Title: WordPress database error Unknown column ‘autoload’
Last modified: October 9, 2016

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# WordPress database error Unknown column ‘autoload’

 *  Resolved [mp3stevo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mp3stevo/)
 * (@mp3stevo)
 * [9 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-database-error-unknown-column-autoload/)
 * My webhost sent me an email stating that this error, WordPress database error
   Unknown column ‘autoload’ in ‘field list’ for query SELECT name, val, autoload
   FROM [MYPREFIX]_wfConfig, occurs very often. I went into the database and noticed
   this column does not exist. I then went in and checked Wordfence’s install sql
   and saw this column should NOT be in there. So, why is this error happening if
   the table is correct? I ran diagnostics and everything came back OK except for
   the tmp and wfcache folders not being writable, which I fixed. The wfConfig table
   check came back OK.
 * Thanks,
    ~Steve

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 *  Thread Starter [mp3stevo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mp3stevo/)
 * (@mp3stevo)
 * [9 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-database-error-unknown-column-autoload/#post-8267817)
 * Follow up: I chose the option to delete the tables on deactivation, I deactivated
   then activated and that table is now fixed.

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 * Last reply from: [mp3stevo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mp3stevo/)
 * Last activity: [9 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-database-error-unknown-column-autoload/#post-8267817)
 * Status: resolved