Using Free version WF, downgrading

  • Resolved mountainguy2

    (@mountainguy2)


    7 years ago

    Well, due to dissatisfaction with new UI and missing features (e.g, clickable info links in block list) after last Wordfence Upgrade, I finally finished downgrading all my installs to the free version. I’ve got better things to spend our hard earned money on. Am using IQ Block Country as my country blocking plugin, it plays nice with Wordfence free version and arguably has better features. In terms of comparing all other premium features to free version, I found them all somewhat useless if not dysfunctional. Can’t get into any more detail than that due to forum rules. Sad what’s happened with Wordfence, perhaps their emphasis will change to function instead of form, meanwhile I’ll keep using Wordfence, but am looking at other security plugins. The Wordfence one-click downgrade process is appreciated, nicely done. MTN

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  • bluebearmedia

    (@bluebearmedia)

    I hear ya, MTN…. the “new” interface leaves a lot to be desired, even with the recent changes. It’s pretty much mass confusion as far as finding anything anymore.

    Reports/logs I could see in seconds has now become hunt and peck…. (case in point, the list of temporary blocks don’t seem to appear anywhere anymore – the blocking Tab seems to contain the permanent blocks only).

    Anonymous User 9948090

    (@anonymized-9948090)

    The conclusion is that older Wordfence versions were easy to use and suitable for admins who wanted to check reports, etc. But the new version is full of eye-candy stuff, shiny UI but very hard to use and a nightmare for admins. If Wordfence was a plugin created for site visitors, then the UI changes were understandable but from an admin point-of-view who just want to check reports, its a very wrong decision.

    The best solution would be implementing a new option to use new UI or old UI.

    Thread Starter mountainguy2

    (@mountainguy2)

    In my opinion, the eye candy isn’t even all that wonderful even for the new user. It’s rather insulting to the intelligence, such as those huge bot icons and the red circles with the cross. Just stupid looking, much better if they were a tenth the size or perhaps eliminated as they are accompanied by very clear and explicit text, for example “Type: Bot” Playing around with the CSS while in Live Traffic, it’s easy to make the blocked icons grey, much easier on the eyes. Clearly, whoever designed this interface has nearly zero visual design skills. Gigantic red dots? Seriously? MTN

    wfalaa

    (@wfalaa)

    Hi All!
    Thanks for your comments and feedback, to make it easier for our team to gather users’ feedback we would appreciate getting them at “feedback [at] wordfence [dot] com”.

    Thanks.

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