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How to enable WordPress Application Passwords in WordFence

GoPublish uses WordPress Application Passwords to connect to your site which gives it seamless access to perform certain activities on your site. Currently, it performs the following actions:

  • Generating Application Password for connecting GoPublish
  • Fetching categories and tags
  • Export media, posts, pages, and custom post types

WordFence plugin sometimes disables application passwords by default. Here’s how to re-enable them:

Head to Wordfence > All Options > Firewall Options > Brute Force Protection, and uncheck the Disable WordPress application passwords option. You may also refer to this video to see how it can be disabled:

How to enable WordPress Application Password for Wordfence plug-in [Quick tutorial]