Visual Composer 37.0

Does Visual Composer work with WordPress 5.8 and PHP 7.4.8? A smoke test was performed on .

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

Page speed impact: 0.062 seconds
The average page load time increased by this amount after activating the plugin.

Environment
WordPress version5.8
PHP version7.4.8
MySQL version8.0.21
PHP memory limit256M
Plugin Info
Last updated
Active installs 60,000+
WordPress.org page https://wordpress.org/plugins/visualcomposer/
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Pages 24

Getting Started ‹ Test site — WordPress

Page screenshot: Getting Started ‹ Test site — WordPress
URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=vcv-getting-started
Requested URL /wp-admin/plugins.php?action=activate&plugin=visualcomposer%2Fplugin-wordpress.php&plugin_status=all&paged=1&s&_wpnonce=2e39950cd0
Aspect after-activation
HTTP status 200
Load time 7.035 s
Memory usage 7.34 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 4.648 s
Memory usage 7.01 MiB
JS errors None
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 3.667 s
Memory usage 7.02 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 3.143 s
Memory usage 7.34 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Visual Composer → Popups

Page screenshot: Visual Composer → Popups
URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=vcv_popups
Aspect menu-item
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.522 s
Memory usage 7.34 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Visual Composer → Import

Page screenshot: Visual Composer → Import
URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=vcv-import
Aspect menu-item
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.324 s
Memory usage 7.34 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Visual Composer → Archives

Page screenshot: Visual Composer → Archives
URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=vcv_archives
Aspect menu-item
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.386 s
Memory usage 7.34 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Visual Composer → Sidebars

Page screenshot: Visual Composer → Sidebars
URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=vcv_sidebars
Aspect menu-item
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.314 s
Memory usage 7.34 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Visual Composer → Footers

Page screenshot: Visual Composer → Footers
URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=vcv_footers
Aspect menu-item
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.411 s
Memory usage 7.34 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Visual Composer → Headers

Page screenshot: Visual Composer → Headers
URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=vcv_headers
Aspect menu-item
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.322 s
Memory usage 7.34 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Visual Composer → Layout Settings

Page screenshot: Visual Composer → Layout Settings
URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=vcv-custom-page-templates
Aspect menu-item
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.327 s
Memory usage 7.34 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Visual Composer → Theme Builder

Page screenshot: Visual Composer → Theme Builder
URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=vcv-headers-footers
Aspect menu-item
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.327 s
Memory usage 7.34 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Visual Composer → Global Templates

Page screenshot: Visual Composer → Global Templates
URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=vcv_templates
Aspect menu-item
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.763 s
Memory usage 7.34 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Visual Composer → Popup Builder

Page screenshot: Visual Composer → Popup Builder
URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=vcv-custom-site-popups
Aspect menu-item
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.489 s
Memory usage 7.34 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Visual Composer → Maintenance Mode

Page screenshot: Visual Composer → Maintenance Mode
URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=vcv-maintenance-mode
Aspect menu-item
HTTP status 200
Load time 2.644 s
Memory usage 7.34 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Visual Composer → Role Manager

Page screenshot: Visual Composer → Role Manager
URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=vcv-role-manager
Aspect menu-item
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.372 s
Memory usage 7.34 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Visual Composer → CSS & JavaScript

Page screenshot: Visual Composer → CSS & JavaScript
URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=vcv-global-css-js
Aspect menu-item
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.577 s
Memory usage 7.34 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 1.132 s
Memory usage 7.43 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 2.600 s
Memory usage 7.35 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Visual Composer → ★ Activate Premium

Page screenshot: Visual Composer → ★ Activate Premium
URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=vcv-activate-license
Aspect menu-item
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.549 s
Memory usage 7.34 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 3.564 s
Memory usage 7.43 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Visual Composer → License

Page screenshot: Visual Composer → License
URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=vcv-license
Aspect menu-item
HTTP status 200
Load time 4.000 s
Memory usage 7.34 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 0.420 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 0.543 s
Memory usage 7.05 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Benchmark

URL Load time Memory usage
Inactive Active Change Inactive Active Change
/wp-admin/index.php0.321 s0.498 s+0.177 s3.08 MiB7.05 MiB+ 3.97 MiB
/wp-admin/edit.php0.193 s0.428 s+0.235 s3.11 MiB5.56 MiB+ 2.45 MiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php1.355 s1.314 s-0.041 s5.27 MiB7.66 MiB+ 2.4 MiB
/wp-admin/upload.php0.601 s0.568 s-0.033 s3.03 MiB5.34 MiB+ 2.31 MiB
/wp-admin/options-writing.php0.195 s0.205 s+0.010 s3.02 MiB5.32 MiB+ 2.3 MiB
/wp-admin/media-new.php0.272 s0.266 s-0.006 s3.01 MiB5.32 MiB+ 2.31 MiB
/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category0.207 s0.241 s+0.034 s3.04 MiB5.43 MiB+ 2.39 MiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page0.720 s0.909 s+0.189 s5.26 MiB7.65 MiB+ 2.4 MiB
/wp-admin/options-discussion.php0.265 s0.301 s+0.036 s3 MiB5.32 MiB+ 2.31 MiB
/wp-admin/edit-comments.php0.221 s0.273 s+0.052 s3.04 MiB5.42 MiB+ 2.38 MiB
/0.317 s0.351 s+0.034 s2.96 MiB5.22 MiB+ 2.26 MiB
Average 0.424 s0.487 s+0.062 s3.44 MiB5.94 MiB+ 2.5 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.

PHP
Language % Lines of code Comment lines Files
PHP95.9%27,9115,883306
SVG2.4%7113441
JSON1.0%291036
JavaScript0.7%19539
CSS0.0%201
Total 29,110 5,920 393

PHP Code Analysis | More results »

Lines of code 23,608
Total complexity 3,379
Median class complexity 8.5
Median method complexity 2.0
Most complex class VisualComposer\Modules\Hub\Templates\TemplatesUpdater
Most complex function VisualComposer\Helpers\Localizations::getLocalizations()
Classes 218
Methods 1,028
Functions 18

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 30

Custom Post Types 2

ID Name
vcv_tutorialsTutorials
vcv_templatesGlobal Templates

Meta Boxes

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

Capabilities 28

PHP Error Log

The log file is empty.

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