Title: Blocking not working?
Last modified: August 31, 2016

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# Blocking not working?

 *  Resolved [floatingkitch](https://wordpress.org/support/users/floatingkitch/)
 * (@floatingkitch)
 * [9 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/blocking-not-working/)
 * Just received my summary email from Wordfence and it lists no IP’s/Countries 
   blocked and no failed log-in attempts made in the last 2 weeks. Which is strange.
   I usually have several things listed. I’ve checked the Wordfence settings and
   everything appears enabled to ensure blocking. I have version 6.1.7 installed.
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 *  [wfasa](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wfasa/)
 * (@wfasa)
 * [9 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/blocking-not-working/#post-7408291)
 * Hello floatingkitch,
    if you look on Wordfence page “Blocked IPs” do you see 
   any blocks there?
 *  Thread Starter [floatingkitch](https://wordpress.org/support/users/floatingkitch/)
 * (@floatingkitch)
 * [9 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/blocking-not-working/#post-7408314)
 * It says no IP addresses have been blocked yet.
 *  [wfasa](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wfasa/)
 * (@wfasa)
 * [9 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/blocking-not-working/#post-7408403)
 * Do you have Falcon caching under (Wordfence “Performance Setup”) turned on?
 *  Thread Starter [floatingkitch](https://wordpress.org/support/users/floatingkitch/)
 * (@floatingkitch)
 * [9 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/blocking-not-working/#post-7408533)
 * Falcon caching is disabled. I believe this is the default?
 * Everything is set up as it always has been. But I’m still not seeing any blocking.
   Seems very strange.
 *  [wfasa](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wfasa/)
 * (@wfasa)
 * [9 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/blocking-not-working/#post-7408601)
 * Hello again,
    I agree, it seems strange. Are you seeing traffic coming in via
   Wordfence Live Traffic feed?
 *  Thread Starter [floatingkitch](https://wordpress.org/support/users/floatingkitch/)
 * (@floatingkitch)
 * [9 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/blocking-not-working/#post-7408623)
 * When I click on “Live Traffic” it says “Live activity is disabled: login and 
   firewall activity will still appear below”. If I check some of the tabs on that
   page under “Filter Traffic”, it looks like the last time something was blocked
   was April 20. I can see though, for example, that I successfully logged in this
   morning.
 * If I click on “Firewall” it says it’s firewall status: disabled. Should that 
   be turned on?
 * Under “Scan”, it does show that it’s been scanning.
 *  [wfasa](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wfasa/)
 * (@wfasa)
 * [9 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/blocking-not-working/#post-7408637)
 * It sounds like Wordfence is working then. If you go to Wordfence “Options” page,
   is “Enable Live Traffic View” disabled?
 * You can turn the Firewall on if you like but you should be seeing Live Traffic
   whether the Firewall is on or not.
 *  Thread Starter [floatingkitch](https://wordpress.org/support/users/floatingkitch/)
 * (@floatingkitch)
 * [9 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/blocking-not-working/#post-7408639)
 * It was disabled. I clicked to enable live traffic view and I can see it in real
   time now.
 *  [wfasa](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wfasa/)
 * (@wfasa)
 * [9 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/blocking-not-working/#post-7408640)
 * Ok great. Maybe another admin has changed the settings? You might want to look
   over all settings then there on the “Options” page to tweak them so that you 
   are blocking what you want to block.

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 * Last activity: [9 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/blocking-not-working/#post-7408640)
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