Web Stories 1.1.1

Does Web Stories work with WordPress 5.6 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: 407.2 KiB
The average PHP memory usage increased by this amount after activating by the plugin.

Page speed impact: insignificant.
The plugin didn't make the site noticeably slower.

Environment
WordPress version5.6
PHP version7.4.8
MySQL version8.0.21
PHP memory limit256M
Plugin Info
Last updated
Active installs 90,000+
WordPress.org page https://wordpress.org/plugins/web-stories/
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Pages 6

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=web-stories%2Fweb-stories.php&plugin_status=all&paged=1&s&_wpnonce=4805dbd70e
Aspect after-activation
HTTP status 200
Load time 1.123 s
Memory usage 2.98 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Stories

Page screenshot: Stories
URL /wp-admin/edit.php?post_type=web-story&page=stories-dashboard
Requested URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=stories-dashboard
Aspect menu-item
HTTP status 200
Load time 1.672 s
Memory usage 4.16 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Stories → My Stories

Page screenshot: Stories → My Stories
URL /wp-admin/edit.php?post_type=web-story&page=stories-dashboard
Aspect menu-item
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.647 s
Memory usage 4.08 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Stories → All Stories

Page screenshot: Stories → All Stories
URL /wp-admin/edit.php?post_type=web-story
Aspect menu-item
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.172 s
Memory usage 2.99 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Stories → Add New

Page screenshot: Stories → Add New
URL /wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=web-story#page=%252242f3b2fd-7ea1-4a74-a02e-a44389a2b23c%2522
Requested URL /wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=web-story
Aspect menu-item
HTTP status 200
Load time 2.825 s
Memory usage 4.31 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 0.268 s
Memory usage 2.81 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Benchmark

URL Load time Memory usage
Inactive Active Change Inactive Active Change
/wp-admin/index.php0.289 s0.279 s-0.010 s2.79 MiB3.01 MiB+ 218.94 KiB
/wp-admin/edit.php0.290 s0.376 s+0.086 s2.84 MiB3.12 MiB+ 289.59 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php1.344 s1.012 s-0.332 s4.93 MiB6.07 MiB+ 1.13 MiB
/wp-admin/upload.php0.492 s0.573 s+0.081 s2.67 MiB2.93 MiB+ 266.98 KiB
/wp-admin/options-writing.php0.213 s0.162 s-0.051 s2.68 MiB2.91 MiB+ 234.96 KiB
/wp-admin/media-new.php0.227 s0.187 s-0.040 s2.65 MiB2.91 MiB+ 267.78 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category0.192 s0.189 s-0.003 s2.68 MiB2.94 MiB+ 268.06 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page0.594 s0.626 s+0.032 s4.92 MiB6.05 MiB+ 1.13 MiB
/wp-admin/options-discussion.php0.248 s0.203 s-0.045 s2.65 MiB2.91 MiB+ 268.09 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-comments.php0.212 s0.223 s+0.011 s2.75 MiB2.95 MiB+ 203.7 KiB
/0.250 s0.210 s-0.040 s2.67 MiB2.81 MiB+ 149.31 KiB
Average 0.396 s0.367 s-0.028 s3.11 MiB3.51 MiB+ 407.2 KiB

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 4

Custom Post Types 2

ID Name
web-story-templateTemplates
web-storyStories

Capabilities 13

PHP Error Log

The log file is empty.

See also: All tests for this plugin, How to Hide Web Stories Admin Menus