Guard Dog Security & Site Lock 6.1
Does Guard Dog Security & Site Lock work with WordPress 6.9 and PHP 8.1.12? A smoke test was performed on .
Summary
Errors
| 1 | PHP warnings |
| 1 | JavaScript exceptions |
| All test pages loaded successfully | |
| No resource errors |
Performance
Memory usage: 408.95 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 version | 6.9 |
|---|---|
| PHP version | 8.1.12 |
| MySQL version | 10.6.10 |
| PHP memory limit | 512M |
Plugin Info
| Last updated | |
|---|---|
| Active installs | 200+ |
| WordPress.org page | https://wordpress.org/plugins/folder-auditor/ |
| Badges |
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Pages 10
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=3d5baacb79 |
| Aspect | after-activation |
| HTTP status | 200 |
| Load time | 0.756 s |
| Memory usage | 4.43 MiB |
| JS errors | None |
| Resource errors | None |
Guard Dog
| URL | /wp-admin/admin.php?page=guard-dog-security |
|---|---|
| Aspect | menu-item |
| HTTP status | 200 |
| Load time | 0.389 s |
| Memory usage | 4.18 MiB |
| JS errors | None |
| Resource errors | None |
Guard Dog → .htaccess
| URL | /wp-admin/admin.php?page=guard-dog-security&tab=htaccess |
|---|---|
| Aspect | menu-item-tab |
| HTTP status | 200 |
| Load time | 0.421 s |
| Memory usage | 4.28 MiB |
| JS errors | None |
| Resource errors | None |
Guard Dog → Site Lock
| URL | /wp-admin/admin.php?page=guard-dog-security&tab=security |
|---|---|
| Aspect | menu-item |
| HTTP status | 200 |
| Load time | 0.419 s |
| Memory usage | 4.13 MiB |
| JS errors | None |
| Resource errors | None |
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 | 0.442 s |
| Memory usage | 4.18 MiB |
| JS errors | None |
| Resource errors | None |
Guard Dog → Auditor
| URL | /wp-admin/admin.php?page=guard-dog-security&tab=audit |
|---|---|
| Aspect | menu-item |
| HTTP status | 200 |
| Load time | 0.456 s |
| Memory usage | 4.09 MiB |
| JS errors | None |
| Resource errors | None |
Guard Dog → Scanner
| URL | /wp-admin/admin.php?page=guard-dog-security&tab=scanner |
|---|---|
| Aspect | menu-item |
| HTTP status | 200 |
| Load time | 0.354 s |
| Memory usage | 4.36 MiB |
| JS errors | None |
| Resource errors | None |
Guard Dog → Tools
| URL | /wp-admin/admin.php?page=guard-dog-security&tab=tools |
|---|---|
| Aspect | menu-item |
| HTTP status | 200 |
| Load time | 0.353 s |
| Memory usage | 4.09 MiB |
| JS errors | None |
| Resource errors | None |
Guard Dog → Settings
| URL | /wp-admin/admin.php?page=guard-dog-security&tab=settings |
|---|---|
| Aspect | menu-item |
| HTTP status | 200 |
| Load time | 0.364 s |
| Memory usage | 4.19 MiB |
| JS errors | |
| Resource errors | None |
Test site – Just another WordPress site
| URL | / |
|---|---|
| Aspect | front-page |
| HTTP status | 200 |
| Load time | 0.274 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.php | 0.489 s | 0.444 s | -0.045 s | 3.78 MiB | 4.19 MiB | + 424.41 KiB |
| /wp-admin/edit.php | 0.377 s | 0.372 s | -0.005 s | 3.78 MiB | 4.24 MiB | + 469.93 KiB |
| /wp-admin/post-new.php | 0.817 s | 1.021 s | +0.204 s | 6.31 MiB | 6.76 MiB | + 466.64 KiB |
| /wp-admin/upload.php | 0.480 s | 0.471 s | -0.009 s | 3.74 MiB | 4.12 MiB | + 391.2 KiB |
| /wp-admin/options-writing.php | 0.365 s | 0.357 s | -0.008 s | 3.71 MiB | 4.08 MiB | + 380.57 KiB |
| /wp-admin/media-new.php | 0.523 s | 0.396 s | -0.127 s | 3.7 MiB | 4.08 MiB | + 388.77 KiB |
| /wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category | 0.366 s | 0.373 s | +0.007 s | 3.72 MiB | 4.11 MiB | + 399.22 KiB |
| /wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page | 0.738 s | 0.737 s | -0.001 s | 6.3 MiB | 6.75 MiB | + 464.08 KiB |
| /wp-admin/options-discussion.php | 0.409 s | 0.550 s | +0.141 s | 3.71 MiB | 4.08 MiB | + 376.76 KiB |
| /wp-admin/edit-comments.php | 0.407 s | 0.385 s | -0.022 s | 3.73 MiB | 4.12 MiB | + 398.93 KiB |
| / | 0.328 s | 0.219 s | -0.109 s | 4.11 MiB | 4.44 MiB | + 337.96 KiB |
| Average | 0.482 s | 0.484 s | +0.002 s | 4.24 MiB | 4.64 MiB | + 408.95 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 | 85.4% | 16,654 | 2,269 | 60 | |
| CSS | 11.5% | 2,246 | 104 | 1 | |
| JavaScript | 3.1% | 604 | 66 | 2 | |
| HTML | 0.0% | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| Total | 19,505 | 2,439 | 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
- wpfa_block_new_admins
- wpfa_block_user_enumeration
- wpfa_cron_token
- wpfa_disable_xmlrpc
- wpfa_limit_login_attempts
- wpfa_never_lock_content
PHP Error Log 1 lines
[29-Jan-2026 20:44:25 UTC] PHP Warning: Undefined variable $wpfa_cron_disabled in /wp-content/plugins/folder-auditor/includes/views/view-settings.php on line 71