Report - Essential Blocks 5.7.0

Does Essential Blocks work with WordPress 6.8.3 and PHP 8.1.12? A smoke test was performed on 2025-09-30 21:43:12 UTC.

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

Page speed impact: 0.698 seconds
The average page load time increased by this amount after activating the plugin.

Environment

WordPress version	6.8.3
PHP version	8.1.12
MySQL version	10.6.10
PHP memory limit	512M

Plugin Info

Last updated	2025-09-14T11:33:00+00:00
Active installs	200,000+
WordPress.org page	https://wordpress.org/plugins/essential-blocks/
Badges	Get badge code

Pages 4

Quick Setup Page ‹ Test site — WordPress

URL	/wp-admin/admin.php?page=eb-quick-setup
Requested URL	/wp-admin/plugins.php?action=activate&plugin=essential-blocks%2Fessential-blocks.php&plugin_status=all&paged=1&s&_wpnonce=6463d671e6
Aspect	after-activation
HTTP status	200
Load time	1.261 s
Memory usage	5.21 MiB
JS errors	None
Resource errors	None

Essential Blocks 1

URL	/wp-admin/admin.php?page=essential-blocks
Aspect	menu-item
HTTP status	200
Load time	0.848 s
Memory usage	5.2 MiB
JS errors	None
Resource errors	None

Test site – Just another WordPress site

URL	/
Aspect	front-page
HTTP status	200
Load time	0.248 s
Memory usage	4.32 MiB
JS errors	None
Resource errors	None

Add Post ‹ Test site — WordPress

URL	/wp-admin/post-new.php
Aspect	new-meta-boxes
HTTP status	200
Load time	3.643 s
Memory usage	11.13 MiB
JS errors	None
Resource errors	None

Benchmark

URL	Load time			Memory usage
URL	Inactive	Active	Change	Inactive	Active	Change
/wp-admin/index.php	0.385 s	0.541 s	+0.156 s	3.51 MiB	5.2 MiB	+ 1.7 MiB
/wp-admin/edit.php	0.216 s	0.288 s	+0.072 s	3.57 MiB	5.27 MiB	+ 1.7 MiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php	0.843 s	4.575 s	+3.732 s	6.06 MiB	11.13 MiB	+ 5.07 MiB
/wp-admin/upload.php	0.777 s	0.620 s	-0.157 s	3.52 MiB	5.21 MiB	+ 1.68 MiB
/wp-admin/options-writing.php	0.201 s	0.275 s	+0.074 s	3.5 MiB	5.19 MiB	+ 1.69 MiB
/wp-admin/media-new.php	0.266 s	0.300 s	+0.034 s	3.49 MiB	5.19 MiB	+ 1.69 MiB
/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category	0.188 s	0.392 s	+0.204 s	3.5 MiB	5.2 MiB	+ 1.7 MiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page	0.766 s	4.070 s	+3.304 s	6.05 MiB	11.12 MiB	+ 5.07 MiB
/wp-admin/options-discussion.php	0.287 s	0.586 s	+0.299 s	3.5 MiB	5.19 MiB	+ 1.68 MiB
/wp-admin/edit-comments.php	0.227 s	0.276 s	+0.049 s	3.52 MiB	5.21 MiB	+ 1.68 MiB
/	0.312 s	0.218 s	-0.094 s	3.43 MiB	4.31 MiB	+ 899.19 KiB
Average	0.406 s	1.104 s	+0.698 s	3.97 MiB	6.2 MiB	+ 2.23 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.

JavaScript

Language		%	Lines of code	Comment lines	Files
	JavaScript	81.4%	179,082	10,119	888
	PHP	6.6%	14,614	3,088	213
	Sass	6.4%	14,080	397	90
	CSS	2.5%	5,414	83	101
	SVG	1.9%	4,259	4	152
	JSON	1.1%	2,348	0	136
	XML	0.0%	92	0	1
Total			219,889	13,691	1,581

PHP Code Analysis | More results »

Lines of code	12,095
Total complexity	2,703
Median class complexity	12.0
Median method complexity	2.0
Most complex class	EssentialBlocks\Modules\StyleHandler
Most complex function	EssentialBlocks\Blocks\Breadcrumbs::eb_breadcrumb_markup()

Classes	115
Methods	569
Functions	3

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.

Database Tables 1

wp_eb_form_settings

Options `wp_options` 7

eb_admin_menu_notice
eb_settings
essential_all_blocks
essential_blocks_notices
essential_blocks_user_type
essential_blocks_version
essential_quick_toolbar_allowed_blocks

Meta Boxes

{
    "post": {
        "pageparentdiv": {
            "title": "Post Attributes",
            "context": "side"
        }
    }
}

PHP Error Log

The log file is empty.

Essential Blocks 5.7.0