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Guard Dog Security & Site Lock 6.6

Does Guard Dog Security & Site Lock work with WordPress 6.9.1 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: 411.44 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 version6.9.1
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=c467a691f1
Aspect after-activation
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.616 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 0.388 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 0.398 s
Memory usage 4.28 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 0.410 s
Memory usage 4.13 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 0.432 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 0.403 s
Memory usage 4.09 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 0.368 s
Memory usage 4.49 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 0.320 s
Memory usage 4.09 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 0.327 s
Memory usage 4.2 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 0.259 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.php0.442 s0.471 s+0.029 s3.78 MiB4.19 MiB+ 426.17 KiB
/wp-admin/edit.php0.369 s0.321 s-0.048 s3.78 MiB4.24 MiB+ 471.69 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php0.860 s1.009 s+0.149 s6.31 MiB6.76 MiB+ 468.41 KiB
/wp-admin/upload.php0.723 s0.442 s-0.281 s3.74 MiB4.12 MiB+ 392.95 KiB
/wp-admin/options-writing.php0.320 s0.315 s-0.005 s3.71 MiB4.09 MiB+ 382.17 KiB
/wp-admin/media-new.php0.502 s0.380 s-0.122 s3.7 MiB4.08 MiB+ 390.37 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category0.455 s0.317 s-0.138 s3.72 MiB4.11 MiB+ 400.82 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page0.702 s0.768 s+0.066 s6.3 MiB6.75 MiB+ 465.84 KiB
/wp-admin/options-discussion.php0.338 s0.357 s+0.019 s3.71 MiB4.09 MiB+ 386.97 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-comments.php0.335 s0.359 s+0.024 s3.74 MiB4.13 MiB+ 400.69 KiB
/0.284 s0.185 s-0.099 s4.11 MiB4.44 MiB+ 339.72 KiB
Average 0.485 s0.448 s-0.037 s4.24 MiB4.64 MiB+ 411.44 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
PHP85.8%17,8402,44060
CSS10.9%2,2601091
JavaScript3.4%700772
HTML0.0%101
Total 20,801 2,626 64

PHP Code Analysis | More results »

Lines of code 14,593
Total complexity 2,563
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 47

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

PHP Error Log 1 lines

[25-Feb-2026 20:56:28 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