Essential Blocks 5.3.2

Does Essential Blocks work with WordPress 6.7.2 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: 1.1 MiB
The average PHP memory usage increased by this amount after activating by the plugin.

Page speed impact: 0.530 seconds
The average page load time increased by this amount after activating the plugin.

Environment
WordPress version6.7.2
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

Plugins ‹ Test site — WordPress

Page screenshot: Plugins ‹ Test site — WordPress
URL /wp-admin/plugins.php?plugin_status=all&paged=1&s
Requested URL /wp-admin/plugins.php?action=activate&plugin=essential-blocks%2Fessential-blocks.php&plugin_status=all&paged=1&s&_wpnonce=19ced3e742
Aspect after-activation
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.685 s
Memory usage 4.65 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 0.998 s
Memory usage 4.59 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 0.219 s
Memory usage 4.4 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Add New Post ‹ Test site — WordPress

Page screenshot: Add New Post ‹ Test site — WordPress
URL /wp-admin/post-new.php
Aspect new-meta-boxes
HTTP status 200
Load time 3.032 s
Memory usage 7.07 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Benchmark

URL Load time Memory usage
Inactive Active Change Inactive Active Change
/wp-admin/index.php0.311 s0.310 s-0.001 s3.48 MiB4.59 MiB+ 1.11 MiB
/wp-admin/edit.php0.180 s0.334 s+0.154 s3.54 MiB4.67 MiB+ 1.12 MiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php0.732 s3.684 s+2.952 s5.93 MiB7.07 MiB+ 1.14 MiB
/wp-admin/upload.php0.515 s0.441 s-0.074 s3.5 MiB4.6 MiB+ 1.1 MiB
/wp-admin/options-writing.php0.203 s0.218 s+0.015 s3.47 MiB4.58 MiB+ 1.11 MiB
/wp-admin/media-new.php0.242 s0.230 s-0.012 s3.46 MiB4.58 MiB+ 1.11 MiB
/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category0.179 s0.181 s+0.002 s3.48 MiB4.6 MiB+ 1.13 MiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page0.512 s3.296 s+2.784 s5.92 MiB7.06 MiB+ 1.14 MiB
/wp-admin/options-discussion.php0.270 s0.352 s+0.082 s3.48 MiB4.58 MiB+ 1.1 MiB
/wp-admin/edit-comments.php0.193 s0.215 s+0.022 s3.5 MiB4.6 MiB+ 1.1 MiB
/0.280 s0.181 s-0.099 s3.48 MiB4.39 MiB+ 932.31 KiB
Average 0.329 s0.858 s+0.530 s3.93 MiB5.03 MiB+ 1.1 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
JavaScript82.8%171,38610,061866
PHP6.0%12,4922,410201
Sass5.6%11,62030976
CSS2.6%5,3468398
SVG1.9%3,9214136
JSON1.0%2,0130126
XML0.0%9201
Total 206,870 12,867 1,504

PHP Code Analysis | More results »

Lines of code 10,089
Total complexity 2,178
Median class complexity 9.5
Median method complexity 2.0
Most complex class EssentialBlocks\Modules\StyleHandler
Most complex function EssentialBlocks\Blocks\Breadcrumbs::eb_breadcrumb_markup()
Classes 108
Methods 499
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 6

Meta Boxes

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

PHP Error Log 1 lines

[05-Mar-2025 09:36:50 UTC] menu notice
See also: All tests for this plugin, How to Hide Essential Blocks Admin Menus and Meta Boxes