Starter Templates 4.4.43

Does Starter Templates work with WordPress 6.9 and PHP 8.1.12? A smoke test was performed on .

Summary

Errors
4PHP deprecation warnings
No JavaScript exceptions
All test pages loaded successfully
No resource errors
Performance

Memory usage: 941.99 KiB
The average PHP memory usage increased by this amount after activating by the plugin.

Page speed impact: 0.250 seconds
The average page load time increased by this amount after activating the plugin.

Environment
WordPress version6.9
PHP version8.1.12
MySQL version10.6.10
PHP memory limit512M
Plugin Info
Last updated
Active installs 2,000,000+
WordPress.org page https://wordpress.org/plugins/astra-sites/
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Pages 4

Starter Templates ‹ Test site — WordPress

Page screenshot: Starter Templates ‹ Test site — WordPress
URL /wp-admin/themes.php?page=starter-templates
Requested URL /wp-admin/plugins.php?action=activate&plugin=astra-sites%2Fastra-sites.php&plugin_status=all&paged=1&s&_wpnonce=9b44840c38
Aspect after-activation
HTTP status 200
Load time 3.245 s
Memory usage 4.61 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Appearance → AI Builder

Page screenshot: Appearance → AI Builder
URL /wp-admin/themes.php?page=ai-builder#/lets-start
Requested URL /wp-admin/themes.php?page=ai-builder
Aspect menu-item
HTTP status 200
Load time 1.856 s
Memory usage 4.44 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Appearance → Starter Templates

Page screenshot: Appearance → Starter Templates
URL /wp-admin/themes.php?page=starter-templates
Aspect menu-item
HTTP status 200
Load time 1.953 s
Memory usage 44.18 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Test site – Just another WordPress site

Page screenshot: Test site – Just another WordPress site
URL /
Aspect front-page
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.379 s
Memory usage 4.58 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Benchmark

URL Load time Memory usage
Inactive Active Change Inactive Active Change
/wp-admin/index.php0.405 s0.569 s+0.164 s3.77 MiB4.46 MiB+ 699.94 KiB
/wp-admin/edit.php0.341 s0.512 s+0.171 s3.78 MiB4.43 MiB+ 661.61 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php0.831 s1.385 s+0.554 s6.3 MiB8.62 MiB+ 2.32 MiB
/wp-admin/upload.php0.625 s1.249 s+0.624 s3.73 MiB4.35 MiB+ 631.74 KiB
/wp-admin/options-writing.php0.322 s0.482 s+0.160 s3.71 MiB4.31 MiB+ 621.22 KiB
/wp-admin/media-new.php0.476 s0.457 s-0.019 s3.7 MiB4.31 MiB+ 629.41 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category0.314 s0.477 s+0.163 s3.71 MiB4.35 MiB+ 653.74 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page0.786 s1.273 s+0.487 s6.29 MiB8.54 MiB+ 2.24 MiB
/wp-admin/options-discussion.php0.347 s0.654 s+0.307 s3.71 MiB4.31 MiB+ 617.72 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-comments.php0.311 s0.419 s+0.108 s3.73 MiB4.4 MiB+ 689.72 KiB
/0.272 s0.302 s+0.030 s4.1 MiB4.58 MiB+ 488.11 KiB
Average 0.457 s0.707 s+0.250 s4.23 MiB5.15 MiB+ 941.99 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
PO File
CSS
Language % Lines of code Comment lines Files
JavaScript33.2%43,2351,783257
PHP24.3%31,61917,278197
PO File21.3%27,74818,7128
CSS17.8%23,10758934
Sass2.3%2,977223
SVG0.9%1,181954
JSON0.1%1400122
Markdown0.0%4502
Total 130,052 38,373 697

PHP Code Analysis | More results »

Lines of code 30,964
Total complexity 6,715
Median class complexity 17.0
Median method complexity 2.0
Most complex class Astra_Sites
Most complex function GS\Classes\GS_Helper::get_default_action_items()
Classes 175
Methods 1,523
Functions 27

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 15

Capabilities 2

PHP Error Log 4 lines

[02-Dec-2025 20:59:26 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 20:59:26 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 20:59:38 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 20:59:38 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
See also: All tests for this plugin, How to Hide Starter Templates Admin Menus