Benchmarks

Plugin footprint 40% from 16 tests

Installer 0% from 1 test

🔺 Critical test (weight: 50) | It is important to correctly install your plugin, without throwing errors or notices

Please fix the following installer errors

Install procedure validation failed for this plugin
- > Deprecated in wp-content/plugins/category-posts-sidebar-widget/category-posts-sidebar-widget.php+12
Methods with the same name as their class will not be constructors in a future version of PHP; CategoryPostsSidebarWidget has a deprecated constructor

Server metrics [RAM: ▼2.40MB] [CPU: ▼346.71ms] Passed 4 tests

Analyzing server-side resources used by Category Posts Sidebar Widget

Server-side resource usage in normal parameters

Page	Memory (MB)	CPU Time (ms)
Home /	1.97 ▼1.55	4.21 ▼51.19
Dashboard /wp-admin	1.99 ▼1.42	3.96 ▼64.15
Posts /wp-admin/edit.php	1.99 ▼1.65	5.25 ▼32.88
Add New Post /wp-admin/post-new.php	1.99 ▼4.98	3.98 ▼1,238.61
Media Library /wp-admin/upload.php	1.99 ▼1.31	4.27 ▼20.50

Server storage [IO: ▲0.08MB] [DB: ▲0.00MB] Passed 3 tests

A short overview of filesystem and database impact

The plugin installed successfully

Filesystem: 6 new files

Database: no new tables, 1 new option

New WordPress options
widget_categorypostssidebarwidget

Browser metrics Passed 4 tests

A check of browser resources used by Category Posts Sidebar Widget

There were no issues detected in relation to browser resource usage

Page	Nodes	Memory (MB)	Script (ms)	Layout (ms)
Home /	3,781 ▲37	15.38 ▼0.64	7.00 ▲0.70	2.97 ▲0.96
Dashboard /wp-admin	2,881 ▲23	6.07 ▼0.05	120.51 ▼17.22	161.87 ▼5.32
Posts /wp-admin/edit.php	2,694 ▼0	3.24 ▲0.00	64.61 ▲1.51	145.14 ▼37.18
Add New Post /wp-admin/post-new.php	1,752 ▲91	21.54 ▲4.97	471.90 ▲25.84	156.17 ▼3.82
Media Library /wp-admin/upload.php	1,701 ▲6	5.51 ▲0.00	153.79 ▲3.50	225.62 ▲13.02

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

It is recommended to fix the following

This plugin cannot be uninstalled
- > Deprecated in wp-content/plugins/category-posts-sidebar-widget/category-posts-sidebar-widget.php+12
Methods with the same name as their class will not be constructors in a future version of PHP; CategoryPostsSidebarWidget has a deprecated constructor
This plugin did not uninstall successfully, leaving 1 option in the database
- widget_categorypostssidebarwidget

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

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

Almost there! Just fix the following items

1× GET requests to PHP files trigger server-side errors or Error 500 responses:
- > PHP Fatal error
  Uncaught Error: Class 'WP_Widget' not found in wp-content/plugins/category-posts-sidebar-widget/category-posts-sidebar-widget.php:12

User-side errors Passed 1 test

🔹 Test weight: 20 | This is a smoke test targeting browser errors/issues

No browser errors were detected

Optimizations

Plugin configuration 86% from 29 tests

readme.txt 81% from 16 tests

The readme.txt file is important because it is parsed by WordPress.org for the public listing of your plugin

These attributes need your attention:

Tags: There are too many tags (25 tag instead of maximum 10)
Requires at least: Version not formatted correctly
Screenshots: Add images for these screenshots: #1 (Back end widget settings options - 1a.), #2 (Back end widget settings options - 1b.), #3 (Back end widget settings options - 1c.), #4 (Front end result.)

You can look at the official readme.txt

category-posts-sidebar-widget/category-posts-sidebar-widget.php 92% from 13 tests

The main PHP file in "Category Posts Sidebar Widget" ver. 1.0 adds more information about the plugin and also serves as the entry point for this plugin

It is important to fix the following:

Description: Please keep the plugin description shorter than 140 characters (currently 254 characters long)

Code Analysis Passed 3 tests

File types Passed 1 test

🔸 Test weight: 35 | A short review of files and their extensions; it is not recommended to include executable files

Success! There were no dangerous files found in this plugin256 lines of code in 1 file:

Language	Files	Blank lines	Comment lines	Lines of code
PHP	1	30	18	256

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	0.17
Average class complexity	25.00
▷ Minimum class complexity	25.00
▷ Maximum class complexity	25.00
Average method complexity	3.67
▷ Minimum method complexity	1.00
▷ Maximum method complexity	7.00

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	4
▷ Static methods	0	0.00%
▷ Public methods	4	100.00%
▷ Protected methods	0	0.00%
▷ Private methods	0	0.00%
Functions	2
▷ Named functions	0	0.00%
▷ Anonymous functions	2	100.00%
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

Using a strong compression for your PNG files is a great way to speed-up your plugin

4 PNG files occupy 0.07MB with 0.04MB in potential savings

Potential savings

Compression of 4 random PNG files using pngquant
File	Size - original	Size - compressed	Savings
screenshot-2.png	15.49KB	4.87KB	▼ 68.55%
screenshot-4.png	20.50KB	8.99KB	▼ 56.18%
screenshot-3.png	16.52KB	6.27KB	▼ 62.04%
screenshot-1.png	20.21KB	6.89KB	▼ 65.91%

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