finally disappointed

Thanks for your thoughts on the Wordfence plugin.

I checked but am unable to find any support post here or in our ticketing system (You might not have provided enough information to locate one if there is), although I did find one post from 6 years ago for something different. As such I’m at a loss as to why you didn’t ask for help with this.

Wordfence doesn’t create tons of entries in the database unless your database user doesn’t have permissions to DELETE and TRUNCATE. Most of our tables that write there also purge themselves at the start of a new scan or based on your settings. Live Traffic “Amount of Live Traffic data to store” and “Maximum days to keep Live Traffic data” are two I can think of off the top of my head. If you were to set those numbers too high you might wind up with a large database for sure. Since you haven’t told us which tables are filling up, this is only a guess.

You didn’t elaborate about the false positives so I’d guess you meant for the firewall. We’ve worked hard to ensure that the firewall doesn’t flag an action as malicious when it isn’t. Unfortunately, we aren’t able to guess just how every one of the 35,000+ plugins in the repository (plus premium plugins) will work and sometimes a false positive happens. In that case the alert you see on the screen offers a button to click to add the action to the safe list. Additionally, you can always put the firewall into learning mode and perform the action again which would allow the action and add it to the know safe actions as well.

Still, it’s entirely your choice as to what security solution you choose to go forward with and we wish you well in whichever one you decide on.

Tim