Essential Blocks 5.4.0

Does Essential Blocks work with WordPress 6.8.1 and PHP 8.1.12? A smoke test was performed on .

Summary

Errors
1Unrecognized messages in the PHP error log
No JavaScript exceptions
All test pages loaded successfully
No resource errors
Performance

Memory usage: 1.15 MiB
The average PHP memory usage increased by this amount after activating by the plugin.

Page speed impact: 0.622 seconds
The average page load time increased by this amount after activating the plugin.

Environment
WordPress version6.8.1
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/essential-blocks/
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Pages 4

Quick Setup Page ‹ Test site — WordPress

Page screenshot: 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=666feebd79
Aspect after-activation
HTTP status 200
Load time 1.234 s
Memory usage 4.68 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Essential Blocks 1

Page screenshot: Essential Blocks 1
URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=essential-blocks
Aspect menu-item
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.806 s
Memory usage 4.67 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 0.224 s
Memory usage 4.47 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

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 3.696 s
Memory usage 7.2 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Benchmark

URL Load time Memory usage
Inactive Active Change Inactive Active Change
/wp-admin/index.php0.352 s0.318 s-0.034 s3.51 MiB4.68 MiB+ 1.17 MiB
/wp-admin/edit.php0.209 s0.238 s+0.029 s3.57 MiB4.75 MiB+ 1.18 MiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php0.810 s4.878 s+4.068 s6.06 MiB7.2 MiB+ 1.14 MiB
/wp-admin/upload.php0.617 s0.606 s-0.011 s3.52 MiB4.68 MiB+ 1.16 MiB
/wp-admin/options-writing.php0.239 s0.241 s+0.002 s3.5 MiB4.66 MiB+ 1.16 MiB
/wp-admin/media-new.php0.337 s0.289 s-0.048 s3.49 MiB4.66 MiB+ 1.17 MiB
/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category0.226 s0.223 s-0.003 s3.5 MiB4.68 MiB+ 1.18 MiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page0.628 s3.898 s+3.270 s6.05 MiB7.19 MiB+ 1.14 MiB
/wp-admin/options-discussion.php0.505 s0.359 s-0.146 s3.5 MiB4.66 MiB+ 1.16 MiB
/wp-admin/edit-comments.php0.413 s0.250 s-0.163 s3.52 MiB4.68 MiB+ 1.16 MiB
/0.340 s0.223 s-0.117 s3.43 MiB4.46 MiB+ 1.03 MiB
Average 0.425 s1.048 s+0.622 s3.97 MiB5.12 MiB+ 1.15 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
JavaScript82.1%173,83210,222885
Sass6.2%13,22035889
PHP6.2%13,1242,603206
CSS2.5%5,35183100
SVG2.0%4,2104146
JSON1.0%2,0130126
XML0.0%9201
Total 211,842 13,270 1,553

PHP Code Analysis | More results »

Lines of code 10,671
Total complexity 2,331
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 110
Methods 524
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

Options wp_options 7

Meta Boxes

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

PHP Error Log 1 lines

[08-May-2025 11:31:14 UTC] <p> <i>📣</i> Introducing Essential Blocks <strong>v5.4.0</strong> with <strong>Write with AI</strong> feature to effortlessly create engaging content for posts, pages, or custom post types. For more info, check out this <strong><a target='_blank' href='%s'>changelog</a></strong>.</p>
See also: All tests for this plugin, How to Hide Essential Blocks Admin Menus and Meta Boxes