Starter Templates by Kadence WP 2.2.13

Does "Starter Templates by Kadence WP" work with WordPress 6.9 and PHP 8.1.12? A smoke test was performed on .

Summary

Errors
6PHP deprecation warnings
No JavaScript exceptions
All test pages loaded successfully
No resource errors
Performance

Memory usage: 625.51 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 version6.9
PHP version8.1.12
MySQL version10.6.10
PHP memory limit512M
Plugin Info
Last updated
Active installs 200,000+
WordPress.org page https://wordpress.org/plugins/kadence-starter-templates/
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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=kadence-starter-templates%2Fkadence-starter-templates.php&plugin_status=all&paged=1&s&_wpnonce=9e4dac1a93
Aspect after-activation
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.509 s
Memory usage 5.01 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Site Assist

Page screenshot: Site Assist
URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=kadence-starter
Aspect menu-item
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.794 s
Memory usage 4.28 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Site Assist → Starter Templates

Page screenshot: Site Assist → Starter Templates
URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=kadence-starter-templates
Aspect menu-item
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.702 s
Memory usage 4.2 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 0.161 s
Memory usage 4.45 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Benchmark

URL Load time Memory usage
Inactive Active Change Inactive Active Change
/wp-admin/index.php0.468 s0.562 s+0.094 s3.78 MiB4.32 MiB+ 552.12 KiB
/wp-admin/edit.php0.376 s0.391 s+0.015 s3.78 MiB4.3 MiB+ 532.52 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php0.880 s0.770 s-0.110 s6.31 MiB7.64 MiB+ 1.33 MiB
/wp-admin/upload.php0.484 s0.424 s-0.060 s3.74 MiB4.18 MiB+ 447.59 KiB
/wp-admin/options-writing.php0.344 s0.330 s-0.014 s3.71 MiB4.15 MiB+ 450.23 KiB
/wp-admin/media-new.php0.500 s0.449 s-0.051 s3.7 MiB4.15 MiB+ 458.43 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category0.330 s0.323 s-0.007 s3.72 MiB4.17 MiB+ 468.79 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page0.702 s0.691 s-0.011 s6.3 MiB7.62 MiB+ 1.32 MiB
/wp-admin/options-discussion.php0.323 s0.339 s+0.016 s3.71 MiB4.15 MiB+ 446.42 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-comments.php0.329 s0.349 s+0.020 s3.73 MiB4.19 MiB+ 464.26 KiB
/0.284 s0.190 s-0.094 s4.12 MiB4.45 MiB+ 343.91 KiB
Average 0.456 s0.438 s-0.018 s4.24 MiB4.85 MiB+ 625.51 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
Language % Lines of code Comment lines Files
PHP97.8%21,4607,34163
CSS1.4%313114
JavaScript0.3%71122
SVG0.3%71015
Sass0.1%2101
Total 21,936 7,364 85

PHP Code Analysis | More results »

Lines of code 21,446
Total complexity 4,443
Median class complexity 12.0
Median method complexity 3.0
Most complex class KadenceWP\KadenceStarterTemplates\Starter_Import_Processes
Most complex function KadenceWP\KadenceStarterTemplates\Starter_Import_Processes::install_settings()
Classes 58
Methods 698
Functions 5

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 6 lines

[02-Dec-2025 22:53:00 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
[02-Dec-2025 22:53:00 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
[02-Dec-2025 22:53:02 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
[02-Dec-2025 22:53:02 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
[02-Dec-2025 22:53:12 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
[02-Dec-2025 22:53:12 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 Starter Templates by Kadence WP Admin Menus