IP addresses on Blocking page are no longer hyperlinked to recent traffic

I have the same issue. You can no longer see which banned url the visitor visited which caused the block. This is definitely a downgrade. Not an upgrade. Very disappointed.

Hi @yet-another-wp-user,

On the “Tools –> Live Traffic” page you can display the “Activity Detail” for each entry by clicking the icon in the “View” column; from there you can click the “See Recent Traffic” button.

In Wordfence 7 Live Traffic is located under “Tools > Live Traffic”. If you prefer to have a direct link to “Live Traffic” in the left navigation as it used to be in the older versions of Wordfence:

1. Open the “Live Traffic Options” tab on the “Live Traffic” page
2. Enable the option “Display top level Live Traffic menu option”
3. Click “Save Changes”

Yes. But doesn’t checking live traffic page for each IP address require additional steps? What was the harm in keeping the feature present in new version? Why can’t we get IP addresses hyperlinked on Blocking page just like previous version?

Also if we have set Live traffic page to store very few entries such as 50, it’ll not show recent activities for all blocked IP addresses. So its useless.

Thanks for the feedback! Rest assure it’s been noted. We will be evaluating all feedback going forward and use it prioritize future development. Resolving this case for now, please start a new thread if you have other questions.

Thanks!

Sad to see the issue didn’t resolve in the latest update 7.0.2.

Okay WF support, I’m getting that the only way to access blocked URL information is to use the “Live Traffic List?” and to search through it by scrolling and looking for “blocked for Accessed a banned URL” then doing more clicking and scrolling? You have to be kidding. Even though I have “Live Activity” disabled, my Live Traffic screen has hundreds and hundreds of entries due to country blocking and other stuff.

Is this really true? I have to visually scan the Live Traffic to find the blocks that happened due to “Banned URL” ?

MTN

^^ Absolutely correct. That’s what I have been doing since version 7.0 release. Very frustrating.

Pity. Just amazes me that function would fall victim to UI appearance. Perhaps WF will fix this in another version… MTN

Hi!
I’m not sure I’m fully understanding which functionality you are missing here but let me try: If you want to see why an IP was blocked that’s visble on the “Blocking” page next to each block. If you wanted to see which URLs that IP had accessed, you could copy paste the IP and enter in the Advanced Filter section on Live Traffic. Then you’d get all traffic from that IP.

Hope that helps!

Good idea about using IP as an Advanced Filter, kludgy and extra mouse clicks compared to ver 6, but I’ll try that and get back. Thanks, MTN

Took some time testing Asa’s idea. Only works for more recent blocks, due perhaps to my “Live Traffic” list having 900 entries and most not being on the visible page until I scroll. In other words, Asa, apparently “Advanced Filter” doesn’t do a database query but instead simply looks at the page source? Or, is my “Live Traffic” setting of 900 rows too meager and results in the blocking info not being in the database? How many thousands of rows might I need?

When it works, your method is an enormous number of mouse clicks for what in ver 6 was one mouse click. Pity. But if we can get this working in some sort of crippled fashion that’s better than nothing.

MTN

I can’t understand the need of removing hyperlinked “Recent traffic” from blocked IP addresses list on Blocking page. Why can’t you re-add that functionality into 7.0 version?

Why should we copy the IP address and paste it on Live traffic page to learn about the accessed URLs?

Just take a look at following topic:

https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/blocking-page-limitations-or-improvements/

And further, as mentioned above, copy/paste/search doesn’t always work, it is thus not a solution.

From the Wordfence blog about their ver 7:
“The Blocking interface has been completely redesigned…You can now manage and monitor the effectiveness of blocking rules in one place.”

Not true.

MTN

If we could directly check accessed URLs by a blocked IP address on Blocking page, why was there any need of removing that ability?

What’s harm in re-adding the hyperlinked IP address feature on Blocking page?

My guess it it took months to create the amazing icons, thus time was of essence. MTN