Guard Dog Security & Site Lock 6.8
Does Guard Dog Security & Site Lock work with WordPress 6.9.4 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: 412.13 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 | 6.9.4 |
|---|---|
| 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=03b145f24b |
| Aspect | after-activation |
| HTTP status | 200 |
| Load time | 0.583 s |
| Memory usage | 4.44 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 | 0.382 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 | 0.389 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 | 0.400 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 | 0.503 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 | 0.326 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 | 0.332 s |
| Memory usage | 4.51 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 | 0.289 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 | 0.334 s |
| Memory usage | 4.2 MiB |
| JS errors | |
| Resource errors | None |
Test site – Just another WordPress site
| URL | / |
|---|---|
| Aspect | front-page |
| HTTP status | 200 |
| Load time | 0.237 s |
| Memory usage | 4.41 MiB |
| JS errors | None |
| Resource errors | None |
Benchmark
| URL | Load time | Memory usage | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Inactive | Active | Change | Inactive | Active | Change | |
| /wp-admin/index.php | 0.433 s | 0.454 s | +0.021 s | 3.78 MiB | 4.2 MiB | + 429.87 KiB |
| /wp-admin/edit.php | 0.353 s | 0.313 s | -0.040 s | 3.78 MiB | 4.25 MiB | + 475.27 KiB |
| /wp-admin/post-new.php | 0.857 s | 0.948 s | +0.091 s | 6.31 MiB | 6.77 MiB | + 472.09 KiB |
| /wp-admin/upload.php | 0.629 s | 0.361 s | -0.268 s | 3.74 MiB | 4.13 MiB | + 396.65 KiB |
| /wp-admin/options-writing.php | 0.319 s | 0.303 s | -0.016 s | 3.71 MiB | 4.09 MiB | + 385.79 KiB |
| /wp-admin/media-new.php | 0.515 s | 0.343 s | -0.172 s | 3.7 MiB | 4.09 MiB | + 393.98 KiB |
| /wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category | 0.462 s | 0.292 s | -0.170 s | 3.72 MiB | 4.11 MiB | + 404.44 KiB |
| /wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page | 0.682 s | 0.804 s | +0.122 s | 6.3 MiB | 6.76 MiB | + 469.53 KiB |
| /wp-admin/options-discussion.php | 0.393 s | 0.392 s | -0.001 s | 3.71 MiB | 4.1 MiB | + 390.66 KiB |
| /wp-admin/edit-comments.php | 0.327 s | 0.356 s | +0.029 s | 3.74 MiB | 4.13 MiB | + 404.38 KiB |
| / | 0.269 s | 0.182 s | -0.087 s | 4.11 MiB | 4.41 MiB | + 310.7 KiB |
| Average | 0.476 s | 0.432 s | -0.045 s | 4.24 MiB | 4.64 MiB | + 412.13 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 | 76.1% | 18,264 | 2,455 | 60 | |
| HTML | 11.5% | 2,767 | 27 | 2 | |
| CSS | 9.4% | 2,263 | 109 | 1 | |
| JavaScript | 2.9% | 700 | 77 | 2 | |
| Total | 23,994 | 2,668 | 65 | ||
PHP Code Analysis | More results »
| Lines of code | 15,031 |
|---|---|
| Total complexity | 2,635 |
| 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 | 50 |
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 7
- wpfa_admin_bar_lock_status_display
- 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
[22-Apr-2026 15:35:53 UTC] PHP Warning: Undefined variable $wpfa_cron_disabled in /wp-content/plugins/folder-auditor/includes/views/view-settings.php on line 71