Secure Custom Fields 6.6.0

Does Secure Custom Fields work with WordPress 6.9 and PHP 8.1.12? A smoke test was performed on .

Summary

Errors
4PHP deprecation warnings
No JavaScript exceptions
All test pages loaded successfully
No resource errors
Performance

Memory usage: 1.65 MiB
The average PHP memory usage increased by this amount after activating by the plugin.

Page speed impact: 0.393 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 70,000+
WordPress.org page https://wordpress.org/plugins/secure-custom-fields/
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Pages 8

Plugins ‹ Test site — WordPress

Page screenshot: Plugins ‹ Test site — WordPress
URL /wp-admin/plugins.php?plugin_status=all&paged=1&s
Requested URL /wp-admin/plugins.php?action=activate&plugin=secure-custom-fields%2Fsecure-custom-fields.php&plugin_status=all&paged=1&s&_wpnonce=e4f294a404
Aspect after-activation
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.561 s
Memory usage 5.74 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

SCF

Page screenshot: SCF
URL /wp-admin/edit.php?post_type=acf-field-group
Aspect menu-item
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.378 s
Memory usage 5.33 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

SCF → Post Types

Page screenshot: SCF → Post Types
URL /wp-admin/edit.php?post_type=acf-post-type
Aspect menu-item
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.314 s
Memory usage 5.34 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

SCF → Taxonomies

Page screenshot: SCF → Taxonomies
URL /wp-admin/edit.php?post_type=acf-taxonomy
Aspect menu-item
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.335 s
Memory usage 5.34 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

SCF → Options Pages

Page screenshot: SCF → Options Pages
URL /wp-admin/edit.php?post_type=acf-ui-options-page
Aspect menu-item
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.423 s
Memory usage 5.34 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

SCF → Tools

Page screenshot: SCF → Tools
URL /wp-admin/edit.php?post_type=acf-field-group&page=acf-tools
Aspect menu-item
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.662 s
Memory usage 5.42 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

SCF → Beta Features

Page screenshot: SCF → Beta Features
URL /wp-admin/edit.php?post_type=acf-field-group&page=scf-beta-features
Aspect menu-item
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.268 s
Memory usage 5.26 MiB
JS errors None
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 0.231 s
Memory usage 5.54 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Benchmark

URL Load time Memory usage
Inactive Active Change Inactive Active Change
/wp-admin/index.php0.407 s0.442 s+0.035 s3.78 MiB5.38 MiB+ 1.61 MiB
/wp-admin/edit.php0.345 s0.292 s-0.053 s3.78 MiB5.37 MiB+ 1.58 MiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php0.829 s2.975 s+2.146 s6.31 MiB8.35 MiB+ 2.04 MiB
/wp-admin/upload.php0.626 s0.970 s+0.344 s3.74 MiB5.4 MiB+ 1.66 MiB
/wp-admin/options-writing.php0.318 s0.340 s+0.022 s3.71 MiB5.25 MiB+ 1.54 MiB
/wp-admin/media-new.php0.479 s0.319 s-0.160 s3.7 MiB5.25 MiB+ 1.55 MiB
/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category0.310 s0.409 s+0.099 s3.72 MiB5.36 MiB+ 1.65 MiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page0.800 s2.632 s+1.832 s6.3 MiB8.34 MiB+ 2.04 MiB
/wp-admin/options-discussion.php0.336 s0.431 s+0.095 s3.72 MiB5.25 MiB+ 1.53 MiB
/wp-admin/edit-comments.php0.308 s0.345 s+0.037 s3.74 MiB5.27 MiB+ 1.54 MiB
/0.267 s0.188 s-0.079 s4.12 MiB5.54 MiB+ 1.43 MiB
Average 0.457 s0.849 s+0.393 s4.24 MiB5.89 MiB+ 1.65 MiB

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.

PO File
JavaScript
PHP
Sass
Language % Lines of code Comment lines Files
PO File53.3%133,94293,17638
JavaScript15.6%39,28016,081104
PHP14.3%36,02325,206288
Sass11.1%27,85247235
CSS5.2%13,1081,5857
JSON0.3%70005
SVG0.1%269099
Markdown0.0%402
Total 251,178 136,520 578

PHP Code Analysis | More results »

Lines of code 31,462
Total complexity 6,305
Median class complexity 20.0
Median method complexity 2.0
Most complex class acf_field_flexible_content
Most complex function ACF_Post_Type::get_post_type_args()
Classes 145
Methods 1,285
Functions 638

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 3

User Metadata wp_usermeta 4

Custom Post Types 5

ID Name
acf-taxonomyTaxonomies
acf-post-typePost Types
acf-ui-options-pageOptions Pages
acf-field-groupField Groups
acf-fieldFields

PHP Error Log 4 lines

[03-Dec-2025 03:17:39 UTC] PHP Deprecated:  Function WP_Dependencies-&gt;add_data() was called with an argument that is <strong>deprecated</strong> since version 6.9.0! IE conditional comments are ignored by all supported browsers. in /wp-includes/functions.php on line 6131
[03-Dec-2025 03:17:39 UTC] PHP Deprecated:  Function WP_Dependencies-&gt;add_data() was called with an argument that is <strong>deprecated</strong> since version 6.9.0! IE conditional comments are ignored by all supported browsers. in /wp-includes/functions.php on line 6131
[03-Dec-2025 03:17:50 UTC] PHP Deprecated:  Function WP_Dependencies-&gt;add_data() was called with an argument that is <strong>deprecated</strong> since version 6.9.0! IE conditional comments are ignored by all supported browsers. in /wp-includes/functions.php on line 6131
[03-Dec-2025 03:17:50 UTC] PHP Deprecated:  Function WP_Dependencies-&gt;add_data() was called with an argument that is <strong>deprecated</strong> since version 6.9.0! IE conditional comments are ignored by all supported browsers. in /wp-includes/functions.php on line 6131
See also: All tests for this plugin, How to Hide Secure Custom Fields Admin Menus