Clear data of Wordfence Security in WordPress admin?

Please see our FAQ on https://www.wordfence.com (link at bottom of page) where we explain how to clear all Wordfence data.

Regards,

Mark.

Hi,

If disabling and then reenabling this plugin, do I need to get a new API key, or just pasting the old one?

Actually, I don’t want to use the way said in FAQ to clear data.
Because I just want to clear data of some large tables.
And most importantly, this way will reset the system to defaults.
I don’t want to set it every time after clearing.

So is there another way to clear data in WP admin?

If the answer is no, can you consider to develop the functions in WP admin?
If the users don’t familiar with phpmyadmin, I think there is a risk to clear data manually in phpmyadmin.

P.S. “The functions” means users can choice which table to clear, or clearing data of all tables. But the system won’t to remove tables, and not reset to defaults.

Thank you!

Not sure this issue should be marked “resolved”.

Firstly, it’s a bit useless to link to the home page and say the actual FAQ link is “at bottom of page”. It’s not clearly labelled, and you have to dig to get to what is presumably the intended article:

https://support.wordfence.com/support/solutions/articles/1000010321-how-can-i-remove-all-wordfence-data-or-reset-wordfence-to-the-default

Second, as chntnu100 points out, this fails to really address the issue. I don’t want to remove WF, or delete all data. Just purge the stuff that’s taking up too much space.

The real problem is the wfhits table. Why should I be forced to lose data on blocked IPs, for instance, which presumably don’t take up much space, when some basic logging is taking up tons of space? I dunno, maybe you can just go into phpMyAdmin and safely empty that table, but chntnu100 is right – we can’t know if that’s safe in terms of corrupting data.

A simple “purge” interface seems essential.