Defender 5.0.1

Does Defender work with WordPress 6.7.2 and PHP 8.1.12? A smoke test was performed on .

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: 1008.83 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 version6.7.2
PHP version8.1.12
MySQL version10.6.10
PHP memory limit512M
Plugin Info
Last updated
Active installs 90,000+
WordPress.org page https://wordpress.org/plugins/defender-security/
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Pages 14

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=defender-security%2Fwp-defender.php&plugin_status=all&paged=1&s&_wpnonce=832c45ba1f
Aspect after-activation
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.752 s
Memory usage 5.71 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Tools → Scheduled Actions

Page screenshot: Tools → Scheduled Actions
URL /wp-admin/tools.php?page=action-scheduler
Aspect menu-item
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.232 s
Memory usage 4.53 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Defender

Page screenshot: Defender
URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=wp-defender
Aspect menu-item
HTTP status 200
Load time 1.013 s
Memory usage 5.19 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Defender → Recommendations

Page screenshot: Defender → Recommendations
URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=wp-defender
Requested URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=wdf-hardener
Aspect menu-item
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.836 s
Memory usage 5.15 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Defender → Malware Scanning

Page screenshot: Defender → Malware Scanning
URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=wp-defender
Requested URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=wdf-scan
Aspect menu-item
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.833 s
Memory usage 5.15 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Defender → Audit Logging

Page screenshot: Defender → Audit Logging
URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=wp-defender
Requested URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=wdf-logging
Aspect menu-item
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.772 s
Memory usage 5.15 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Defender → Firewall NEW

Page screenshot: Defender → Firewall NEW
URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=wp-defender
Requested URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=wdf-ip-lockout
Aspect menu-item
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.769 s
Memory usage 5.15 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Defender → WAF

Page screenshot: Defender → WAF
URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=wp-defender
Requested URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=wdf-waf
Aspect menu-item
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.761 s
Memory usage 5.15 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Defender → 2FA

Page screenshot: Defender → 2FA
URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=wp-defender
Requested URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=wdf-2fa
Aspect menu-item
HTTP status 200
Load time 1.015 s
Memory usage 5.15 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Defender → Tools

Page screenshot: Defender → Tools
URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=wp-defender
Requested URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=wdf-advanced-tools
Aspect menu-item
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.752 s
Memory usage 5.15 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Defender → Notifications

Page screenshot: Defender → Notifications
URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=wp-defender
Requested URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=wdf-notification
Aspect menu-item
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.808 s
Memory usage 5.15 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Defender → Settings

Page screenshot: Defender → Settings
URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=wp-defender
Requested URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=wdf-setting
Aspect menu-item
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.777 s
Memory usage 5.15 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Defender → Tutorials

Page screenshot: Defender → Tutorials
URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=wp-defender
Requested URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=wdf-tutorial
Aspect menu-item
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.995 s
Memory usage 5.15 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 0.305 s
Memory usage 4.33 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Benchmark

URL Load time Memory usage
Inactive Active Change Inactive Active Change
/wp-admin/index.php0.373 s0.513 s+0.140 s3.48 MiB4.52 MiB+ 1.04 MiB
/wp-admin/edit.php0.219 s0.237 s+0.018 s3.54 MiB4.58 MiB+ 1.04 MiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php0.891 s1.051 s+0.160 s5.93 MiB6.95 MiB+ 1.03 MiB
/wp-admin/upload.php0.600 s0.587 s-0.013 s3.5 MiB4.46 MiB+ 987.38 KiB
/wp-admin/options-writing.php0.242 s0.240 s-0.002 s3.47 MiB4.44 MiB+ 991.78 KiB
/wp-admin/media-new.php0.302 s0.292 s-0.010 s3.46 MiB4.44 MiB+ 999.98 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category0.228 s0.243 s+0.015 s3.48 MiB4.47 MiB+ 1015.52 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page0.648 s0.679 s+0.031 s5.92 MiB6.94 MiB+ 1.02 MiB
/wp-admin/options-discussion.php0.306 s0.315 s+0.009 s3.48 MiB4.44 MiB+ 988.28 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-comments.php0.463 s0.239 s-0.224 s3.5 MiB4.47 MiB+ 1002.33 KiB
/0.362 s0.411 s+0.049 s3.47 MiB4.34 MiB+ 881.64 KiB
Average 0.421 s0.437 s+0.016 s3.93 MiB4.91 MiB+ 1008.83 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
PHP72.9%66,35729,132397
JavaScript23.9%21,80865931
Markdown1.1%1,01709
SVG0.8%704417
C0.7%668251
CSS0.4%32458
JSON0.1%10203
XML0.1%6201
m40.0%3201
C/C++ Header0.0%8121
Total 91,082 29,837 469

PHP Code Analysis | More results »

Lines of code 62,552
Total complexity 10,961
Median class complexity 16.0
Median method complexity 2.0
Most complex class PHP_CodeSniffer\Tokenizers\PHP
Most complex function get_public_suffix()
Classes 308
Methods 2,660
Functions 51

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 8

Options wp_options 7

Custom Post Types 1

ID Name
scheduled-actionScheduled Actions

PHP Error Log

The log file is empty.

See also: All tests for this plugin, How to Hide Defender Admin Menus