Guard Dog Security & Site Lock 6.2

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

Page speed impact: 0.075 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=6b21f05f38
Aspect after-activation
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.969 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 0.419 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 1.188 s
Memory usage 4.27 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 0.631 s
Memory usage 4.12 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 1.920 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 0.486 s
Memory usage 4.08 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 0.479 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 0.552 s
Memory usage 4.08 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 0.591 s
Memory usage 4.18 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 0.404 s
Memory usage 4.43 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Benchmark

URL Load time Memory usage
Inactive Active Change Inactive Active Change
/wp-admin/index.php0.577 s0.765 s+0.188 s3.77 MiB4.19 MiB+ 423.62 KiB
/wp-admin/edit.php0.453 s0.489 s+0.036 s3.78 MiB4.24 MiB+ 469.13 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php0.992 s2.003 s+1.011 s6.3 MiB6.76 MiB+ 465.84 KiB
/wp-admin/upload.php0.713 s0.639 s-0.074 s3.74 MiB4.12 MiB+ 390.39 KiB
/wp-admin/options-writing.php0.463 s0.523 s+0.060 s3.71 MiB4.08 MiB+ 379.77 KiB
/wp-admin/media-new.php0.780 s0.595 s-0.185 s3.7 MiB4.08 MiB+ 387.96 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category0.502 s0.572 s+0.070 s3.71 MiB4.1 MiB+ 398.41 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page1.140 s1.381 s+0.241 s6.29 MiB6.75 MiB+ 463.27 KiB
/wp-admin/options-discussion.php0.534 s0.537 s+0.003 s3.71 MiB4.08 MiB+ 375.95 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-comments.php0.529 s0.365 s-0.164 s3.73 MiB4.12 MiB+ 398.12 KiB
/0.608 s0.244 s-0.364 s4.1 MiB4.43 MiB+ 337.16 KiB
Average 0.663 s0.738 s+0.075 s4.23 MiB4.63 MiB+ 408.15 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
PHP85.4%16,6542,26960
CSS11.5%2,2461041
JavaScript3.1%604662
HTML0.0%101
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

PHP Error Log 1 lines

[31-Jan-2026 15:55:28 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