Visual Composer 28.0

Does Visual Composer work with WordPress 5.4.2 and PHP 7.2.16? A smoke test was performed on .

Summary

Errors
No PHP errors, warnings or notices
2JavaScript exceptions
All test pages loaded successfully
No resource errors
Performance

Memory usage: 2.05 MiB
The average PHP memory usage increased by this amount after activating by the plugin.

Page speed impact: 0.109 seconds
The average page load time increased by this amount after activating the plugin.

Environment
WordPress version5.4.2
PHP version7.2.16
MySQL version8.0.15
PHP memory limit256M
Plugin Info
Last updated
Active installs 60,000+
WordPress.org page https://wordpress.org/plugins/visualcomposer/
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Pages 11

Getting Started ‹ Test site — WordPress

Page screenshot: Getting Started ‹ Test site — WordPress
URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=vcv-getting-started&vcv-ref=activation-page
Requested URL /wp-admin/plugins.php?action=activate&plugin=visualcomposer%2Fplugin-wordpress.php&plugin_status=all&paged=1&s&_wpnonce=3587cf3801
Aspect after-activation
HTTP status 200
Load time 4.265 s
Memory usage 5.63 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Posts → Add New with Visual Composer

Page screenshot: Posts → Add New with Visual Composer
URL /wp-admin/post-new.php?vcv-action=frontend
Aspect menu-item
HTTP status 200
Load time 3.420 s
Memory usage 7.35 MiB
JS errors
[
    {
        "message": "TypeError: Cannot read property 'top' of undefined\n    at belowEntryMetaClass (/wp-content/themes/twentyseventeen/assets/js/global.js?ver=20190121:1:2797)\n    at a.fn.init.<anonymous> (/wp-content/themes/twentyseventeen/assets/js/global.js?ver=20190121:1:4094)\n    at /?p=52&vcv-editable=1&vcv-source-id=52&vcv-nonce=3d77d7553e:38:134",
        "trace": null,
        "code": null
    },
    {
        "message": "TypeError: Cannot read property 'top' of undefined\n    at belowEntryMetaClass (/wp-content/themes/twentyseventeen/assets/js/global.js?ver=20190121:1:2797)\n    at /wp-content/themes/twentyseventeen/assets/js/global.js?ver=20190121:1:4666",
        "trace": null,
        "code": null
    }
]
Resource errors None

Pages → Add New with Visual Composer

Page screenshot: Pages → Add New with Visual Composer
URL /wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page&vcv-action=frontend
Aspect menu-item
HTTP status 200
Load time 2.283 s
Memory usage 7.3 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Visual Composer

Page screenshot: Visual Composer
URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=vcv-settings
Aspect menu-item
HTTP status 200
Load time 2.082 s
Memory usage 5.82 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Visual Composer → CSS, HTML & JavaScript

Page screenshot: Visual Composer → CSS, HTML & JavaScript
URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=vcv-global-css-js
Aspect menu-item
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.779 s
Memory usage 5.59 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Visual Composer → Visual Composer Hub

Page screenshot: Visual Composer → Visual Composer Hub
URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=vcv-hub
Aspect menu-item
HTTP status 200
Load time 1.532 s
Memory usage 7.85 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Visual Composer → System status

Page screenshot: Visual Composer → System status
URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=vcv-system-status
Aspect menu-item
HTTP status 200
Load time 3.175 s
Memory usage 5.7 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Visual Composer → Getting Started

Page screenshot: Visual Composer → Getting Started
URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=vcv-getting-started
Aspect menu-item
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.952 s
Memory usage 5.56 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Visual Composer → ★ Go Premium

Page screenshot: Visual Composer → ★ Go Premium
URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=vcv-go-premium
Aspect menu-item
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.467 s
Memory usage 5.52 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 0.327 s
Memory usage 5.22 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Dashboard ‹ Test site — WordPress

Page screenshot: Dashboard ‹ Test site — WordPress
URL /wp-admin/index.php
Aspect new-meta-boxes
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.408 s
Memory usage 6.69 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Benchmark

URL Load time Memory usage
Inactive Active Change Inactive Active Change
/wp-admin/index.php0.337 s0.516 s+0.179 s3.64 MiB6.7 MiB+ 3.06 MiB
/wp-admin/edit.php0.218 s0.675 s+0.457 s3.67 MiB5.69 MiB+ 2.03 MiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php1.250 s1.775 s+0.525 s5.43 MiB7.41 MiB+ 1.98 MiB
/wp-admin/upload.php0.766 s0.433 s-0.333 s3.5 MiB5.46 MiB+ 1.96 MiB
/wp-admin/options-writing.php0.177 s0.170 s-0.007 s3.58 MiB5.45 MiB+ 1.87 MiB
/wp-admin/media-new.php0.219 s0.207 s-0.012 s3.48 MiB5.44 MiB+ 1.96 MiB
/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category0.179 s0.222 s+0.043 s3.58 MiB5.58 MiB+ 2 MiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page1.036 s1.130 s+0.094 s5.42 MiB7.39 MiB+ 1.97 MiB
/wp-admin/options-discussion.php0.299 s0.581 s+0.282 s3.48 MiB5.45 MiB+ 1.96 MiB
/wp-admin/edit-comments.php0.253 s0.231 s-0.022 s3.59 MiB5.55 MiB+ 1.96 MiB
/0.330 s0.318 s-0.012 s3.43 MiB5.22 MiB+ 1.79 MiB
Average 0.460 s0.569 s+0.109 s3.89 MiB5.94 MiB+ 2.05 MiB

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 19

Custom Post Types 1

ID Name
vcv_templatesGlobal Templates

Meta Boxes

{
    "dashboard": {
        "visualcomposer-blog-dashboard": {
            "title": "Visual Composer News",
            "context": "normal"
        }
    }
}

Capabilities 14

PHP Error Log

The log file is empty.

See also: All tests for this plugin, How to Hide Visual Composer Admin Menus and Widgets