Stop Spammers 2025.5

Does Stop Spammers work with WordPress 6.9 and PHP 8.1.12? A smoke test was performed on .

Summary

Errors
No PHP errors, warnings or notices
No JavaScript exceptions
All test pages loaded successfully
No resource errors
Looks good! No problems were detected.
Performance

Memory usage: 124.92 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
PHP version8.1.12
MySQL version10.6.10
PHP memory limit512M
Plugin Info
Last updated
Active installs 30,000+
WordPress.org page https://wordpress.org/plugins/stop-spammer-registrations-plugin/
Badges

WordPress compatibility badge PHP compatibility badge

Get badge code

Pages 11

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=stop-spammer-registrations-plugin%2Fstop-spammer-registrations-new.php&plugin_status=all&paged=1&s&_wpnonce=f2fd76ac75
Aspect after-activation
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.452 s
Memory usage 3.86 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Stop Spammers

Page screenshot: Stop Spammers
URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=stop_spammers
Aspect menu-item
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.274 s
Memory usage 3.83 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Stop Spammers → Protection Options

Page screenshot: Stop Spammers → Protection Options
URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=ss_options
Aspect menu-item
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.316 s
Memory usage 3.95 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Stop Spammers → Allow Lists

Page screenshot: Stop Spammers → Allow Lists
URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=ss_allow_list
Aspect menu-item
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.263 s
Memory usage 3.85 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Stop Spammers → Block Lists

Page screenshot: Stop Spammers → Block Lists
URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=ss_block_list
Aspect menu-item
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.405 s
Memory usage 3.84 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Stop Spammers → Challenge & Block

Page screenshot: Stop Spammers → Challenge & Block
URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=ss_challenge
Aspect menu-item
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.304 s
Memory usage 3.83 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Stop Spammers → Web Services

Page screenshot: Stop Spammers → Web Services
URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=ss_webservices_settings
Aspect menu-item
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.276 s
Memory usage 3.82 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Stop Spammers → Cache

Page screenshot: Stop Spammers → Cache
URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=ss_cache
Aspect menu-item
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.275 s
Memory usage 3.84 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Stop Spammers → Log Report

Page screenshot: Stop Spammers → Log Report
URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=ss_reports
Aspect menu-item
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.261 s
Memory usage 3.84 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Stop Spammers → Diagnostics

Page screenshot: Stop Spammers → Diagnostics
URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=ss_diagnostics
Aspect menu-item
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.328 s
Memory usage 4.36 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 0.226 s
Memory usage 4.18 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Benchmark

URL Load time Memory usage
Inactive Active Change Inactive Active Change
/wp-admin/index.php0.397 s0.470 s+0.073 s3.77 MiB3.93 MiB+ 159.83 KiB
/wp-admin/edit.php0.352 s0.305 s-0.047 s3.78 MiB3.9 MiB+ 119.78 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php0.838 s0.953 s+0.115 s6.3 MiB6.49 MiB+ 186.39 KiB
/wp-admin/upload.php0.693 s0.523 s-0.170 s3.74 MiB3.84 MiB+ 102.93 KiB
/wp-admin/options-writing.php0.308 s0.327 s+0.019 s3.71 MiB3.81 MiB+ 107.23 KiB
/wp-admin/media-new.php0.467 s0.368 s-0.099 s3.7 MiB3.81 MiB+ 115.43 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category0.425 s0.289 s-0.136 s3.71 MiB3.84 MiB+ 125.79 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page0.694 s0.777 s+0.083 s6.29 MiB6.43 MiB+ 140.32 KiB
/wp-admin/options-discussion.php0.319 s0.390 s+0.071 s3.71 MiB3.81 MiB+ 103.42 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-comments.php0.310 s0.343 s+0.033 s3.73 MiB3.86 MiB+ 132.07 KiB
/0.265 s0.173 s-0.092 s4.1 MiB4.18 MiB+ 80.95 KiB
Average 0.461 s0.447 s-0.014 s4.23 MiB4.35 MiB+ 124.92 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
Language % Lines of code Comment lines Files
PHP99.4%41,6912,396277
CSS0.4%18211
JavaScript0.2%8401
JSON0.0%101
Total 41,958 2,397 280

PHP Code Analysis | More results »

Lines of code 39,672
Total complexity 1,083
Median class complexity 0.0
Median method complexity 5.0
Most complex class ss_challenge
Most complex function chkdisp::process()
Classes 263
Methods 86
Functions 93

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 2

PHP Error Log

The log file is empty.

See also: All tests for this plugin, How to Hide Stop Spammers Classic Admin Menus