I cannot install Wordfence…

Something that may work (please take this with a grain of salt – I commando pretty much everything when working with my wordpress sites so this may not be the proper way to do it, but this is how I got WF on a hacked site that locked out plugin privs if I recall correctly)

(quick edit: you need access to the server for this.)

First, download the plugin, should have it as a zip. Upload that to wp-content/plugins and unzip it so the Wordfence folder is there. Once it’s there and unzipped, hop into PHPmyadmin and go to the table Options, then to the row active_plugins. Add a new line inside the brackets like so, where X is the next number in the row (if you look at the plugins list, you should see an i:0 in the first row, i:1 in the next, and so forth) and Y is the length of the string that references the location of the main plugin file in the plugins directory. As a note, just checked, should be 23 characters, so the added line should look like so:

i:X;s:23:”wordfence/wordfence.php”;

This will enable the plugin for the website.

Again, please use this as a last resort if the WF peeps don’t respond in an appropriate time. Again, I’m not a pro with this kinda stuff so I don’t know if this is the proper way to do it, but it worked for me. Cheers!

• This reply was modified 9 years ago by cipherbeta.