Disable Gutenberg 3.2.4
Does Disable Gutenberg work with WordPress 6.9 and PHP 8.1.12? A smoke test was performed on .
Summary
Errors
| 4 | PHP deprecation warnings |
| No JavaScript exceptions | |
| All test pages loaded successfully | |
| No resource errors |
Performance
Memory usage: -399.23 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 version | 6.9 |
|---|---|
| PHP version | 8.1.12 |
| MySQL version | 10.6.10 |
| PHP memory limit | 512M |
Plugin Info
| Last updated | |
|---|---|
| Active installs | 600,000+ |
| WordPress.org page | https://wordpress.org/plugins/disable-gutenberg/ |
| Badges |
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Pages 3
Plugins ‹ Test site — WordPress
| URL | /wp-admin/plugins.php?plugin_status=all&paged=1&s |
|---|---|
| Requested URL | /wp-admin/plugins.php?action=activate&plugin=disable-gutenberg%2Fdisable-gutenberg.php&plugin_status=all&paged=1&s&_wpnonce=6cd9934653 |
| Aspect | after-activation |
| HTTP status | 200 |
| Load time | 0.343 s |
| Memory usage | 3.79 MiB |
| JS errors | None |
| Resource errors | None |
Settings → Disable Gutenberg
| URL | /wp-admin/options-general.php?page=disable-gutenberg |
|---|---|
| Aspect | menu-item |
| HTTP status | 200 |
| Load time | 0.482 s |
| Memory usage | 3.79 MiB |
| JS errors | None |
| Resource errors | None |
Test site – Just another WordPress site
| URL | / |
|---|---|
| Aspect | front-page |
| HTTP status | 200 |
| Load time | 0.188 s |
| Memory usage | 4.13 MiB |
| JS errors | None |
| Resource errors | None |
Benchmark
| URL | Load time | Memory usage | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Inactive | Active | Change | Inactive | Active | Change | |
| /wp-admin/index.php | 0.572 s | 0.352 s | -0.220 s | 3.78 MiB | 3.84 MiB | + 66.59 KiB |
| /wp-admin/edit.php | 0.396 s | 0.330 s | -0.066 s | 3.78 MiB | 3.85 MiB | + 65.12 KiB |
| /wp-admin/post-new.php | 0.888 s | 1.203 s | +0.315 s | 6.31 MiB | 3.93 MiB | - 2.37 MiB |
| /wp-admin/upload.php | 0.548 s | 0.468 s | -0.080 s | 3.74 MiB | 3.79 MiB | + 47.71 KiB |
| /wp-admin/options-writing.php | 0.336 s | 0.292 s | -0.044 s | 3.71 MiB | 3.76 MiB | + 51.7 KiB |
| /wp-admin/media-new.php | 0.538 s | 0.359 s | -0.179 s | 3.7 MiB | 3.76 MiB | + 59.9 KiB |
| /wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category | 0.339 s | 0.294 s | -0.045 s | 3.72 MiB | 3.78 MiB | + 70.57 KiB |
| /wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page | 0.702 s | 0.736 s | +0.034 s | 6.3 MiB | 3.92 MiB | - 2.38 MiB |
| /wp-admin/options-discussion.php | 0.348 s | 0.451 s | +0.103 s | 3.71 MiB | 3.76 MiB | + 48.2 KiB |
| /wp-admin/edit-comments.php | 0.353 s | 0.330 s | -0.023 s | 3.73 MiB | 3.78 MiB | + 47.7 KiB |
| / | 0.310 s | 0.235 s | -0.075 s | 4.12 MiB | 4.13 MiB | + 14.35 KiB |
| Average | 0.485 s | 0.459 s | -0.025 s | 4.24 MiB | 3.85 MiB | - 399.23 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.
| Language | % | Lines of code | Comment lines | Files | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SVG | 73.4% | 2,671 | 0 | 1 | |
| PHP | 22.5% | 819 | 67 | 10 | |
| JavaScript | 2.8% | 101 | 1 | 1 | |
| CSS | 1.4% | 50 | 2 | 2 | |
| Total | 3,641 | 70 | 14 | ||
PHP Code Analysis | More results »
| Lines of code | 823 |
|---|---|
| Total complexity | 296 |
| Median class complexity | 33.0 |
| Median method complexity | 3.0 |
| Most complex class | DisableGutenberg |
| Most complex function | disable_gutenberg_validate_options() |
| Classes | 1 |
|---|---|
| Methods | 11 |
| 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.
No new entries found.
PHP Error Log 4 lines
[02-Dec-2025 21:33:16 UTC] PHP Deprecated: Function WP_Dependencies->add_data() was called with an argument that is <strong>deprecated</strong> since version 6.9.0! IE conditional comments are ignored by all supported browsers. in /wp-includes/functions.php on line 6131
[02-Dec-2025 21:33:16 UTC] PHP Deprecated: Function WP_Dependencies->add_data() was called with an argument that is <strong>deprecated</strong> since version 6.9.0! IE conditional comments are ignored by all supported browsers. in /wp-includes/functions.php on line 6131
[02-Dec-2025 21:33:22 UTC] PHP Deprecated: Function WP_Dependencies->add_data() was called with an argument that is <strong>deprecated</strong> since version 6.9.0! IE conditional comments are ignored by all supported browsers. in /wp-includes/functions.php on line 6131
[02-Dec-2025 21:33:22 UTC] PHP Deprecated: Function WP_Dependencies->add_data() was called with an argument that is <strong>deprecated</strong> since version 6.9.0! IE conditional comments are ignored by all supported browsers. in /wp-includes/functions.php on line 6131