Share Buttons by AddThis 6.2.7

Does Share Buttons by AddThis work with WordPress 6.9 and PHP 8.1.12? A smoke test was performed on .

Summary

Errors
5PHP warnings
4PHP deprecation warnings
No JavaScript exceptions
All test pages loaded successfully
7Resource errors (CSS, JS, images, fonts and so on.)
  • 4 net::ERR_NAME_NOT_RESOLVED
  • 3 net::ERR_FAILED
Performance

Memory usage: 193.28 KiB
The average PHP memory usage increased by this amount after activating by the plugin.

Page speed impact: insignificant.
The plugin didn't make the site noticeably slower.

Environment
WordPress version6.9
PHP version8.1.12
MySQL version10.6.10
PHP memory limit512M
Plugin Info
Last updated
Active installs 100,000+
WordPress.org page https://wordpress.org/plugins/addthis/
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Pages 8

Plugins ‹ Test site — WordPress

Page screenshot: Plugins ‹ Test site — WordPress
URL /wp-admin/plugins.php?plugin_status=all&paged=1&s
Requested URL /wp-admin/plugins.php?action=activate&plugin=addthis%2Faddthis_social_widget.php&plugin_status=all&paged=1&s&_wpnonce=f6fb8f9ffd
Aspect after-activation
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.636 s
Memory usage 3.92 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

AddThis

Page screenshot: AddThis
URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=addthis_registration#/registration
Requested URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=addthis_registration
Aspect menu-item
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.647 s
Memory usage 3.89 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors
[
    {
        "status": null,
        "statusText": null,
        "url": "https://s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js?ver=6.9",
        "errorString": "net::ERR_NAME_NOT_RESOLVED"
    },
    {
        "status": null,
        "statusText": null,
        "url": "https://www.addthis.com/darkseid/test/ping",
        "errorString": "net::ERR_FAILED"
    },
    {
        "status": null,
        "statusText": null,
        "url": "https://www.addthis.com/darkseid/plugins/wpp/v/6.2.7/site/",
        "errorString": "net::ERR_FAILED"
    }
]

AddThis → Advanced Settings

Page screenshot: AddThis → Advanced Settings
URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=addthis_advanced_settings
Aspect menu-item
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.339 s
Memory usage 3.89 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors
[
    {
        "status": null,
        "statusText": null,
        "url": "https://s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js?ver=6.9",
        "errorString": "net::ERR_NAME_NOT_RESOLVED"
    }
]

AddThis → Share Buttons

Page screenshot: AddThis → Share Buttons
URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=addthis_sharing_buttons
Aspect menu-item
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.337 s
Memory usage 3.89 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors
[
    {
        "status": null,
        "statusText": null,
        "url": "https://s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js?ver=6.9",
        "errorString": "net::ERR_NAME_NOT_RESOLVED"
    },
    {
        "status": null,
        "statusText": null,
        "url": "https://www.addthis.com/darkseid/test/ping",
        "errorString": "net::ERR_FAILED"
    }
]

Test site – Just another WordPress site

Page screenshot: Test site – Just another WordPress site
URL /
Aspect front-page
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.180 s
Memory usage 4.2 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors
[
    {
        "status": null,
        "statusText": null,
        "url": "https://s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js?ver=6.9",
        "errorString": "net::ERR_NAME_NOT_RESOLVED"
    }
]

Add Post ‹ Test site — WordPress

Page screenshot: Add Post ‹ Test site — WordPress
URL /wp-admin/post-new.php
Aspect new-meta-boxes
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.749 s
Memory usage 6.56 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Add Page ‹ Test site — WordPress

Page screenshot: Add Page ‹ Test site — WordPress
URL /wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page
Aspect new-meta-boxes
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.615 s
Memory usage 6.54 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Widgets ‹ Test site — WordPress

Page screenshot: Widgets ‹ Test site — WordPress
URL /wp-admin/widgets.php
Aspect new-sidebar-widgets
HTTP status 200
Load time 1.055 s
Memory usage 6.34 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Benchmark

URL Load time Memory usage
Inactive Active Change Inactive Active Change
/wp-admin/index.php0.474 s0.344 s-0.130 s3.78 MiB3.96 MiB+ 193.83 KiB
/wp-admin/edit.php0.369 s0.399 s+0.030 s3.78 MiB4.02 MiB+ 239.29 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php0.856 s0.863 s+0.007 s6.31 MiB6.56 MiB+ 259.17 KiB
/wp-admin/upload.php0.532 s0.552 s+0.020 s3.74 MiB3.91 MiB+ 175.35 KiB
/wp-admin/options-writing.php0.327 s0.327 s+0.000 s3.71 MiB3.89 MiB+ 179.34 KiB
/wp-admin/media-new.php0.499 s0.497 s-0.002 s3.7 MiB3.88 MiB+ 187.54 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category0.310 s0.358 s+0.048 s3.71 MiB3.91 MiB+ 197.9 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page0.675 s0.706 s+0.031 s6.3 MiB6.54 MiB+ 252.66 KiB
/wp-admin/options-discussion.php0.337 s0.324 s-0.013 s3.71 MiB3.88 MiB+ 175.53 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-comments.php0.346 s0.351 s+0.005 s3.73 MiB3.9 MiB+ 175.34 KiB
/0.303 s0.201 s-0.102 s4.12 MiB4.2 MiB+ 90.16 KiB
Average 0.457 s0.447 s-0.010 s4.24 MiB4.42 MiB+ 193.28 KiB

Code Statistics

Note: Third-party libraries and minified JS/CSS files are excluded from these statistics where possible, so the numbers you see here may be lower than those reported by other tools.

JavaScript
PHP
HTML
PO File
Language % Lines of code Comment lines Files
JavaScript31.6%8,7271,13584
PHP22.7%6,2863,34832
HTML22.4%6,192106109
PO File9.7%2,6711,0312
CSS6.0%1,64628715
JSON4.7%1,29804
SVG1.4%39208
Markdown1.3%35203
XML0.3%7312
Total 27,637 5,908 259

PHP Code Analysis | More results »

Lines of code 6,284
Total complexity 1,299
Median class complexity 17.5
Median method complexity 3.0
Most complex class AddThisFeature
Most complex function AddThisSharingButtonsFeature::upgradeIterative4()
Classes 30
Methods 262
Functions 2

Additions

Things that the plugin adds to the site. This section is not intended to be comprehensive. The test tool only looks for a few specific types of added content.

Options wp_options 6

Sidebar Widgets 2

ID Name
addthis_tool_by_class_name_widgetAddThis Tool
addthis_global_options_widgetAddThis Script

Meta Boxes

{
    "post": {
        "at_widget": {
            "title": "AddThis Tools",
            "context": "advanced"
        }
    },
    "page": {
        "at_widget": {
            "title": "AddThis Tools",
            "context": "advanced"
        }
    }
}

PHP Error Log 9 lines

[02-Dec-2025 23:11:44 UTC] PHP Warning:  Undefined array key "cms_version" in /wp-content/plugins/addthis/backend/AddThisPlugin.php on line 203
[02-Dec-2025 23:11:44 UTC] PHP Warning:  Undefined array key "php_version" in /wp-content/plugins/addthis/backend/AddThisPlugin.php on line 207
[02-Dec-2025 23:11:50 UTC] PHP Deprecated:  Function WP_Dependencies-&gt;add_data() was called with an argument that is <strong>deprecated</strong> since version 6.9.0! IE conditional comments are ignored by all supported browsers. in /wp-includes/functions.php on line 6131
[02-Dec-2025 23:11:50 UTC] PHP Deprecated:  Function WP_Dependencies-&gt;add_data() was called with an argument that is <strong>deprecated</strong> since version 6.9.0! IE conditional comments are ignored by all supported browsers. in /wp-includes/functions.php on line 6131
[02-Dec-2025 23:11:59 UTC] PHP Deprecated:  Function WP_Dependencies-&gt;add_data() was called with an argument that is <strong>deprecated</strong> since version 6.9.0! IE conditional comments are ignored by all supported browsers. in /wp-includes/functions.php on line 6131
[02-Dec-2025 23:11:59 UTC] PHP Deprecated:  Function WP_Dependencies-&gt;add_data() was called with an argument that is <strong>deprecated</strong> since version 6.9.0! IE conditional comments are ignored by all supported browsers. in /wp-includes/functions.php on line 6131
[02-Dec-2025 23:12:10 UTC] PHP Warning:  Undefined array key "cms_version" in /wp-content/plugins/addthis/backend/AddThisPlugin.php on line 237
[02-Dec-2025 23:12:10 UTC] PHP Warning:  Undefined array key "php_version" in /wp-content/plugins/addthis/backend/AddThisPlugin.php on line 241
[02-Dec-2025 23:12:10 UTC] PHP Warning:  Undefined property: AddThisRegistrationFeature::$globalLayersJsonField in /wp-content/plugins/addthis/backend/AddThisPlugin.php on line 264
See also: All tests for this plugin, How to Hide Share Buttons by AddThis Admin Menus and Meta Boxes