WordPress and Wordfence upgrade timing

  • Resolved P51Admin

    (@p51admin)


    7 years, 10 months ago

    Hello Everyone;

    Bad timing seems to have had an adverse effect on my WordFence installation.

    I got a two messages yesterday morning. Both WordPress and WordFence were upgrading.

    The WordPress upgrade completed and I am now running version 4.7.2 and my site is up.

    The bad news is that although I got the upgrade message about WordFence the upgrade did not go well.

    When I log into my site as admin I find that the WordFence plugin is no longer listed and the WordFence system does not seem to be running any longer.

    I try to install the WordFence plugin but I get a message saying that the directory structure already exists.

    How do I initialize the WordFence plugin to get it restarted?

    Thanks …

    P51Admin

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  • Thread Starter P51Admin

    (@p51admin)

    [EDIT] – Just checked the folder structure on the site and there are no PHP files in the plugin folder. Just a CSS folder with files.

    P51 Admin

    Thread Starter P51Admin

    (@p51admin)

    [Update] – Deleted the plugins/WordFence folder and then the “update” worked. It seems that all my previous settings and filters remain intact. Ran a site scan and that passed.

    Not sure if I should still be concerned or not, but WordFence seems to be running again and as the current version.

    I will mark this as resolved.

    p51admin

    Plugin Author WFMattR

    (@wfmattr)

    Hi @p51admin,

    Do you have access logs and/or error logs from the time that you received the emails about the automatic updates? If so, can you send copies by email to wftest (at) wordfence .com ? (Please include a link to this post also.) Though it seems like a rare occurrence, the logs could help find the cause so we can prevent it in a future version.

    -Matt R

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