With Wordfence ACTIVE, can these Wordfence database entries be deleted?

  • Resolved BothHands

    (@bothhands)


    7 years, 2 months ago

    Wordfence is ACTIVE on my website, and I intend to keep it active.

    I ran a database clean-up plugin that suggests deleting the following database entries:

    wp_wfBadLeechers
    wp_wfBlockedIPLog
    wp_wfBlocks
    wp_wfBlocksAdv
    wp_wfConfig
    wp_wfCrawlers
    wp_wfFileMods
    wp_wfHits
    wp_wfHoover
    wp_wfIssues
    wp_wfLeechers
    wp_wfLockedOut
    wp_wfLocs
    wp_wfLogins
    wp_wfNet404s
    wp_wfReverseCache
    wp_wfScanners
    wp_wfStatus
    wp_wfThrottleLog
    wp_wfVulnScanners

    See screen capture image file at this URL:
    https://bothbarrels.net/wp/wf-tables.png

    Again, the Wordfence plugin is an active component on this website – so I don’t want to delete anything it needs(!)

    Thanks

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  • As the heading above the table listing in your screen-capture says, these are simply tables the cleanup plugin knows are “not in a core WordPress installation”.

    Which would be true about any plugin added tables. Any and all tables that were not added by that initial, fresh WordPress Core install, before ANY plugins were added.
    So I think that clean-up plugin can be a little dangerous in the wrong hands.. ??

    DON’T DELETE THESE TABLES, if you intend for WordFence to keep running. ??

    Hi BothHands,
    If your database WordPress prefix is wp_ and you only have one set of those tables, then the clean up plugin is clearly not accurate. So you’d want to bring that up with the authors of that code.

    Hope you have a great week!

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