[Plugin: Wordfence Security] Fatal error: Call to a member function … Fix

With Wordfence installed/enabled, I got a blank page while trying to use another plugin “Portable phpmyadmin”. When setting WP_DEBUG to true, the following error was reported:

Fatal error: Call to a member function add_query_var() on a non-object in /…/wp-content/plugins/wordfence/lib/wordfenceClass.php on line 1087

This can be resolved in Wordfence v3.0.6 by editing the plugin file ‘wordfence\lib\wordfenceClass.php”. Find “public static function initAction” (line 1085) and add the line below “global $wp”:

public static function initAction(){
		global $wp;
		if (!is_object($wp)) return;

After this, the other plugin started working just fine.

There’s also a notice, which can easily be fixed:

Notice: is_404 was called incorrectly. Conditional query tags do not work before the query is run. Before then, they always return false. (This message was added in version 3.1.) in /…/wp-includes/functions.php on line 2748.

In the same file, find the line that says “if(is_404() ){” (line 892) and change it to:

if(!empty($wfFunc) && is_404() ){

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