Defender 5.5.1
Does Defender work with WordPress 6.8.3 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: 1.03 MiB
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 | 6.8.3 |
|---|---|
| PHP version | 8.1.12 |
| MySQL version | 10.6.10 |
| PHP memory limit | 512M |
Plugin Info
| Last updated | |
|---|---|
| Active installs | 90,000+ |
| WordPress.org page | https://wordpress.org/plugins/defender-security/ |
| Badges |
|
Pages 14
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=d2cbfb98ac |
| Aspect | after-activation |
| HTTP status | 200 |
| Load time | 0.825 s |
| Memory usage | 5.93 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 | 0.274 s |
| Memory usage | 4.59 MiB |
| JS errors | None |
| Resource errors | None |
Defender
| URL | /wp-admin/admin.php?page=wp-defender |
|---|---|
| Aspect | menu-item |
| HTTP status | 200 |
| Load time | 0.775 s |
| Memory usage | 5.27 MiB |
| JS errors | None |
| Resource errors | None |
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 | 0.374 s |
| Memory usage | 5.29 MiB |
| JS errors | None |
| Resource errors | None |
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 | 0.339 s |
| Memory usage | 5.29 MiB |
| JS errors | None |
| Resource errors | None |
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 | 0.326 s |
| Memory usage | 5.29 MiB |
| JS errors | None |
| Resource errors | None |
Defender → Firewall
| 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 | 0.316 s |
| Memory usage | 5.29 MiB |
| JS errors | None |
| Resource errors | None |
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 | 0.504 s |
| Memory usage | 5.29 MiB |
| JS errors | None |
| Resource errors | None |
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 | 0.338 s |
| Memory usage | 5.29 MiB |
| JS errors | None |
| Resource errors | None |
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 | 0.353 s |
| Memory usage | 5.29 MiB |
| JS errors | None |
| Resource errors | None |
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 | 0.311 s |
| Memory usage | 5.29 MiB |
| JS errors | None |
| Resource errors | None |
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 | 0.336 s |
| Memory usage | 5.29 MiB |
| JS errors | None |
| Resource errors | None |
Defender → More free Plugins?
| URL | /wp-admin/admin.php?page=defender_cross_sell |
|---|---|
| Aspect | menu-item |
| HTTP status | 200 |
| Load time | 0.452 s |
| Memory usage | 4.55 MiB |
| JS errors | None |
| Resource errors | None |
Test site – Just another WordPress site
| URL | / |
|---|---|
| Aspect | front-page |
| HTTP status | 200 |
| Load time | 0.266 s |
| Memory usage | 4.4 MiB |
| JS errors | None |
| Resource errors | None |
Benchmark
| URL | Load time | Memory usage | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Inactive | Active | Change | Inactive | Active | Change | |
| /wp-admin/index.php | 0.304 s | 0.651 s | +0.347 s | 3.51 MiB | 4.59 MiB | + 1.08 MiB |
| /wp-admin/edit.php | 0.200 s | 0.202 s | +0.002 s | 3.57 MiB | 4.65 MiB | + 1.07 MiB |
| /wp-admin/post-new.php | 0.775 s | 0.946 s | +0.171 s | 6.06 MiB | 7.15 MiB | + 1.09 MiB |
| /wp-admin/upload.php | 0.633 s | 0.646 s | +0.013 s | 3.52 MiB | 4.52 MiB | + 1022.55 KiB |
| /wp-admin/options-writing.php | 0.222 s | 0.239 s | +0.017 s | 3.5 MiB | 4.5 MiB | + 1 MiB |
| /wp-admin/media-new.php | 0.301 s | 0.237 s | -0.064 s | 3.49 MiB | 4.5 MiB | + 1.01 MiB |
| /wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category | 0.222 s | 0.214 s | -0.008 s | 3.5 MiB | 4.53 MiB | + 1.03 MiB |
| /wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page | 0.613 s | 0.665 s | +0.052 s | 6.05 MiB | 7.14 MiB | + 1.08 MiB |
| /wp-admin/options-discussion.php | 0.271 s | 0.289 s | +0.018 s | 3.5 MiB | 4.5 MiB | + 1023.45 KiB |
| /wp-admin/edit-comments.php | 0.429 s | 0.201 s | -0.228 s | 3.52 MiB | 4.54 MiB | + 1.01 MiB |
| / | 0.301 s | 0.189 s | -0.112 s | 3.43 MiB | 4.4 MiB | + 988.53 KiB |
| Average | 0.388 s | 0.407 s | +0.019 s | 3.97 MiB | 5 MiB | + 1.03 MiB |
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.
| Language | % | Lines of code | Comment lines | Files | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PHP | 71.8% | 70,080 | 31,555 | 433 | |
| JavaScript | 25.4% | 24,819 | 850 | 34 | |
| Markdown | 1.0% | 967 | 0 | 8 | |
| SVG | 0.7% | 693 | 4 | 16 | |
| C | 0.7% | 668 | 25 | 1 | |
| PO File | 0.1% | 135 | 121 | 1 | |
| JSON | 0.1% | 103 | 0 | 3 | |
| CSS | 0.1% | 73 | 1 | 9 | |
| XML | 0.1% | 62 | 0 | 1 | |
| m4 | 0.0% | 32 | 0 | 1 | |
| C/C++ Header | 0.0% | 8 | 12 | 1 | |
| Total | 97,640 | 32,568 | 508 | ||
PHP Code Analysis | More results »
| Lines of code | 65,794 |
|---|---|
| Total complexity | 11,810 |
| Median class complexity | 16.0 |
| Median method complexity | 2.0 |
| Most complex class | PHP_CodeSniffer\Tokenizers\PHP |
| Most complex function | get_public_suffix() |
| Classes | 339 |
|---|---|
| Methods | 2,901 |
| Functions | 56 |
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 9
- wp_defender_antibot
- wp_defender_audit_log
- wp_defender_email_log
- wp_defender_lockout
- wp_defender_lockout_log
- wp_defender_quarantine
- wp_defender_scan
- wp_defender_scan_item
- wp_defender_unlockout
Options wp_options 6
- action_scheduler_lock_async-request-runner
- defender_free_install_date
- hardener_settings
- wd_db_version
- wd_show_feature_abandoned_plugin
- wpmudev_notices
User Metadata wp_usermeta 1
- wd_plugin_outdated_breadcrumbs
Custom Post Types 1
| ID | Name |
|---|---|
| scheduled-action | Scheduled Actions |
PHP Error Log
The log file is empty.