Report - WP Popular Posts 7.4.1

Does WP Popular Posts work with WordPress 7.1 and PHP 8.1.12? A smoke test was performed on 2026-08-23 15:24:52 UTC.

Summary

Errors

	No PHP errors, warnings or notices
	No JavaScript exceptions
	All test pages loaded successfully
	No resource errors
	Looks good! No problems were detected.

Performance

Memory usage: 186.41 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	7.1
PHP version	8.1.12
MySQL version	10.6.10
PHP memory limit	512M

Plugin Info

Last updated	2026-08-23T15:09:00+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=2e80dc9f5d
Aspect	after-activation
HTTP status	200
Load time	0.809 s
Memory usage	4.45 MiB
JS errors	None
Resource errors	None

Settings → WP Popular Posts

URL	/wp-admin/options-general.php?page=wordpress-popular-posts
Aspect	menu-item
HTTP status	200
Load time	1.139 s
Memory usage	4.45 MiB
JS errors	None
Resource errors	None

Test site – Just another WordPress site

URL	/
Aspect	front-page
HTTP status	200
Load time	0.291 s
Memory usage	4.79 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	0.997 s
Memory usage	4.42 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	1.573 s
Memory usage	6.75 MiB
JS errors	None
Resource errors	None

Benchmark

URL	Load time			Memory usage
URL	Inactive	Active	Change	Inactive	Active	Change
/wp-admin/index.php	1.209 s	0.657 s	-0.552 s	4.23 MiB	4.42 MiB	+ 196.62 KiB
/wp-admin/edit.php	0.564 s	0.563 s	-0.001 s	4.28 MiB	4.47 MiB	+ 193.23 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php	1.805 s	1.974 s	+0.169 s	6.78 MiB	6.96 MiB	+ 188.38 KiB
/wp-admin/upload.php	1.430 s	1.073 s	-0.357 s	4.25 MiB	4.42 MiB	+ 175.81 KiB
/wp-admin/options-writing.php	0.567 s	0.935 s	+0.368 s	4.22 MiB	4.4 MiB	+ 179.81 KiB
/wp-admin/media-new.php	0.599 s	0.754 s	+0.155 s	4.21 MiB	4.39 MiB	+ 188.02 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category	0.743 s	0.532 s	-0.211 s	4.22 MiB	4.41 MiB	+ 193.18 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page	2.034 s	1.987 s	-0.047 s	6.76 MiB	6.95 MiB	+ 196.34 KiB
/wp-admin/options-discussion.php	0.985 s	0.974 s	-0.011 s	4.23 MiB	4.39 MiB	+ 172.31 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-comments.php	0.578 s	0.553 s	-0.025 s	4.24 MiB	4.41 MiB	+ 175.81 KiB
/	0.329 s	0.215 s	-0.114 s	4.6 MiB	4.79 MiB	+ 191 KiB
Average	0.986 s	0.929 s	-0.057 s	4.73 MiB	4.91 MiB	+ 186.41 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	63.9%	6,975	2,944	58
	JavaScript	21.9%	2,389	37	15
	CSS	9.6%	1,047	26	13
	JSON	4.5%	490	0	10
	SVG	0.1%	16	0	2
Total			10,917	3,007	98

PHP Code Analysis | More results »

Lines of code	5,678
Total complexity	1,255
Median class complexity	9.0
Median method complexity	2.0
Most complex class	WordPressPopularPosts\Output
Most complex function	WordPressPopularPosts\Query::build_query()

Classes	43
Methods	239
Functions	5

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	WP Popular Posts

Meta Boxes

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

PHP Error Log

The log file is empty.

WP Popular Posts 7.4.1