Title: Wordfence causing login issues
Last modified: June 16, 2023

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# Wordfence causing login issues

 *  Resolved [romantroman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/romantroman/)
 * (@romantroman)
 * [2 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordfence-causing-login-issues/)
 * I have been having issues with logging into the wordpress backend page of my 
   site after installing Wordfence. When I try to log in, I get notified by wordfence
   that someone logged in, but the login page just refreshes instead. So I am unable
   to log in.
 * I deactivated and deleted Wordfence yesterday and today, I am able to login in.
    -  This topic was modified 2 years, 11 months ago by [romantroman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/romantroman/).

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 *  Plugin Support [wfpeter](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wfpeter/)
 * (@wfpeter)
 * [2 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordfence-causing-login-issues/#post-16829614)
 * Hi [@romantroman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/romantroman/), thanks for
   your message and sorry to see you had that issue.
 * There was an issue a while back for some customers where hitting the return/enter
   key would sometimes act in this way whereas clicking the Login button would take
   you to the admin dashboard as normal. If you’re on Wordfence 7.9.2+ though this
   shouldn’t be the case, but at least wanted to check as it sounds similar.
 * Our Login Security features (2FA/reCAPTCHA) are designed for the default WordPress
   and WooCommerce login/registration pages so custom login pages from themes or
   plugins _could_ present a similar issue.
 * If you don’t have either of those cases, I’d attempt clearing any caching you
   have on your server or WordPress site after installing Wordfence to see if that
   resolves the ability to see the dashboard after signing in.
 * Thanks,
   Peter.

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