WP-Parsedown 0.5

Does WP-Parsedown work with WordPress 7.0 and PHP 8.1.12? A smoke test was performed on .

Summary

Errors
8Unrecognized messages in the PHP error log
No JavaScript exceptions
All test pages loaded successfully
No resource errors
Performance

Memory usage: -3.39 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 version7.0
PHP version8.1.12
MySQL version10.6.10
PHP memory limit512M
Plugin Info
Last updated
Active installs <10
WordPress.org page https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-parsedown/
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Pages 2

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=wp-parsedown%2Fwp-parsedown.php&plugin_status=all&paged=1&s&_wpnonce=5b848f68c4
Aspect after-activation
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.882 s
Memory usage 3.88 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 0.224 s
Memory usage 4.23 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Benchmark

URL Load time Memory usage
Inactive Active Change Inactive Active Change
/wp-admin/index.php0.619 s0.545 s-0.074 s3.92 MiB3.93 MiB+ 2.18 KiB
/wp-admin/edit.php0.513 s0.489 s-0.024 s3.98 MiB3.98 MiB+ 2.18 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php1.978 s2.526 s+0.548 s6.56 MiB6.56 MiB+ 6.61 KiB
/wp-admin/upload.php1.237 s0.822 s-0.415 s3.89 MiB3.87 MiB- 15.17 KiB
/wp-admin/options-writing.php0.635 s0.490 s-0.145 s3.86 MiB3.85 MiB- 11.18 KiB
/wp-admin/media-new.php0.554 s0.835 s+0.281 s3.85 MiB3.85 MiB- 2.98 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category0.540 s0.530 s-0.010 s3.86 MiB3.87 MiB+ 2.19 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page2.048 s1.737 s-0.311 s6.55 MiB6.55 MiB+ 6.61 KiB
/wp-admin/options-discussion.php0.594 s0.745 s+0.151 s3.86 MiB3.85 MiB- 14.73 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-comments.php0.547 s0.537 s-0.010 s3.88 MiB3.87 MiB- 15.23 KiB
/0.270 s0.234 s-0.036 s4.23 MiB4.23 MiB+ 2.24 KiB
Average 0.867 s0.863 s-0.004 s4.4 MiB4.4 MiB- 3.39 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
HTML
Markdown
Language % Lines of code Comment lines Files
PHP63.8%1,6372008
HTML18.5%475356
Markdown15.5%398060
JSON1.5%3902
XML0.6%1602
Total 2,565 203 128

PHP Code Analysis | More results »

Lines of code 1,634
Total complexity 282
Median class complexity 8.5
Median method complexity 3.0
Most complex class Parsedown
Most complex function Parsedown::lines()
Classes 6
Methods 78
Functions 0

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 8 lines

[13-Jun-2026 09:33:23 UTC] WP_PARSEDOWN: parsing post: 1
[13-Jun-2026 09:33:25 UTC] WP_PARSEDOWN: parsing post: 39
[13-Jun-2026 09:33:25 UTC] WP_PARSEDOWN: parsing post: 39
[13-Jun-2026 09:33:28 UTC] WP_PARSEDOWN: parsing post: 1
[13-Jun-2026 09:33:30 UTC] WP_PARSEDOWN: parsing post: 1
[13-Jun-2026 09:33:32 UTC] WP_PARSEDOWN: parsing post: 40
[13-Jun-2026 09:33:32 UTC] WP_PARSEDOWN: parsing post: 40
[13-Jun-2026 09:33:37 UTC] WP_PARSEDOWN: parsing post: 1
See also: All tests for this plugin