Security by CleanTalk 2.162

Does Security by CleanTalk work with WordPress 6.8.2 and PHP 8.1.12? A smoke test was performed on .

Summary

Errors
1PHP deprecation warnings
No JavaScript exceptions
All test pages loaded successfully
No resource errors
Performance

Memory usage: 436.5 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 version6.8.2
PHP version8.1.12
MySQL version10.6.10
PHP memory limit512M
Plugin Info
Last updated
Active installs 30,000+
WordPress.org page https://wordpress.org/plugins/security-malware-firewall/
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Pages 4

Security by CleanTalk Settings ‹ Test site — WordPress

Page screenshot: Security by CleanTalk Settings ‹ Test site — WordPress
URL /wp-admin/options-general.php?page=spbc&spbc_tab=settings_general
Requested URL /wp-admin/plugins.php?action=activate&plugin=security-malware-firewall%2Fsecurity-malware-firewall.php&plugin_status=all&paged=1&s&_wpnonce=20bb293053
Aspect after-activation
HTTP status 200
Load time 2.299 s
Memory usage 4.29 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Settings → Security by CleanTalk

Page screenshot: Settings → Security by CleanTalk
URL /wp-admin/options-general.php?page=spbc
Aspect menu-item
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.438 s
Memory usage 3.95 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 0.242 s
Memory usage 3.51 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Dashboard ‹ Test site — WordPress

Page screenshot: Dashboard ‹ Test site — WordPress
URL /wp-admin/index.php
Aspect new-meta-boxes
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.381 s
Memory usage 4.07 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Benchmark

URL Load time Memory usage
Inactive Active Change Inactive Active Change
/wp-admin/index.php0.308 s0.358 s+0.050 s3.51 MiB4.07 MiB+ 578.85 KiB
/wp-admin/edit.php0.199 s0.268 s+0.069 s3.57 MiB4.09 MiB+ 533.66 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php0.841 s0.729 s-0.112 s6.06 MiB6.55 MiB+ 502.98 KiB
/wp-admin/upload.php0.652 s0.446 s-0.206 s3.52 MiB3.94 MiB+ 427.46 KiB
/wp-admin/options-writing.php0.332 s0.583 s+0.251 s3.5 MiB3.94 MiB+ 447.87 KiB
/wp-admin/media-new.php0.274 s0.320 s+0.046 s3.49 MiB3.92 MiB+ 439.96 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category0.213 s0.252 s+0.039 s3.5 MiB3.96 MiB+ 464.68 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page0.706 s0.684 s-0.022 s6.05 MiB6.54 MiB+ 498.83 KiB
/wp-admin/options-discussion.php0.326 s0.397 s+0.071 s3.5 MiB3.94 MiB+ 443.07 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-comments.php0.221 s0.302 s+0.081 s3.52 MiB3.96 MiB+ 449.73 KiB
/0.327 s0.261 s-0.066 s3.5 MiB3.51 MiB+ 14.36 KiB
Average 0.400 s0.418 s+0.018 s3.98 MiB4.4 MiB+ 436.5 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
Language % Lines of code Comment lines Files
PHP95.9%43,53412,872282
PO File2.2%1,0033311
JavaScript0.7%3292451
HTML0.5%22636
SVG0.3%15803
Markdown0.3%14602
JSON0.0%202
Total 45,398 13,451 297

PHP Code Analysis | More results »

Lines of code 42,490
Total complexity 8,248
Median class complexity 13.0
Median method complexity 2.0
Most complex class CleantalkSP\Fpdf\Fpdf
Most complex function spbc_settings__register()
Classes 235
Methods 1,613
Functions 352

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 22

Options wp_options 7

Meta Boxes

{
    "dashboard": {
        "spbc_dashboard_statistics_widget": {
            "title": "Security by CleanTalk",
            "context": "normal"
        }
    }
}

Roles 1

ID Name
tech_freelancerTech freelancer

Capabilities 1

PHP Error Log 1 lines

[18-Aug-2025 08:05:31 UTC] PHP Deprecated:  Automatic conversion of false to array is deprecated in /wp-content/plugins/security-malware-firewall/inc/spbc-tools.php on line 87
See also: All tests for this plugin, How to Hide Security by CleanTalk Admin Menus and Widgets