PHP Fatal error: Call to undefined function wp_normalize_path()

Working on this now with the dev team.

tim

Can confirm the same issue on 3.5.1. No pressure from here since WF has served us so well over the past and WF newsletters have tipped us off on how to stay secure in a scenario like this!

Fatal error: Call to undefined function wp_normalize_path() in /home/outofthe/public_html/wp-content/plugins/wordfence/lib/wfUtils.php on line 106 on line 106

Cheers,
Jack.

i cannot enter in the plugin menu, so i deleted the wordfence dir but the problem is still there….what can i do?

@all

We just released a new version to address this. Please update and let me know if this fixes your issue.

tim

@tim, I am sorry to bother you again but here https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordfence/ says “Requires: 3.9 or higher“, so in my WordPress installation which is v.3.8.1, I can’t update through WordPress Dashboard!

So if as it says here https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordfence/changelog/

5.3.8
Customers running WP versions older than 3.9 don’t support wp_normalize_path(). Added support for older WP versions to fix an error being thrown.

support has been added for WP versions older than 3.9 why is it required?

Thank you for your time.

P.S
I know that running on a WordPress installation that is not up to date is not a good practice, but that is another story to tell 🙂

@kanenas. That is correct. We changed the compatabliltiy requirements to say that, however we patched the plugin to work with the older version of WordPress because we know that it affected some of our users. Going forward we are requiring 3.9 and above. You still should be able to use this version even though it now says that as others seem to have no trouble. If you do, then add the plugin via FTP to update it.

thanks all

Tim