Wordfence Security 7.5.6

Does Wordfence Security work with WordPress 5.8.2 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: 4.04 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 version5.8.2
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=289a8cd9d6
Aspect after-activation
HTTP status 200
Load time 7.637 s
Memory usage 11.62 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 0.996 s
Memory usage 7.41 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 0.642 s
Memory usage 7.98 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 0.473 s
Memory usage 7.29 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 0.435 s
Memory usage 7.34 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 0.538 s
Memory usage 7.31 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 0.611 s
Memory usage 7.93 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 0.467 s
Memory usage 7.17 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 0.345 s
Memory usage 6.78 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 0.373 s
Memory usage 7.2 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Benchmark

URL Load time Memory usage
Inactive Active Change Inactive Active Change
/wp-admin/index.php0.298 s0.477 s+0.179 s3.08 MiB7.2 MiB+ 4.12 MiB
/wp-admin/edit.php0.180 s0.260 s+0.080 s3.11 MiB7.23 MiB+ 4.11 MiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php0.748 s1.106 s+0.358 s5.27 MiB9.33 MiB+ 4.06 MiB
/wp-admin/upload.php0.483 s0.591 s+0.108 s3.03 MiB7.08 MiB+ 4.05 MiB
/wp-admin/options-writing.php0.146 s0.281 s+0.135 s3.02 MiB7.06 MiB+ 4.04 MiB
/wp-admin/media-new.php0.397 s0.268 s-0.129 s3.01 MiB7.06 MiB+ 4.06 MiB
/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category0.173 s0.324 s+0.151 s3.04 MiB7.09 MiB+ 4.05 MiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page0.945 s0.707 s-0.238 s5.26 MiB9.32 MiB+ 4.06 MiB
/wp-admin/options-discussion.php0.235 s0.342 s+0.107 s3 MiB7.06 MiB+ 4.05 MiB
/wp-admin/edit-comments.php0.315 s0.266 s-0.049 s3.04 MiB7.09 MiB+ 4.05 MiB
/1.109 s0.266 s-0.843 s2.96 MiB6.78 MiB+ 3.82 MiB
Average 0.457 s0.444 s-0.013 s3.44 MiB7.48 MiB+ 4.04 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
PHP78.8%60,5877,567330
JavaScript13.3%10,24980024
PO File6.9%5,3054,7311
CSS0.8%5925329
SVG0.2%172212
Total 76,905 13,153 396

PHP Code Analysis | More results »

Lines of code 37,285
Total complexity 9,981
Median class complexity 18.0
Median method complexity 2.0
Most complex class wordfence
Most complex function wordfence::veryFirstAction()
Classes 157
Methods 1,863
Functions 7

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 7

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