Web Stories 1.8.0

Does Web Stories work with WordPress 5.7.2 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: 871.21 KiB
The average PHP memory usage increased by this amount after activating by the plugin.

Page speed impact: 0.293 seconds
The average page load time increased by this amount after activating the plugin.

Environment
WordPress version5.7.2
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 7

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=23483d5e82
Aspect after-activation
HTTP status 200
Load time 1.431 s
Memory usage 3.39 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Stories

Page screenshot: Stories
URL /wp-admin/edit.php?post_type=web-story&page=stories-dashboard#/templates-gallery
Requested URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=stories-dashboard
Aspect menu-item
HTTP status 200
Load time 3.019 s
Memory usage 4.66 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#/templates-gallery
Requested URL /wp-admin/edit.php?post_type=web-story&page=stories-dashboard
Aspect menu-item
HTTP status 200
Load time 1.647 s
Memory usage 4.64 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 0.241 s
Memory usage 3.48 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=%25224c4e68dc-ab83-4bc0-b87b-c01e1ca594e9%2522
Requested URL /wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=web-story
Aspect menu-item
HTTP status 200
Load time 5.029 s
Memory usage 4.91 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 0.586 s
Memory usage 3.26 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Widgets ‹ Test site — WordPress

Page screenshot: Widgets ‹ Test site — WordPress
URL /wp-admin/widgets.php
Aspect new-sidebar-widgets
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.785 s
Memory usage 3.45 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Benchmark

URL Load time Memory usage
Inactive Active Change Inactive Active Change
/wp-admin/index.php0.274 s0.718 s+0.444 s2.82 MiB3.49 MiB+ 686.09 KiB
/wp-admin/edit.php0.185 s0.355 s+0.170 s2.86 MiB3.53 MiB+ 687.75 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php0.940 s1.971 s+1.031 s5.02 MiB6.77 MiB+ 1.75 MiB
/wp-admin/upload.php0.531 s0.490 s-0.041 s2.7 MiB3.36 MiB+ 677.46 KiB
/wp-admin/options-writing.php0.149 s0.311 s+0.162 s2.71 MiB3.35 MiB+ 650.7 KiB
/wp-admin/media-new.php0.258 s0.294 s+0.036 s2.67 MiB3.34 MiB+ 687.77 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category0.196 s0.660 s+0.464 s2.77 MiB3.38 MiB+ 625.3 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page1.206 s1.829 s+0.623 s5.01 MiB6.75 MiB+ 1.74 MiB
/wp-admin/options-discussion.php0.322 s0.424 s+0.102 s2.68 MiB3.34 MiB+ 683.83 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-comments.php0.230 s0.352 s+0.122 s2.78 MiB3.45 MiB+ 687.17 KiB
/0.292 s0.397 s+0.105 s2.65 MiB3.26 MiB+ 619.41 KiB
Average 0.417 s0.709 s+0.293 s3.15 MiB4 MiB+ 871.21 KiB

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
JSON
Language % Lines of code Comment lines Files
PHP83.0%10,73211,749167
JSON11.4%1,47801
JavaScript5.4%69326757
CSS0.2%27025
Total 12,930 12,016 250

PHP Code Analysis | More results »

Lines of code 10,577
Total complexity 1,628
Median class complexity 6.0
Median method complexity 1.0
Most complex class Google\Web_Stories\Renderer\Stories\Renderer
Most complex function KSES::safecss_filter_attr()
Classes 117
Methods 574
Functions 62

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 5

Custom Post Types 3

ID Name
web-storyStories
web-story-templateTemplates
web-story-pagePage Templates

Sidebar Widgets 1

ID Name
web_stories_widgetWeb Stories

Capabilities 13

PHP Error Log

The log file is empty.

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