Guard Dog Security & Site Lock 6.0

Does Guard Dog Security & Site Lock work with WordPress 6.9 and PHP 8.1.12? A smoke test was performed on .

Summary

Errors
1PHP warnings
1JavaScript exceptions
All test pages loaded successfully
No resource errors
Performance

Memory usage: 408.77 KiB
The average PHP memory usage increased by this amount after activating by the plugin.

Page speed impact: 0.034 seconds
The average page load time increased by this amount after activating the plugin.

Environment
WordPress version6.9
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 10

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=7f18b7e5e5
Aspect after-activation
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.681 s
Memory usage 4.43 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 0.377 s
Memory usage 4.18 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 0.389 s
Memory usage 4.28 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 0.393 s
Memory usage 4.13 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 0.406 s
Memory usage 4.18 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 0.389 s
Memory usage 4.09 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 0.351 s
Memory usage 4.36 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Guard Dog → Tools

Page screenshot: Guard Dog → Tools
URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=guard-dog-security&tab=tools
Aspect menu-item
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.296 s
Memory usage 4.09 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 0.328 s
Memory usage 4.19 MiB
JS errors
[
    {
        "message": "SyntaxError: Unexpected token '}'",
        "trace": null,
        "code": null
    }
]
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 0.244 s
Memory usage 4.44 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Benchmark

URL Load time Memory usage
Inactive Active Change Inactive Active Change
/wp-admin/index.php0.404 s0.362 s-0.042 s3.78 MiB4.19 MiB+ 424.41 KiB
/wp-admin/edit.php0.352 s0.327 s-0.025 s3.78 MiB4.24 MiB+ 469.94 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php0.857 s0.972 s+0.115 s6.31 MiB6.76 MiB+ 466.64 KiB
/wp-admin/upload.php0.670 s0.908 s+0.238 s3.74 MiB4.12 MiB+ 391.2 KiB
/wp-admin/options-writing.php0.321 s0.402 s+0.081 s3.71 MiB4.08 MiB+ 380.57 KiB
/wp-admin/media-new.php0.522 s0.366 s-0.156 s3.7 MiB4.08 MiB+ 388.77 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category0.448 s0.317 s-0.131 s3.72 MiB4.11 MiB+ 399.22 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page0.732 s0.900 s+0.168 s6.3 MiB6.75 MiB+ 464.08 KiB
/wp-admin/options-discussion.php0.327 s0.494 s+0.167 s3.71 MiB4.08 MiB+ 376.76 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-comments.php0.317 s0.370 s+0.053 s3.73 MiB4.12 MiB+ 398.93 KiB
/0.276 s0.186 s-0.090 s4.12 MiB4.44 MiB+ 335.98 KiB
Average 0.475 s0.509 s+0.034 s4.24 MiB4.64 MiB+ 408.77 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
PHP85.8%16,6542,26960
CSS11.4%2,2041011
JavaScript2.9%557592
HTML0.0%101
Total 19,416 2,429 64

PHP Code Analysis | More results »

Lines of code 13,468
Total complexity 2,261
Median class complexity 13.0
Median method complexity 1.0
Most complex class WPFA_Security_Headers
Most complex function run_blacklist_checker()
Classes 5
Methods 35
Functions 46

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 1 lines

[29-Jan-2026 14:39:52 UTC] PHP Warning:  Undefined variable $wpfa_cron_disabled in /wp-content/plugins/folder-auditor/includes/views/view-settings.php on line 71
See also: All tests for this plugin, How to Hide Guard Dog Security & Site Lock Admin Menus