Guard Dog Security & Site Lock 7.1
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: 494.23 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=8b2b75643c |
| Aspect | after-activation |
| HTTP status | 200 |
| Load time | 0.717 s |
| Memory usage | 4.74 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 | 0.403 s |
| Memory usage | 4.26 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 | 0.399 s |
| Memory usage | 4.21 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 | 0.426 s |
| Memory usage | 4.26 MiB |
| JS errors | None |
| Resource errors | None |
Guard Dog → Watch Dog
| URL | /wp-admin/admin.php?page=guard-dog-security&tab=watchdog |
|---|---|
| Aspect | menu-item |
| HTTP status | 200 |
| Load time | 0.354 s |
| Memory usage | 4.17 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 | 0.417 s |
| Memory usage | 4.17 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 | 0.333 s |
| Memory usage | 4.18 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 | 0.356 s |
| Memory usage | 4.59 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 | 0.291 s |
| Memory usage | 4.28 MiB |
| JS errors | |
| Resource errors | None |
Test site – Just another WordPress site
| URL | / |
|---|---|
| Aspect | front-page |
| HTTP status | 200 |
| Load time | 0.246 s |
| Memory usage | 4.49 MiB |
| JS errors | None |
| Resource errors | None |
Benchmark
| URL | Load time | Memory usage | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Inactive | Active | Change | Inactive | Active | Change | |
| /wp-admin/index.php | 0.422 s | 0.458 s | +0.036 s | 3.78 MiB | 4.27 MiB | + 509.73 KiB |
| /wp-admin/edit.php | 0.362 s | 0.322 s | -0.040 s | 3.78 MiB | 4.32 MiB | + 553.8 KiB |
| /wp-admin/post-new.php | 0.896 s | 0.987 s | +0.091 s | 6.31 MiB | 6.88 MiB | + 584.94 KiB |
| /wp-admin/upload.php | 0.620 s | 0.477 s | -0.143 s | 3.74 MiB | 4.2 MiB | + 475.89 KiB |
| /wp-admin/options-writing.php | 0.339 s | 0.308 s | -0.031 s | 3.71 MiB | 4.17 MiB | + 465.03 KiB |
| /wp-admin/media-new.php | 0.490 s | 0.380 s | -0.110 s | 3.7 MiB | 4.16 MiB | + 473.23 KiB |
| /wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category | 0.316 s | 0.317 s | +0.001 s | 3.72 MiB | 4.19 MiB | + 483.68 KiB |
| /wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page | 0.703 s | 0.813 s | +0.110 s | 6.3 MiB | 6.83 MiB | + 548.77 KiB |
| /wp-admin/options-discussion.php | 0.332 s | 0.408 s | +0.076 s | 3.71 MiB | 4.17 MiB | + 469.91 KiB |
| /wp-admin/edit-comments.php | 0.330 s | 0.358 s | +0.028 s | 3.73 MiB | 4.21 MiB | + 483.62 KiB |
| / | 0.283 s | 0.189 s | -0.094 s | 4.11 MiB | 4.49 MiB | + 387.93 KiB |
| Average | 0.463 s | 0.456 s | -0.007 s | 4.24 MiB | 4.72 MiB | + 494.23 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 | 83.6% | 23,336 | 2,629 | 68 | |
| CSS | 13.2% | 3,694 | 120 | 1 | |
| JavaScript | 3.2% | 890 | 89 | 2 | |
| HTML | 0.0% | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| Total | 27,921 | 2,838 | 72 | ||
PHP Code Analysis | More results »
| Lines of code | 19,892 |
|---|---|
| Total complexity | 3,359 |
| Median class complexity | 11.0 |
| Median method complexity | 1.0 |
| Most complex class | WPFA_Security_Headers |
| Most complex function | run_blacklist_checker() |
| Classes | 6 |
|---|---|
| Methods | 42 |
| Functions | 84 |
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
- wp_wpfa_watchdog_changes
- wp_wpfa_watchdog_files
Options wp_options 8
- 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
- wpfa_watchdog_db_version
PHP Error Log 1 lines
[12-May-2026 15:30:56 UTC] PHP Warning: Undefined variable $wpfa_cron_disabled in /wp-content/plugins/folder-auditor/includes/views/view-settings.php on line 71