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Web Stories 1.9.0

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

Summary

Errors
No PHP errors, warnings or notices
3JavaScript exceptions
All test pages loaded successfully
No resource errors
Performance

Memory usage: 875.67 KiB
The average PHP memory usage increased by this amount after activating by the plugin.

Page speed impact: 0.150 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 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=bae3ae180a
Aspect after-activation
HTTP status 200
Load time 3.735 s
Memory usage 3.7 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 5.474 s
Memory usage 5.05 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 4.735 s
Memory usage 5.03 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 0.253 s
Memory usage 3.72 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=%2522681c0e68-1459-4792-9bb4-acab2c1d62a4%2522
Requested URL /wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=web-story
Aspect menu-item
HTTP status 200
Load time 5.586 s
Memory usage 5.37 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 0.571 s
Memory usage 3.51 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 3.183 s
Memory usage 5.64 MiB
JS errors 
[
    {
        "message": "TypeError: Cannot read property 'top' of undefined\n    at belowEntryMetaClass (/wp-content/themes/twentyseventeen/assets/js/global.js?ver=20190121:124:33)\n    at HTMLDocument.<anonymous> (/wp-content/themes/twentyseventeen/assets/js/global.js?ver=20190121:211:3)\n    at e (/wp-admin/load-scripts.php?c=0&load%5Bchunk_0%5D=jquery-core,jquery-migrate,utils&ver=5.8:2:30038)\n    at t (/wp-admin/load-scripts.php?c=0&load%5Bchunk_0%5D=jquery-core,jquery-migrate,utils&ver=5.8:2:30340)",
        "trace": null,
        "code": null
    },
    {
        "message": "TypeError: Cannot read property 'top' of undefined\n    at belowEntryMetaClass (/wp-content/themes/twentyseventeen/assets/js/global.js?ver=20190121:124:33)\n    at HTMLDocument.<anonymous> (/wp-content/themes/twentyseventeen/assets/js/global.js?ver=20190121:211:3)\n    at e (/wp-admin/load-scripts.php?c=0&load%5Bchunk_0%5D=jquery-core,jquery-migrate,utils&ver=5.8:2:30038)\n    at t (/wp-admin/load-scripts.php?c=0&load%5Bchunk_0%5D=jquery-core,jquery-migrate,utils&ver=5.8:2:30340)",
        "trace": null,
        "code": null
    },
    {
        "message": "TypeError: Cannot read property 'top' of undefined\n    at belowEntryMetaClass (/wp-content/themes/twentyseventeen/assets/js/global.js?ver=20190121:124:33)\n    at HTMLDocument.<anonymous> (/wp-content/themes/twentyseventeen/assets/js/global.js?ver=20190121:211:3)\n    at e (/wp-admin/load-scripts.php?c=0&load%5Bchunk_0%5D=jquery-core,jquery-migrate,utils&ver=5.8:2:30038)\n    at t (/wp-admin/load-scripts.php?c=0&load%5Bchunk_0%5D=jquery-core,jquery-migrate,utils&ver=5.8:2:30340)",
        "trace": null,
        "code": null
    }
]
Resource errors None

Benchmark

URL Load time Memory usage
Inactive Active Change Inactive Active Change
/wp-admin/index.php0.286 s0.579 s+0.293 s3.08 MiB3.72 MiB+ 657.39 KiB
/wp-admin/edit.php0.167 s0.283 s+0.116 s3.11 MiB3.77 MiB+ 672.25 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php0.970 s2.346 s+1.376 s5.27 MiB7.12 MiB+ 1.85 MiB
/wp-admin/upload.php0.539 s0.390 s-0.149 s3.03 MiB3.66 MiB+ 648.72 KiB
/wp-admin/options-writing.php0.191 s0.238 s+0.047 s3.02 MiB3.65 MiB+ 644.7 KiB
/wp-admin/media-new.php0.254 s0.265 s+0.011 s3.01 MiB3.65 MiB+ 660.07 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category0.162 s0.262 s+0.100 s3.04 MiB3.69 MiB+ 664.8 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page1.096 s1.145 s+0.049 s5.26 MiB7.11 MiB+ 1.85 MiB
/wp-admin/options-discussion.php0.313 s0.377 s+0.064 s3 MiB3.65 MiB+ 661.84 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-comments.php0.207 s0.435 s+0.228 s3.04 MiB3.69 MiB+ 663.3 KiB
/0.820 s0.337 s-0.483 s2.96 MiB3.51 MiB+ 566.21 KiB
Average 0.455 s0.605 s+0.150 s3.44 MiB4.29 MiB+ 875.67 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
PHP84.8%10,82611,923170
JSON12.3%1,56402
JavaScript2.7%346229113
CSS0.2%27025
Total 12,763 12,152 310

PHP Code Analysis | More results »

Lines of code 10,670
Total complexity 1,655
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 120
Methods 579
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