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Does Defender work with WordPress 5.8 and PHP 7.4.8? A smoke test was performed on 2021-07-20 23:36:07 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: 1.29 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	5.8
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=4856347efa
Aspect	after-activation
HTTP status	200
Load time	1.479 s
Memory usage	4.67 MiB
JS errors	None
Resource errors	None

Defender

URL	/wp-admin/admin.php?page=wp-defender
Aspect	menu-item
HTTP status	200
Load time	0.965 s
Memory usage	5.03 MiB
JS errors	None
Resource errors	None

Test site – Just another WordPress site

URL	/
Aspect	front-page
HTTP status	200
Load time	0.286 s
Memory usage	4.17 MiB
JS errors	None
Resource errors	None

Benchmark

URL	Load time			Memory usage
URL	Inactive	Active	Change	Inactive	Active	Change
/wp-admin/index.php	0.334 s	0.296 s	-0.038 s	3.08 MiB	4.43 MiB	+ 1.35 MiB
/wp-admin/edit.php	0.180 s	0.197 s	+0.017 s	3.11 MiB	4.5 MiB	+ 1.39 MiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php	1.302 s	1.151 s	-0.151 s	5.27 MiB	6.55 MiB	+ 1.29 MiB
/wp-admin/upload.php	1.006 s	0.343 s	-0.663 s	3.03 MiB	4.31 MiB	+ 1.28 MiB
/wp-admin/options-writing.php	0.186 s	0.264 s	+0.078 s	3.02 MiB	4.29 MiB	+ 1.27 MiB
/wp-admin/media-new.php	0.242 s	0.206 s	-0.036 s	3.01 MiB	4.29 MiB	+ 1.28 MiB
/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category	0.176 s	0.198 s	+0.022 s	3.04 MiB	4.33 MiB	+ 1.29 MiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page	0.879 s	1.236 s	+0.357 s	5.26 MiB	6.54 MiB	+ 1.28 MiB
/wp-admin/options-discussion.php	0.217 s	0.329 s	+0.112 s	3 MiB	4.29 MiB	+ 1.28 MiB
/wp-admin/edit-comments.php	0.201 s	0.217 s	+0.016 s	3.04 MiB	4.32 MiB	+ 1.28 MiB
/	0.368 s	0.227 s	-0.141 s	2.96 MiB	4.17 MiB	+ 1.21 MiB
Average	0.463 s	0.424 s	-0.039 s	3.44 MiB	4.73 MiB	+ 1.29 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	65.0%	47,470	11,934	195
	JavaScript	29.6%	21,621	664	27
	SVG	3.0%	2,209	20	29
	Markdown	0.9%	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			73,063	12,658	269

PHP Code Analysis | More results »

Lines of code	43,675
Total complexity	7,039
Median class complexity	23.0
Median method complexity	2.0
Most complex class	PHP_CodeSniffer\Tokenizers\PHP
Most complex function	get_public_suffix()

Classes	184
Methods	1,578
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 2.5.4