84% php-year-auto-updater

Code Review | Wordpress PHP Year Auto-Update

WordPress plugin Wordpress PHP Year Auto-Update scored84%from 54 tests.

About plugin

  • Plugin page: php-year-auto-upd...
  • Plugin version: 1.0
  • PHP compatiblity: 5.6+
  • PHP version: 7.4.16
  • WordPress compatibility: 4.7-5.4
  • WordPress version: 6.3.1
  • First release: Sep 30, 2017
  • Latest release: May 4, 2020
  • Number of updates: 5
  • Update frequency: every 217.0 days
  • Top authors: RNesbitt (100%)

Code review

54 tests

User reviews

1 review

Install metrics

10+ active /637 total downloads

Benchmarks

Plugin footprint 83% from 16 tests

Installer Passed 1 test

🔺 Critical test (weight: 50) | The install procedure must perform silently
The plugin installed successfully, without throwing any errors or notices

Server metrics [RAM: ▲0.00MB] [CPU: ▼7.84ms] Passed 4 tests

Analyzing server-side resources used by Wordpress PHP Year Auto-Update
This plugin does not affect your website's performance
PageMemory (MB)CPU Time (ms)
Home /3.47 ▲0.0037.43 ▼4.82
Dashboard /wp-admin3.31 ▲0.0046.21 ▼2.11
Posts /wp-admin/edit.php3.36 ▲0.0045.02 ▼7.66
Add New Post /wp-admin/post-new.php5.89 ▲0.0081.23 ▼16.76
Media Library /wp-admin/upload.php3.23 ▲0.0041.45 ▲5.28

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

A short overview of filesystem and database impact
There were no storage issued detected upon installing this plugin
Filesystem: 2 new files
Database: no new tables, 6 new options
New WordPress options
widget_recent-comments
widget_recent-posts
theysaidso_admin_options
db_upgraded
can_compress_scripts
widget_theysaidso_widget

Browser metrics Passed 4 tests

A check of browser resources used by Wordpress PHP Year Auto-Update
There were no issues detected in relation to browser resource usage
PageNodesMemory (MB)Script (ms)Layout (ms)
Home /2,789 ▲2814.12 ▼0.231.91 ▲0.2541.15 ▼5.56
Dashboard /wp-admin2,198 ▲215.66 ▲0.0191.27 ▲2.5441.59 ▼0.44
Posts /wp-admin/edit.php2,097 ▼32.02 ▲0.0735.48 ▼0.8133.88 ▼6.80
Add New Post /wp-admin/post-new.php1,526 ▼1022.92 ▲0.06693.43 ▼36.3257.05 ▲2.60
Media Library /wp-admin/upload.php1,400 ▼04.20 ▼0.06111.34 ▲7.9148.27 ▲4.08

Uninstaller [IO: ▲0.00MB] [DB: ▲0.00MB] 75% from 4 tests

🔸 Tests weight: 35 | It is important to correctly uninstall your plugin, without leaving any traces
The following items require your attention
  • This plugin did not uninstall successfully, leaving 6 options in the database
    • can_compress_scripts
    • widget_recent-comments
    • widget_recent-posts
    • theysaidso_admin_options
    • db_upgraded
    • widget_theysaidso_widget

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 | SRP (Single-Responsibility Principle) - PHP files must act as libraries and never output text or perform any action when accessed directly in a browser
Please fix the following
  • 1× GET requests to PHP files trigger server-side errors or Error 500 responses:
    • > PHP Fatal error
      Uncaught Error: Call to undefined function add_shortcode() in wp-content/plugins/php-year-auto-updater/php-year.php:19

User-side errors Passed 1 test

🔹 Test weight: 20 | This is just a short smoke test looking for browser issues
Everything seems fine, but this is not an exhaustive test

Optimizations

Plugin configuration 93% from 29 tests

readme.txt 94% from 16 tests

Often overlooked, readme.txt is one of the most important files in your plugin
Attributes that require attention:
  • Tags: No tags were detected
Please take inspiration from this readme.txt

php-year-auto-updater/php-year.php 92% from 13 tests

The main PHP script in "Wordpress PHP Year Auto-Update" version 1.0 is automatically included on every request by WordPress
The following require your attention:
  • Main file name: Even though not officially enforced, the main plugin file should be the same as the plugin slug ("php-year-auto-updater.php" instead of "php-year.php")

Code Analysis Passed 3 tests

File types Passed 1 test

🔸 Test weight: 35 | A short glimpse at programming languages used with this plugin and a check that no dangerous files are present
Success! There were no dangerous files found in this plugin11 lines of code in 1 file:
LanguageFilesBlank linesComment linesLines of code
PHP13811

PHP code Passed 2 tests

A short review of cyclomatic complexity and code structure
No cyclomatic complexity issues were detected for this plugin
Cyclomatic complexity
Average complexity per logical line of code0.00
Average class complexity0.00
▷ Minimum class complexity0.00
▷ Maximum class complexity0.00
Average method complexity0.00
▷ Minimum method complexity0.00
▷ Maximum method complexity0.00
Code structure
Namespaces0
Interfaces0
Traits0
Classes0
▷ Abstract classes00.00%
▷ Concrete classes00.00%
▷ Final classes00.00%
Methods0
▷ Static methods00.00%
▷ Public methods00.00%
▷ Protected methods00.00%
▷ Private methods00.00%
Functions1
▷ Named functions1100.00%
▷ Anonymous functions00.00%
Constants0
▷ Global constants00.00%
▷ Class constants00.00%
▷ Public constants00.00%

Plugin size Passed 2 tests

Image compression Passed 2 tests

Often times overlooked, PNG files can occupy unnecessary space in your plugin
No PNG images were found in this plugin