Blackhole for Bad Bots 2.9

Does Blackhole for Bad Bots work with WordPress 5.5 and PHP 7.2.16? 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: 54.43 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 version5.5
PHP version7.2.16
MySQL version8.0.15
PHP memory limit256M
Plugin Info
Last updated
Active installs 40,000+
WordPress.org page https://wordpress.org/plugins/blackhole-bad-bots/
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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=blackhole-bad-bots%2Fblackhole.php&plugin_status=all&paged=1&s&_wpnonce=0e44c36d6d
Aspect after-activation
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.642 s
Memory usage 3.96 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Blackhole

Page screenshot: Blackhole
URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=blackhole_settings
Aspect menu-item
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.532 s
Memory usage 3.93 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Blackhole → Bad Bots

Page screenshot: Blackhole → Bad Bots
URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=blackhole_badbots
Aspect menu-item
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.346 s
Memory usage 3.92 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 0.308 s
Memory usage 3.67 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Benchmark

URL Load time Memory usage
Inactive Active Change Inactive Active Change
/wp-admin/index.php0.484 s0.475 s-0.009 s3.96 MiB4.01 MiB+ 51.16 KiB
/wp-admin/edit.php0.214 s0.261 s+0.047 s3.99 MiB4.03 MiB+ 45.66 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php1.831 s1.994 s+0.163 s5.81 MiB5.86 MiB+ 52.27 KiB
/wp-admin/upload.php0.664 s0.505 s-0.159 s3.83 MiB3.93 MiB+ 108.77 KiB
/wp-admin/options-writing.php0.166 s0.195 s+0.029 s3.9 MiB3.92 MiB+ 15.67 KiB
/wp-admin/media-new.php0.212 s0.207 s-0.005 s3.8 MiB3.91 MiB+ 109.33 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category0.216 s0.204 s-0.012 s3.91 MiB3.95 MiB+ 46.23 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page1.733 s1.592 s-0.141 s5.8 MiB5.84 MiB+ 41.45 KiB
/wp-admin/options-discussion.php0.379 s0.281 s-0.098 s3.81 MiB3.91 MiB+ 109.59 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-comments.php0.220 s0.237 s+0.017 s3.91 MiB3.96 MiB+ 44.55 KiB
/0.353 s0.223 s-0.130 s3.69 MiB3.67 MiB- 25.99 KiB
Average 0.588 s0.561 s-0.027 s4.22 MiB4.27 MiB+ 54.43 KiB

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.

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PHP Error Log

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See also: All tests for this plugin, How to Hide Blackhole for Bad Bots Admin Menus