Recent Posts Widget Plus

This plugin allows you to display the most recent posts with an excerpt in a WordPress sidebar widget area.

v1.2.1Johan van der WijkUpdated Added 500 installs100% rating
42
Score
68
Errors
3
Warnings
+0
Change

Category Scores

Security0
Repo91
Performance100
Maintainability91

Issues to Review

Prioritized issue groups from the latest Plugin Check scan

71 findings

Security

49

2 issue groups

I18n

15

1 issue group

Maintainability

5

4 issue groups

Repo Compliance

2

2 issue groups

ERRORSecurityOutput is not escapedAll output should be run through an escaping function (see the Security sections in the WordPress Developer Handbooks), found '$after_title'.40
Category
Security
Occurrences
40
Severity
error

Sample message

All output should be run through an escaping function (see the Security sections in the WordPress Developer Handbooks), found '$after_title'.

ERRORI18nMissing Arg DomainMissing $domain parameter in function call to __().15
Category
I18n
Occurrences
15
Severity
error

Sample message

Missing $domain parameter in function call to __().

ERRORSecurityUnsafe printing functionAll output should be run through an escaping function (like esc_html_e() or esc_attr_e()), found '_e'.9
Category
Security
Occurrences
9
Severity
error

Sample message

All output should be run through an escaping function (like esc_html_e() or esc_attr_e()), found '_e'.

ERRORMaintainabilitystrip tags strip tagsstrip_tags() is discouraged. Use the more comprehensive wp_strip_all_tags() instead.2
Category
Maintainability
Occurrences
2
Severity
error

Sample message

strip_tags() is discouraged. Use the more comprehensive wp_strip_all_tags() instead.

WARNINGMaintainabilityDiscouraged PHP functionquery_posts() is discouraged. Use WP_Query instead.1
Category
Maintainability
Occurrences
1
Severity
warning

Sample message

query_posts() is discouraged. Use WP_Query instead.

WARNINGMaintainabilityDiscouraged PHP functionwp_reset_query() is discouraged. Use wp_reset_postdata() instead.1
Category
Maintainability
Occurrences
1
Severity
warning

Sample message

wp_reset_query() is discouraged. Use wp_reset_postdata() instead.

ERRORMaintainabilityMissing direct file access protectionPHP file should prevent direct access. Add a check like: if ( ! defined( 'ABSPATH' ) ) exit;1
Category
Maintainability
Occurrences
1
Severity
error

Sample message

PHP file should prevent direct access. Add a check like: if ( ! defined( 'ABSPATH' ) ) exit;

ERRORRepo Complianceoutdated tested upto headerTested up to: 6.4 < 7.0. The "Tested up to" value in your plugin is not set to the current version of WordPress. This means your plugin will not show up in searches, as we require plugins to be compatible and documented as tested up to the most recent version of WordPress.1
Category
Repo Compliance
Occurrences
1
Severity
error

Sample message

Tested up to: 6.4 < 7.0. The "Tested up to" value in your plugin is not set to the current version of WordPress. This means your plugin will not show up in searches, as we require plugins to be compatible and documented as tested up to the most recent version of WordPress.

WARNINGRepo Compliancereadme parser warnings too many tagsOne or more tags were ignored. Please limit your plugin to 5 tags.1
Category
Repo Compliance
Occurrences
1
Severity
warning

Sample message

One or more tags were ignored. Please limit your plugin to 5 tags.

External Connections

Potential connections found in static code analysis.

2 domains

Outbound calls

2

External assets

0

Incoming endpoints

0

Notable Domains

vanderwijk.com1 · outbound
vanderwijk.nl1 · outbound

External Asset Domains

No external asset domains detected.

Incoming Endpoints

No public endpoints detected.

Score History

First score snapshot

v1.2.1

42

Latest

Findings
71
Errors
68
Warnings
3
Check
2.0.0

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