iThemes Security 8.0.0

Does iThemes Security work with WordPress 5.8 and PHP 7.4.8? 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: 1.11 MiB
The average PHP memory usage increased by this amount after activating by the plugin.

Page speed impact: 0.191 seconds
The average page load time increased by this amount after activating the plugin.

Environment
WordPress version5.8
PHP version7.4.8
MySQL version8.0.21
PHP memory limit256M
Plugin Info
Last updated
Active installs 900,000+
WordPress.org page https://wordpress.org/plugins/better-wp-security/
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Pages 4

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=better-wp-security%2Fbetter-wp-security.php&plugin_status=all&paged=1&s&_wpnonce=ba1cc83614
Aspect after-activation
HTTP status 200
Load time 6.350 s
Memory usage 4.11 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Security

Page screenshot: Security
URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=itsec&path=%2Fonboard%2Fsite-type
Requested URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=itsec
Aspect menu-item
HTTP status 200
Load time 1.407 s
Memory usage 6.54 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Security → Go Pro

Page screenshot: Security → Go Pro
URL https://ithemes.com/security/?utm_source=wordpressadmin&utm_medium=wpmenu&utm_campaign=itsecfreecta
Requested URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=itsec-go-pro
Aspect menu-item
HTTP status 200
Load time 3.103 s
Memory usage N/A
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 0.463 s
Memory usage 3.9 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Benchmark

URL Load time Memory usage
Inactive Active Change Inactive Active Change
/wp-admin/index.php0.286 s0.678 s+0.392 s3.08 MiB4.14 MiB+ 1.06 MiB
/wp-admin/edit.php0.172 s0.374 s+0.202 s3.11 MiB4.17 MiB+ 1.06 MiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php0.754 s0.990 s+0.236 s5.27 MiB6.85 MiB+ 1.59 MiB
/wp-admin/upload.php0.509 s0.452 s-0.057 s3.03 MiB4.03 MiB+ 1 MiB
/wp-admin/options-writing.php0.133 s0.268 s+0.135 s3.02 MiB4.01 MiB+ 1005.23 KiB
/wp-admin/media-new.php0.262 s0.270 s+0.008 s3.01 MiB4 MiB+ 1020.06 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category0.266 s0.297 s+0.031 s3.04 MiB4.04 MiB+ 1 MiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page0.712 s1.243 s+0.531 s5.26 MiB6.84 MiB+ 1.59 MiB
/wp-admin/options-discussion.php0.268 s0.541 s+0.273 s3 MiB4 MiB+ 1021.63 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-comments.php0.188 s0.437 s+0.249 s3.04 MiB4.03 MiB+ 1015.88 KiB
/0.263 s0.368 s+0.105 s2.91 MiB3.9 MiB+ 1014.21 KiB
Average 0.347 s0.538 s+0.191 s3.43 MiB4.55 MiB+ 1.11 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.

PHP
JavaScript
Language % Lines of code Comment lines Files
PHP56.3%45,56215,379502
JavaScript29.7%24,0243,336328
Sass5.6%4,5281592
JSON4.3%3,455046
HTML2.1%1,67513224
CSS1.4%1,149487
SVG0.4%344120
reStructuredText0.1%971351
Markdown0.1%5502
Total 80,889 19,046 1,022

PHP Code Analysis | More results »

Lines of code 42,376
Total complexity 9,828
Median class complexity 14.0
Median method complexity 2.0
Most complex class ITSEC_Lib
Most complex function ITSEC_Validator::sanitize_setting()
Classes 350
Methods 3,147
Functions 21

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 11

Options wp_options 3

User Metadata wp_usermeta 1

Custom Post Types 2

ID Name
itsec-dashboardPages
itsec-dash-cardPosts

PHP Error Log

The log file is empty.

See also: All tests for this plugin, How to Hide Solid Security Basic Admin Menus