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Paul G.

Paul Goodchild is the founder and CEO of Shield Security for WordPress – a best-in-class security plugin for the protection of critical WordPress-based websites and businesses.

Paul focuses on security features that deliver realworld results for client through the prevention of security breaches before they can happen. Prevention is preferrable over busy-security-work that sees you putting out fires and cleaning up your sites after an infection has taken hold.

Paul maintains that while a security plugin for WordPress is absolutely crucial, “security” is a practice and must involve your entire website and WordPress hosting environment, including your own local device security and security hygiene.

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Latest blogs from Paul

May 18, 2021 by Paul G.

Top 10 WordPress Security Plugins: Features, Pricing, and How to Choose the One Right For You

Keeping your site clean is not just about having a great plugin for a great price, it’s about a service that educates you and is there to support you in your journey.

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May 12, 2021 by Paul G.

Is It A Bot? Shield Has The Answer

🚨 The ‘AntiBot Detection Engine (ADE)’ has been superseded by silentCAPTCHA. Countless wo/man-hours have been spent in building technology to identify whether a visitor is a bot, or a human. This is, afterall, what hCaptcha & Google reCAPTCHA are all...

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May 6, 2021 by Paul G.

Announcing Shield’s Partnership With Patchstack

Today we’re delighted to announce a new partnership between Shield Security and Patchstack, in an effort to further our common goal of building a more secure WordPress ecosystem.

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April 6, 2021 by Paul G.

Shield Security PRO for WordPress – Release 11.1

Shield Security for WordPress v11.1 introduces a new UI navigation menu, stats, improved Security Admin and much more!

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March 23, 2021 by Paul G.

WP Shield Security PRO – Release 11

ShieldPRO Security for WordPress v11 is our most advanced. The gloves are off - we're bringing the fight to the bad bots that brute force and plague our sites!

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March 16, 2021 by Paul G.

Discover Shield’s New Secret Weapon Against WordPress Bots: Anti-Bot Detection Engine

🚨 The ‘AntiBot Detection Engine (ADE)’ has been superseded by silentCAPTCHA. No matter how you look at WordPress security, or from which direction you approach it, it nearly always comes down to bots. Automation is the key to hacking 1000s...

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February 11, 2021 by Paul G.

WP Shield Security PRO – Release 10.2

ShieldPRO for WordPress v10.2 brings many UX improvements, code cleaning and enhancements and removal of the troublesome Content Security Policy.

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January 28, 2021 by Paul G.

Why We’re Removing Content Security Policy Settings From ShieldPRO

Several years ago we added support to for an emerging technology called Content Security Policy [CSP]. We were excited about this new feature and the huge benefits it could bring to visitor-side security. Unfortunately with v10.2, we’ve decided to completely...

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December 21, 2020 by Paul G.

Postmark – Our Preferred Transactional Email Provider for WordPress

We've replaced our previous transactional email provider for our WordPress sites with PostmarkApp. Discover why.

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December 7, 2020 by Paul G.

WordPress Application Passwords and Everything You Need To Know

WordPress 5.6 sees the introduction of support for Application Passwords. This is a great step forward and we've built in support for this feature in Shield 10.1

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