WP Free SSL – Free SSL Certificate for WordPress and force HTTPS 1.2.7

Does "WP FREE SSL - Free SSL Certificate for WordPress and force HTTPS WP SSL Pro" work with WordPress 6.8.2 and PHP 8.1.12? A smoke test was performed on .

Summary

Errors
1PHP warnings
2PHP deprecation warnings
No JavaScript exceptions
All test pages loaded successfully
No resource errors
Performance

Memory usage: 163.02 KiB
The average PHP memory usage increased by this amount after activating by the plugin.

Page speed impact: 0.043 seconds
The average page load time increased by this amount after activating the plugin.

Environment
WordPress version6.8.2
PHP version8.1.12
MySQL version10.6.10
PHP memory limit512M
Plugin Info
Last updated
Active installs 2,000+
WordPress.org page https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-free-ssl/
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Pages 6

WP Free SSL ‹ Test site — WordPress

Page screenshot: WP Free SSL ‹ Test site — WordPress
URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=wp-free-ssl.php
Requested URL /wp-admin/plugins.php?action=activate&plugin=wp-free-ssl%2Fwp-free-ssl.php&plugin_status=all&paged=1&s&_wpnonce=fe99fc8ee9
Aspect after-activation
HTTP status 200
Load time 1.175 s
Memory usage 3.8 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

WP Free SSL

Page screenshot: WP Free SSL
URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=wp-free-ssl.php
Aspect menu-item
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.276 s
Memory usage 3.64 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

WP Free SSL → My Certificate

Page screenshot: WP Free SSL → My Certificate
URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=certificate
Aspect menu-item
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.233 s
Memory usage 3.64 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

WP Free SSL → Force HTTPS

Page screenshot: WP Free SSL → Force HTTPS
URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=enablehttps
Aspect menu-item
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.227 s
Memory usage 3.64 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

WP Free SSL → Upgrade  ➤

Page screenshot: WP Free SSL → Upgrade  ➤
URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=wp-free-ssl.php-pricing
Aspect menu-item
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.273 s
Memory usage 3.64 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 0.216 s
Memory usage 3.51 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Benchmark

URL Load time Memory usage
Inactive Active Change Inactive Active Change
/wp-admin/index.php0.355 s0.285 s-0.070 s3.51 MiB3.71 MiB+ 213.11 KiB
/wp-admin/edit.php0.190 s0.331 s+0.141 s3.57 MiB3.74 MiB+ 173.23 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php0.724 s1.055 s+0.331 s6.06 MiB6.29 MiB+ 237.23 KiB
/wp-admin/upload.php0.517 s0.464 s-0.053 s3.52 MiB3.66 MiB+ 137.19 KiB
/wp-admin/options-writing.php0.188 s0.184 s-0.004 s3.5 MiB3.64 MiB+ 141.26 KiB
/wp-admin/media-new.php0.241 s0.231 s-0.010 s3.49 MiB3.64 MiB+ 149.44 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category0.156 s0.185 s+0.029 s3.5 MiB3.66 MiB+ 155.11 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page0.585 s0.735 s+0.150 s6.05 MiB6.28 MiB+ 233.31 KiB
/wp-admin/options-discussion.php0.272 s0.303 s+0.031 s3.5 MiB3.64 MiB+ 137.76 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-comments.php0.188 s0.195 s+0.007 s3.52 MiB3.66 MiB+ 137.26 KiB
/0.293 s0.209 s-0.084 s3.43 MiB3.51 MiB+ 78.29 KiB
Average 0.337 s0.380 s+0.043 s3.97 MiB4.13 MiB+ 163.02 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
PHP95.4%37,33818,756157
SVG2.8%1,08247
JavaScript1.2%460355
Markdown0.6%21601
JSON0.1%2701
CSS0.0%16014
Total 39,139 18,795 185

PHP Code Analysis | More results »

Lines of code 26,558
Total complexity 6,628
Median class complexity 12.0
Median method complexity 2.0
Most complex class Freemius
Most complex function FS_Plugin_Info_Dialog::install_plugin_information()
Classes 75
Methods 1,423
Functions 122

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.

Options wp_options 6

PHP Error Log 3 lines

[17-Jul-2025 20:55:11 UTC] PHP Deprecated:  Optional parameter $action declared before required parameter $code is implicitly treated as a required parameter in /wp-content/plugins/wp-free-ssl/wp-free-ssl.php on line 430
[17-Jul-2025 20:55:11 UTC] PHP Deprecated:  Optional parameter $keyType declared before required parameter $notAfter is implicitly treated as a required parameter in /wp-content/plugins/wp-free-ssl/lib/classes/LEClient/LEOrder.php on line 76
[17-Jul-2025 20:55:14 UTC] PHP Warning:  Trying to access array offset on value of type bool in /wp-content/plugins/wp-free-ssl/wp-free-ssl.php on line 163
See also: All tests for this plugin, How to Hide WP FREE SSL - Free SSL Certificate for WordPress and force HTTPS WP SSL Pro Admin Menus