Defender 5.10.0

Does Defender work with WordPress 6.9.1 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: 1.11 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 version6.9.1
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=e3f19bfe15
Aspect after-activation
HTTP status 200
Load time 1.145 s
Memory usage 6.24 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 0.298 s
Memory usage 4.84 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 0.714 s
Memory usage 5.54 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 0.441 s
Memory usage 5.56 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 0.546 s
Memory usage 5.56 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 0.409 s
Memory usage 5.56 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Defender → Firewall

Page screenshot: 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 0.419 s
Memory usage 5.56 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 0.404 s
Memory usage 5.56 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 0.392 s
Memory usage 5.56 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 0.384 s
Memory usage 5.56 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 0.503 s
Memory usage 5.56 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 0.420 s
Memory usage 5.56 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Defender → Get More Free Plugins

Page screenshot: Defender → Get More Free Plugins
URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=defender_cross_sell
Aspect menu-item
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.324 s
Memory usage 4.78 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 0.254 s
Memory usage 5.1 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Benchmark

URL Load time Memory usage
Inactive Active Change Inactive Active Change
/wp-admin/index.php0.414 s0.558 s+0.144 s3.78 MiB4.9 MiB+ 1.12 MiB
/wp-admin/edit.php0.343 s0.317 s-0.026 s3.78 MiB4.93 MiB+ 1.15 MiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php0.847 s0.973 s+0.126 s6.31 MiB7.52 MiB+ 1.21 MiB
/wp-admin/upload.php0.621 s0.456 s-0.165 s3.74 MiB4.84 MiB+ 1.1 MiB
/wp-admin/options-writing.php0.306 s0.303 s-0.003 s3.71 MiB4.78 MiB+ 1.07 MiB
/wp-admin/media-new.php0.490 s0.366 s-0.124 s3.7 MiB4.77 MiB+ 1.07 MiB
/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category0.448 s0.304 s-0.144 s3.72 MiB4.8 MiB+ 1.09 MiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page0.675 s0.671 s-0.004 s6.3 MiB7.51 MiB+ 1.21 MiB
/wp-admin/options-discussion.php0.343 s0.447 s+0.104 s3.71 MiB4.79 MiB+ 1.07 MiB
/wp-admin/edit-comments.php0.320 s0.381 s+0.061 s3.73 MiB4.81 MiB+ 1.08 MiB
/0.275 s0.192 s-0.083 s4.11 MiB5.1 MiB+ 1020.14 KiB
Average 0.462 s0.452 s-0.010 s4.24 MiB5.34 MiB+ 1.11 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.

PHP
JavaScript
Language % Lines of code Comment lines Files
PHP72.5%70,48932,512447
JavaScript24.7%24,05385637
Markdown1.0%96708
SVG0.7%700417
C0.7%668251
JSON0.1%10303
CSS0.1%77111
PO File0.1%63491
XML0.1%6201
m40.0%3201
C/C++ Header0.0%8121
Total 97,222 33,459 528

PHP Code Analysis | More results »

Lines of code 66,079
Total complexity 12,538
Median class complexity 16.0
Median method complexity 2.0
Most complex class PHP_CodeSniffer\Tokenizers\PHP
Most complex function get_public_suffix()
Classes 350
Methods 2,999
Functions 57

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

Options wp_options 9

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