Defender 4.8.0

Does Defender work with WordPress 6.6.1 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: 945.11 KiB
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 version6.6.1
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 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=5dcd9dec8a
Aspect after-activation
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.660 s
Memory usage 5.46 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 0.232 s
Memory usage 4.44 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 0.563 s
Memory usage 5.06 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 0.358 s
Memory usage 5.02 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 0.315 s
Memory usage 5.02 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 0.310 s
Memory usage 5.02 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Defender → Firewall NEW

Page screenshot: Defender → Firewall NEW
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 0.327 s
Memory usage 5.02 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 0.315 s
Memory usage 5.02 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 0.344 s
Memory usage 5.02 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 0.308 s
Memory usage 5.02 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 0.313 s
Memory usage 5.02 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 0.504 s
Memory usage 5.02 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 0.302 s
Memory usage 5.02 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 0.261 s
Memory usage 4.25 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Benchmark

URL Load time Memory usage
Inactive Active Change Inactive Active Change
/wp-admin/index.php0.344 s0.495 s+0.151 s3.47 MiB4.44 MiB+ 991.5 KiB
/wp-admin/edit.php0.212 s0.220 s+0.008 s3.54 MiB4.5 MiB+ 987.74 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php0.808 s0.943 s+0.135 s5.75 MiB6.69 MiB+ 961.91 KiB
/wp-admin/upload.php0.700 s0.358 s-0.342 s3.49 MiB4.38 MiB+ 909.63 KiB
/wp-admin/options-writing.php0.204 s0.217 s+0.013 s3.41 MiB4.36 MiB+ 972.18 KiB
/wp-admin/media-new.php0.259 s0.449 s+0.190 s3.4 MiB4.36 MiB+ 985.56 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category0.207 s0.214 s+0.007 s3.47 MiB4.38 MiB+ 927.48 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page0.624 s0.644 s+0.020 s5.75 MiB6.68 MiB+ 957.5 KiB
/wp-admin/options-discussion.php0.232 s0.302 s+0.070 s3.41 MiB4.36 MiB+ 973.87 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-comments.php0.231 s0.237 s+0.006 s3.49 MiB4.38 MiB+ 910.18 KiB
/0.339 s0.220 s-0.119 s3.45 MiB4.25 MiB+ 818.63 KiB
Average 0.378 s0.391 s+0.013 s3.88 MiB4.8 MiB+ 945.11 KiB

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
PHP71.9%62,60726,189374
JavaScript25.0%21,80365929
Markdown1.0%84808
SVG0.8%704417
C0.8%668251
CSS0.4%31058
JSON0.1%8703
XML0.1%6001
m40.0%3201
C/C++ Header0.0%8121
Total 87,127 26,894 443

PHP Code Analysis | More results »

Lines of code 59,019
Total complexity 10,141
Median class complexity 16.0
Median method complexity 2.0
Most complex class PHP_CodeSniffer\Tokenizers\PHP
Most complex function get_public_suffix()
Classes 286
Methods 2,398
Functions 49

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 7

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