Defender 5.6.1

Does Defender work with WordPress 6.8.3 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: 1.05 MiB
The average PHP memory usage increased by this amount after activating by the plugin.

Page speed impact: 0.042 seconds
The average page load time increased by this amount after activating the plugin.

Environment
WordPress version6.8.3
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=bd12213dce
Aspect after-activation
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.652 s
Memory usage 6 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 0.271 s
Memory usage 4.61 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 0.630 s
Memory usage 5.29 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 0.301 s
Memory usage 5.31 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 0.253 s
Memory usage 5.31 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 0.280 s
Memory usage 5.31 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 0.260 s
Memory usage 5.31 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 0.265 s
Memory usage 5.31 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 0.261 s
Memory usage 5.31 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 0.259 s
Memory usage 5.31 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 0.255 s
Memory usage 5.31 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 0.274 s
Memory usage 5.31 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 0.599 s
Memory usage 4.56 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 0.232 s
Memory usage 4.42 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Benchmark

URL Load time Memory usage
Inactive Active Change Inactive Active Change
/wp-admin/index.php0.326 s0.354 s+0.028 s3.51 MiB4.6 MiB+ 1.09 MiB
/wp-admin/edit.php0.181 s0.167 s-0.014 s3.57 MiB4.7 MiB+ 1.13 MiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php0.682 s0.945 s+0.263 s6.06 MiB7.16 MiB+ 1.1 MiB
/wp-admin/upload.php0.576 s0.520 s-0.056 s3.52 MiB4.53 MiB+ 1.01 MiB
/wp-admin/options-writing.php0.176 s0.208 s+0.032 s3.5 MiB4.52 MiB+ 1.02 MiB
/wp-admin/media-new.php0.238 s0.210 s-0.028 s3.49 MiB4.52 MiB+ 1.02 MiB
/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category0.166 s0.167 s+0.001 s3.5 MiB4.54 MiB+ 1.04 MiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page0.564 s0.740 s+0.176 s6.05 MiB7.15 MiB+ 1.1 MiB
/wp-admin/options-discussion.php0.218 s0.365 s+0.147 s3.5 MiB4.51 MiB+ 1.01 MiB
/wp-admin/edit-comments.php0.177 s0.184 s+0.007 s3.52 MiB4.55 MiB+ 1.03 MiB
/0.278 s0.180 s-0.098 s3.43 MiB4.42 MiB+ 1005.7 KiB
Average 0.326 s0.367 s+0.042 s3.97 MiB5.02 MiB+ 1.05 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
PHP72.1%71,15532,195437
JavaScript25.1%24,81985034
Markdown1.0%96708
SVG0.7%700417
C0.7%668251
PO File0.1%1351211
JSON0.1%10303
CSS0.1%7419
XML0.1%6201
m40.0%3201
C/C++ Header0.0%8121
Total 98,723 33,208 513

PHP Code Analysis | More results »

Lines of code 66,789
Total complexity 12,063
Median class complexity 16.0
Median method complexity 2.0
Most complex class PHP_CodeSniffer\Tokenizers\PHP
Most complex function get_public_suffix()
Classes 343
Methods 2,955
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 7

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