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Does Defender work with WordPress 5.8 and PHP 7.4.8? A smoke test was performed on 2021-08-30 07:40:06 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: 1.34 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/
Badges	Get badge code

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=766711b193
Aspect	after-activation
HTTP status	200
Load time	0.960 s
Memory usage	4.69 MiB
JS errors	None
Resource errors	None

Defender

URL	/wp-admin/admin.php?page=wp-defender
Aspect	menu-item
HTTP status	200
Load time	0.769 s
Memory usage	5.02 MiB
JS errors	None
Resource errors	None

Test site – Just another WordPress site

URL	/
Aspect	front-page
HTTP status	200
Load time	0.293 s
Memory usage	4.25 MiB
JS errors	None
Resource errors	None

Benchmark

URL	Load time			Memory usage
URL	Inactive	Active	Change	Inactive	Active	Change
/wp-admin/index.php	0.283 s	0.251 s	-0.032 s	3.08 MiB	4.45 MiB	+ 1.36 MiB
/wp-admin/edit.php	0.166 s	0.181 s	+0.015 s	3.11 MiB	4.52 MiB	+ 1.41 MiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php	0.766 s	1.257 s	+0.491 s	5.27 MiB	6.63 MiB	+ 1.36 MiB
/wp-admin/upload.php	0.614 s	0.450 s	-0.164 s	3.03 MiB	4.35 MiB	+ 1.32 MiB
/wp-admin/options-writing.php	0.136 s	0.143 s	+0.007 s	3.02 MiB	4.31 MiB	+ 1.28 MiB
/wp-admin/media-new.php	0.232 s	0.204 s	-0.028 s	3.01 MiB	4.31 MiB	+ 1.3 MiB
/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category	0.346 s	0.234 s	-0.112 s	3.04 MiB	4.41 MiB	+ 1.37 MiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page	1.053 s	1.007 s	-0.046 s	5.26 MiB	6.62 MiB	+ 1.36 MiB
/wp-admin/options-discussion.php	0.287 s	0.275 s	-0.012 s	3 MiB	4.3 MiB	+ 1.3 MiB
/wp-admin/edit-comments.php	0.282 s	0.202 s	-0.080 s	3.04 MiB	4.4 MiB	+ 1.36 MiB
/	0.300 s	0.216 s	-0.084 s	2.91 MiB	4.25 MiB	+ 1.34 MiB
Average	0.406 s	0.402 s	-0.004 s	3.43 MiB	4.78 MiB	+ 1.34 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	65.3%	48,504	12,336	198
	JavaScript	29.4%	21,840	682	28
	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			74,316	13,078	273

PHP Code Analysis | More results »

Lines of code	44,647
Total complexity	7,291
Median class complexity	23.0
Median method complexity	2.0
Most complex class	PHP_CodeSniffer\Tokenizers\PHP
Most complex function	get_public_suffix()

Classes	186
Methods	1,636
Functions	24

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 2.5.6