Page Builder by SiteOrigin 2.33.3

Does Page Builder by SiteOrigin 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: -105.36 KiB
The average PHP memory usage increased by this amount after activating by the plugin.

Page speed impact: 0.083 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 500,000+
WordPress.org page https://wordpress.org/plugins/siteorigin-panels/
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Pages 8

SiteOrigin Page Builder ‹ Test site — WordPress

Page screenshot: SiteOrigin Page Builder ‹ Test site — WordPress
URL /wp-admin/options-general.php?page=siteorigin_panels#welcome
Requested URL /wp-admin/plugins.php?action=activate&plugin=siteorigin-panels%2Fsiteorigin-panels.php&plugin_status=all&paged=1&s&_wpnonce=21e59c3059
Aspect after-activation
HTTP status 200
Load time 1.282 s
Memory usage 3.99 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

SiteOrigin

Page screenshot: SiteOrigin
URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=siteorigin-installer
Aspect menu-item
HTTP status 200
Load time 1.980 s
Memory usage 4.27 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Settings → Page Builder

Page screenshot: Settings → Page Builder
URL /wp-admin/options-general.php?page=siteorigin_panels
Aspect menu-item
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.655 s
Memory usage 3.97 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 0.197 s
Memory usage 4.25 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Dashboard ‹ Test site — WordPress

Page screenshot: Dashboard ‹ Test site — WordPress
URL /wp-admin/index.php
Aspect new-meta-boxes
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.485 s
Memory usage 4.56 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Add Post ‹ Test site — WordPress

Page screenshot: Add Post ‹ Test site — WordPress
URL /wp-admin/post-new.php
Aspect new-meta-boxes
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.997 s
Memory usage 4.22 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Add Page ‹ Test site — WordPress

Page screenshot: Add Page ‹ Test site — WordPress
URL /wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page
Aspect new-meta-boxes
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.807 s
Memory usage 4.28 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 0.992 s
Memory usage 6.4 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Benchmark

URL Load time Memory usage
Inactive Active Change Inactive Active Change
/wp-admin/index.php0.415 s0.857 s+0.442 s3.77 MiB4.56 MiB+ 807.8 KiB
/wp-admin/edit.php0.351 s0.309 s-0.042 s3.78 MiB4.05 MiB+ 279.42 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php0.841 s1.636 s+0.795 s6.3 MiB4.4 MiB- 1.91 MiB
/wp-admin/upload.php0.628 s0.391 s-0.237 s3.74 MiB3.99 MiB+ 261.56 KiB
/wp-admin/options-writing.php0.312 s0.284 s-0.028 s3.71 MiB3.97 MiB+ 265.55 KiB
/wp-admin/media-new.php0.511 s0.394 s-0.117 s3.7 MiB3.97 MiB+ 273.75 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category0.459 s0.302 s-0.157 s3.71 MiB3.99 MiB+ 284.42 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page0.665 s1.006 s+0.341 s6.29 MiB4.28 MiB- 2.01 MiB
/wp-admin/options-discussion.php0.309 s0.295 s-0.014 s3.71 MiB3.97 MiB+ 262.05 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-comments.php0.322 s0.314 s-0.008 s3.73 MiB3.99 MiB+ 262.01 KiB
/0.266 s0.204 s-0.062 s4.1 MiB4.25 MiB+ 156.23 KiB
Average 0.462 s0.545 s+0.083 s4.23 MiB4.13 MiB- 105.36 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
JavaScript
CSS
Language % Lines of code Comment lines Files
PHP42.7%14,1472,47878
JavaScript38.1%12,6132,21082
CSS16.4%5,43410511
LESS1.0%346326
JSON0.7%24602
XML0.7%24501
Markdown0.1%3602
SVG0.1%2806
Total 33,095 4,825 188

PHP Code Analysis | More results »

Lines of code 13,013
Total complexity 3,079
Median class complexity 21.0
Median method complexity 3.0
Most complex class lessc
Most complex function SiteOrigin_Panels_Renderer::generate_css()
Classes 47
Methods 544
Functions 45

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 6

User Metadata wp_usermeta 2

Sidebar Widgets 3

ID Name
siteorigin-panels-post-contentPost Content
siteorigin-panels-postloopPost Loop
siteorigin-panels-builderLayout Builder

Meta Boxes

{
    "dashboard": {
        "so-dashboard-news": {
            "title": "SiteOrigin Page Builder News",
            "context": "normal"
        }
    },
    "post": {
        "so-panels-panels": {
            "title": "Page Builder",
            "context": "advanced"
        }
    },
    "page": {
        "so-panels-panels": {
            "title": "Page Builder",
            "context": "advanced"
        }
    }
}

PHP Error Log 4 lines

[02-Dec-2025 21:42:11 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 21:42:11 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 21:42:18 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 21:42:18 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 Page Builder by SiteOrigin Admin Menus and More