iThemes Security 8.1.8

Does iThemes Security work with WordPress 6.3.2 and PHP 8.1.12? A smoke test was performed on .

Summary

Errors
9PHP deprecation warnings
No JavaScript exceptions
All test pages loaded successfully
No resource errors
Performance

Memory usage: 975.6 KiB
The average PHP memory usage increased by this amount after activating by the plugin.

Page speed impact: 0.098 seconds
The average page load time increased by this amount after activating the plugin.

Environment
WordPress version6.3.2
PHP version8.1.12
MySQL version10.6.10
PHP memory limit512M
Plugin Info
Last updated
Active installs 800,000+
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=52b8e4ee84
Aspect after-activation
HTTP status 200
Load time 1.060 s
Memory usage 3.77 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 1.153 s
Memory usage 6.24 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Security → Get More Security

Page screenshot: Security → Get More Security
URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=itsec-go-pro
Aspect menu-item
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.342 s
Memory usage 3.61 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 0.263 s
Memory usage 3.96 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Benchmark

URL Load time Memory usage
Inactive Active Change Inactive Active Change
/wp-admin/index.php0.358 s0.399 s+0.041 s2.83 MiB3.7 MiB+ 898.57 KiB
/wp-admin/edit.php0.199 s0.336 s+0.137 s2.85 MiB3.79 MiB+ 960 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php0.705 s1.115 s+0.410 s5.22 MiB6.51 MiB+ 1.3 MiB
/wp-admin/upload.php0.563 s0.641 s+0.078 s2.77 MiB3.64 MiB+ 888.13 KiB
/wp-admin/options-writing.php0.213 s0.259 s+0.046 s2.76 MiB3.62 MiB+ 873.46 KiB
/wp-admin/media-new.php0.369 s0.313 s-0.056 s2.74 MiB3.61 MiB+ 893.27 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category0.197 s0.300 s+0.103 s2.76 MiB3.66 MiB+ 917.5 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page0.588 s0.607 s+0.019 s5.21 MiB6.5 MiB+ 1.29 MiB
/wp-admin/options-discussion.php0.194 s0.405 s+0.211 s2.75 MiB3.63 MiB+ 902.71 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-comments.php0.238 s0.322 s+0.084 s2.78 MiB3.66 MiB+ 901.95 KiB
/0.259 s0.269 s+0.010 s3.13 MiB3.96 MiB+ 843.84 KiB
Average 0.353 s0.451 s+0.098 s3.25 MiB4.21 MiB+ 975.6 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
JavaScript
Language % Lines of code Comment lines Files
PHP58.4%53,30516,934541
JavaScript28.5%26,0103,636351
Sass5.1%4,6371692
JSON4.5%4,060044
HTML1.4%1,289026
CSS1.1%1,044467
SVG0.6%547134
Python0.2%140732
reStructuredText0.1%971391
Markdown0.1%6603
XML0.0%2402
Total 91,219 20,845 1,103

PHP Code Analysis | More results »

Lines of code 46,345
Total complexity 10,658
Median class complexity 14.0
Median method complexity 2.0
Most complex class ITSEC_Lib
Most complex function ITSEC_Validator::sanitize_setting()
Classes 370
Methods 3,374
Functions 96

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 9 lines

[12-Oct-2023 21:29:35 UTC] PHP Deprecated:  preg_quote(): Passing null to parameter #1 ($str) of type string is deprecated in /wp-content/plugins/better-wp-security/core/lib/class-itsec-lib-utility.php on line 121
[12-Oct-2023 21:29:35 UTC] PHP Deprecated:  preg_quote(): Passing null to parameter #1 ($str) of type string is deprecated in /wp-content/plugins/better-wp-security/core/lib/class-itsec-lib-utility.php on line 121
[12-Oct-2023 21:29:35 UTC] PHP Deprecated:  preg_quote(): Passing null to parameter #1 ($str) of type string is deprecated in /wp-content/plugins/better-wp-security/core/lib/class-itsec-lib-utility.php on line 121
[12-Oct-2023 21:29:35 UTC] PHP Deprecated:  preg_quote(): Passing null to parameter #1 ($str) of type string is deprecated in /wp-content/plugins/better-wp-security/core/lib/class-itsec-lib-utility.php on line 121
[12-Oct-2023 21:29:35 UTC] PHP Deprecated:  preg_quote(): Passing null to parameter #1 ($str) of type string is deprecated in /wp-content/plugins/better-wp-security/core/lib/class-itsec-lib-utility.php on line 121
[12-Oct-2023 21:29:35 UTC] PHP Deprecated:  preg_quote(): Passing null to parameter #1 ($str) of type string is deprecated in /wp-content/plugins/better-wp-security/core/lib/class-itsec-lib-utility.php on line 121
[12-Oct-2023 21:29:37 UTC] PHP Deprecated:  preg_quote(): Passing null to parameter #1 ($str) of type string is deprecated in /wp-content/plugins/better-wp-security/core/lib/class-itsec-lib-utility.php on line 121
[12-Oct-2023 21:29:37 UTC] PHP Deprecated:  preg_quote(): Passing null to parameter #1 ($str) of type string is deprecated in /wp-content/plugins/better-wp-security/core/lib/class-itsec-lib-utility.php on line 121
[12-Oct-2023 21:29:37 UTC] PHP Deprecated:  preg_quote(): Passing null to parameter #1 ($str) of type string is deprecated in /wp-content/plugins/better-wp-security/core/lib/class-itsec-lib-utility.php on line 121
See also: All tests for this plugin, How to Hide Solid Security Basic Admin Menus