Hi,
Are you having issues with saving any other settings? It could be possible that there are permissions issues on your database. Is this a new install of Wordfence?
Thanks,
Brian
Hi Brian,
No, WP & DB started around 9 months ago
Regards,
@rik0399:
In that case, you can try the option “Disable config caching” — on some hosts, this may cause trouble if the cache can’t be written/read consistently.
Otherwise, any issues with this option are usually caused by conflicts with other plugins, most often captcha plugins. If another plugin changes WordPress’s internal error code for why a user’s login failed, Wordfence can’t see the original reason.
-Matt R
Hi Matt,
Thanks for that,
I’ll give that a go and report back if I may.
At the moment, I am being ‘bombed’ 24/7 by IPs searching for usernames and just can’t stop them?
They are employing Dynamic IP address from all over the globe and worry that if I were to block them, I may inadvertently block good users/visitors?
Regards,
Hi,
Yeah, that’s pretty common — most of the time, the hack attempts aren’t coming from IPs that are likely to be real users. A lot of times, they’re hacked sites at other hosting companies.
If any of the IPs are similar to each other, you can click the link “Block this network” when you see them on the Live Traffic page, or click the Whois Lookup link on the menu and enter one of the bad IPs.
This will give information about who owns the IP range, and a couple links to block a range of IP addresses that are run by the same company. If you can tell that it’s a hosting company, it’s generally safe to block the given range. (Sometimes there are a couple ranges, one with more and one with fewer IPs.)
-Matt R
