Report - WP Popular Posts 6.1.4

Does WordPress Popular Posts work with WordPress 6.2.2 and PHP 8.1.12? A smoke test was performed on 2023-07-15 01:11:31 UTC.

Summary

Errors

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

Performance

Memory usage: 142.87 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 version	6.2.2
PHP version	8.1.12
MySQL version	10.6.10
PHP memory limit	512M

Plugin Info

Last updated	2026-02-15T15:10:00+00:00
Active installs	100,000+
WordPress.org page	https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-popular-posts/
Badges	Get badge code

Pages 5

Plugins ‹ Test site — WordPress

URL	/wp-admin/plugins.php?plugin_status=all&paged=1&s
Requested URL	/wp-admin/plugins.php?action=activate&plugin=wordpress-popular-posts%2Fwordpress-popular-posts.php&plugin_status=all&paged=1&s&_wpnonce=c9df5b2d3d
Aspect	after-activation
HTTP status	200
Load time	0.315 s
Memory usage	3.18 MiB
JS errors	None
Resource errors	None

Settings → WordPress Popular Posts

URL	/wp-admin/options-general.php?page=wordpress-popular-posts
Aspect	menu-item
HTTP status	200
Load time	0.547 s
Memory usage	3.41 MiB
JS errors	None
Resource errors	None

Test site – Just another WordPress site

URL	/
Aspect	front-page
HTTP status	200
Load time	0.292 s
Memory usage	3.19 MiB
JS errors	None
Resource errors	None

Dashboard ‹ Test site — WordPress

URL	/wp-admin/index.php
Aspect	new-meta-boxes
HTTP status	200
Load time	0.267 s
Memory usage	3.24 MiB
JS errors	None
Resource errors	None

Widgets ‹ Test site — WordPress

URL	/wp-admin/widgets.php
Aspect	new-sidebar-widgets
HTTP status	200
Load time	1.638 s
Memory usage	5.06 MiB
JS errors	None
Resource errors	None

Benchmark

URL	Load time			Memory usage
URL	Inactive	Active	Change	Inactive	Active	Change
/wp-admin/index.php	0.457 s	0.304 s	-0.153 s	3.07 MiB	3.24 MiB	+ 169.05 KiB
/wp-admin/edit.php	0.201 s	0.228 s	+0.027 s	3.1 MiB	3.26 MiB	+ 163.35 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php	0.878 s	1.427 s	+0.549 s	5.02 MiB	5.1 MiB	+ 81.24 KiB
/wp-admin/upload.php	0.759 s	0.445 s	-0.314 s	3.02 MiB	3.16 MiB	+ 150.02 KiB
/wp-admin/options-writing.php	0.220 s	0.327 s	+0.107 s	3.01 MiB	3.15 MiB	+ 136.05 KiB
/wp-admin/media-new.php	0.280 s	0.316 s	+0.036 s	2.99 MiB	3.15 MiB	+ 162.22 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category	0.185 s	0.218 s	+0.033 s	3.01 MiB	3.17 MiB	+ 166.66 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page	1.076 s	1.008 s	-0.068 s	5.01 MiB	5.09 MiB	+ 75.58 KiB
/wp-admin/options-discussion.php	0.334 s	0.279 s	-0.055 s	3 MiB	3.15 MiB	+ 149.79 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-comments.php	0.298 s	0.260 s	-0.038 s	3.03 MiB	3.17 MiB	+ 149.27 KiB
/	0.355 s	0.302 s	-0.053 s	3.03 MiB	3.19 MiB	+ 168.38 KiB
Average	0.458 s	0.465 s	+0.006 s	3.39 MiB	3.53 MiB	+ 142.87 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.

PHP

JavaScript

CSS

Language		%	Lines of code	Comment lines	Files
	PHP	62.1%	5,763	2,337	41
	JavaScript	18.3%	1,697	46	9
	CSS	14.1%	1,309	55	14
	JSON	5.3%	490	0	10
	SVG	0.2%	15	0	1
Total			9,274	2,438	75

PHP Code Analysis | More results »

Lines of code	5,046
Total complexity	1,143
Median class complexity	12.0
Median method complexity	3.0
Most complex class	WordPressPopularPosts\Admin\Admin
Most complex function	WordPressPopularPosts\Query::build_query()

Classes	27
Methods	180
Functions	4

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.

Database Tables 3

wp_popularpostsdata
wp_popularpostssummary
wp_popularpoststransients

Options `wp_options` 3

widget_wpp
wpp_settings_config
wpp_ver

Sidebar Widgets 1

ID	Name
wpp	WordPress Popular Posts

Meta Boxes

{
    "dashboard": {
        "wpp_trending_dashboard_widget": {
            "title": "Trending now",
            "context": "normal"
        }
    }
}

PHP Error Log 4 lines

[15-Jul-2023 01:11:58 UTC] PHP Deprecated:  number_format(): Passing null to parameter #1 ($num) of type float is deprecated in /wp-includes/functions.php on line 423
[15-Jul-2023 01:12:01 UTC] PHP Deprecated:  number_format(): Passing null to parameter #1 ($num) of type float is deprecated in /wp-includes/functions.php on line 423
[15-Jul-2023 01:12:10 UTC] PHP Deprecated:  number_format(): Passing null to parameter #1 ($num) of type float is deprecated in /wp-includes/functions.php on line 423
[15-Jul-2023 01:12:11 UTC] PHP Deprecated:  number_format(): Passing null to parameter #1 ($num) of type float is deprecated in /wp-includes/functions.php on line 423

WP Popular Posts 6.1.4