Gutenberg 22.2.0

Does Gutenberg work with WordPress 6.9 and PHP 8.1.12? A smoke test was performed on .

Summary

Errors
4PHP deprecation warnings
No JavaScript exceptions
All test pages loaded successfully
No resource errors
Performance

Memory usage: 2.21 MiB
The average PHP memory usage increased by this amount after activating by the plugin.

Page speed impact: 0.454 seconds
The average page load time increased by this amount after activating the plugin.

Environment
WordPress version6.9
PHP version8.1.12
MySQL version10.6.10
PHP memory limit512M
Plugin Info
Last updated
Active installs 300,000+
WordPress.org page https://wordpress.org/plugins/gutenberg/
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Pages 4

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=gutenberg%2Fgutenberg.php&plugin_status=all&paged=1&s&_wpnonce=cc856dac6e
Aspect after-activation
HTTP status 200
Load time 1.574 s
Memory usage 6.04 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Gutenberg

Page screenshot: Gutenberg
URL /wp-admin/post-new.php?gutenberg-demo
Requested URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=gutenberg
Aspect menu-item
HTTP status 200
Load time 2.544 s
Memory usage 8.69 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Gutenberg → Experiments

Page screenshot: Gutenberg → Experiments
URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=gutenberg-experiments
Aspect menu-item
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.885 s
Memory usage 5.9 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 0.936 s
Memory usage 6.19 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Benchmark

URL Load time Memory usage
Inactive Active Change Inactive Active Change
/wp-admin/index.php0.448 s0.674 s+0.226 s3.77 MiB5.92 MiB+ 2.15 MiB
/wp-admin/edit.php0.391 s0.563 s+0.172 s3.78 MiB5.99 MiB+ 2.21 MiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php0.825 s2.245 s+1.420 s6.3 MiB8.62 MiB+ 2.32 MiB
/wp-admin/upload.php0.589 s0.848 s+0.259 s3.74 MiB5.93 MiB+ 2.19 MiB
/wp-admin/options-writing.php0.432 s0.629 s+0.197 s3.71 MiB5.9 MiB+ 2.2 MiB
/wp-admin/media-new.php0.575 s0.611 s+0.036 s3.7 MiB5.9 MiB+ 2.2 MiB
/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category0.332 s1.077 s+0.745 s3.71 MiB5.93 MiB+ 2.21 MiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page0.725 s1.636 s+0.911 s6.29 MiB8.61 MiB+ 2.31 MiB
/wp-admin/options-discussion.php0.438 s0.702 s+0.264 s3.71 MiB5.9 MiB+ 2.19 MiB
/wp-admin/edit-comments.php0.343 s1.113 s+0.770 s3.73 MiB5.92 MiB+ 2.19 MiB
/0.270 s0.259 s-0.011 s4.1 MiB6.19 MiB+ 2.09 MiB
Average 0.488 s0.942 s+0.454 s4.23 MiB6.44 MiB+ 2.21 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
JavaScript93.7%486,66321,102106
PHP4.5%23,13413,234297
JSON1.7%8,9990134
Markdown0.1%31603
CSS0.0%2550255
Total 519,367 34,336 795

PHP Code Analysis | More results »

Lines of code 22,154
Total complexity 4,995
Median class complexity 11.0
Median method complexity 3.0
Most complex class WP_Theme_JSON_Gutenberg
Most complex function gutenberg_get_layout_style()
Classes 40
Methods 359
Functions 545

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 1

PHP Error Log 4 lines

[03-Dec-2025 16:30:54 UTC] PHP Deprecated:  Function WP_Dependencies-&gt;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
[03-Dec-2025 16:30:54 UTC] PHP Deprecated:  Function WP_Dependencies-&gt;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
[03-Dec-2025 16:31:10 UTC] PHP Deprecated:  Function WP_Dependencies-&gt;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
[03-Dec-2025 16:31:10 UTC] PHP Deprecated:  Function WP_Dependencies-&gt;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
See also: All tests for this plugin, How to Hide Gutenberg Admin Menus