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
WordPress XML-RPC – why and how to block attacks
In this article we discuss what XML-RPC is for WordPress, how you can disable it, and why you might want to.
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WP Shield Security Pro – Release 7.3
Shield Security Pro 7.3 comes with a whole new set of rules to detect, log, and block bad bots and web crawlers on your WordPress sites.
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The Bot Signals That Help You Track And Block Bad Bots
In an earlier article we wrote about 1 particular technique to tempt a bot in order to know that it’s a bad bot. This approach is elaborate, but it works. Every bot has their own particular character, based on their...
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Creating a Mouse Trap to Capture Bad Bots
Figuring out which traffic is legitimate and which isn’t, can be tricky. If a (ro)bot script is written well, and often they are, they appear to be just like any other normal visitor. The challenge that we’re presented with is...
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WordPress Shield Security – Release 7.2
Shield Security 7.2 brings a brand new scanner - abandoned plugins. You can see any plugins on your site that haven't been updated for over 2 years!
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Abandoned WordPress plugins and the risk they pose to your sites
Abandoned plugins represent a future risk to our WordPress sites. Abandoned plugins may contain outdated code, bugs, and even security vulnerabilities. But how to find them?
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WordPress Shield Security – Release 7.1
Shield Release 7.1 brings 2 new security features: import/export of options using file downloads, and ability for visitor to unblock their IP when locked out!
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Beyond Shield Security 7
With the release of Shield Security 7, we're now looking ahead to see what's coming next. This article is a brief outline of our short-term plans.
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The New Shield Security 7.0
Shield Security v7.0 was released 28th January, 2019. We’ve been hard at work the past few months building the new Shield Security v7.0. As with any big project, it took on a life of its own and took longer than...
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WP Shield Security – Release 6.10
Shield v6.10 ships with Two-Factor Authentication Recovery Codes, official web crawler/bot detection, custom traffic watcher exclusions and much more!
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