Wordfence Security 7.4.11

Does Wordfence Security work with WordPress 5.5.1 and PHP 7.4.8? 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: 3.42 MiB
The average PHP memory usage increased by this amount after activating by the plugin.

Page speed impact: 0.215 seconds
The average page load time increased by this amount after activating the plugin.

Environment
WordPress version5.5.1
PHP version7.4.8
MySQL version8.0.21
PHP memory limit256M
Plugin Info
Last updated
Active installs 5,000,000+
WordPress.org page https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordfence/
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Pages 10

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=wordfence%2Fwordfence.php&plugin_status=all&paged=1&s&_wpnonce=7e7c175cc4
Aspect after-activation
HTTP status 200
Load time 12.948 s
Memory usage 9.93 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Wordfence

Page screenshot: Wordfence
URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=Wordfence
Aspect menu-item
HTTP status 200
Load time 1.088 s
Memory usage 6.42 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Wordfence → Firewall

Page screenshot: Wordfence  → Firewall
URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=WordfenceWAF
Aspect menu-item
HTTP status 200
Load time 1.508 s
Memory usage 6.92 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Wordfence → Scan

Page screenshot: Wordfence  → Scan
URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=WordfenceScan
Aspect menu-item
HTTP status 200
Load time 1.040 s
Memory usage 6.31 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Wordfence → Tools

Page screenshot: Wordfence  → Tools
URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=WordfenceTools
Aspect menu-item
HTTP status 200
Load time 1.180 s
Memory usage 6.22 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Wordfence → Login Security

Page screenshot: Wordfence  → Login Security
URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=WFLS
Aspect menu-item
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.919 s
Memory usage 6.32 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Wordfence → All Options

Page screenshot: Wordfence  → All Options
URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=WordfenceOptions
Aspect menu-item
HTTP status 200
Load time 1.238 s
Memory usage 6.88 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Wordfence → Help

Page screenshot: Wordfence  → Help
URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=WordfenceSupport
Aspect menu-item
HTTP status 200
Load time 1.191 s
Memory usage 6.17 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 0.524 s
Memory usage 5.78 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 0.653 s
Memory usage 6.13 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Benchmark

URL Load time Memory usage
Inactive Active Change Inactive Active Change
/wp-admin/index.php0.616 s0.717 s+0.101 s2.75 MiB6.13 MiB+ 3.38 MiB
/wp-admin/edit.php0.281 s0.405 s+0.124 s2.8 MiB6.23 MiB+ 3.43 MiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php2.194 s3.006 s+0.812 s4.54 MiB8.05 MiB+ 3.5 MiB
/wp-admin/upload.php0.610 s0.914 s+0.304 s2.63 MiB6.06 MiB+ 3.43 MiB
/wp-admin/options-writing.php0.220 s0.278 s+0.058 s2.64 MiB6.04 MiB+ 3.4 MiB
/wp-admin/media-new.php0.277 s0.324 s+0.047 s2.6 MiB6.04 MiB+ 3.43 MiB
/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category0.228 s0.333 s+0.105 s2.64 MiB6.07 MiB+ 3.43 MiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page1.748 s2.522 s+0.774 s4.53 MiB8.03 MiB+ 3.5 MiB
/wp-admin/options-discussion.php0.414 s0.479 s+0.065 s2.61 MiB6.04 MiB+ 3.43 MiB
/wp-admin/edit-comments.php0.265 s0.369 s+0.104 s2.65 MiB6.07 MiB+ 3.43 MiB
/0.432 s0.299 s-0.133 s2.56 MiB5.78 MiB+ 3.22 MiB
Average 0.662 s0.877 s+0.215 s3 MiB6.41 MiB+ 3.42 MiB

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 21

Options wp_options 6

Meta Boxes

{
    "dashboard": {
        "wordfence_activity_report_widget": {
            "title": "Wordfence activity in the past week",
            "context": "normal"
        }
    }
}

Capabilities 3

PHP Error Log

The log file is empty.

See also: All tests for this plugin, How to Hide Wordfence Security Admin Menus and Widgets