Scott Dayman
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I’m not a premium user. Is your payment method still valid? Do they email out renewal notifications? Maybe posting on their blog will get their attention:
http://www.wordfence.com/blog/2014/06/how-to-lower-your-wordfence-renewal-price-and-how-our-renewal-pricing-works/#respondI have these turned on in the Options page:
Don’t let WordPress reveal valid users in login errors
Prevent discovery of usernames through ‘?/author=N’ scansThose permission changes are more secure. It’s revoked all Group privileges. Did anything stop working?
I checked one of my sites and it still has 644 and 755. Maybe your host changed them. Do you have other sites you can check?
Does the Scan work?
Do you have a bunch of other plugins active? If so, deactivate some and see if that helps. If it does help, look into reducing their memory requirements. Maybe even lowering Wordfence’s memory setting (in the Options page you currently can’t get to).
Weird. It could be a theme or plugin conflict.
Try disabling all other plugins and/or switching themes.
How long did you wait? Granted, I have my refresh rate set to 2 minutes, but sometimes it takes a minute before my scan starts. Maybe that’s because of my refresh rate.
Try going to the Wordfence Options page and enable Debugging near the bottom. That provides a more verbose activity log.
I don’t have a static IP address, either, but it rarely changes. When it does, I update my .htaccess
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Wordfence Security - Firewall, Malware Scan, and Login Security] Blocked IPs1) Like many others (I’m guessing), I haven’t had this issue, so I can’t help from experience.
2) This forum exists because all WordPress add-ons have one. Users can visit the forum to share experience. Authors aren’t obligated to use the forums. Most of us are the Wordfence freeloaders with no expectation of free support from Wordfence. Wordfence is in the business of making money by selling enhanced features and support.
Seeing how I have not run across this issue, I have two suggestions:
1) Go to Wordfence options and enable “Delete Wordfence tables and data on deactivation?” Then deactivate and delete the Wordfence plugin. And reinstall.2) It *could* be a conflict with another plugin. Disable all other plugins and see if the problem persists.
As for blocking spam, I use Akismet and it works pretty well…especially against bots.
I also use http://perishablepress.com/wordpress-5g-blacklist/ that also does a good job of blocking bots. You can also try the Bad Behavior plugin.The RAM allotment doesn’t much affect general operation of Wordfence. Those options generally apply to a scan.
What caching do you have turned on? Turn off the caching and see if that helps.
FTP to your site and remove the wordfence plugin folder. That should let you log in. Then reinstall Wordfence.
Without more info, we can’t help. Simple answer is: restore the issue.
That may require you to manually download whatever package it was and re-copy the deleted file. It sounds like it was part of your theme.
If you’re the only who logs in, add this to .htaccess:
<Files wp-login.php>
order deny,allow
allow from 12.34.56.78
deny from all
</Files>change the IP address to your home IP address. That’ll stop your site from getting hammered by login attempts. And that’s about all you can do once someone gets it in their head to brute force a login.
No. In fact, I think that closing the browser will reduce the load on your server since it doesn’t have to keep sending you updates.
The message I’m getting is that the WF servers are under a heavy load and giving paid accounts priority access. They’re registering over 35,000 attacks per minute, more than I’ve ever seen in a sustained period.
It sounds like the site is updating, but the browser cache isn’t being told to grab a fresh version.
Hopefully someone who knows how to force this will reply. Here’s a page that mentions some approaches:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8347595/htaccess-how-to-force-the-clients-browser-to-clear-the-cache