MiB+ 14.4 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category0.667 s0.766 s+0.099 s4.22 MiB4.24 MiB+ 19.57 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page2.079 s1.847 s-0.232 s6.76 MiB6.79 MiB+ 38.86 KiB
/wp-admin/options-discussion.php0.812 s0.924 s+0.112 s4.23 MiB4.23 MiB- 1.3 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-comments.php0.568 s0.544 s-0.024 s4.24 MiB4.24 MiB+ 2.2 KiB
/0.306 s0.219 s-0.087 s4.6 MiB4.63 MiB+ 28.97 KiB
Average 0.990 s0.892 s-0.098 s4.73 MiB4.75 MiB+ 17.52 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
JavaScript
Language % Lines of code Comment lines Files
PHP86.2%4454910
JavaScript10.7%5502
CSS2.1%1101
JSON1.0%501
Total 516 49 14

PHP Code Analysis | More results »

Lines of code 299
Total complexity 60
Median class complexity 9.0
Median method complexity 1.0
Most complex class Welcome_ad_Public
Most complex function Welcome_ad_Public::should_show_welcome_ad()
Classes 5
Methods 31
Functions 1

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.

No new entries found.

PHP Error Log 1 lines

[29-Aug-2026 04:40:51 UTC] PHP Deprecated:  stripos(): Passing null to parameter #1 ($haystack) of type string is deprecated in /wp-includes/class-wp-editor.php on line 305
See also: All tests for this plugin, How to Hide the "Welcome Ad" Admin Menu