Page Builder by SiteOrigin 2.33.4

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: 0.071 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=c4b92690e0
Aspect after-activation
HTTP status 200
Load time 1.300 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 4.794 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 0.733 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 0.279 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 0.528 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 1.020 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 0.896 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 0.923 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.php0.442 s0.641 s+0.199 s3.77 MiB4.56 MiB+ 807.8 KiB
/wp-admin/edit.php0.361 s0.346 s-0.015 s3.78 MiB4.05 MiB+ 279.42 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php0.862 s1.715 s+0.853 s6.3 MiB4.4 MiB- 1.91 MiB
/wp-admin/upload.php0.705 s0.404 s-0.301 s3.74 MiB3.99 MiB+ 261.56 KiB
/wp-admin/options-writing.php0.337 s0.300 s-0.037 s3.71 MiB3.97 MiB+ 265.55 KiB
/wp-admin/media-new.php0.501 s0.471 s-0.030 s3.7 MiB3.97 MiB+ 273.75 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category0.444 s0.307 s-0.137 s3.71 MiB3.99 MiB+ 284.42 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page0.699 s1.050 s+0.351 s6.29 MiB4.28 MiB- 2.01 MiB
/wp-admin/options-discussion.php0.332 s0.307 s-0.025 s3.71 MiB3.97 MiB+ 262.05 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-comments.php0.319 s0.330 s+0.011 s3.73 MiB3.99 MiB+ 262.01 KiB
/0.288 s0.204 s-0.084 s4.1 MiB4.25 MiB+ 156.23 KiB
Average 0.481 s0.552 s+0.071 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%5,43610511
LESS1.0%346326
JSON0.7%24602
XML0.7%24501
Markdown0.1%3602
SVG0.1%2806
Total 33,097 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

[03-Dec-2025 15:50:31 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 15:50:31 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 15:50:38 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 15:50:38 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