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Wordfence 5.3.2 Released, now with Referer Blocking

The newest version of Wordfence includes a much requested feature and you can thank Tim Cantrell for listening to your requests and getting us to put this in 5.3.2.

Wordfence 5.3.1 Released with full documentation, updated Geo DB and Improved Export

Wordfence 5.3.1 has just been released. We’re excited to announce that Wordfence is now fully documented.

Wordfence 5.2.9 Released with Options Export and Import

Wordfence 5.2.9 was released last night with a much-requested feature: You can now export your Wordfence settings and re-import them on another site or on multiple sites.

Wordfence 5.2.8 Released: All Wordfence Options now Fully Documented!

Wordfence 5.2.8 was released this evening. Doing a quick diff on the code for Wordfence 5.2.8, it might not look like we have changed much, but this is the launch of the long-awaited Wordfence documentation for our options page.

Major Infrastructure Upgrade Completed and Other News

Last night, Monday the 1st of September we completed a major infrastructure upgrade to the cloud services that provide the back-end for Wordfence.

Important security fix in Wordfence 5.1.4

A week ago we released a fix for a security issue in Wordfence 5.1.2 and older.

How to lower your Wordfence renewal price – and how our renewal pricing works.

We recently rolled out some changes to our licensing system that our customers asked for and that give you a way to save even more on Wordfence licensing.

Why your site is being Spamvertized – and what to do about it.

You’re running a popular and honest WordPress website and all of a sudden an abuse ticket arrives in your email from your hosting provider.

Wordfence Beta Release: 5.0.9 Beta 1 is available for testing.

If you’re one of our Beta testers, we’ve just released Wordfence 5.0.9 Beta which which you can find here: http://wordfence.com/betas/wordfence-5.0.9-beta1.zip If you’d like to try out this Beta release (which is not production ready until we say it is), disable your current Wordfence, uninstall it, then upload this ZIP using the WordPress plugin upload mechanism ...

Wordfence 5.0.8 Released

This is a minor release but contains some important fixes and improvements.