Defender 5.5.1

Does Defender work with WordPress 6.8.2 and PHP 8.1.12? 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: 1.03 MiB
The average PHP memory usage increased by this amount after activating by the plugin.

Page speed impact: 0.074 seconds
The average page load time increased by this amount after activating the plugin.

Environment
WordPress version6.8.2
PHP version8.1.12
MySQL version10.6.10
PHP memory limit512M
Plugin Info
Last updated
Active installs 90,000+
WordPress.org page https://wordpress.org/plugins/defender-security/
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Pages 14

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=defender-security%2Fwp-defender.php&plugin_status=all&paged=1&s&_wpnonce=b3e9b0e707
Aspect after-activation
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.998 s
Memory usage 5.93 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Tools → Scheduled Actions

Page screenshot: Tools → Scheduled Actions
URL /wp-admin/tools.php?page=action-scheduler
Aspect menu-item
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.183 s
Memory usage 4.59 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Defender

Page screenshot: Defender
URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=wp-defender
Aspect menu-item
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.802 s
Memory usage 5.27 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Defender → Recommendations

Page screenshot: Defender → Recommendations
URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=wp-defender
Requested URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=wdf-hardener
Aspect menu-item
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.368 s
Memory usage 5.29 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Defender → Malware Scanning

Page screenshot: Defender → Malware Scanning
URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=wp-defender
Requested URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=wdf-scan
Aspect menu-item
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.321 s
Memory usage 5.29 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Defender → Audit Logging

Page screenshot: Defender → Audit Logging
URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=wp-defender
Requested URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=wdf-logging
Aspect menu-item
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.301 s
Memory usage 5.29 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Defender → Firewall

Page screenshot: Defender → Firewall
URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=wp-defender
Requested URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=wdf-ip-lockout
Aspect menu-item
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.355 s
Memory usage 5.29 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Defender → WAF

Page screenshot: Defender → WAF
URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=wp-defender
Requested URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=wdf-waf
Aspect menu-item
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.305 s
Memory usage 5.29 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Defender → 2FA

Page screenshot: Defender → 2FA
URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=wp-defender
Requested URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=wdf-2fa
Aspect menu-item
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.353 s
Memory usage 5.29 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Defender → Tools

Page screenshot: Defender → Tools
URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=wp-defender
Requested URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=wdf-advanced-tools
Aspect menu-item
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.322 s
Memory usage 5.29 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Defender → Notifications

Page screenshot: Defender → Notifications
URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=wp-defender
Requested URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=wdf-notification
Aspect menu-item
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.413 s
Memory usage 5.29 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Defender → Settings

Page screenshot: Defender → Settings
URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=wp-defender
Requested URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=wdf-setting
Aspect menu-item
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.303 s
Memory usage 5.29 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Defender → More free Plugins?

Page screenshot: Defender → More free Plugins?
URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=defender_cross_sell
Aspect menu-item
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.434 s
Memory usage 4.55 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 0.381 s
Memory usage 4.4 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Benchmark

URL Load time Memory usage
Inactive Active Change Inactive Active Change
/wp-admin/index.php0.329 s0.437 s+0.108 s3.51 MiB4.59 MiB+ 1.08 MiB
/wp-admin/edit.php0.198 s0.207 s+0.009 s3.57 MiB4.65 MiB+ 1.07 MiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php0.764 s0.968 s+0.204 s6.06 MiB7.15 MiB+ 1.09 MiB
/wp-admin/upload.php0.582 s0.604 s+0.022 s3.52 MiB4.52 MiB+ 1022.54 KiB
/wp-admin/options-writing.php0.206 s0.213 s+0.007 s3.5 MiB4.5 MiB+ 1 MiB
/wp-admin/media-new.php0.269 s0.243 s-0.026 s3.49 MiB4.5 MiB+ 1.01 MiB
/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category0.202 s0.279 s+0.077 s3.5 MiB4.53 MiB+ 1.03 MiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page0.642 s1.007 s+0.365 s6.05 MiB7.14 MiB+ 1.08 MiB
/wp-admin/options-discussion.php0.326 s0.408 s+0.082 s3.5 MiB4.5 MiB+ 1023.44 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-comments.php0.192 s0.212 s+0.020 s3.52 MiB4.54 MiB+ 1.01 MiB
/0.295 s0.236 s-0.059 s3.43 MiB4.4 MiB+ 988.53 KiB
Average 0.364 s0.438 s+0.074 s3.97 MiB5 MiB+ 1.03 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
PHP71.8%70,08031,555433
JavaScript25.4%24,81985034
Markdown1.0%96708
SVG0.7%693416
C0.7%668251
PO File0.1%1351211
JSON0.1%10303
CSS0.1%7319
XML0.1%6201
m40.0%3201
C/C++ Header0.0%8121
Total 97,640 32,568 508

PHP Code Analysis | More results »

Lines of code 65,794
Total complexity 11,810
Median class complexity 16.0
Median method complexity 2.0
Most complex class PHP_CodeSniffer\Tokenizers\PHP
Most complex function get_public_suffix()
Classes 339
Methods 2,901
Functions 56

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 9

Options wp_options 6

User Metadata wp_usermeta 1

Custom Post Types 1

ID Name
scheduled-actionScheduled Actions

PHP Error Log

The log file is empty.

See also: All tests for this plugin, How to Hide Defender Admin Menus