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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

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February 19, 2020 by Paul G.

WP Shield Security Pro – Release 8.6

Shield Security Pro 8.6 for WordPress brings enhancements for two-factor authentication as well as detection and blocking of SPAM User registrations.

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WordPress Website Rocket
January 30, 2020 by Paul G.

A Guide To How We Host Our WordPress Sites

In this guide we go into some detail on how we setup brand most of new WordPress websites to ensure they're fast, reliable and hosted on a secure platform.

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January 22, 2020 by Paul G.

Added: Support for Scanning Smart Slider 3 Pro

Shield Security Pro now supports the full file scanning of the Smart Slider 3 Pro plugin, and the Social Login Pro plugin within it's WPHashes.com API.

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January 8, 2020 by Paul G.

WP Shield Security Pro – Release 8.5

Shield Security Pro 8.5 for WordPress has just been released and bring a huge list of new features including better scanning of premium plugins and themes.

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Shield in collaboration with Advanced Custom Fields PRO
January 7, 2020 by Paul G.

New: Support For Security Scanning of Premium Plugins

Shield Security's API for querying plugin and theme MD5 checksum hashes now supports integration with premium plugin and themes.

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Shield Security Website Optimisation
December 14, 2019 by Paul G.

5 Golden Rules For WordPress Site Optimisation

Optimising a WordPress site for improved performance is worth investing the time to do so. In this article we present 5 golden rules for WordPress optimisation.

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November 29, 2019 by Paul G.

WP Shield Security Pro – Release 8.4

Shield 8.0 for WordPress can now lend confidence to potential malware detected in files that it has never seen before. All with the aid of ShieldNet (Shield's network intelligence)

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November 18, 2019 by Paul G.

Shield’s WordPress Malware Scanner Is Now Even Smarter

Your WordPress sites have been automatically scanned for malware since Shield Security Pro 8.0 was released. We’ve been delivering improvements with each release, designed to refine the malware scanner and make the results more accurate and actionable. With Shield Security...

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October 25, 2019 by Paul G.

Shield Security Fix For Reflected XSS Vulnerability

Shield Security version before 8.2.3 suffer from a Reflected XSS vulnerability. This article explains the vulnerability and the steps we've taken to address it.

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October 7, 2019 by Paul G.

WP Shield Security Pro – Release 8.2

Shield Security Pro is now smarter than ever with its use of Network Intelligence, helping to filter out and finely tune WordPress malware scan results.

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