Title: Email about core changes Last modified: August 7, 2017 --- # Email about core changes * Resolved [Fallen Leaf](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fallen-leaf/) * (@fallen-leaf) * [8 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/email-about-core-changes/) * HI, * In the last 24 hours lots of our sites have started emailing about a core change. * The file in question is * wp-admin/php_errorlog * This isnt a core file its a server file containing a php error log. * Can this be excluded? * Thanks Viewing 9 replies - 1 through 9 (of 9 total) * Plugin Author [Paul](https://wordpress.org/support/users/paultgoodchild/) * (@paultgoodchild) * [8 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/email-about-core-changes/#post-9387758) * Our next release will allow you to specify files which can be excluded. * [EasySiteNowNL](https://wordpress.org/support/users/easysitenownl/) * (@easysitenownl) * [8 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/email-about-core-changes/#post-9390009) * Can you exclude it by default, I have got 50+ sites running shield and am getting loads of mails, and I do not want to exclude this manually. The shield central is way too expensive if you have many sites. Thanks * Plugin Author [Paul](https://wordpress.org/support/users/paultgoodchild/) * (@paultgoodchild) * [8 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/email-about-core-changes/#post-9390133) * If you’d like to chat with us about scaling your sites with Shield Central, please feel free to drop us an email. We’re happy to chat about it. Cheers! * [EasySiteNowNL](https://wordpress.org/support/users/easysitenownl/) * (@easysitenownl) * [8 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/email-about-core-changes/#post-9390602) * will do. But except for this, why is the php error logfile being checked for changes (I do not think it was before). This is a file which by nature changes all the time, so why include it in the core wordpress files? * Plugin Author [Paul](https://wordpress.org/support/users/paultgoodchild/) * (@paultgoodchild) * [8 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/email-about-core-changes/#post-9390716) * There’s a ‘more info’ link in the email that explains this for you. It isn’t a core file scan… it’s a whole new scan * [EasySiteNowNL](https://wordpress.org/support/users/easysitenownl/) * (@easysitenownl) * [8 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/email-about-core-changes/#post-9393847) * ok, so you added an unrecognised file scanner. My question remains, why can’t you exclude php_errorlog , because it seems to me that this is not really an unregognised file right? Can you please exclude php_errorlog, because it will save me changing settings in 50+ websites… (not talking about all the mails from my clients I have to reply to) Don’t get me wrong, shield is a great plugin, keep up the good work! * Plugin Author [Paul](https://wordpress.org/support/users/paultgoodchild/) * (@paultgoodchild) * [8 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/email-about-core-changes/#post-9393967) * The problem here is that it’s not unrecognised **for you**. It’s unrecognised for me, or for many, many others. * Many don’t store error log files within our PHP code folders for most of our sites. But I know some do – the most common is `error_log`, so we account for that. There are also .htaccess, .user.ini and php.ini. These are standard PHP configuration and apache files. Spurious log files are not standard and they’re different for everyone. * There’s php_error_log, php_errorlog, and I’m sure no shortage of others. Do we put them all down because it’s there for some and not others? Where do we stop? * For the moment we’re not adding more, but providing the custom file exclusion list in the next update - This reply was modified 8 years, 10 months ago by [Paul](https://wordpress.org/support/users/paultgoodchild/). * [EasySiteNowNL](https://wordpress.org/support/users/easysitenownl/) * (@easysitenownl) * [8 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/email-about-core-changes/#post-9394362) * Ok paul, I understand now. I thought php_errorlog was standardly stored there for all. So I guess this is something my hosting provider has somewhere in their settings? I will contact them. thanks for your very quick replies to all messages cheers, jeroen * Plugin Author [Paul](https://wordpress.org/support/users/paultgoodchild/) * (@paultgoodchild) * [8 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/email-about-core-changes/#post-9394399) * Yep, you can specify where PHP error/notice logs are output to. See here as an example of just one approach to tweaking this: [https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2099147/how-to-stop-php-from-logging-php-notice-errors](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2099147/how-to-stop-php-from-logging-php-notice-errors) Viewing 9 replies - 1 through 9 (of 9 total) The topic ‘Email about core changes’ is closed to new replies. * ![](https://ps.w.org/wp-simple-firewall/assets/icon-256x256.png?rev=3054572) * [Shield Security – Smart Bot Blocking, Brute-Force Login Protection & File Scanning](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-simple-firewall/) * [Frequently Asked Questions](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-simple-firewall/#faq) * [Support Threads](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wp-simple-firewall/) * [Active Topics](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wp-simple-firewall/active/) * [Unresolved Topics](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wp-simple-firewall/unresolved/) * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wp-simple-firewall/reviews/) * 9 replies * 3 participants * Last reply from: [Paul](https://wordpress.org/support/users/paultgoodchild/) * Last activity: [8 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/email-about-core-changes/#post-9394399) * Status: resolved