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The Plugin & Theme Guard For WordPress
Keeping your WordPress sites secure is a never-ending game of cat and mouse. 100% protection against intrusion is impossible. We can do our best to stop it, but we must be ready to deal with any intrusions once they occur....
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Your WordPress site is NOT designed to send emails
WordPress does not magically turn your site into a reliable email delivery service. For reliable email sending, it requires careful setup.
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Shield Security – A Fresh New Look For 2018
Shield 6.3 sees a brand new UI for 2018. Cleaner, smarter, faster, more responsive.
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Increase Protection With More Frequent Scans For Shield Security
Shield Security now offers the ability to increase the scanning frequency to ensure that any corruption or intrusion is detected and cleaned more quickly.
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Shield’s Two-Factor Authentication ‘Remember Me’ Feature
To make 2-Factor Authentication easier on your users, Shield Security comes with a "Remember Me" feature so 2FA isn't always required.
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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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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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