Benchmarks

Plugin footprint 40% from 16 tests

Installer 0% from 1 test

🔺 Critical test (weight: 50) | Verifying that this plugin installs correctly without errors

The following installer errors require your attention

Install procedure had errors
- > Deprecated in wp-content/plugins/akfeatured-post-widget/ak_featured_post.php+353
Function create_function() is deprecated

Server metrics [RAM: ▼1.78MB] [CPU: ▼54.18ms] Passed 4 tests

A check of server-side resources used by AK Featured Post Widget

This plugin does not affect your website's performance

Page	Memory (MB)	CPU Time (ms)
Home /	2.20 ▼1.26	4.84 ▼36.21
Dashboard /wp-admin	2.22 ▼1.08	7.24 ▼41.87
Posts /wp-admin/edit.php	2.22 ▼1.13	7.09 ▼41.69
Add New Post /wp-admin/post-new.php	2.22 ▼3.66	7.04 ▼96.94
Media Library /wp-admin/upload.php	2.22 ▼1.00	5.37 ▼30.10

Server storage [IO: ▲0.15MB] [DB: ▲0.00MB] Passed 3 tests

Analyzing filesystem and database footprints of this plugin

This plugin was installed successfully

Filesystem: 5 new files

Database: no new tables, 7 new options

New WordPress options
can_compress_scripts
db_upgraded
widget_recent-comments
widget_ak_featured_post_widget
widget_recent-posts
theysaidso_admin_options
widget_theysaidso_widget

Browser metrics Passed 4 tests

Checking browser requirements for AK Featured Post Widget

There were no issues detected in relation to browser resource usage

Page	Nodes	Memory (MB)	Script (ms)	Layout (ms)
Home /	2,800 ▲54	13.22 ▼1.08	1.72 ▼0.15	43.75 ▼0.92
Dashboard /wp-admin	2,206 ▲18	5.74 ▲0.84	102.59 ▼9.26	40.50 ▼9.08
Posts /wp-admin/edit.php	2,089 ▼3	2.02 ▲0.01	39.56 ▼1.21	33.18 ▼2.91
Add New Post /wp-admin/post-new.php	1,514 ▼28	17.63 ▼5.75	682.64 ▲5.03	51.72 ▼2.03
Media Library /wp-admin/upload.php	1,391 ▲3	4.20 ▼0.02	99.79 ▼7.50	46.98 ▲1.62

Uninstaller [IO: ▲0.00MB] [DB: ▲0.00MB] 50% from 4 tests

🔸 Tests weight: 35 | All plugins must uninstall correctly, removing their source code and extra database tables they might have created

These items require your attention

This plugin did not uninstall without warnings or errors
- > Deprecated in wp-content/plugins/akfeatured-post-widget/ak_featured_post.php+353
Function create_function() is deprecated
This plugin does not fully uninstall, leaving 7 options in the database
- theysaidso_admin_options
- widget_ak_featured_post_widget
- widget_recent-comments
- widget_recent-posts
- widget_theysaidso_widget
- db_upgraded
- can_compress_scripts

Smoke tests 75% from 4 tests

Server-side errors Passed 1 test

🔹 Test weight: 20 | Just a short smoke test targeting errors on the server (in the Apache logs)

Even though no errors were found, this is by no means an exhaustive test

SRP 50% from 2 tests

🔹 Tests weight: 20 | The single-responsibility principle applies for WordPress plugins as well - please make sure your PHP files perform no actions when accessed directly

The following issues need your attention

1× GET requests to PHP files have triggered server-side errors or warnings:
- > PHP Fatal error
  Uncaught Error: Class 'WP_Widget' not found in wp-content/plugins/akfeatured-post-widget/ak_featured_post.php:29

User-side errors Passed 1 test

🔹 Test weight: 20 | Just a short smoke test targeting errors on the browser (console and network errors and warnings)

No browser errors were detected

Optimizations

Plugin configuration 90% from 29 tests

readme.txt 94% from 16 tests

You should put a lot of thought into formatting readme.txt as it is used by WordPress.org to prepare the public listing of your plugin

These attributes need to be fixed:

Tags: You are using too many tags: 15 tag instead of maximum 10

You can take inspiration from this readme.txt

akfeatured-post-widget/ak_featured_post.php 85% from 13 tests

The main PHP script in "AK Featured Post Widget" version 2.0 is automatically included on every request by WordPress

Please take the time to fix the following:

Main file name: It is recommended to name the main PHP file as the plugin slug ("akfeatured-post-widget.php" instead of "ak_featured_post.php")
Description: Keep the plugin description shorter than 140 characters (currently 211 characters long)

Code Analysis Passed 3 tests

File types Passed 1 test

🔸 Test weight: 35 | Executable files are considered dangerous and should not be included with any WordPress plugin

Good job! No executable or dangerous file extensions detected303 lines of code in 2 files:

Language	Files	Blank lines	Comment lines	Lines of code
PHP	1	38	37	279
JavaScript	1	2	3	24

PHP code Passed 2 tests

A brief analysis of cyclomatic complexity and code structure for this plugin

This plugin has no cyclomatic complexity issues

Cyclomatic complexity
Average complexity per logical line of code	0.26
Average class complexity	55.00
▷ Minimum class complexity	55.00
▷ Maximum class complexity	55.00
Average method complexity	11.80
▷ Minimum method complexity	1.00
▷ Maximum method complexity	37.00

Code structure
Namespaces	0
Interfaces	0
Traits	0
Classes	1
▷ Abstract classes	0	0.00%
▷ Concrete classes	1	100.00%
▷ Final classes	0	0.00%
Methods	5
▷ Static methods	0	0.00%
▷ Public methods	5	100.00%
▷ Protected methods	0	0.00%
▷ Private methods	0	0.00%
Functions	1
▷ Named functions	1	100.00%
▷ Anonymous functions	0	0.00%
Constants	0
▷ Global constants	0	0.00%
▷ Class constants	0	0.00%
▷ Public constants	0	0.00%

Plugin size Passed 2 tests

Image compression Passed 2 tests

It is recommended to compress PNG files in your plugin to minimize bandwidth usage

2 PNG files occupy 0.12MB with 0.09MB in potential savings

Potential savings

Compression of 2 random PNG files using pngquant
File	Size - original	Size - compressed	Savings
Screenshot-1.png	62.07KB	16.91KB	▼ 72.75%
Screenshot-2.png	61.03KB	17.71KB	▼ 70.98%

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