ljezard

Same experience here. A client’s website got over 1/2 million hits from facebookexternalhit/1\.1 starting 6/21/24, eating up 33GB of bandwidth in a few days. All hitting the same page in their website every few seconds. They don’t even have a Facebook account, nor do they desire the traffic.

So, we just blocked the facebookexternalhit BOT in .htaccess with this:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^facebookexternalhit/1\.1 [NC]
RewriteRule ^ – [F,L]

If you don’t care about Facebook, then that might be an option for you.

There must be something wrong with Facebook’s BOT that they’re not aware of…

Followed your instructions to another user and got it to work. So, editing to 5 stars ??

Any news in fixing the issue?

Is this plugin abandoned? Please advise.

Hello AMR – Any news on a patch for the above vulnerability?

Hi –

Not seeing a patch for above. Any news?

Same issue here; getting a slew of notifications from Google Search Console for all my client websites for “indexing issues” of “blocked by robots.txt” for admin-ajax.php.

Worst is, some clients also get the notifications and are asking me why I’m blocking Google from indexing their websites.

That was a mistake – thanks for pointing it out!!

I thought I was reporting the plugin for spam injection…

I had already whitelisted your IP addresses ??

I set to “Use the Cloudflare “CF-Connecting-IP” HTTP header to get a visitor IP. Only use if you’re using Cloudflare.”

I then got this message:

Your ‘How does Wordfence get IPs’ setting is misconfigured. This site is currently using the Cloudflare “CF-Connecting-IP” HTTP header, which should only be used when the site is behind Cloudflare. For maximum security use PHP’s built in REMOTE_ADDR. Click here to use the recommended setting or visit the options page to manually update it.

I ignore this and tried a scan again and got the same “Scan process ended after forking.” message. THis after purging the cache with Cliudflare just in case…

I just sent the diagnostic email again.

Any resolution on this?

I have the same issue. I’ve gone through the same troubleshooting as Mat and still get the “Scan process ended after forking” message.

As soon as I pause Cloudflare, I am able to complete a scan.

Linda

Hi smarthelper –

I found I had to add post-type=”post” to the shortcode.

So, this:

[a-z-listing display=”posts” post-type=”post” taxonomy=”category” terms=”Medical Conditions Article”]

…results in this:

https://piedmontpmr.com/conditions/

Hope it works for you, too!

• This reply was modified 3 years, 3 months ago by ljezard.

Never mind! My bad – figured it out.

I can’t get filtering to a specific post category – tried several shortcodes including above and just get an empty list.

@kazumielite – Did you ever get a reply?

Anything on this?

All my Woo sites are showing same jQuery warning. On Woo v4.8 and WordPress 5.6.

This is clearly a Woo issue.

Is this the correct place, though, to seek remedy?