Safe to deactivate in admin?

  • Resolved MarkJ

    (@forusak)


    5 years, 11 months ago

    Is it safe to deactivate wordfence in the admin and keep it active only under its settings and on front end?

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  • Plugin Support wfphil

    (@wfphil)

    5 years, 10 months ago

    Hi @forusak

    I am not sure I understand your request. If you deactivate Wordfence on the WordPress Plugins page then Wordfence is completely disabled.

    Thread Starter MarkJ

    (@forusak)

    5 years, 10 months ago

    Hi @wfphil
    I mean plugins which are able to disable other plugins where I want.

    Plugin Support wfphil

    (@wfphil)

    5 years, 10 months ago

    Hi Marek,

    Thank you for the update.

    Wordfence will not disable other plugins automatically and you can’t disable other plugins from within Wordfence.

    Thread Starter MarkJ

    (@forusak)

    5 years, 10 months ago

    No, I mean I have a plugin to disable other plugins, and I was thinking about disabling wordfence on some admin pages, because it is slowing down the work in wp admin.

    Plugin Support wfphil

    (@wfphil)

    5 years, 10 months ago

    Hi Marek,

    Thank you for the update.

    For clarification, do you have a plugin that has the ability to deactivate other plugins independently of using the deactivate link on the WordPress Plugins page?

    What plugin is it?

    Wordfence should not slow a website down at all. When you say “slow” can you provide a full and precise description please.

    Have you tested activating and deactivating Wordfence on the WordPress Plugins page to generate strong evidence that any “slowness” is only present when Wordfence is active?

    Thread Starter MarkJ

    (@forusak)

    5 years, 10 months ago

    Yes there is plenty of plugins which can do this. It makes plugin not loaded if I am on a specific page. For example swift performance lite.

    I just want to have admin as lightweight as possible, because wordfence as pretty much all plugins, loads its resources like css etc. on every single page in admin and I don’t see a reason for it. When it comes to cheap hostings, it makes difference.
    Also some time ago I realize that plugins are installing somewhat slow, and deactivating wordfence was the solution. This part is not that important for me atm.

    Plugin Support wfphil

    (@wfphil)

    5 years, 10 months ago

    Hi @forusak

    Swift Performance Lite should only affect public facing pages and not WordPress administration pages.

    If you are having problems with plugin assets being loaded such as CSS and JavaScript files then you may want to consider migrating to a different hosting provider as the loading of our CSS and JavaScript files is normal behavior and would not be a problem on a good quality hosting server.

    Thread Starter MarkJ

    (@forusak)

    5 years, 10 months ago

    No, swift can disable plugins anywhere. I have wf disabled since I opened this topic.
    Sorry but this is taking too long, the question was pretty simple. I am aware of other options. I will take it as there was no issue with it.

    • This reply was modified 5 years, 10 months ago by MarkJ.
    Plugin Support wfphil

    (@wfphil)

    5 years, 10 months ago

    Hi @forusak

    If you use another plugin to modify Wordfence’s functionality then Wordfence may not work properly. I will mark this as resolved for you.

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