Guard Dog Security & Site Lock 4.9.2

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: 325.79 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=d1f34acd41
Aspect after-activation
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.617 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 0.298 s
Memory usage 3.91 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 0.299 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 0.324 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 0.319 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 0.235 s
Memory usage 3.82 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 0.251 s
Memory usage 4.04 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 0.235 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 0.197 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.php0.374 s0.344 s-0.030 s3.51 MiB3.87 MiB+ 367.81 KiB
/wp-admin/edit.php0.225 s0.358 s+0.133 s3.57 MiB3.93 MiB+ 362.37 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php0.850 s1.122 s+0.272 s6.06 MiB6.38 MiB+ 329.58 KiB
/wp-admin/upload.php0.794 s0.454 s-0.340 s3.52 MiB3.84 MiB+ 319.95 KiB
/wp-admin/options-writing.php0.233 s0.213 s-0.020 s3.5 MiB3.82 MiB+ 324.34 KiB
/wp-admin/media-new.php0.299 s0.268 s-0.031 s3.49 MiB3.82 MiB+ 332.54 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category0.197 s0.214 s+0.017 s3.5 MiB3.84 MiB+ 343.3 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page0.755 s0.834 s+0.079 s6.05 MiB6.37 MiB+ 325.11 KiB
/wp-admin/options-discussion.php0.291 s0.518 s+0.227 s3.5 MiB3.82 MiB+ 320.84 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-comments.php0.464 s0.241 s-0.223 s3.52 MiB3.84 MiB+ 320.5 KiB
/0.348 s0.237 s-0.111 s3.5 MiB3.73 MiB+ 237.35 KiB
Average 0.439 s0.437 s-0.002 s3.98 MiB4.29 MiB+ 325.79 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
PHP90.8%14,0951,98852
CSS9.2%1,429621
HTML0.0%101
Total 15,525 2,050 54

PHP Code Analysis | More results »

Lines of code 12,151
Total complexity 1,984
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