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Hi @anafasia, thanks for getting in touch with us.

You can find out about whether a Pinterest crawler is being blocked by consulting your Wordfence > Live Traffic page and seeing whether there are any active blocks for their IP range. Pinterest themselves state:

Pinterest’s IP is dynamic and and changes frequently, but will always be in the range of: 54.236.1.XXX.

More information can be found here: https://help.pinterest.com/en-gb/business/article/pinterest-crawler

As for blocking a blogger site, could you explain further how this site will be trying to communicate with WordPress, what data it is trying to obtain/provide and what the reason for that might be? It would just help me to understand whether Wordfence would try to block that activity.

Thanks,

Peter.

thanks.

I’m not saying it is caused by wordfence, I only want to discard it. for instance, after installing wordfence the load time increased significantly at our web, but in the end it looks like it was caused by another plugin that stopped by mistake its maintanaince.

in Live Traffic I don’t see any block at that range of IP’s in the last days.

I had some issues at my web and it was almost collapsed. now they are solved but some traffic have been lost. many of them is lost from Pinterest and Blogger, while through Facebook, Google Search, direct accesses, etc, the lost is not really significant.
have a look at pinterest statistics:
Pinterest

in February we make some changes at robots.txt -now reverted- and around mid February wordfence plugin started to be installed.

is there a way to whitelist the 54.236.1.XXX range to see if it has any effect?

about blogger is difficult to understand. see the change it the last three months here:
blogger

the web started as a blogger page. then five years ago it moved to wordpress. blogger’s old entries and images were not deleted but if you click on any of them you will be redirected to our actual site -now runnig with wordpress-. I guess crawlers will look at blogger for those entries, so any changes at wordpress should not affect, I should say, but accesses have decreased.

• This reply was modified 3 years, 11 months ago by anafasia.
• This reply was modified 3 years, 11 months ago by anafasia.
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Hi @anafasia, thanks for the extra information.

I think you’re correct that crawlers will look at Blogger for the older entries and any links that still point there. There shouldn’t be any blocking issues around this from Wordfence.

You can add the Pinterest IPs or IP range you see to Wordfence > All Options > Allowlisted IP addresses that bypass all rules. As this allows the IP(s) to entirely bypass Wordfence’s security measures this is usually not recommended but could be useful during a test period to see if anything changes. If the Pinterest crawler activity doesn’t change during this time, I would advise removing the IPs from the allowlist again to prevent any potential vulnerability if this range is ever reassigned.

You can read more about this and IP formats that can be used here: https://www.wordfence.com/help/firewall/options/?utm_source=plugin&utm_medium=pluginUI&utm_campaign=docsIcon#whitelisted-ips

Thanks,

Peter.

thanks, I’ll make a test. probably next week, as I see it will take me a little time to learn how to implement it.

Thanks @anafasia, let me know how you get on!

Peter.

right now, I probably won’t be able to make the test.

it seems there are some changes in Pinterest -my entries are automated and it looks like IFTT stopped working recently- so there are many things affecting it at the same time and this would lead me to no conclusions.

also, after holidays, not only Pinterest but clicks coming from blogger seem to be recovering -this last one is a weird thing, as blogger should not be affected by blocks-. also I have to wait to see if this tendency is mantained in the next days.

anyhow, if I discover anything, I will let you know.

Thanks @anafasia. Just for your reference, topics without activity for approximately 7 days will usually be closed out on the forums. My reply now will effectively reset that, but I’ll check-in again around that time we haven’t heard of any further developments.

Peter.

don’t worry. you can close it. if I new assistance I will come back and open a new one.

right now the flow seems to start recovering, so I will need some time to see how it devolps before consireding whitelisting IPs.

Pinterest

Blogger

Thanks for the feedback @anafasia, if you have any further questions about Wordfence in future, please start a new topic and we’ll always be glad to assist.

Peter.