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Does Defender work with WordPress 6.3 and PHP 8.1.12? A smoke test was performed on 2023-08-09 13:38:40 UTC.

Summary

Errors

	No PHP errors, warnings or notices
	No JavaScript exceptions
	All test pages loaded successfully
	No resource errors
	Looks good! No problems were detected.

Performance

Memory usage: 777.13 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 version	6.3
PHP version	8.1.12
MySQL version	10.6.10
PHP memory limit	512M

Plugin Info

Last updated	2026-03-03T11:21:00+00:00
Active installs	90,000+
WordPress.org page	https://wordpress.org/plugins/defender-security/
Badges	Get badge code

Pages 4

Plugins ‹ Test site — WordPress

URL	/wp-admin/plugins.php?plugin_status=all&paged=1&s
Requested URL	/wp-admin/plugins.php?action=activate&plugin=defender-security%2Fwp-defender.php&plugin_status=all&paged=1&s&_wpnonce=31e58c2ad3
Aspect	after-activation
HTTP status	200
Load time	0.528 s
Memory usage	4.69 MiB
JS errors	None
Resource errors	None

Tools → Scheduled Actions

URL	/wp-admin/tools.php?page=action-scheduler
Aspect	menu-item
HTTP status	200
Load time	0.159 s
Memory usage	3.62 MiB
JS errors	None
Resource errors	None

Defender

URL	/wp-admin/admin.php?page=wp-defender
Aspect	menu-item
HTTP status	200
Load time	0.532 s
Memory usage	4.12 MiB
JS errors	None
Resource errors	None

Test site – Just another WordPress site

URL	/
Aspect	front-page
HTTP status	200
Load time	0.174 s
Memory usage	3.93 MiB
JS errors	None
Resource errors	None

Benchmark

URL	Load time			Memory usage
URL	Inactive	Active	Change	Inactive	Active	Change
/wp-admin/index.php	0.295 s	0.281 s	-0.014 s	2.82 MiB	3.62 MiB	+ 816.63 KiB
/wp-admin/edit.php	0.180 s	0.198 s	+0.018 s	2.85 MiB	3.68 MiB	+ 852.19 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php	0.687 s	0.580 s	-0.107 s	5.21 MiB	5.97 MiB	+ 775.22 KiB
/wp-admin/upload.php	0.505 s	0.475 s	-0.030 s	2.77 MiB	3.5 MiB	+ 749.81 KiB
/wp-admin/options-writing.php	0.203 s	0.210 s	+0.007 s	2.76 MiB	3.49 MiB	+ 740.95 KiB
/wp-admin/media-new.php	0.273 s	0.197 s	-0.076 s	2.74 MiB	3.48 MiB	+ 762 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category	0.195 s	0.183 s	-0.012 s	2.76 MiB	3.51 MiB	+ 767.17 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page	0.523 s	0.543 s	+0.020 s	5.21 MiB	5.96 MiB	+ 766.8 KiB
/wp-admin/options-discussion.php	0.185 s	0.220 s	+0.035 s	2.75 MiB	3.48 MiB	+ 749.48 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-comments.php	0.352 s	0.185 s	-0.167 s	2.78 MiB	3.51 MiB	+ 748.26 KiB
/	0.274 s	0.196 s	-0.078 s	3.13 MiB	3.93 MiB	+ 819.88 KiB
Average	0.334 s	0.297 s	-0.037 s	3.25 MiB	4.01 MiB	+ 777.13 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

Language		%	Lines of code	Comment lines	Files
	PHP	71.1%	59,105	19,742	335
	JavaScript	26.2%	21,804	658	29
	Markdown	0.9%	765	0	7
	C	0.7%	589	18	1
	SVG	0.6%	496	4	15
	CSS	0.3%	278	4	7
	JSON	0.1%	63	0	2
	m4	0.0%	32	0	1
	C/C++ Header	0.0%	8	12	1
Total			83,140	20,438	398

PHP Code Analysis | More results »

Lines of code	57,124
Total complexity	10,041
Median class complexity	17.0
Median method complexity	2.0
Most complex class	PHP_CodeSniffer\Tokenizers\PHP
Most complex function	get_public_suffix()

Classes	283
Methods	2,343
Functions	44

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.

Database Tables 6

wp_defender_audit_log
wp_defender_email_log
wp_defender_lockout
wp_defender_lockout_log
wp_defender_scan
wp_defender_scan_item

Options `wp_options` 6

action_scheduler_lock_async-request-runner
defender_free_install_date
hardener_settings
wd_db_version
wpmudev_notices
wpmudev_recommended_plugins_registered

Custom Post Types 1

ID	Name
scheduled-action	Scheduled Actions

PHP Error Log

The log file is empty.

Defender 4.0.1