WP Admin Protection (by SiteGuarding.com) 2.4

Does "WP Admin Protection (by SiteGuarding.com)" work with WordPress 7.0.1 and PHP 8.1.12? A smoke test was performed on .

Summary

Errors
19PHP warnings
No JavaScript exceptions
All test pages loaded successfully
No resource errors
Performance

Memory usage: -10.18 bytes
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 version7.0.1
PHP version8.1.12
MySQL version10.6.10
PHP memory limit512M
Plugin Info
Last updated
Active installs 700+
WordPress.org page https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-admin-protection/
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Pages 3

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=wp-admin-protection%2Fwp-admin-protection.php&plugin_status=all&paged=1&s&_wpnonce=6ffa022b7c
Aspect after-activation
HTTP status 200
Load time 1.074 s
Memory usage 3.89 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Settings → Admin Protection

Page screenshot: Settings → Admin Protection
URL /wp-admin/options-general.php?page=plgwpap_settings_page
Aspect menu-item
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.790 s
Memory usage 3.88 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 0.326 s
Memory usage 4.23 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Benchmark

URL Load time Memory usage
Inactive Active Change Inactive Active Change
/wp-admin/index.php0.751 s0.658 s-0.093 s3.92 MiB3.93 MiB+ 6.11 KiB
/wp-admin/edit.php0.917 s0.610 s-0.307 s3.98 MiB3.99 MiB+ 5.4 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php1.979 s2.075 s+0.096 s6.56 MiB6.57 MiB+ 10.54 KiB
/wp-admin/upload.php1.050 s0.735 s-0.315 s3.89 MiB3.88 MiB- 10.98 KiB
/wp-admin/options-writing.php0.569 s0.961 s+0.392 s3.86 MiB3.85 MiB- 6.99 KiB
/wp-admin/media-new.php0.612 s0.607 s-0.005 s3.85 MiB3.85 MiB+ 1.2 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category0.882 s0.605 s-0.277 s3.86 MiB3.87 MiB+ 6.38 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page1.635 s1.959 s+0.324 s6.55 MiB6.55 MiB+ 6.06 KiB
/wp-admin/options-discussion.php0.665 s0.633 s-0.032 s3.86 MiB3.85 MiB- 10.49 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-comments.php0.553 s0.528 s-0.025 s3.88 MiB3.87 MiB- 10.99 KiB
/0.301 s0.203 s-0.098 s4.23 MiB4.23 MiB+ 3.66 KiB
Average 0.901 s0.870 s-0.031 s4.4 MiB4.4 MiB- 10.18 bytes

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
PHP100.0%1,4001783
Total 1,400 178 3

PHP Code Analysis | More results »

Lines of code 1,462
Total complexity 185
Median class complexity 0.0
Median method complexity 0.0
Most complex class ReCaptchaResponse
Most complex function plgwpap_settings_page_callback()
Classes 1
Methods 0
Functions 45

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 1

PHP Error Log 19 lines

[13-Jul-2026 20:58:53 UTC] PHP Warning:  Undefined variable $txt in /wp-content/plugins/wp-admin-protection/wp-admin-protection.php on line 1149
[13-Jul-2026 20:58:53 UTC] PHP Warning:  Undefined array key "secret" in /wp-content/plugins/wp-admin-protection/wp-admin-protection.php on line 1151
[13-Jul-2026 20:58:53 UTC] PHP Warning:  Undefined array key "PHP_AUTH_USER" in /wp-content/plugins/wp-admin-protection/wp-admin-protection.php on line 1155
[13-Jul-2026 20:58:53 UTC] PHP Warning:  Undefined array key "PHP_AUTH_PW" in /wp-content/plugins/wp-admin-protection/wp-admin-protection.php on line 1155
[13-Jul-2026 20:58:55 UTC] PHP Warning:  Undefined array key "secret" in /wp-content/plugins/wp-admin-protection/wp-admin-protection.php on line 915
[13-Jul-2026 20:58:55 UTC] PHP Warning:  Undefined array key "white_ip_list" in /wp-content/plugins/wp-admin-protection/wp-admin-protection.php on line 916
[13-Jul-2026 20:58:55 UTC] PHP Warning:  Undefined array key "black_ip_list" in /wp-content/plugins/wp-admin-protection/wp-admin-protection.php on line 917
[13-Jul-2026 20:58:55 UTC] PHP Warning:  Undefined array key "secret" in /wp-content/plugins/wp-admin-protection/wp-admin-protection.php on line 915
[13-Jul-2026 20:58:55 UTC] PHP Warning:  Undefined array key "white_ip_list" in /wp-content/plugins/wp-admin-protection/wp-admin-protection.php on line 916
[13-Jul-2026 20:58:55 UTC] PHP Warning:  Undefined array key "black_ip_list" in /wp-content/plugins/wp-admin-protection/wp-admin-protection.php on line 917
[13-Jul-2026 20:58:55 UTC] PHP Warning:  Undefined array key "enable_secret" in /wp-content/plugins/wp-admin-protection/wp-admin-protection.php on line 616
[13-Jul-2026 20:58:55 UTC] PHP Warning:  Undefined array key "secret" in /wp-content/plugins/wp-admin-protection/wp-admin-protection.php on line 622
[13-Jul-2026 20:58:55 UTC] PHP Warning:  Undefined array key "secret" in /wp-content/plugins/wp-admin-protection/wp-admin-protection.php on line 629
[13-Jul-2026 20:58:55 UTC] PHP Warning:  Undefined array key "white_ip_list" in /wp-content/plugins/wp-admin-protection/wp-admin-protection.php on line 663
[13-Jul-2026 20:58:55 UTC] PHP Warning:  Undefined array key "black_ip_list" in /wp-content/plugins/wp-admin-protection/wp-admin-protection.php on line 665
[13-Jul-2026 20:58:55 UTC] PHP Warning:  Undefined array key "enable_recaptcha" in /wp-content/plugins/wp-admin-protection/wp-admin-protection.php on line 677
[13-Jul-2026 20:58:55 UTC] PHP Warning:  Undefined array key "recaptcha_public_key" in /wp-content/plugins/wp-admin-protection/wp-admin-protection.php on line 683
[13-Jul-2026 20:58:55 UTC] PHP Warning:  Undefined array key "recaptcha_private_key" in /wp-content/plugins/wp-admin-protection/wp-admin-protection.php on line 689
[13-Jul-2026 20:58:55 UTC] PHP Warning:  Undefined array key "notify_developer_sent" in /wp-content/plugins/wp-admin-protection/wp-admin-protection.php on line 719
See also: All tests for this plugin, How to Hide the "Admin Protection" Admin Menu