Report - Essential Blocks 4.0.0

Does Essential Blocks work with WordPress 6.1.1 and PHP 8.1.12? A smoke test was performed on 2023-02-09 14:36:29 UTC.

Summary

Errors

1	PHP deprecation warnings
	No JavaScript exceptions
	All test pages loaded successfully
	No resource errors

Performance

Memory usage: 825.18 KiB
The average PHP memory usage increased by this amount after activating by the plugin.

Page speed impact: 0.228 seconds
The average page load time increased by this amount after activating the plugin.

Environment

WordPress version	6.1.1
PHP version	8.1.12
MySQL version	10.6.10
PHP memory limit	512M

Plugin Info

Last updated	2025-10-23T11:57:00+00:00
Active installs	200,000+
WordPress.org page	https://wordpress.org/plugins/essential-blocks/
Badges	Get badge code

Pages 4

‹ Test site — WordPress

URL	/wp-admin/admin.php?page=welcome-essential-blocks
Requested URL	/wp-admin/plugins.php?action=activate&plugin=essential-blocks%2Fessential-blocks.php&plugin_status=all&paged=1&s&_wpnonce=0cf4e7cd1e
Aspect	after-activation
HTTP status	200
Load time	2.268 s
Memory usage	3.8 MiB
JS errors	None
Resource errors	None

Essential Blocks

URL	/wp-admin/admin.php?page=essential-blocks
Aspect	menu-item
HTTP status	200
Load time	0.570 s
Memory usage	3.77 MiB
JS errors	None
Resource errors	None

Test site – Just another WordPress site

URL	/
Aspect	front-page
HTTP status	200
Load time	0.257 s
Memory usage	3.79 MiB
JS errors	None
Resource errors	None

Add New Post ‹ Test site — WordPress

URL	/wp-admin/post-new.php
Aspect	new-meta-boxes
HTTP status	200
Load time	1.510 s
Memory usage	5.86 MiB
JS errors	None
Resource errors	None

Benchmark

URL	Load time			Memory usage
URL	Inactive	Active	Change	Inactive	Active	Change
/wp-admin/index.php	0.269 s	0.260 s	-0.009 s	3.05 MiB	3.84 MiB	+ 809.37 KiB
/wp-admin/edit.php	0.180 s	0.206 s	+0.026 s	3.07 MiB	3.87 MiB	+ 809.59 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php	0.774 s	2.294 s	+1.520 s	4.97 MiB	5.86 MiB	+ 911.58 KiB
/wp-admin/upload.php	0.625 s	0.427 s	-0.198 s	2.99 MiB	3.76 MiB	+ 791.75 KiB
/wp-admin/options-writing.php	0.129 s	0.157 s	+0.028 s	2.99 MiB	3.75 MiB	+ 777.77 KiB
/wp-admin/media-new.php	0.244 s	0.231 s	-0.013 s	2.97 MiB	3.75 MiB	+ 803.94 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category	0.170 s	0.198 s	+0.028 s	2.98 MiB	3.79 MiB	+ 828.91 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page	0.567 s	1.570 s	+1.003 s	4.96 MiB	5.84 MiB	+ 900.66 KiB
/wp-admin/options-discussion.php	0.199 s	0.338 s	+0.139 s	2.98 MiB	3.75 MiB	+ 791.93 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-comments.php	0.205 s	0.235 s	+0.030 s	3 MiB	3.77 MiB	+ 792.23 KiB
/	0.266 s	0.215 s	-0.051 s	2.94 MiB	3.78 MiB	+ 859.23 KiB
Average	0.330 s	0.557 s	+0.228 s	3.35 MiB	4.16 MiB	+ 825.18 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.

SVG

CSS

PHP

Language		%	Lines of code	Comment lines	Files
	SVG	43.3%	13,115	39	62
	CSS	28.5%	8,636	84	13
	PHP	23.4%	7,082	1,582	156
	JavaScript	2.8%	862	103	36
	JSON	1.9%	564	0	44
Total			30,259	1,808	311

PHP Code Analysis | More results »

Lines of code	5,621
Total complexity	1,202
Median class complexity	5.5
Median method complexity	2.0
Most complex class	EssentialBlocks\Dependencies\Insights
Most complex function	EssentialBlocks\blocks\PostBlock::get_posts()

Classes	86
Methods	353
Functions	1

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` 3

essential_all_blocks
essential_blocks_notices
essential_blocks_version

Meta Boxes

{
    "post": {
        "pageparentdiv": {
            "title": "Post Attributes",
            "context": "side"
        }
    }
}

PHP Error Log 1 lines

[09-Feb-2023 14:36:43 UTC] PHP Deprecated:  strip_tags(): Passing null to parameter #1 ($string) of type string is deprecated in /wp-admin/admin-header.php on line 36

Essential Blocks 4.0.0