• Resolved HowToBlog

    (@howtoblog)


    I updated my WordFence plugin across my sites today (for those that weren’t already set on auto-update, anyway).

    After later logging into one of my sites, I received my usual notification email (as desired) that someone with username of “____” with administrative rights had logged into ____.com

    In the past, this line was always followed up by a line showing the user’s IP address, and then on the next line was the hostname – which made it really easy for me to, at a glance, see that it was my ISP (and coming from my hometown) and that it was likely just me having logged in. I have a lot of sites that I log in and out of throughout the day…this is part of why I had chosen WordFence for them all. But now if I just get a notification saying that someone with administrator access logged into suchandsuch.com with no other identifying information, what use is that?

    Is this a bug? Or has this functionality been pulled from the free version of WordFence with the latest update??

    Your prompt attention to this matter is greatly appreciated!
    Sincerely,
    Emily

    https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/wordfence/

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  • WFSupport

    (@wfsupport)

    Hi Emily,

    Mine show up in version 5.2.2 Testing with latest version now.

    tim

    WFSupport

    (@wfsupport)

    Latest version still shows my ip address under it.

    Just an aside, but our policy is that we don’t charge for a feature unless it costs us something. That’s not to say that something wouldn’t be pulled from the free version and limited to the premium version if there suddenly was a cost associated with it but I would think would be very unlikely. We run sites too. ??

    Can you check and see if you are getting IP addresses in any of the live traffic or login/logout pages?

    tim

    Thread Starter HowToBlog

    (@howtoblog)

    Hi Tim,

    Thanks so much for the really quick response!

    It must have been some sort of ghost in the machine / temporary glitch because, at least as of this morning, my notifications of user logins across my various sites now DO in fact contain the IP and hostname info ??

    Yay! (and phew!)

    WFSupport

    (@wfsupport)

    *whew* Glad we could help.

    tim

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