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 *   Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/)
    In
   reply to: [[Wordfence Security - Firewall, Malware Scan, and Login Security] The last rules update for the Wordfence Web Application Firewall was unsuccessfu](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/the-last-rules-update-for-the-wordfence-web-application-firewall-was-unsuccessfu/)
 *  [mrtopf](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mrtopf/)
 * (@mrtopf)
 * [6 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/the-last-rules-update-for-the-wordfence-web-application-firewall-was-unsuccessfu/page/2/#post-11986575)
 * I had the same problem and did some digging (actually still have, need to wait
   for somebody to update the firewall).
 * Some findings: “Rules list” can be found at “All options -> Advanced Firewall
   options”. For me it said that it cannot update the rules list and I need to make
   sure I can access the wordfence servers (unfortunately without telling me where
   they are).
 * So if you have a firewall which blocks outgoing traffic, this might be a problem.
 * I did some more digging and the server which it uses to get the rules file from
   can be found in vendor/wordfence/wf-waf/src/init.php
 * and in my case it’s
 * [https://noc4.wordfence.com/v1.8/](https://noc4.wordfence.com/v1.8/)
 * So this must be reachable from your server. I will find out soon I hope.
 * Hope this helps.
 *   Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/)
    In
   reply to: [[AWS for WordPress] Audio ist not generated because $wp_filesystem is a boolean](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/audio-ist-not-generated-because-wp_filesystem-is-a-boolean/)
 *  Thread Starter [mrtopf](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mrtopf/)
 * (@mrtopf)
 * [7 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/audio-ist-not-generated-because-wp_filesystem-is-a-boolean/#post-11421383)
 * Thanks for the reply.
 * For now I solved it by telling the FS component, that we are always in “direct”
   mode by adding this to my `functions.php`:
 *     ```
       function my_filesystem_method($method, $args, $context, $allow_relaxed_file_ownership) {
           return "direct";
       }
   
       add_filter( 'filesystem_method', 'my_filesystem_method', 10, 4);
       ```
   
 * This means though that the FTP prompt will never show up anymore like for plugin
   updates (I guess it will just fail). For me that’s no problem though as I update
   my plugins via wp-cli.
 * I still wonder though how other plugins do it, like cache plugins etc. Those 
   seem to work.
 * (hypergeneric: It does actually create the file in uploads/ but the FS system
   does test the writability in general, like on the WP core files.)
 *   Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/)
    In
   reply to: [[AWS for WordPress] Audio ist not generated because $wp_filesystem is a boolean](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/audio-ist-not-generated-because-wp_filesystem-is-a-boolean/)
 *  Thread Starter [mrtopf](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mrtopf/)
 * (@mrtopf)
 * [7 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/audio-ist-not-generated-because-wp_filesystem-is-a-boolean/#post-11281728)
 * I should maybe add that I have my WordPress secured in that the WWW user can 
   only write in uploads which might be the issue here. The question then might 
   be if another method of writing a temp file can be used (e.g. one using real 
   temporary files).
 *   Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/)
    In
   reply to: [[Social Sharing Plugin - Sassy Social Share] Clipboard is not defined](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/clipboard-is-not-defined/)
 *  [mrtopf](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mrtopf/)
 * (@mrtopf)
 * [8 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/clipboard-is-not-defined/#post-9983202)
 * Well, I am not sure I can give you the full embed but I am pretty sure it’s the
   above mentioned embed.js which is the problem. I will try to make a test case
   though and report back.
 * ([http://downloads.mailchimp.com/js/signup-forms/popup/embed.js](http://downloads.mailchimp.com/js/signup-forms/popup/embed.js)
   as <script>)
 *   Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/)
    In
   reply to: [[Social Sharing Plugin - Sassy Social Share] Clipboard is not defined](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/clipboard-is-not-defined/)
 *  [mrtopf](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mrtopf/)
 * (@mrtopf)
 * [8 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/clipboard-is-not-defined/#post-9981832)
 * I have the same problem but don’t really want to disable the popup (I actually
   just added it).
 * What I did was creating an exit intent popup in mailchimp and adding it to the
   site via the provided code which loads the mentioned embed.js
 * So if you can have a look at it it would be very much appreciated. Something 
   seems to conflict here.
 * Thanks!
 * Christian
 *   Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/)
    In
   reply to: [[CPT-onomies: Using Custom Post Types as Taxonomies] Updates are coming](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/updates-are-coming-1/)
 *  [mrtopf](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mrtopf/)
 * (@mrtopf)
 * [9 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/updates-are-coming-1/page/2/#post-8334627)
 * Based on the remark by danielshields I only found out that post.php is trying
   to also process WP_Error instances instead of WP_Term instances. So I am not 
   sure if those were previously filtered out. WP_Error instances of course have
   no term_id and thus it breaks.
 * I have no idea though how to fix that as I am not really too much into the taxonomy
   part of wordpress. I guess one could filter out the WP_Error instances in cpt-
   onomies (they are created by a filter I think) but one would need to find the
   right call to it I guess.

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