It’s a goodbye from me after the latest update.

  • You take one of the best security plugins and you turn it into this clown fiesta.
    Horrible UI, over bloated design, and intrusive alerts everywhere. Not to mentio

    You’re doing now what YOAST did, and there’s a reason why most people jumped ship.
    We have deactivated Wordfence on all our sites.

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  • Plugin Author Wordfence Security

    (@mmaunder)

    It sounds like you’re looking at a different product. Wordfence 7 is clean, quieter and far more effective and easy to use than previous versions. It is also thoroughly tested and performs flawlessly on a huge range of platforms.

    Wordfence 7.0.1 was a major user interface redesign which moved the focus onto security fundamentals. Our emphasis is now on securing your website and doing the things that are most important to prevent a hack. This includes giving you a quick and easy way to see what your security posture is and whether you have the blacklist, firewall and malware scan enabled and if you have any current issues.

    Live traffic can be useful for some purposes e.g. seeing in real-time which bots are visiting your site. But it is not fundamental to security and in fact creates unnecessary work if you are trying to watch it and stop attacks manually. Wordfence actually does that work for you automatically now and you can disable live traffic and have a perfectly secure high performance site.

    If you would like live traffic back on the menu on the left, we have provided an option to enable that. Just ask in the support forums.

    Our team are without question the leaders in the WordPress security space. There is no better way to secure your site than Wordfence. We do realize that creating and releasing great software is an evolutionary and collaborative effort, so if you have any constructive feedback we’d love to hear from you in our forums. Our team is very responsive and that feedback is always brought back to product meetings.

    Regards,

    Mark Maunder
    Wordfence Founder/CEO.

    The security of my site has improved beyond belief since I upgrades to 7.0.1. No-one can use it – not even me.

    It’s all very well “focussing on security fundamentals” but bear in mind that performance and good GUI design are fundamentally important too.

    Before I read the comment, above, I was planning to sit out the 7.0.1 settling in period then retry Wordfence. I’m now more inclined to find an alternative.

    After the last update the Live Uodate with filter “Humans” do not show any traffic – but with filter All Hits the Human visitor are visible.

    The message is: No requests to report yet.

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