Defender 5.2.2

Does Defender work with WordPress 6.8.1 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: 1.04 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 version6.8.1
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 15

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=d18fd76f82
Aspect after-activation
HTTP status 200
Load time 1.166 s
Memory usage 5.87 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 0.264 s
Memory usage 4.6 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 0.726 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 0.455 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 0.352 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 0.387 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 0.381 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 0.372 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 0.602 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 0.362 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 0.338 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 0.349 s
Memory usage 5.29 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Defender → Tutorials

Page screenshot: Defender → Tutorials
URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=wp-defender
Requested URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=wdf-tutorial
Aspect menu-item
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.364 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 0.537 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 0.322 s
Memory usage 4.39 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Benchmark

URL Load time Memory usage
Inactive Active Change Inactive Active Change
/wp-admin/index.php0.432 s0.545 s+0.113 s3.51 MiB4.59 MiB+ 1.08 MiB
/wp-admin/edit.php0.241 s0.227 s-0.014 s3.57 MiB4.65 MiB+ 1.08 MiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php0.907 s1.122 s+0.215 s6.06 MiB7.16 MiB+ 1.09 MiB
/wp-admin/upload.php0.670 s0.688 s+0.018 s3.52 MiB4.53 MiB+ 1 MiB
/wp-admin/options-writing.php0.290 s0.276 s-0.014 s3.5 MiB4.51 MiB+ 1.01 MiB
/wp-admin/media-new.php0.334 s0.451 s+0.117 s3.49 MiB4.51 MiB+ 1.02 MiB
/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category0.226 s0.231 s+0.005 s3.5 MiB4.53 MiB+ 1.03 MiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page0.692 s0.754 s+0.062 s6.05 MiB7.14 MiB+ 1.09 MiB
/wp-admin/options-discussion.php0.522 s0.345 s-0.177 s3.5 MiB4.51 MiB+ 1 MiB
/wp-admin/edit-comments.php0.306 s0.236 s-0.070 s3.52 MiB4.54 MiB+ 1.02 MiB
/0.356 s0.235 s-0.121 s3.43 MiB4.39 MiB+ 980.01 KiB
Average 0.452 s0.465 s+0.012 s3.97 MiB5.01 MiB+ 1.04 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
PHP71.2%68,75730,796423
JavaScript25.6%24,70369034
Markdown1.1%1,01709
SVG0.7%704417
C0.7%668251
CSS0.3%327610
PO File0.1%1331191
JSON0.1%10303
XML0.1%6201
m40.0%3201
C/C++ Header0.0%8121
Total 96,514 31,652 501

PHP Code Analysis | More results »

Lines of code 64,583
Total complexity 11,464
Median class complexity 16.0
Median method complexity 2.0
Most complex class PHP_CodeSniffer\Tokenizers\PHP
Most complex function get_public_suffix()
Classes 332
Methods 2,817
Functions 55

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