Wordfence blocks Better WordPress Minify stylesheet

  • Resolved Timothy

    (@tdsnowden)


    7 years, 8 months ago

    Certain pages are being malformed after Wordfence blocked auto-minified stylesheets. Chromium inspector shows 403 error. Following the minified stylesheet link shows the Wordfence blocking message because of potentially malicious activity. De-activating Better WordPress Minify fixed the display issues.

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  • Thread Starter Timothy

    (@tdsnowden)

    7 years, 8 months ago

    Fixed the problem by enabling “Friendly URLs” under BWP’s Advanced Options menu. Problem really only showed on Chromium – probably because Firefox is ‘whitelisted’ because I do all admin work in it. However, once the Friendly URLs option was enabled, display issues went away.
    Found a discussion on AITPro help forum that many security plugins (including theirs) have trouble recognizing auto-generated minified files. I am guessing that maybe the Friendly URLs option is recognized by Wordfence as content from the site rather than a dynamic request that it ‘wants’ to block. Not sure why – but it seems to work, for now at least.
    Maybe this will help someone else.

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