John-Pierre,
This URL is used for the Live Traffic report in Wordfence. If you do not need this feature, the easiest way to avoid the 404’s is to turn off the “Live Traffic” option, either at the top of the Live Traffic page, or on the Wordfence Options page.
The reason this came up in early August is that Google changed the way that they are handling certain URLs — they previously didn’t touch these at all, but then they started indexing them and getting counted as human visitors in Wordfence’s Live Traffic. In WordPress installations where the core files are in the root of the site, it was fixed in the last update and does not generate a 404, but when WordPress is installed in a subdirectory, it does. This will be fixed in a future version of Wordfence, but for now, disabling Live Traffic is the best solution.
-Matt R
ok, I’ll disable live traffic for now.
Thank you for your reply Matt!
Regards,
John-Pierre
I had this problem last month with several sites. I followed the advice and switched the Live Traffic option off. It seemed to work for a couple of weeks, but now starting to get more WMT warnings and unfound errors, all relating to Wordfence_Loghuman etc.
Will have to abandon this plugin until there is a proper fix, or a work around that actually works?
speedyp20:
Can you check if the Live Traffic option is still off? This URL shouldn’t appear on the pages for Google to index, if it is off.
If you only see a few of them at a time, it might be Google catching up on indexing pages it had previously gathered. I have one site where it took 2 years for them to stop indexing /hello-world/ that was deleted during the initial developer’s setup.
If you’re still having trouble, can you create a new post in this forum? This one is already marked as resolved, and wordpress.org’s forum rules ask us to have a separate post for each person’s problem — it helps us keep track of open issues, too. Thanks!
Hi
Can you tell me if a visitor to my site is blocked from the page they are trying to load when the following sequence occurs?
Plainville, United States visited http://www.makinmemrees.com/treetops/
Plainville, United States left http://www.makinmemrees.com/treetops/ and visited http://www.makinmemrees.com/?wordfence_logHuman=1&hid=3FD3E2344A0269A578F631606B84830E&r=0.5019270199514139
I have live traffic enabled and do have 3 redirects set up but the /treetops/ link is a direct link and they are attempted to go directly to this page. If it is blocking traffic, I would go ahead and disable live traffic, but I would rather not have to do that.
Thanks
