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Guard Dog Security & Site Lock 7.0

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

Memory usage: 475.22 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 version6.9.4
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=ab61e95ca5
Aspect after-activation
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.703 s
Memory usage 4.72 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 0.360 s
Memory usage 4.25 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 0.378 s
Memory usage 4.19 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 0.384 s
Memory usage 4.25 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Guard Dog → Watch Dog

Page screenshot: Guard Dog → Watch Dog
URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=guard-dog-security&tab=watchdog
Aspect menu-item
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.311 s
Memory usage 4.15 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 0.354 s
Memory usage 4.15 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 0.329 s
Memory usage 4.57 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 0.299 s
Memory usage 4.15 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 0.338 s
Memory usage 4.26 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 0.241 s
Memory usage 4.47 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Benchmark

URL Load time Memory usage
Inactive Active Change Inactive Active Change
/wp-admin/index.php0.416 s0.440 s+0.024 s3.78 MiB4.26 MiB+ 490.72 KiB
/wp-admin/edit.php0.353 s0.302 s-0.051 s3.78 MiB4.31 MiB+ 534.79 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php0.848 s0.925 s+0.077 s6.31 MiB6.86 MiB+ 565.92 KiB
/wp-admin/upload.php0.571 s0.461 s-0.110 s3.74 MiB4.19 MiB+ 456.88 KiB
/wp-admin/options-writing.php0.330 s0.336 s+0.006 s3.71 MiB4.15 MiB+ 446.02 KiB
/wp-admin/media-new.php0.485 s0.350 s-0.135 s3.7 MiB4.15 MiB+ 454.21 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category0.314 s0.394 s+0.080 s3.72 MiB4.17 MiB+ 464.66 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page0.678 s0.636 s-0.042 s6.3 MiB6.81 MiB+ 529.76 KiB
/wp-admin/options-discussion.php0.319 s0.380 s+0.061 s3.71 MiB4.16 MiB+ 450.89 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-comments.php0.310 s0.357 s+0.047 s3.74 MiB4.19 MiB+ 464.61 KiB
/0.260 s0.180 s-0.080 s4.11 MiB4.47 MiB+ 368.91 KiB
Average 0.444 s0.433 s-0.011 s4.24 MiB4.7 MiB+ 475.22 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
PHP87.1%21,1232,53265
CSS9.4%2,2761091
JavaScript3.6%864842
HTML0.0%101
Total 24,264 2,725 69

PHP Code Analysis | More results »

Lines of code 17,425
Total complexity 3,141
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 52

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.

Database Tables 2

Options wp_options 8

PHP Error Log 1 lines

[11-May-2026 18:52:42 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