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StopBadBots 11.36

Does StopBadBots work with WordPress 6.8.1 and PHP 8.1.12? A smoke test was performed on 2025-06-22 14:46:05 UTC.

Summary

Pages 20

Plugins ‹ Test site — WordPress

Stop Bad Bots

Stop Bad Bots → Dashboard

Stop Bad Bots → Notifications

Stop Bad Bots → Debug Info

Stop Bad Bots → More Tools

Stop Bad Bots → Settings

Stop Bad Bots → Bad Bots Table

Stop Bad Bots → Bad IPs Table

Stop Bad Bots → Bad Referer Table

Stop Bad Bots → Fail2ban Monitor

Stop Bad Bots → Add Bad Bot to Table

Stop Bad Bots → Add Bad IP to Table

Stop Bad Bots → Add Bad Referer to Table

Stop Bad Bots → Visits Log

Stop Bad Bots → Visits Analytics

Stop Bad Bots → Go Pro

Stop Bad Bots → More Tools Same Author

Test site – Just another WordPress site

Dashboard ‹ Test site — WordPress

Benchmark

URL	Load time			Memory usage
	Inactive	Active	Change	Inactive	Active	Change
/wp-admin/index.php	0.323 s	0.490 s	+0.167 s	3.51 MiB	4.26 MiB	+ 770.77 KiB
/wp-admin/edit.php	0.183 s	0.297 s	+0.114 s	3.57 MiB	3.8 MiB	+ 235.24 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php	0.698 s	0.927 s	+0.229 s	6.06 MiB	6.33 MiB	+ 271.97 KiB
/wp-admin/upload.php	0.549 s	0.415 s	-0.134 s	3.52 MiB	3.73 MiB	+ 216.04 KiB
/wp-admin/options-writing.php	0.194 s	0.411 s	+0.217 s	3.5 MiB	3.71 MiB	+ 218.25 KiB
/wp-admin/media-new.php	0.255 s	0.409 s	+0.154 s	3.49 MiB	3.71 MiB	+ 226.45 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category	0.157 s	0.266 s	+0.109 s	3.5 MiB	3.74 MiB	+ 237.21 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page	0.547 s	0.584 s	+0.037 s	6.05 MiB	6.25 MiB	+ 203.5 KiB
/wp-admin/options-discussion.php	0.228 s	0.330 s	+0.102 s	3.5 MiB	3.71 MiB	+ 215.38 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-comments.php	0.404 s	0.241 s	-0.163 s	3.52 MiB	3.73 MiB	+ 214.41 KiB
/	0.263 s	0.186 s	-0.077 s	3.44 MiB	3.54 MiB	+ 103.58 KiB
Average	0.346 s	0.414 s	+0.069 s	3.97 MiB	4.23 MiB	+ 264.8 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.

Language		%	Lines of code	Comment lines	Files
	PHP	47.7%	16,913	5,267	68
	PO File	27.2%	9,639	3,657	6
	JavaScript	19.8%	7,031	1,084	21
	CSS	5.2%	1,838	192	10
Total			35,421	10,200	105

PHP Code Analysis | More results »

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

• wp_sbb_badips
• wp_sbb_badref
• wp_sbb_blacklist
• wp_sbb_fingerprint
• wp_sbb_http_tools
• wp_sbb_stats
• wp_sbb_visitorslog
• wp_stopbadbots_fail2ban_logs
• wp_wptools_page_load_times

Options wp_options 19

• chat_messages
• stop_bad_bots_network
• stopbadbots_bill_show_warnings
• stopbadbots_block_false_google
• stopbadbots_firewall
• stopbadbots_go_pro_hide
• stopbadbots_http_tools
• stopbadbots_installed
• stopbadbots_last_checked
• stopbadbots_last_checked2
• stopbadbots_last_feedback
• stopbadbots_my_blacklist
• stopbadbots_my_email_to
• stopbadbots_my_radio_report_all_visits
• stopbadbots_setup_complete
• stopbadbots_string_whitelist
• stopbadbots_tables_empty
• stopbadbots_version
• stopbadbots_was_activated

Meta Boxes

{
    "dashboard": {
        "stopbadbots-dashboard": {
            "title": "Stop Bad Bots Activities",
            "context": "normal"
        }
    }
}

PHP Error Log 3 lines

[22-Jun-2025 14:46:28 UTC] PHP Deprecated:  strip_tags(): Passing null to parameter #1 ($string) of type string is deprecated in /wp-admin/admin-header.php on line 41
[22-Jun-2025 14:46:41 UTC] PHP Deprecated:  preg_replace(): Passing null to parameter #3 ($subject) of type array|string is deprecated in /wp-content/plugins/stopbadbots/includes/visits_stats/analytics-pages.php on line 90
[22-Jun-2025 14:46:41 UTC] PHP Deprecated:  preg_replace(): Passing null to parameter #3 ($subject) of type array|string is deprecated in /wp-content/plugins/stopbadbots/includes/visits_stats/analytics-referer.php on line 131

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