Report - Essential Blocks 5.5.3

Does Essential Blocks work with WordPress 6.8.2 and PHP 8.1.12? A smoke test was performed on 2025-07-15 20:56:09 UTC.

Summary

Errors

	No PHP errors, warnings or notices
	No JavaScript exceptions
	All test pages loaded successfully
	No resource errors
	Looks good! No problems were detected.

Performance

Memory usage: 1.22 MiB
The average PHP memory usage increased by this amount after activating by the plugin.

Page speed impact: 0.586 seconds
The average page load time increased by this amount after activating the plugin.

Environment

WordPress version	6.8.2
PHP version	8.1.12
MySQL version	10.6.10
PHP memory limit	512M

Plugin Info

Last updated	2025-07-27T09:25:00+00:00
Active installs	100,000+
WordPress.org page	https://wordpress.org/plugins/essential-blocks/
Badges	Get badge code

Pages 4

Quick Setup Page ‹ Test site — WordPress

URL	/wp-admin/admin.php?page=eb-quick-setup
Requested URL	/wp-admin/plugins.php?action=activate&plugin=essential-blocks%2Fessential-blocks.php&plugin_status=all&paged=1&s&_wpnonce=bd120a0110
Aspect	after-activation
HTTP status	200
Load time	1.294 s
Memory usage	4.75 MiB
JS errors	None
Resource errors	None

Essential Blocks 1

URL	/wp-admin/admin.php?page=essential-blocks
Aspect	menu-item
HTTP status	200
Load time	0.907 s
Memory usage	4.74 MiB
JS errors	None
Resource errors	None

Test site – Just another WordPress site

URL	/
Aspect	front-page
HTTP status	200
Load time	0.205 s
Memory usage	4.54 MiB
JS errors	None
Resource errors	None

Add Post ‹ Test site — WordPress

URL	/wp-admin/post-new.php
Aspect	new-meta-boxes
HTTP status	200
Load time	3.526 s
Memory usage	7.26 MiB
JS errors	None
Resource errors	None

Benchmark

URL	Load time			Memory usage
URL	Inactive	Active	Change	Inactive	Active	Change
/wp-admin/index.php	0.381 s	0.352 s	-0.029 s	3.51 MiB	4.74 MiB	+ 1.24 MiB
/wp-admin/edit.php	0.216 s	0.258 s	+0.042 s	3.57 MiB	4.81 MiB	+ 1.24 MiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php	0.855 s	4.613 s	+3.758 s	6.06 MiB	7.27 MiB	+ 1.2 MiB
/wp-admin/upload.php	0.811 s	0.558 s	-0.253 s	3.52 MiB	4.75 MiB	+ 1.23 MiB
/wp-admin/options-writing.php	0.233 s	0.252 s	+0.019 s	3.5 MiB	4.73 MiB	+ 1.23 MiB
/wp-admin/media-new.php	0.280 s	0.298 s	+0.018 s	3.49 MiB	4.73 MiB	+ 1.24 MiB
/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category	0.210 s	0.252 s	+0.042 s	3.5 MiB	4.75 MiB	+ 1.25 MiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page	0.769 s	3.853 s	+3.084 s	6.05 MiB	7.25 MiB	+ 1.2 MiB
/wp-admin/options-discussion.php	0.336 s	0.468 s	+0.132 s	3.5 MiB	4.73 MiB	+ 1.22 MiB
/wp-admin/edit-comments.php	0.530 s	0.243 s	-0.287 s	3.52 MiB	4.75 MiB	+ 1.22 MiB
/	0.312 s	0.231 s	-0.081 s	3.43 MiB	4.54 MiB	+ 1.1 MiB
Average	0.448 s	1.034 s	+0.586 s	3.97 MiB	5.19 MiB	+ 1.22 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.

JavaScript

Language		%	Lines of code	Comment lines	Files
	JavaScript	81.9%	176,689	9,955	893
	Sass	6.4%	13,851	384	89
	PHP	6.2%	13,440	2,630	209
	CSS	2.5%	5,322	83	99
	SVG	2.0%	4,230	4	147
	JSON	0.9%	2,013	0	126
	XML	0.0%	92	0	1
Total			215,637	13,056	1,564

PHP Code Analysis | More results »

Lines of code	10,915
Total complexity	2,402
Median class complexity	10.0
Median method complexity	2.0
Most complex class	EssentialBlocks\Modules\StyleHandler
Most complex function	EssentialBlocks\Blocks\Breadcrumbs::eb_breadcrumb_markup()

Classes	112
Methods	534
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.

Database Tables 1

wp_eb_form_settings

Options `wp_options` 7

eb_admin_menu_notice
eb_settings
essential_all_blocks
essential_blocks_notices
essential_blocks_user_type
essential_blocks_version
essential_quick_toolbar_allowed_blocks

Meta Boxes

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

PHP Error Log

The log file is empty.

Essential Blocks 5.5.3