Title: Possible interference with theme update
Last modified: August 30, 2016

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# Possible interference with theme update

 *  Resolved [markslang](https://wordpress.org/support/users/markslang/)
 * (@markslang)
 * [10 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/possible-interference-with-theme-update/)
 * I have 3 WordPress sites hosted by two different hosts all using the Striking
   Multiflex theme and Wordfence for security. For some reason, the update feature
   of the theme stopped working. It reports that I have the latest version when 
   there is a new one, even when I do a manual check for updates. (I have Striking
   1.2.2, and 1.2.3 has been on the update api more than a week.) This always worked
   before. I tried disabling all plugins, but this had no effect. The Striking team,
   who are very skilled, said it might be some interaction with Wordfence even if
   I disable the plugin because of how Wordfence must embed into WordPress. Has 
   this come up? Is there anything I can do to test in some way or try something
   that might fix the issue? Thanks.
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordfence/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordfence/)

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 *  Plugin Author [WFMattR](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wfmattr/)
 * (@wfmattr)
 * [10 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/possible-interference-with-theme-update/#post-6520299)
 * I don’t think we have had any reports of this issue. Wordfence doesn’t leave 
   any code working when it is deactivated, but it’s possible if something at your
   host has changed, it could prevent the .htaccess from being rewritten when it
   should be. (.htaccess is only normally used if Falcon caching is enabled.) You
   can check .htaccess to see if there is anything left that shouldn’t be there 
   after deactivating Wordfence.
 * If you want to confirm for sure that it isn’t Wordfence, you could try temporarily
   uninstalling Wordfence completely to see if it works after that — you would have
   to turn on the option “Delete Wordfence tables and data on deactivation” near
   the bottom of the Wordfence Options page, to do a complete uninstallation. (Before
   doing this, if you want to keep all of your settings, you could use the Export
   button at the bottom of the Options page first, and save the token — then import
   the settings after reinstalling. There is currently a limit on the number of 
   manually blocked IP addresses, but other settings should all come back.)
 *  Thread Starter [markslang](https://wordpress.org/support/users/markslang/)
 * (@markslang)
 * [10 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/possible-interference-with-theme-update/#post-6520302)
 * Thanks for your response. There is nothing in my .htaccess file that appears 
   to be from Wordfence. As I was playing around with this, one of my sites found
   the update link. I still cannot get the others to do so. Perhaps it is some kind
   of timing issue. Anyway, not likely Wordfence it seems. Thanks again. Your plugin
   is one I really trust to keep hackers away.
 *  Plugin Author [WFMattR](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wfmattr/)
 * (@wfmattr)
 * [10 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/possible-interference-with-theme-update/#post-6520384)
 * Ok, great — hopefully the rest will update soon too, then. If you do happen to
   find any reason for the delay in updating, just let us know. Thanks for the feedback,
   also!

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 * Last reply from: [WFMattR](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wfmattr/)
 * Last activity: [10 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/possible-interference-with-theme-update/#post-6520384)
 * Status: resolved