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
Shield Security To Drop Support For PHP 5.2 (and 5.3)
The issue that WordPress stills maintains support for PHP 5.2 burns hotly in the minds of many developers. It’s not a decision based on what’s best for the code, but on what’s best for reputation and maintaining the WordPress userbase....
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Create Your Own Shield Security Network With Automatic Options Import/Export
Perhaps the #1 requested feature of the Shield Security plugin is the ability to import and export options. We’ve resisted providing an import/export feature for a long time, because we were never happy with the traditional idea of it. It...
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WordPress Plugin & Themes Vulnerability Scanner
Today sees the release of another awesome feature for the Shield Security plugin. A couple of years ago we had a feature like this in the Shield plugin, but we had to remove it because the data source was old...
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Clean Up Your WordPress: How To Consolidate PHP Error Logs
We'll show you how to clean up PHP error logs that are scattered about your WordPress. This isn't good practice and it flags up in your Core Files Scanner.
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WordPress Email Two-Factor Authentication With Auto-Login Links
As a security measure emails sent for Shield Security's two-factor authentication will no longer contain the automatic login link, and only the 2FA code.
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Eliminate Hacker Files With The WordPress File Security Bouncer
With the latest version of the Shield Security plugin for WordPress, we're introducing a new file scanner that eliminate hacker files on your site hosting.
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Shield: The New Multi-Factor Authentication Login Portal For WordPress
Shield's Login Authentication Portal simplifies the growing collection and complexity of multi-factor authentication for WordPress. Find out how!
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Multi-Factor and Two-Factor Authentication For WordPress – Shield
Two-factor authentication (2FA) is a one of the best ways to secure account access – for any platform, WordPress included. 1 extra piece of information alongside your account password goes a long way. It reduces vulnerability to a category of...
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Google Authenticator Backups – The Best 2-Factor Authentication?
Get Google Authenticator backups the easy way. Recover all your two-factor authentication code when you reset, lose or replace your phone. Easy!
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How much does Shield protect websites? We need more information …
We would like your permission to collect and aggregate usage information for the Shield Security plugin. Of course, though, we will never collect anything that could be used to identify you or your website.
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