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Business Manager 1.5.9

Does Business Manager work with WordPress 6.8.1 and PHP 8.1.12? A smoke test was performed on 2025-05-03 11:00:46 UTC.

Summary

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Plugins ‹ Test site — WordPress

Business Manager

Business Manager → Announcements

Business Manager → Employees

Business Manager →   Calendar

Business Manager →   Leave

Business Manager →   Reviews

Business Manager → Projects

Business Manager → Clients

Business Manager → Departments

Business Manager → Documents

Business Manager → Settings

Business Manager → Settings → Employees

Business Manager → Settings → Clients

Business Manager → Settings → Projects

Business Manager → Settings → Documents

Business Manager → Settings → Extensions

Test site – Just another WordPress site

Benchmark

URL	Load time			Memory usage
	Inactive	Active	Change	Inactive	Active	Change
/wp-admin/index.php	0.421 s	0.573 s	+0.152 s	3.51 MiB	4.84 MiB	+ 1.33 MiB
/wp-admin/edit.php	0.207 s	0.371 s	+0.164 s	3.57 MiB	4.86 MiB	+ 1.29 MiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php	0.800 s	1.136 s	+0.336 s	6.06 MiB	7.72 MiB	+ 1.66 MiB
/wp-admin/upload.php	0.637 s	1.012 s	+0.375 s	3.52 MiB	4.77 MiB	+ 1.25 MiB
/wp-admin/options-writing.php	0.239 s	0.399 s	+0.160 s	3.5 MiB	4.77 MiB	+ 1.27 MiB
/wp-admin/media-new.php	0.357 s	0.407 s	+0.050 s	3.49 MiB	4.76 MiB	+ 1.27 MiB
/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category	0.222 s	0.319 s	+0.097 s	3.5 MiB	4.79 MiB	+ 1.28 MiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page	0.628 s	0.756 s	+0.128 s	6.05 MiB	7.7 MiB	+ 1.65 MiB
/wp-admin/options-discussion.php	0.334 s	0.866 s	+0.532 s	3.5 MiB	4.76 MiB	+ 1.26 MiB
/wp-admin/edit-comments.php	0.227 s	0.350 s	+0.123 s	3.52 MiB	4.78 MiB	+ 1.26 MiB
/	0.520 s	0.208 s	-0.312 s	3.43 MiB	4.13 MiB	+ 716.49 KiB
Average	0.417 s	0.582 s	+0.164 s	3.97 MiB	5.26 MiB	+ 1.29 MiB

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.

Language		%	Lines of code	Comment lines	Files
	PO File	52.3%	33,378	19,208	121
	PHP	29.1%	18,546	10,372	128
	CSS	9.5%	6,057	1,244	11
	JavaScript	4.4%	2,788	844	12
	Sass	2.2%	1,427	29	17
	Markdown	1.9%	1,185	0	10
	JSON	0.3%	175	0	6
	XML	0.3%	164	41	3
	Svelte	0.1%	84	0	2
	YAML	0.1%	33	51	1
Total			63,837	31,789	311

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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 8

• bm_rating_nag_install_date
• business_manager_db_version
• business-manager-client
• business-manager-document
• business-manager-employee
• business-manager-extensions
• business-manager-general
• business-manager-project

Custom Post Types 8

ID	Name
bm-employee	Employees
bm-project	Projects
bm-client	Clients
bm-review	Reviews
bm-leave	Leave
bm-document	Documents
bm-email	Email Notifications
bm-announcement	Announcements

Meta Boxes

{
    "bm-project": {
        "_bm_project_settings_box": {
            "title": "Settings",
            "context": "normal"
        },
        "_bm_project_timeline_box": {
            "title": "Timeline",
            "context": "normal"
        },
        "_bm_project_tasks_box": {
            "title": "Tasks",
            "context": "normal"
        },
        "_bm_project_files_box": {
            "title": "Files & Documents",
            "context": "normal"
        },
        "_bm_project_notes_box": {
            "title": "Notes",
            "context": "normal"
        }
    },
    "bm-client": {
        "_bm_client_details_box": {
            "title": "Client Details",
            "context": "normal"
        },
        "_bm_client_files_box": {
            "title": "Files & Documents",
            "context": "normal"
        },
        "_bm_client_notes_box": {
            "title": "Notes",
            "context": "normal"
        }
    },
    "bm-review": {
        "_bm_review_details_box": {
            "title": "Details",
            "context": "normal"
        },
        "_bm_review_ratings_box": {
            "title": "Ratings",
            "context": "normal"
        },
        "_bm_review_summary_box": {
            "title": "Summary",
            "context": "normal"
        },
        "_bm_review_goals_box": {
            "title": "Goals",
            "context": "normal"
        },
        "_bm_review_file_list_box": {
            "title": "Files",
            "context": "normal"
        },
        "_bm_review_notes_box": {
            "title": "Notes",
            "context": "normal"
        }
    },
    "bm-document": {
        "_bm_document_latest_box": {
            "title": "Latest Version",
            "context": "normal"
        },
        "_bm_document_file_list_box": {
            "title": "Versions",
            "context": "normal"
        },
        "_bm_document_notes_box": {
            "title": "Notes",
            "context": "normal"
        }
    },
    "bm-employee": {
        "_bm_employee_access_box": {
            "title": "Access",
            "context": "side"
        },
        "_bm_employee_assets_box_inactive": {
            "title": "Assets",
            "context": "side"
        },
        "_bm_employee_leave_box": {
            "title": "Upcoming Leave",
            "context": "side"
        },
        "_bm_employee_details_box": {
            "title": "Employee Details",
            "context": "normal"
        },
        "_bm_employee_files_box": {
            "title": "Files & Documents",
            "context": "normal"
        },
        "_bm_employee_notes_box": {
            "title": "Notes",
            "context": "normal"
        }
    },
    "bm-leave": {
        "_bm_leave_details_box": {
            "title": "Leave Details",
            "context": "normal"
        }
    },
    "bm-email": {
        "_bm_email_details_box": {
            "title": "Plain Text Email Content",
            "context": "normal"
        }
    },
    "bm-announcement": {
        "_bm_announcement_details_box": {
            "title": "Notify Employees",
            "context": "normal"
        }
    }
}

Roles 1

ID	Name
bm_employee	Business Manager Employee

Capabilities 1

• business_manager_access

PHP Error Log 1 lines

[03-May-2025 11:01:02 UTC] PHP Deprecated:  Optional parameter $field_escaped_value declared before required parameter $field_type_object is implicitly treated as a required parameter in /wp-content/plugins/business-manager/includes/lib/cmb2-field-select2/cmb-field-select2.php on line 83

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