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.

Latest blogs from Paul

Improvements to SPAM User Email Detection
ShieldPRO 9.0.3 brings improvements to our spam user registration detection. There are now more granular controls and assessments of the email domain.
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WP Shield Security Pro – Release 9.0
ShieldPRO 9.0 for WordPress comes packed with new security features, including the option to protect your wp-config.php, better reporting, hCaptcha, and more.
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Selective Options Sync With The Improved Import/Export
Shield Security PRO 9.0 for WordPress adds Selective Sync to the import/export feature, giving you the power to fine-tune import/export across your portfolio.
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How To Use hCaptcha To Protect Against WordPress SPAM Bots
hCaptcha is now an ShieldPRO option for all WordPress security admins can use to thwart Comment SPAM and Login Bots, in-place of Google reCAPTCHA.
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ShieldPRO Moving To PHP 7.0+
ShieldPRO for WordPress is moving to minimum PHP version 7.0, starting with Shield Security 10.0.
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WordPress WP Config File Locker – ShieldPRO Feature
ShieldPRO introduces the File Locker feature that helps protect against hacking and intrusion into the WordPress wp-config.php file.
Continue Reading →How To Add Rate Limiting Protection For WordPress
Shield PRO v8.7 will bring a new WordPress Traffic Rate Limiting feature, detecting more malicious bots accessing your WordPress sites.
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New: File Scanning Integration with Yoast SEO Premium Plugin
ShieldPRO now integrates with all Yoast SEO Premium Plugins through WPHashes.com API to allow us to scan files for malware and malicious modifications.
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New: Support for WordPress Multilingual CMS Plugin
Shield Security PRO now supports checksum/MD5 scanning of the WPML - WordPress Multilingual CMS - plugin for WordPress
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How To Block WordPress SPAM User Registrations
Shield Security Pro 8.6 adds the ability to detect and block SPAM user registrations based on their email address.
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