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WP Shieldon – WordPress Firewall

WP Shieldon is a WordPress security plugin based on Shieldon library, a Web Application Firewall (WAF) for PHP.

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Tested up to WordPress 6.2
Current version2.0.2
WordPress coverageTested up to WordPress 6.2
Minimum stackWP 4.7 · PHP 7.1.0
Directory statusactive
Last directory update21 Jun 20233y ago
Active installations100Adoption metric — not a quality score
WordPress.org rating3.7 / 5 from 3 ratings
Official packageDirect from WordPress.org

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WP PlugIndex currently records WP Shieldon – WordPress Firewall version 2.0.2 as active, updated 3y ago and tested up to WordPress 6.2.

Overview

About this plugin

WP Shieldon is a WordPress security plugin based on Shieldon library, a Web Application Firewall (WAF) for PHP.

When users or robots try to view many of your web pages within a short period of time, they will be temporarily banned. They can get unbanned by solving a Captcha.

You can visit the plugin author – Terry L. ‘s blog and try reloading the pages several times to see how this plugin works. You can also try Terry’s login page to find it protected.

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Please note that there are three important things you must understand before using WP Shieldon:

  • WP Shieldon is not for beginners.
  • Turn the Trusted Bot component on to allow search engine crawlers such as Google, Bing, Yahoo, and others to smoothly crawl your website.

Open Source Code

Plugin:

com/terrylinooo/wp-shieldon

Core library:

com/terrylinooo/shieldon

Features

  • Realtime statistics – See who are browsing your website and their status.
  • Beautiful and detailed statistics and dashboard.
  • Block bad bots by default – Backlink crawlers, copyright crawlers and WayBack machine bot.
  • IP manager – Block signle IP or IP range as you want. (IPv6 supported)
  • Online session control – You can limit just how many visitors browsing your website. Good for webmasters whose blog is hosted on a share hosting.
  • SEO friendly – You can allow popular search engines such as Google, Bing, Yahoo and others, put them in the whitelist.
  • XML RPC, Login, Signup page protection.
  • Multiple data drivers – Redis, SQLite, File system, MySQL.
  • Multiple CAPTCHA modules – Google reCAPTCHA v2, v3 and Image CAPTCHA.
  • XSS Protection.
  • Page authentication.
  • Many others you can find by yourself.

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Copyright

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WP Shieldon is distributed under the terms of the GNU GPL

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify

it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by

the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or

(at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,

but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of

MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

See the

GNU General Public License for more details.

WordPress.org metadata

Plugin tags

Topics listed for this plugin in the WordPress.org directory.

  • anti scriping
  • brute force
  • xss protection
  • firewall
  • security
Compatibility & maintenance

Compatibility & maintenance

Tested up to WordPress 6.2

Not yet marked as tested with WordPress 7.1. WordPress.org currently lists Tested up to 6.2.

Current WordPress releaseWordPress 7.1
WordPress.org Tested up to6.2
Minimum requirementsWordPress 4.7 · PHP 7.1.0
Update activity21 Jun 20233y ago

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