Hello. I have transferred my Dev environment to a local instance. I have wordfence plugins installed for security. When I open the local admin, it says it needs to be verified for security purposes. I have seen this in regular worfence and it is supposed to send an email to you account for you to verify. But working for local environment doesn’t do that, I remain stuck at the admin page. I was able to enter my local by removing the plugins manually but when I am finished, I will need to push back to dev and that will create an issue. Has anyone help with such a problem and has the steps needed to ensure I can keep wordfence on my local environment so as to have a seamless push and pull?
Hi @bchampagne!
Intead of removing the plugin entirely you could just deactivate it. If you click on Site Shell in Local under your site’s name, you can run wp plugin deactivate wordfence and then it’s disabled instead of removed. So when you’re back in Production you could just enable it again.
As far as making things easier, it sounds like you’re working with a 2FA setting within Wordfence. Would it be possible to disable that, at least before pulling/importing? Maybe Wordfence has a recommendation for best practices when working locally.
Thanks for the reply Nick. Will go and check that out. Make lots of sence. I will need to talk with the security specilaist of dev about the reactivating it once i push.
I could not find a recommandation on wordfrence practicies. Will lcontinue to look just in case i missed something
Sounds great @bchampagne! If you find a useful setting or workflow please follow up and let us know. With Wordfence being so popular I’m sure someone else will run into this down the road.