What is the Shield General Settings section?
Shield General settings section is the most important part of the Shield - it contains options for the basic plugin settings.
The options available are as follows:
- Plugin Defaults
- Reporting
- Import/Export
- Disable Shield
Shield General options explanations
Option: Plugin Defaults
This option contains important default settings used through the plugin. Those are the following:
- IP Source - Is a method of retrieving the user/visitor IP address. There are several methods:
- Automatically detect visitor IP
- REMOTE_ADDR - (recommended)
- HTTP_CF_CONNECTING_IP
- HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR
- HTTP_X_FORWARDED
- HTTP_X_REAL_IP
- HTTP_X_SUCURI_CLIENTIP
- HTTP_INCAP_CLIENT_IP
- HTTP_X_SP_FORWARDED_IP
- HTTP_FORWARDED
- HTTP_CLIENT_IP
Note: If you don't know what your particular IP address is, please see here:
https://getshieldsecurity.com/my-ip
For better understanding the Shield plugin and the Visitor IP address detection, read the article here.
Note: If you need XML-RPC functionality to by-pass login protection rules, you can use WP filter.
- Anonymous Usage Statistics - Allows us to gather some information around your use of the plugin.
- Enable ShieldNET - Enhanced website security through Network Intelligence.
In-Plugin Notices - Display non-essential plugin notices and admin bar menu.
By default Shield displays non-essential notices in the admin area and admin bar.
This can be hidden by switching off this option.
- Allow WP-CLI - Allow access and control of the Shield plugin via WP-CLI.
- Show Plugin Badge - Display plugin badge on your site.
- Delete Plugin Settings - Removes all plugin options when you deactivate the plugin. If this option is disabled, all plugin settings will remain.
- Temp Dir - Specify a temporary directory lets you tell Shield where it should start in its search for a writable directory.
- Beta Access - Allow Shield to upgrade to beta and pre-release versions.
Option: Reports
Here you can configure Report Email - where you want Shield to send email reports.
Also, configure Alert and Info email reports.
Read more about Reporting section here.
Option: Instant Alerts
Receive instant alert email reports to critical security events that occur on your WordPress site.
Option: Import/Export
This feature helps you to automatically import options and deploy configurations across your entire security network. To find out how this feature works, read the article here.
Note: ShieldPRO is required for this feature. To find out what the extra ShieldPRO features are and how to purchase, please follow this link here.
Option: Global Plugin Security Disable
Here you can completely enable or disable Shield plugin and all its modules.