{"id":16392606,"date":"2023-01-20T10:44:28","date_gmt":"2023-01-20T10:44:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/topic\/a-general-question-about-methodology\/"},"modified":"2023-01-20T10:55:23","modified_gmt":"2023-01-20T10:55:23","slug":"a-general-question-about-methodology","status":"publish","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/topic\/a-general-question-about-methodology\/","title":{"rendered":"A general question about methodology"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">WordFence is one plugin that no WordPress site should be without.  But I have a question stemming from a recent scan I did on my site.  While the scan is running, I see warnings about deprecated functions.  I am assuming these are generated by WordFence itself (as its PHP code is being executed).  So my question has to do with whether WordFence does some initial &#8220;sanity checks&#8221; against core WordPress files that it relies on to run its scan.  After all, if WordFence is running deprecated code, shouldn&#8217;t it be aware of this and do something to avoid this happening?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\"  src=\"\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.nationalrockreview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/wordfence-screen-capture.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-16392606","topic","type-topic","status-publish","hentry","topic-tag-deprecated-code"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic\/16392606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/topic"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic\/16392606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16392650,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic\/16392606\/revisions\/16392650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16392606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}