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Does Defender work with WordPress 5.7 and PHP 7.4.8? A smoke test was performed on 2021-03-22 10:10:00 UTC.

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: 1.2 MiB
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 version	5.7
PHP version	7.4.8
MySQL version	8.0.21
PHP memory limit	256M

Plugin Info

Last updated	2025-10-22T08:18:00+00:00
Active installs	90,000+
WordPress.org page	https://wordpress.org/plugins/defender-security/
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Pages 3

Plugins ‹ Test site — WordPress

URL	/wp-admin/plugins.php?plugin_status=all&paged=1&s
Requested URL	/wp-admin/plugins.php?action=activate&plugin=defender-security%2Fwp-defender.php&plugin_status=all&paged=1&s&_wpnonce=0f64b63920
Aspect	after-activation
HTTP status	200
Load time	1.066 s
Memory usage	4.23 MiB
JS errors	None
Resource errors	None

Defender

URL	/wp-admin/admin.php?page=wp-defender
Aspect	menu-item
HTTP status	200
Load time	0.968 s
Memory usage	4.49 MiB
JS errors	None
Resource errors	None

Test site – Just another WordPress site

URL	/
Aspect	front-page
HTTP status	200
Load time	0.233 s
Memory usage	3.83 MiB
JS errors	None
Resource errors	None

Benchmark

URL	Load time			Memory usage
URL	Inactive	Active	Change	Inactive	Active	Change
/wp-admin/index.php	0.280 s	0.284 s	+0.004 s	2.82 MiB	4.03 MiB	+ 1.21 MiB
/wp-admin/edit.php	0.184 s	0.220 s	+0.036 s	2.86 MiB	4.11 MiB	+ 1.25 MiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php	0.924 s	1.043 s	+0.119 s	5.02 MiB	6.24 MiB	+ 1.22 MiB
/wp-admin/upload.php	0.517 s	0.296 s	-0.221 s	2.7 MiB	3.9 MiB	+ 1.21 MiB
/wp-admin/options-writing.php	0.147 s	0.233 s	+0.086 s	2.71 MiB	3.89 MiB	+ 1.17 MiB
/wp-admin/media-new.php	0.236 s	0.175 s	-0.061 s	2.67 MiB	3.88 MiB	+ 1.21 MiB
/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category	0.192 s	0.200 s	+0.008 s	2.77 MiB	3.92 MiB	+ 1.15 MiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page	1.129 s	0.749 s	-0.380 s	5.01 MiB	6.22 MiB	+ 1.21 MiB
/wp-admin/options-discussion.php	0.298 s	0.324 s	+0.026 s	2.67 MiB	3.88 MiB	+ 1.21 MiB
/wp-admin/edit-comments.php	0.240 s	0.222 s	-0.018 s	2.78 MiB	3.98 MiB	+ 1.21 MiB
/	0.278 s	0.225 s	-0.053 s	2.65 MiB	3.83 MiB	+ 1.18 MiB
Average	0.402 s	0.361 s	-0.041 s	3.15 MiB	4.35 MiB	+ 1.2 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
	PHP	63.8%	45,525	11,093	186
	JavaScript	30.7%	21,907	669	28
	SVG	3.1%	2,209	20	29
	Markdown	1.0%	693	0	7
	C	0.8%	589	18	1
	CSS	0.5%	378	10	6
	JSON	0.1%	63	0	2
	m4	0.0%	32	0	1
	C/C++ Header	0.0%	8	12	1
Total			71,404	11,822	261

PHP Code Analysis | More results »

Lines of code	41,730
Total complexity	6,623
Median class complexity	22.0
Median method complexity	2.0
Most complex class	PHP_CodeSniffer\Tokenizers\PHP
Most complex function	get_public_suffix()

Classes	177
Methods	1,473
Functions	19

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 6

wp_defender_audit_log
wp_defender_email_log
wp_defender_lockout
wp_defender_lockout_log
wp_defender_scan
wp_defender_scan_item

Options `wp_options` 5

defender_free_install_date
hardener_settings
wd_db_version
wdev-frash
wpmudev_recommended_plugins_registered

PHP Error Log

The log file is empty.

Defender 2.4.9