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I disabled WordFence and it messed up with my site big time as everything stopped working. I enabled logging and found out some plugin was throwing “function not found” error. So, I disabled it from database and then another plugin was throwing same error. WordFence messed up something and all plugins started throwing errors so I restored from a backup. But I am never going to use this joke of a plugin called WordFence again. But how do I completely remove it from my site without messing it up?

Hi @techman, sorry to see you were having trouble,

The instructions for removal using the Wordfence Assistant, or entirely manually (including database table names to look out for) are here: https://www.wordfence.com/help/advanced/remove-or-reset/

The issue you had with “function not found” when disabling the plugin, usually through WordPress > Plugins > Installed Plugins or by renaming the Wordfence plugin folder sounds like the firewall was still optimized: https://www.wordfence.com/help/firewall/optimizing-the-firewall/#removing-the-optimization

If you wish to troubleshoot the initial problems with IP/visitor detection we’ll be happy to help, or if you take the steps to remove Wordfence entirely we wish you well in your WordPress security choice going forward.

Thanks,
Peter.

Yes firewall was still optimized because during deactivation it asked whether to remove that setting from php.ini and I clicked “Cancel”. I was deactivating it temporary and planned to activate plugin again thinking it would fix the original issue that is why I clicked “Cancel”.

How do I fix the original issue?

how to block bot traffic coming ?

Hi @techman,

If you’ve restored your site to a point where Wordfence is still active, we may need to see which part of the configuration may be failing to result in no IPs/locations/pages registering in your Live Traffic results.

You can send a diagnostic to us directly from the Wordfence > Tools > Diagnostics page at wftest @ wordfence . com. Click on “Send Report by Email”. Please add your forum username where indicated and respond here after you have sent it.

NOTE: It should look as follows – Screenshot of Tools > Diagnostic > Send by Email

Thanks again,
Peter.

@arsah Please open up a new topic with a description of the issue you’re seeing so that we can assist. The forum guidelines require us to use one topic per user for an issue/request as different solutions for different users, even if the problem seems similar, can get confusing to follow.

Diagnostic report sent. Although I didn’t see any success message on screen. Once I pressed “Send” button it showed Wordfence is working….and then nothing….no error or success message so I am not if it is sent or not.

By the way this is how Dashboard looks like.

But Scan actually works.