Guard Dog Security & Site Lock 4.8

Does Guard Dog Security & Site Lock 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: 326.9 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 version6.8.3
PHP version8.1.12
MySQL version10.6.10
PHP memory limit512M
Plugin Info
Last updated
Active installs 200+
WordPress.org page https://wordpress.org/plugins/folder-auditor/
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Pages 9

Guard Dog Security ‹ Test site — WordPress

Page screenshot: Guard Dog Security ‹ Test site — WordPress
URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=guard-dog-security
Requested URL /wp-admin/plugins.php?action=activate&plugin=folder-auditor%2Ffolder-auditor.php&plugin_status=all&paged=1&s&_wpnonce=f22fb78462
Aspect after-activation
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.575 s
Memory usage 4.16 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Guard Dog

Page screenshot: Guard Dog
URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=guard-dog-security
Aspect menu-item
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.301 s
Memory usage 3.9 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Guard Dog → .htaccess

Page screenshot: Guard Dog → 
            
            .htaccess
URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=guard-dog-security&tab=htaccess
Aspect menu-item-tab
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.323 s
Memory usage 4 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Guard Dog → Site Lock

Page screenshot: Guard Dog → Site Lock
URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=guard-dog-security&tab=security
Aspect menu-item
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.318 s
Memory usage 3.85 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Guard Dog → Site Lock → Dashboard

Page screenshot: Guard Dog → Site Lock  → 
            
            Dashboard
URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=guard-dog-security&tab=dashboard
Aspect menu-item-tab
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.314 s
Memory usage 3.91 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Guard Dog → Auditor

Page screenshot: Guard Dog → Auditor
URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=guard-dog-security&tab=audit
Aspect menu-item
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.234 s
Memory usage 3.81 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Guard Dog → Scanner

Page screenshot: Guard Dog → Scanner
URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=guard-dog-security&tab=scanner
Aspect menu-item
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.219 s
Memory usage 4.03 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Guard Dog → Settings

Page screenshot: Guard Dog → Settings
URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=guard-dog-security&tab=settings
Aspect menu-item
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.221 s
Memory usage 3.87 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 0.211 s
Memory usage 3.73 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Benchmark

URL Load time Memory usage
Inactive Active Change Inactive Active Change
/wp-admin/index.php0.363 s0.343 s-0.020 s3.51 MiB3.86 MiB+ 362.21 KiB
/wp-admin/edit.php0.211 s0.261 s+0.050 s3.57 MiB3.92 MiB+ 357.39 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php0.833 s1.091 s+0.258 s6.06 MiB6.38 MiB+ 324.73 KiB
/wp-admin/upload.php0.773 s0.555 s-0.218 s3.52 MiB3.83 MiB+ 314.97 KiB
/wp-admin/options-writing.php0.257 s0.204 s-0.053 s3.5 MiB3.81 MiB+ 319.37 KiB
/wp-admin/media-new.php0.290 s0.268 s-0.022 s3.49 MiB3.81 MiB+ 327.56 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category0.207 s0.226 s+0.019 s3.5 MiB3.83 MiB+ 338.33 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page0.778 s0.654 s-0.124 s6.05 MiB6.36 MiB+ 320.26 KiB
/wp-admin/options-discussion.php0.271 s0.359 s+0.088 s3.5 MiB3.81 MiB+ 315.87 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-comments.php0.248 s0.286 s+0.038 s3.52 MiB3.83 MiB+ 315.52 KiB
/0.315 s0.244 s-0.071 s3.43 MiB3.73 MiB+ 299.7 KiB
Average 0.413 s0.408 s-0.005 s3.97 MiB4.29 MiB+ 326.9 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
CSS
Language % Lines of code Comment lines Files
PHP90.7%13,9911,98052
CSS9.3%1,429621
HTML0.0%101
Total 15,421 2,042 54

PHP Code Analysis | More results »

Lines of code 12,089
Total complexity 1,968
Median class complexity 28.0
Median method complexity 2.0
Most complex class WPFA_Security_Headers
Most complex function wpfa_sus_handle_bulk()
Classes 4
Methods 35
Functions 42

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.

Options wp_options 6

PHP Error Log

The log file is empty.

See also: All tests for this plugin, How to Hide Guard Dog Security & Site Lock Admin Menus