Great plugin!

How do you know that the error wasn’t yours? Why didn’t you try to contact the plugin’s author about this by posting a topic in the plugin’s dedicated sub-forum?

Try reviewing:
https://pippinsplugins.com/how-to-leave-a-good-bad-review/
https://chrislema.com/theres-wrong-way-give-plugin-feedback-wordpress-org/

Moreover, I think he’s referring to the newsletters that the author’s company sends out when new vulnerabilities are discovered in the wild, letting folks know if specific plugins have vulnerabilities so they can check if their version is safe or temporarily disable them until fixes are made. Obviously not everybody had those plugins, but for admins it’s a useful notification. Though, I believe you can opt out of those mailings. And it had NOTHING to do with the plugin itself and what it *does*, which is work to secure your site and give you statistics on visitors, possible malicious failed login attempts, the ability to block IPs or IP ranges of malicious attackers, County Blocking (in the Pro version).

User doesn’t seem to have a clue what the plugin is or is supposed to do and doesn’t seem to be utilizing it as intended? Just a guess…

And that’s exactly why people should be asking questions in the plugin’s dedicated support forum before posting reviews. Poorly researched reviews just undermine the whole review system for everyone else.

Just in case anyone else arrives here, this may help. As @mgmirkin said, the email referred to belongs to our security email list, not the Wordfence plugin.

If you are receiving emails from Wordfence, you control those and you can sign into your WordPress installation and disable any alerts you don’t want on the Wordfence options page.

If you have received an email from our security email list which you subscribed to, you’ll notice that every email has the following header:

Dear WordPress Publisher,

If you would like to stop receiving WordPress security alerts and product updates from Wordfence, you can click here. You subscribed to this list via the Wordfence security plugin for WordPress.

The ‘click here’ link has a link that is specific to your subscription and you can use it to unsubscribe. Every email contains these first few lines.

Kind regards,

Mark.

An email about a plugin IS a critical alert.
There may be times when a plugin is found to have a security flaw that is being used maliciously. Or there is a back door into your site through that plugin.
You really should read through the settings page!
You’ll find every setting for alerts in there.
And yes you did sign up for news mail.

I really don’t like people that install a plugin, go ‘click’ ‘click’ click’ and say it doesn’t work. Or even worse they write a bad review of something that is exceptional in a sea of mediocre.

Mick

can we delete this entire thread?