Wordfence could not find a saved cron key to start the scan.

Hi

When trying to activate Wordfence in a multi-site environment, everything went fine for the first site. But when I moved on to the second site in order to activate, it failed with error message:
“Wordfence could not find a saved cron key to start the scan.”

If this due to multi-site WP? What can be done to proceed with Wordfence activation for that site?

Kind Regards,
Kraal

Hi Kraal,

You’re getting way ahead of us. :-)

We haven’t even tried Wordfence on MU at all.

I’d guess that each MU site has it’s own data that it stores using get_option and update_option (the wordpress API calls) and I need to modify the code to be MU compatible.

We’ll get there as soon as humanly possible. Thanks for keeping us on our toes. I’ll post a big announcement once MU support is ready.

Mark.

I’m experiencing a bit of a meltdown here today. I’ve reported elsewhere a site that wants re-configuring and on another that has been working well, it too has suddenly decided it needed re-configuring and when I did so – using the previous API key for that site – it now tells me it could not find a saved cron key to perform scan.

Any suggestions?

In fact, same thing appears to have happened with all my sites they all need re-configuring and can’t find a cron key.

Regards

Will

Will,

We haven’t changed anything in the plugin or on our servers recently. Let me know if you changed anything on your site. It sounds like you re-initialized your database.

Mark.

Just wanted to wrap this up. The problem was that the database tables belonging to Wordfence had been deleted. I’m closing this topic as resolved.

Mark.

Thanks to Mark et al for discovering that my problem was self-inflicted. I had cleaned up my database with the plugin Plugins Garbage Collector which has done sterling service for me over the past couple of years. I will report the problem to the developers so that they can see whether it is mis-identifying WordFence tables.