iThemes Security 8.0.1

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

Page speed impact: 0.175 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=fa3f4fbafa
Aspect after-activation
HTTP status 200
Load time 4.159 s
Memory usage 4.12 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 1.138 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 2.927 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 0.523 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.php0.294 s0.684 s+0.390 s3.08 MiB4.14 MiB+ 1.06 MiB
/wp-admin/edit.php0.172 s0.379 s+0.207 s3.11 MiB4.17 MiB+ 1.06 MiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php0.807 s0.917 s+0.110 s5.27 MiB6.86 MiB+ 1.59 MiB
/wp-admin/upload.php0.516 s0.444 s-0.072 s3.03 MiB4.03 MiB+ 1 MiB
/wp-admin/options-writing.php0.155 s0.282 s+0.127 s3.02 MiB4.01 MiB+ 1007.41 KiB
/wp-admin/media-new.php0.270 s0.286 s+0.016 s3.01 MiB4.01 MiB+ 1022.24 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category0.166 s0.303 s+0.137 s3.04 MiB4.1 MiB+ 1.07 MiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page0.649 s1.189 s+0.540 s5.26 MiB6.85 MiB+ 1.59 MiB
/wp-admin/options-discussion.php0.223 s0.528 s+0.305 s3 MiB4 MiB+ 1023.8 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-comments.php0.195 s0.370 s+0.175 s3.04 MiB4.1 MiB+ 1.06 MiB
/0.259 s0.247 s-0.012 s2.91 MiB3.9 MiB+ 1016.39 KiB
Average 0.337 s0.512 s+0.175 s3.43 MiB4.56 MiB+ 1.13 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%45,57515,384502
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 80,902 19,051 1,022

PHP Code Analysis | More results »

Lines of code 42,388
Total complexity 9,832
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 3,148
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