Hey there “Guest” 😉

A few thoughts:

1.) I didn’t really dig into those, but WordFence has a pretty extensive FAQ and guides on their website.

2.) Those are two different things. The “Disallow” one has to do with Google (and other search engines) indexing your site whereas the wp-config.php one has to do with your wp-config.php file on your server.

3.) Yeah, you have to know what you’re doing with .htaccess codes. I would copy paste from here, then into a plain text editor, save, and then copy/paste to your .htaccess file on your server from the plain text editor. Try at the top of your .htaccess file, but if that messes things up, put them at the bottom of your .htaccess file.

That’s about all I can help with here! 🙂

No problem on the name mixup. I will comment on your other comment in a minute. 🙂

1. What about Firewall settings in Wordfence?

2. Ive been trying to figure out this code in htaccess-
User-agent: *
Disallow: /wp-admin/ (Google Webmaster does not like it.)

Does it have a similar function as-
# protect wp-config.php file

order allow,deny
deny from all
?

3. Can codes like you posted here, be pasted in Mac text editor then pasted to htaccess to put the codes in the proper format? Or what is the proper way? I recently had an experience coping and pasting to htaccess and ended up with a white page that said: “You screwed up, that is why you no longer have access to your website.”

Thank you for the quick reply.

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