Since we started developing Shield Security, we focused primarily on security.
Our goal was to make Shield as powerful as possible. Since we eat our own dogfood here, having a reliable, powerful security layer is as important to us as it is to you.
But this focus on features had a detrimental effect on 1 key area:
– the User Experience
We’ve built a lot of power into the Shield plugin, but neglected to make this power easily accessible to everyone who wanted it.
We know that to challenge the incumbents, we have to deliver not only a better product, but we have to make it easy for everyone to use it.
We started the process of making it easier with our introduction of Shield Wizards.
We’ve received a huge amount of positive feedback on these wizards, and so we know we’re headed in the right direction.
The next problem for us to address was that of the UI…
A Fresh New UI Built On Bootstrap
Anyone paying attention to the past few releases will have seen the evolving changes to the plugin options pages.
Some feedback we received was positive, some negative.
We’ve been experimenting with several different approaches, but it always felt cluttered, disjointed and hard to use.
So we went back to the drawing board.
Our basic options display is easy to use. Each option has a name, a summary, and description. Most of them also have a link to either a helpdesk article or a blog post.
So we haven’t done away with this format as we know it works well.
However, clearly showing that Shield was comprised of different modules, each serving a particular role, had been difficult. And the old UI was a bit clunky and non-responsive for smaller devices.
We’d also found it hard to introduce extra plugin components to the UI, such as the Wizards and custom “action areas”, such as the Audit Trail Viewer and User Sessions.
Shield’s new UI takes a slighly different approach to this and we’re hopeful that you’ll also find it easier to navigate.
It has a cleaner, more consistent layout, using less gaudy colours, and it’s responsive for even the smallest screens.
A Screenshot Summary
Screenshot: Shield New UI 2018
More To Come
This UI rebuild is the first major change and we trust you’ll like it.
But there is more to come, including a proper Overview Dashboard and Notifications area. But more on that at a later date.
This new UI will be available from Shield Security version 6.3.0
Of course, if you have any questions or comments on the new interface, feel free to let us know.
ShieldPRO Testimonials
@rpatwall1206
AWESOMENESS!!!
I am so elated that I found this plugin. The configurations are thorough and well defined. So thorough that I got tripped up a couple of times simply by not remembering how thorough. For Instance: If you change the login.php (which is one of the many security features of this…
@teunbakker
Great plug-in so far
I came from Wordfence (they’ve changed their focus), and was looking for a good security plug-in that woudl also allow two-step-authentication (2FA) as an extra security measure during login. Enter Shield: So far it’s worked completely worry-free and 2FA works great with google authenticator. Highly recommended.
@dekeld
I can now sleep better!!
I had numerous attacks on one of my sites, thousands of strange coded page requests and efforts to break in. (It looked like China and Ukraine hackers have joined forces to hack into this lousy blog). I have installed the plugin and the page requests and strange activity decreased totally.…
@lourencoazevedo
A great tool
One of the definition of tool is an instrument that the end result is directly related with the way you use it. If a finger suffers a hit from a hammer the tool can’t be blamed only the user itself and the way he was using it. Shield Security Pro…
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