Wordfence is slowing down site and admin

  • Resolved steveb123

    (@steveb123)


    4 years, 7 months ago

    After many years of trouble free wordfence install, a site began to slow down and then pretty much stop.

    I narrowed the issue down to plugins by renaming the plugin folder and then adding my 18 plugins back one at a time, it looks like the baddie is wordfence. The site works fine without it, but when I do a complete deletion of the plugin (via FTP) and then reinstall it, the activation of the plugin slows things down abruptly. I have tried activating wordfence with the remaining plugins deactivated but it makes no difference.

    I am running PHP 7.4 and the latest versions of WP and the other plugins.

    I will be grateful for any input as it is impossible to do anything in the admin with Wordfence running

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  • Plugin Support wfpeter

    (@wfpeter)

    4 years, 7 months ago

    Hi @steveb123 thanks for reaching out to us about this one.

    While Wordfence is active, it is certainly worth checking the PHP error logs on your server and letting me know if there are lines being logged during that time that are clearly Wordfence-related.

    Can you also drop us a diagnostic report to wftest @ wordfence . com? You can find the link to do so at the top of the Wordfence Tools > Diagnostics page. Then click on “Send Report by Email”. Please add your forum username where indicated and respond here after you have sent it.

    Note: For the fastest response time, please make sure and add any information or questions directly to this topic and not the email address above unless asked.

    Thanks,

    Peter.

    Thread Starter steveb123

    (@steveb123)

    4 years, 7 months ago

    Many thanks..

    I have sent the diagnostics report via email

    regards

    jeffycu

    (@jeffycu)

    4 years, 7 months ago

    I was also seeing this issue on my 4 websites. Deactivating Wordfence solved the problem. I have had to revert to using another security plugin.

    Thread Starter steveb123

    (@steveb123)

    4 years, 7 months ago

    It appears to be resolved!

    I uninstalled and reinstalled the plugin 3 times in total and it just worked (as it has done for many years)!!

    The site is running ar normal speed, there are no issues in the diagnostics.

    Wierd! Thanks for your time

    jeffycu

    (@jeffycu)

    4 years, 7 months ago

    Great! I will delete and reinstall and try it again. Thanks.

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