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Defender 6.0.1

Does Defender work with WordPress 7.0.1 and PHP 8.1.12? A smoke test was performed on 2026-07-13 12:36:19 UTC.

Summary

Pages 10

Defender ‹ Test site — WordPress

Tools → Scheduled Actions

Defender

Defender → Issues

Defender → Hardening

Defender → Audit Log

Defender → Firewalls

Defender → Login & Access

Defender → Settings

Test site – Just another WordPress site

Benchmark

URL	Load time			Memory usage
	Inactive	Active	Change	Inactive	Active	Change
/wp-admin/index.php	0.999 s	0.659 s	-0.340 s	3.93 MiB	4.85 MiB	+ 949.05 KiB
/wp-admin/edit.php	0.589 s	0.698 s	+0.109 s	3.98 MiB	4.91 MiB	+ 947.05 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php	2.017 s	1.580 s	-0.437 s	6.56 MiB	7.57 MiB	+ 1.02 MiB
/wp-admin/upload.php	0.699 s	0.718 s	+0.019 s	3.89 MiB	4.81 MiB	+ 945.36 KiB
/wp-admin/options-writing.php	0.542 s	0.565 s	+0.023 s	3.86 MiB	4.79 MiB	+ 949.04 KiB
/wp-admin/media-new.php	0.947 s	0.563 s	-0.384 s	3.85 MiB	4.79 MiB	+ 957.23 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category	0.500 s	0.851 s	+0.351 s	3.86 MiB	4.8 MiB	+ 962.41 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page	1.395 s	1.499 s	+0.104 s	6.55 MiB	7.56 MiB	+ 1.01 MiB
/wp-admin/options-discussion.php	0.574 s	0.954 s	+0.380 s	3.86 MiB	4.79 MiB	+ 945.54 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-comments.php	0.539 s	0.554 s	+0.015 s	3.89 MiB	4.81 MiB	+ 945.04 KiB
/	0.270 s	0.219 s	-0.051 s	4.23 MiB	5.08 MiB	+ 873.17 KiB
Average	0.825 s	0.805 s	-0.019 s	4.41 MiB	5.34 MiB	+ 959.29 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.

Language		%	Lines of code	Comment lines	Files
	PHP	55.2%	72,389	33,287	450
	SVG	24.6%	32,225	4	288
	JavaScript	18.2%	23,897	718	35
	Markdown	0.6%	840	0	7
	JSON	0.6%	839	0	4
	C	0.5%	668	25	1
	CSS	0.1%	79	1	12
	PO File	0.0%	63	49	1
	XML	0.0%	62	0	1
	m4	0.0%	32	0	1
	C/C++ Header	0.0%	8	12	1
Total			131,102	34,096	801

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

• wp_defender_antibot
• 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 10

• action_scheduler_lock_async-request-runner
• defender_free_install_date
• defender_postponed_notice_date
• hardener_settings
• wd_db_version
• wd_show_feature_redesign
• wd_show_usage_data
• wp_defender_event_times
• wp_defender_notifications
• wpdef_antibot_global_firewall_global_notice_time

Custom Post Types 1

ID	Name
scheduled-action	Scheduled Actions

PHP Error Log

The log file is empty.

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