mccloud7

Hi Phil, I did not attempt to deactivate Mojo Marketplace because I use features within the app that I did not want to lose. Deactivating Wordfence Security is what solved the issue, as I had less to lose by deactivating it because it does not affect the front-end of my website. I replaced Wordfence Security with iThemes Security and my issue does not occur, even while Mojo Marketplace is activated.

Aaron

Thanks Phil,

Your link provides examples of users who deactivated Bluehost to fix this issue. I do not use Bluehost.

My permanent solution to fix “Blocked as suspected bot” is to deactivate Wordfence Security. Something within Wordfence is causing my WordPress to output this error message when users try to comment on my blog articles.

Aaron

Hi Phil,

Thank you very much for your reply. I understand that Wordfence isn’t directly generating the response “Blocked as suspected bot.”. However, that doesn’t mean settings/backend coding in Wordfence are not conflicting with other apps and causing WordPress to generate the error.

What I know for sure, is that today I’ve tested 5 computers in Chrome incognito and replicated the issue on all of them on 1st attempt. I then deactivated Wordfence after each attempt and confirmed that doing so resolves the error, and the comments are published. I also attempted to replicate the error more than once per instance before deactivating Wordfence, just to add additional variables and to remove the first attempt being a fluke.

Deactivating Wordfence is what resolves my error “Blocked as suspected bot.”

I don’t use any other security plugins. However, I do use Really Simple SSL.