94% remove-howdy

Code Review | Remove Howdy

WordPress plugin Remove Howdy scored 94% from 54 tests.

About plugin

  • Plugin page: remove-howdy
  • Plugin version: 1.0
  • PHP version: 7.4.16
  • WordPress compatibility: 3.0-5.0
  • WordPress version: 5.8.1
  • First release: Jan 4, 2014
  • Latest release: Dec 10, 2018
  • Number of updates: 28
  • Update frequency: every 66.7 days
  • Top authors: revaultmedia (100%)

Code review

54 tests

User reviews

4 reviews

Install metrics

2,000+ active / 10,817 total downloads

Benchmarks

Plugin footprint Passed 16 tests

Installer Passed 1 test

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

Server metrics [RAM: ▲0.00MB] [CPU: ▼143.49ms] Passed 4 tests

Analyzing server-side resources used by Remove Howdy
Normal server usage
PageMemory (MB)CPU Time (ms)
Home /2.84 ▲0.1243.26 ▲22.02
Dashboard /wp-admin3.06 ▲0.0146.43 ▼2.12
Posts /wp-admin/edit.php3.11 ▲0.0144.19 ▼2.75
Add New Post /wp-admin/post-new.php5.42 ▼0.0194.06 ▼566.04
Media Library /wp-admin/upload.php3.00 ▲0.0034.71 ▼3.04

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

How much does this plugin use your filesystem and database?
The plugin installed successfully
Filesystem: 2 new files
Database: no new tables, no new options

Browser metrics Passed 4 tests

A check of browser resources used by Remove Howdy
This plugin has a minimal impact on browser resources
PageNodesMemory (MB)Script (ms)Layout (ms)
Home /3,679 ▲8315.71 ▲0.227.47 ▲0.0949.29 ▼4.31
Dashboard /wp-admin2,973 ▲425.85 ▼0.14145.38 ▼6.11111.15 ▼0.70
Posts /wp-admin/edit.php2,739 ▼02.69 ▲0.0071.82 ▼0.2396.64 ▲0.87
Add New Post /wp-admin/post-new.php1,683 ▲9218.85 ▲0.06380.31 ▼10.24114.28 ▼1.55
Media Library /wp-admin/upload.php1,807 ▼35.01 ▼0.01160.46 ▲9.63128.89 ▲2.26

Uninstaller [IO: ▲0.00MB] [DB: ▲0.00MB] Passed 4 tests

🔸 Tests weight: 35 | It is important to correctly uninstall your plugin, without leaving any traces
Uninstall script ran successfully

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 | 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 items
  • 1× PHP files trigger server errors when accessed directly:
    • > PHP Fatal error
      Uncaught Error: Call to undefined function add_filter() in wp-content/plugins/remove-howdy/remove-howdy.php:20

User-side errors Passed 1 test

🔹 Test weight: 20 | This is a shallow check for browser errors
There were no browser issues found

Optimizations

Plugin configuration Passed 29 tests

readme.txt Passed 16 tests

The readme.txt file is important because it is parsed by WordPress.org for the public listing of your plugin
5 plugin tags: replace howdy, change howdy, howdy, remove howdy, customize dashboard

remove-howdy/remove-howdy.php Passed 13 tests

The main PHP file in "Remove Howdy" ver. 1.0 adds more information about the plugin and also serves as the entry point for this plugin
84 characters long description:
This plugin will remove "Howdy" in the top right corner of your WordPress dashboard.

Code Analysis Passed 3 tests

File types Passed 1 test

🔸 Test weight: 35 | There should be no dangerous file extensions present in any WordPress plugin
Success! There were no dangerous files found in this plugin11 lines of code in 1 file:
LanguageFilesBlank linesComment linesLines of code
PHP12911

PHP code Passed 2 tests

An overview of cyclomatic complexity and code structure
All good! No complexity issues found
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

All PNG images should be compressed to minimize bandwidth usage for end users
No PNG files were detected