Adendum on "[Plugin: Wordfence Security] Wordfence - Optimum FIREWALL and...
Wordfence is an awesome plugin, I believe the best security plugin out there...however, one area I always struggle with is the optimum settings for the FIREWALL and LOGIN sections. Everything else is...
View ArticleWordfence on "[Plugin: Wordfence Security] Pages not found shows existing pages"
Hi Cemal, I'm not sure why you're seeing that, but I'll investigate on my end. Blocking many IPs won't slow your server down until you've blocked more than around 1000 IP addresses. However the next...
View Articleacekin on "[Plugin: Wordfence Security] Pages not found shows existing pages"
Thanks Mark. I have turned off logging, so currently I do not have any Live view or Pages not found. But I will be happy to turn it on and provide more information if you like. Is it advisable to block...
View Articlecatwingz on "[Plugin: Wordfence Security] automatically block 'admin'?"
I love this plugin. What would make it even better is if there were a way to automatically block attempts to login with common names like 'admin.' Is there? https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordfence/
View Articlebabrees on "[Plugin: Wordfence Security] Wordfence - Optimum FIREWALL and...
I too was just searching for that exact information! Some suggestions or help on throttling values would be great!
View Articlebabrees on "[Plugin: Wordfence Security] Top Consumers - won't block"
Hi. Thanks for this great plugin! My bandwidth is being gobbled up by a bot. I went to Live Traffic > Top Consumers and tried to block the top one. Unfortunately, upon clicking Block it just whirrs...
View Articledarignac on "[Plugin: Wordfence Security] Wordfence: White page after update...
I just updated to Wordfence 4.0.3 an afterwards the whole admin area only shows a white page. There is obviously an PHP erro thrown, unfortunately I cannot tell which as the host does not allow me to...
View Articlegumnut on "[Plugin: Wordfence Security] Wordfence Live Site Activity not...
Thanks Kerry! I've emailed the logs to support@wordfence.com. By the way, two days ago the Wordfence site activity was working again on my site, albeit a little slow to load up, but now it's not...
View Articlewpfan1000 on "[Plugin: Wordfence Security] Possible false positive"
This morning Wordfence emailed me this message from one of my sites: Alert generated at Sunday 16th of March 2014 at 07:48:44 AM Warnings: * Modified plugin file:...
View Articleaspasa on "[Plugin: Wordfence Security] Wordfence blocked IP list not loading"
i had similar issue. WF 'working....' - sometimes hung the whole wp-admin console and had to exit and re-login. This was on a 'free' aff. site from blowdaddy. setup round about the same time they...
View ArticleAdrian on "[Plugin: Wordfence Security] Repeated invalid URL attempts"
In my live traffic scan, I'm seen repeated attempts to access this invalid URL in my site: http://www.mydomain.com/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/ They come from ip addresses apparently in Turkey, the Netherlands...
View Articlepegcitylovely on "[Plugin: Wordfence Security] New User/Contributor cannot...
I added a User (contributor) to my blog and I've added her username to the options of usernames to ignore, yet she still gets locked out by Wordfence? What do I need to do to fix this?...
View Articlewilderbee on "[Plugin: Wordfence Security] Wordfence can't get the IP of...
Using Wordfence at least a year. The above message now appears daily on the log, first appeared Feb.24. What is causing it, is it a concern, is there setting I should fix? Saw something about...
View ArticleWordfence on "[Plugin: Wordfence Security] Wordfence can't get the IP of...
Looksl ike our host has changed their configuration. Go to your Wordfence options, then change the drop down list titled "How does Wordfence get IPs:" to "Use PHP's built in REMOTE_ADDR". Regards, Mark.
View ArticleWordfence on "[Plugin: Wordfence Security] WordFence database problems."
Hi, No, I dont think this is related to an infection. The error: "DataTables warning (table id..." is interesting. You're using some sort of DataTables database plugin? Looks like that is what is...
View ArticleWordfence on "[Plugin: Wordfence Security] No log of blocked IPs"
Can you try to get yourself throttled via your cellphone or some IP that doesn't matter if it gets blocked, then sign in from a different IP and check if it's listed. Regards, Mark.
View ArticleWordfence on "[Plugin: Wordfence Security] Can not activate Wordfence"
Hi, What happens when you try to activate it? Regards, Mark.
View ArticleWordfence on "[Plugin: Wordfence Security] Login does not redirect to admin...
Hi, Wordfence is not supported on Windows. Sorry. Regards, Mark.
View ArticleWordfence on "[Plugin: Wordfence Security] Free API key error"
Yes you need that for most advanced WordPress plugins. Regards, Mark.
View ArticleWordfence on "[Plugin: Wordfence Security] Admin url and wp-content folder name"
Yes changing the wp-content folder will almost certainly break other plugins. We're looking at adding the login URL change. Regards, Mark.
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