Benchmarks

Plugin footprint 40% from 16 tests

Installer 0% from 1 test

🔺 Critical test (weight: 50) | All plugins must install correctly, without throwing any errors, warnings, or notices

You still need to fix the following installer errors

The plugin cannot be installed
- > Deprecated in wp-content/plugins/author-profile/author-profile.php+15
Function create_function() is deprecated

Server metrics [RAM: ▼1.96MB] [CPU: ▼51.73ms] Passed 4 tests

Server-side resources used by Author Spotlight (Widget)

Normal server usage

Page	Memory (MB)	CPU Time (ms)
Home /	2.03 ▼1.43	3.74 ▼36.13
Dashboard /wp-admin	2.05 ▼1.26	5.94 ▼42.76
Posts /wp-admin/edit.php	2.05 ▼1.31	5.80 ▼42.10
Add New Post /wp-admin/post-new.php	2.05 ▼3.84	6.34 ▼85.92
Media Library /wp-admin/upload.php	2.05 ▼1.18	4.91 ▼27.77

Server storage [IO: ▲0.38MB] [DB: ▲0.00MB] Passed 3 tests

How much does this plugin use your filesystem and database?

No storage issues were detected

Filesystem: 23 new files

Database: no new tables, 7 new options

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

Browser metrics Passed 4 tests

Checking browser requirements for Author Spotlight (Widget)

This plugin renders optimally with no browser resource issues detected

Page	Nodes	Memory (MB)	Script (ms)	Layout (ms)
Home /	2,800 ▲43	14.44 ▲0.06	1.59 ▼0.84	37.16 ▼15.50
Dashboard /wp-admin	2,206 ▲15	5.86 ▲0.94	111.58 ▼3.49	40.88 ▼2.94
Posts /wp-admin/edit.php	2,092 ▲3	2.00 ▼0.04	40.32 ▲5.02	36.35 ▲3.33
Add New Post /wp-admin/post-new.php	1,533 ▼0	23.46 ▲0.17	645.86 ▼30.66	55.82 ▼0.74
Media Library /wp-admin/upload.php	1,388 ▼0	4.22 ▼0.01	95.40 ▼7.61	41.47 ▼4.46

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

🔸 Tests weight: 35 | Verifying that this plugin uninstalls completely without leaving any traces

Please fix the following items

This plugin did not uninstall without warnings or errors
- > Deprecated in wp-content/plugins/author-profile/author-profile.php+15
Function create_function() is deprecated
Zombie WordPress options detected upon uninstall: 7 options
- can_compress_scripts
- theysaidso_admin_options
- widget_recent-comments
- widget_recent-posts
- widget_theysaidso_widget
- widget_authorspotlight
- db_upgraded

Smoke tests 75% from 4 tests

Server-side errors Passed 1 test

🔹 Test weight: 20 | A shallow check that no server-side errors were triggered

The smoke test was a success, however most plugin functionality was not tested

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

Please fix the following

1× GET requests to PHP files have triggered server-side errors or warnings:
- > PHP Fatal error
  Uncaught Error: Call to undefined function add_action() in wp-content/plugins/author-profile/author-profile.php:15

User-side errors Passed 1 test

🔹 Test weight: 20 | This is just a short smoke test looking for browser issues

Everything seems fine on the user side

Optimizations

Plugin configuration 90% from 29 tests

readme.txt 88% from 16 tests

The readme.txt file uses markdown syntax to describe your plugin to the world

These attributes need your attention:

Tags: Please reduce the number of tags, currently 11 tag instead of maximum 10
Screenshots: Please add images for these screenshots: #1 (Widget configuration screen.), #2 (Multiple author profiles (co-authors) displayed on the sidebar.), #3 (This is how the widget looks like on the single-page sidebar after configuration.)

You can look at the official readme.txt

author-profile/author-profile.php 92% from 13 tests

The main PHP file in "Author Spotlight (Widget)" ver. 3.4 adds more information about the plugin and also serves as the entry point for this plugin

The following require your attention:

Description: The description should be shorter than 140 characters (currently 465 characters long)

Code Analysis Passed 3 tests

File types Passed 1 test

🔸 Test weight: 35 | Executable files are not allowed as they can serve as attack vectors

Everything looks great! No dangerous files found in this plugin249 lines of code in 1 file:

Language	Files	Blank lines	Comment lines	Lines of code
PHP	1	20	24	249

PHP code Passed 2 tests

Analyzing logical lines of code, cyclomatic complexity, and other code metrics

All good! No complexity issues found

Cyclomatic complexity
Average complexity per logical line of code	0.28
Average class complexity	27.00
▷ Minimum class complexity	27.00
▷ Maximum class complexity	27.00
Average method complexity	4.71
▷ Minimum method complexity	1.00
▷ Maximum method complexity	20.00

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	7
▷ Static methods	0	0.00%
▷ Public methods	6	85.71%
▷ Protected methods	0	0.00%
▷ Private methods	1	14.29%
Functions	0
▷ Named functions	0	0.00%
▷ 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

PNG files should be compressed to save space and minimize bandwidth usage

18 PNG files occupy 0.01MB with 0.00MB in potential savings

Potential savings

Compression of 5 random PNG files using pngquant
File	Size - original	Size - compressed	Savings
images/myspace.png	0.50KB	0.26KB	▼ 49.13%
images/flickr.png	0.46KB	0.25KB	▼ 45.18%
images/posterous.png	0.31KB	0.33KB	0.00%
images/blogger.png	0.49KB	0.39KB	▼ 20.75%
images/friendfeed.png	0.61KB	0.36KB	▼ 40.89%

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