codyjbennett

@startechmarketing, I have bluehost as a hosting provider, and in that environment, here are the steps I followed:

1. Sign into Bluehost
2. Open cPanel (a pain to find, but eventually found it at the bottom of the “hosting” page under “quicklinks”)
3. Open phpMyAdmin (under “databases”)
4. In the lefthand pane, I found the database that my WP installation uses (if needed you can find this database info in your wp-config.php file at the root of your wordpress installation)
5. In the ‘structure’ on the right hand side, I scrolled to the bottom, selected all, and then used the dropdown menu to ‘export’ (as a precaution), and then ‘rebuild’ those tables (see this image).
6. Testing the site again proved that worked for me.

Good luck.

As noted in the original post, I was able to resolve this problem myself. Here’s a copy/paste of my fix:

While I was perusing the diagnostics page, I found the log files section (towards the bottom). Within this, I downloaded my 15MB error log, and opened it in a text viewer app. Scrolling to the bottom (most recent entries), I found several errors that suggested that my database needed to be repaired. I double checked in the wp-config.php file to verify the name of my database, and within my hosting environment I opened the database, made a SQL backup, and then selected all tables and ran a repair. When I reloaded my site again, the error was gone and wordfence was working as expected!!

So, perhaps this will help someone. I read several other users who had the same error, but didn’t come across a fix that had helped me.

Best of luck to you!

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