tomkinsrichard

Many thanks for the website reference, it looks like a great read and study.

Ah, I see it now, it was just a bit over the horizon, but the sun is starting to shine.

Many thanks, I understand and follow what is going on and how things work.

I must admit, I am acquiring a greater appreciation for the effort that went into the creation of this plugin.

Cheers.

Many thanks for pointing this out.
Yeah, I’ve done some HTML stuff for clients, but more recently, clients want something that gets them going and then they want to look after it themselves with some guidance. Thus, a Theme with built in Tables is cool, and of course, there are plugins as well.
Cheers.

I went to a fixed, non changing background, it will take me time to test and get back to you.

Thank you, that gets me really close. There is s thin white line just below the header when I scroll up.
This is what I have in style.css right now,
body, #main-wrapper, header.tc-header, footer#footer .colophon {
background-color: lightgray;
}
/* END OF Change Customizr Background to Texture or Image */
.row-fluid{
border-bottom:0px;
}
footer#footer {
border-top: 0px;
}
hr.featurette-divider.__before_main_container {
visibility: hidden;
}
.sticky-enabled .tc-header {
height: auto!important;
background: #fff;
background: lightgray;
/* border-top: 0; */
}

What can I do about that very thin white line?

I have been sitting on this to give the plugin time to stabilize.
SO, for 5 days, I have not logged in nor made any changes to the website or WordFence.
The exclude is, “*wp-content/plugins/wordfence/tmp*,*wp-content/uploads/soldpress*”.

Here is the scan ending from the 27th and starting up on the 28th,
More than 80,000 files, more than 2.3 GB of data?

Surely the exclude line does not work properly at all.

[Sep 27 16:17:19] Analyzed 80866 files containing 2.37 GB of data.
[Sep 27 16:17:20] Starting scan of file contents
[Sep 27 16:17:21] Scanned contents of 38 additional files at 33.04 per second
[Sep 27 16:17:22] Scanned contents of 96 additional files at 44.52 per second
[Sep 27 16:17:23] Scanned contents of 118 additional files at 37.16 per second
[Sep 27 16:17:24] Scanned contents of 128 additional files at 30.62 per second
[Sep 27 16:17:25] Scanned contents of 165 additional files at 31.74 per second
[Sep 27 16:17:26] Scanned contents of 217 additional files at 34.72 per second
[Sep 27 16:17:27] Scanned contents of 268 additional files at 35.99 per second
[Sep 27 16:17:28] Scanned contents of 272 additional files at 31.71 per second
[Sep 27 16:17:32] Scanned contents of 277 additional files at 22.74 per second
[Sep 27 16:17:33] Scanned contents of 302 additional files at 22.84 per second
[Sep 27 16:17:34] Scanned contents of 316 additional files at 22.18 per second
[Sep 27 16:17:35] Scanned contents of 426 additional files at 27.94 per second
[Sep 27 16:17:36] Scanned contents of 539 additional files at 33.11 per second
[Sep 27 16:17:37] Scanned contents of 627 additional files at 36.26 per second
[Sep 27 16:18:15] Scanned contents of 632 additional files at 11.51 per second
[Sep 27 16:18:15] Scanned contents of 632 additional files at 11.44 per second
[Sep 27 16:18:15] Asking Wordfence to check URL’s against malware list.
[Sep 27 16:18:15] Checking 358 host keys against Wordfence scanning servers.
[Sep 27 16:18:15] Done host key check.
[Sep 27 16:18:15] Checking 52 URLs from 36 sources.
[Sep 27 16:18:16] Done URL check.
[Sep 27 16:18:16] Done file contents scan
[Sep 27 16:18:16] Starting scan of database
[Sep 27 16:18:17] Done database scan
[Sep 27 16:18:18] Examining URLs found in posts we scanned for dangerous websites
[Sep 27 16:18:18] Checking 78 host keys against Wordfence scanning servers.
[Sep 27 16:18:18] Done host key check.
[Sep 27 16:18:18] Done examining URLs
[Sep 27 16:18:18] Starting password strength check on 3 users.
[Sep 27 16:18:19] Starting DNS scan for focusproperties.ca
[Sep 27 16:18:19] Scanning DNS A record for focusproperties.ca
[Sep 27 16:18:19] Scanning DNS MX record for focusproperties.ca
[Sep 27 16:18:19] Total disk space: 3240.2505GB — Free disk space: 2342.1275GB
[Sep 27 16:18:19] The disk has 2398338.51 MB space available
[Sep 27 16:18:21] ——————-
[Sep 27 16:18:21] Scan Complete. Scanned 80866 files, 5 plugins, 1 themes, 27 pages, 0 comments and 1052777 records in 2898 seconds.
[Sep 27 16:18:21] Wordfence used 48.54MB of memory for scan. Server peak memory usage was: 54.15MB
[Sep 28 01:26:07] Scheduled Wordfence scan starting at Monday 28th of September 2015 01:26:07 AM
[Sep 28 01:26:15] Contacting Wordfence to initiate scan
[Sep 28 01:26:16] Getting plugin list from WordPress
[Sep 28 01:26:16] Found 5 plugins
[Sep 28 01:26:16] Getting theme list from WordPress
[Sep 28 01:26:16] Found 1 themes
[Sep 28 01:26:19] Analyzed 100 files containing 1.09 MB of data so far
[Sep 28 01:26:20] Analyzed 200 files containing 2.34 MB of data so far
[Sep 28 01:26:22] Analyzed 300 files containing 4.64 MB of data so far

This is going to sound like a dirty solution, but,

Looking through the PHP code for the Plugin, they make extensive use of,
global $wpdb.

Would it be possible/feasible to override $wpdb such that it could be made to point to a secondary WordPress database that the Plugin would use for it’s operation, separate from WordPress’ database.

$wpdb and $wpdb_soldpress?

The developer just got back to me. They are telling me that they will be creating a new, improved subscription service, Windows based with a subscription to Azure.
Looks like a big money grab to me. Time to reexamine directions.

I cannot claim to have a strong understanding of WordPress, PHP programming and MySQL, however, over the years I have programmed in various languages, Oracle, PostgeSQL and SQL Server.

The following query;

SELECT DISTINCT meta_key
FROM wp_postmeta
WHERE meta_key NOT BETWEEN ‘_’
AND ‘_z’
HAVING meta_key NOT LIKE ‘\\_%’
ORDER BY meta_key
LIMIT 30

clocks in at 40 to 45 seconds.

The call says Component is CORE and the Caller is meta_form()+.

I think that gives me a clue as to what is going on. This is a Real Estate website, the plugin I use is, SOLDPress, the developer uses meta_key of wp_postmeta to store the property attributes for every property.

Poor Plugin design, they should have created their own table or at least their own rows/columns.

Is there some way I can turn off or change the query as a short term fix while I badger the Plugin developer?

I fixed the NextGEN failure, Reset did the trick.

I have performed the following;

• deactivated all plugins
• cleared all the various caches, WP and FireFox
• clicked on Pages
• It took 1 second to display list
• clicked on edit for a page
• it took 61 seconds to enter edit

Seriously, there must be other experiencing this failure.

What is wrong?

So around 15:06, there was probably an abrupt stop.
That’s rather unfortunate.
Let’s take one more stab at making this work.

The hosting service is GoDaddy shared Linux hosting with cPanel.

Is there a master reset on WordFence?
Do I deactivate, uninstall and reinstall?
Are there are special considerations, no matter how small or insignificant that I need to be aware of?

I am not sure it’s working properly. Please see my other post. It looks like it’s been scanning forever, it’s 11:41 am here right now, and the scan looks like it started yesterday around 3:00 pm.

I still say once a day would be sufficient, or at least a configurable option.

Is WordFence still scanning???? I captured this from Scan Summary. There is a Detailed Activity log below as well. It would appear that the exclusion entry syntax you specified worked, highly unconventional syntax. It’s not even documented.
The config caching appears to have an odd interaction with configuration settings, this should be fixed ASAP.

[Sep 18 15:03:22]
Preparing a new scan.
Done.
[Sep 18 15:03:22]
Remote scan of public facing site only available to paid members
Paid Members Only
[Sep 18 15:03:24]
Check if your site is being Spamvertized is for paid members only
Paid Members Only
[Sep 18 15:03:26]
Checking if your IP is generating spam is for paid members only
Paid Members Only
[Sep 18 15:03:28]
Scanning your site for the HeartBleed vulnerability
Secure.
[Sep 18 15:03:29]
Fetching core, theme and plugin file signatures from Wordfence
Success.
[Sep 18 15:03:30]
Fetching list of known malware files from Wordfence
Success.
[Sep 18 15:03:30]
Comparing core WordPress files against originals in repository
[Sep 18 15:03:30]
Skipping theme scan
Disabled [Visit Options to Enable]
[Sep 18 15:03:30]
Skipping plugin scan
Disabled [Visit Options to Enable]
[Sep 18 15:03:30]
Scanning for known malware files
————————————————-
This appears to be the most recent Scan Detailed Activity log.
[Sep 18 14:58:03] Scan terminated with error: Scan was killed on administrator request.
[Sep 18 15:03:29] Contacting Wordfence to initiate scan
[Sep 18 15:03:29] Getting plugin list from WordPress
[Sep 18 15:03:29] Found 4 plugins
[Sep 18 15:03:29] Getting theme list from WordPress
[Sep 18 15:03:29] Found 1 themes
[Sep 18 15:03:31] Analyzed 100 files containing 1.09 MB of data so far
[Sep 18 15:03:32] Analyzed 200 files containing 2.34 MB of data so far
[Sep 18 15:03:34] Analyzed 300 files containing 4.64 MB of data so far
[Sep 18 15:03:35] Analyzed 400 files containing 5.3 MB of data so far
[Sep 18 15:03:36] Analyzed 500 files containing 7.05 MB of data so far
[Sep 18 15:03:38] Analyzed 600 files containing 8.45 MB of data so far
[Sep 18 15:03:40] Analyzed 700 files containing 10.11 MB of data so far
[Sep 18 15:03:40] Analyzed 800 files containing 10.76 MB of data so far
[Sep 18 15:03:43] Analyzed 900 files containing 13.75 MB of data so far
[Sep 18 15:04:23] Analyzed 1000 files containing 53.16 MB of data so far
[Sep 18 15:04:23] Analyzed 1100 files containing 53.51 MB of data so far
[Sep 18 15:04:23] Analyzed 1200 files containing 53.66 MB of data so far
[Sep 18 15:04:24] Analyzed 1300 files containing 54.09 MB of data so far
[Sep 18 15:04:25] Analyzed 1400 files containing 54.58 MB of data so far
[Sep 18 15:04:29] Analyzed 1500 files containing 58.4 MB of data so far
[Sep 18 15:04:47] Analyzed 1600 files containing 76.46 MB of data so far
[Sep 18 15:04:59] Analyzed 1700 files containing 87.58 MB of data so far
[Sep 18 15:06:00] Analyzed 1800 files containing 147.55 MB of data so far
[Sep 18 17:44:10] Scheduled Wordfence scan starting at Friday 18th of September 2015 05:44:10 PM
[Sep 18 20:13:47] Scheduled Wordfence scan starting at Friday 18th of September 2015 08:13:47 PM

I just ran into something similar with the same error message.

There is an option to stop caching the WordFence configuration, turning off caching appears to have worked for me.

Somewhere in here this solution is mentioned.

https://lmgtfy.com/?q=Scan+Engine+Error%3A+Wordfence+could+not+start+a+scan

That file exclusion thing is not working.