WP Shield is a WordPress Plugin Directory app by drupalmatts.
AppRanks verdict
Generated from live marketplace data — refreshed daily
WP Shield is a newly-listed WordPress app with a limited review volume. Category data on the canonical marketplace listing is currently incomplete, so AppRanks falls back to platform-wide rather than category-relative comparison for this listing. no published reviews yet means feature claims are unverified by the wider merchant base. Without a published review base, the only fit-signal available is the developer's own documentation plus the marketplace's listing-quality audit (linked below). Paid-only pricing means evaluating fit on the marketplace listing or via the developer's documentation before installing. AppRanks tracks rating, review count, pricing tier, and category position daily — the figures on this page reflect the most recent scrape from the canonical WordPress Plugin Directory listing.
Pros
- +Published by drupalmatts — established developer track record
Cons
- −No public reviews yet — fit and reliability are unverified
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How WP Shield works
This plugin will allow you to secure your development, staging and UAT environments
with an http authentication block that can be controlled in admin but also turned
off via a declared variable in your config file. It allows you to bring your Database
back to non-production environments without having to physically turn off the plugin each time.
Variable: define('WP_SHIELD_UN', '');
This simple line of code (recommended to add to a file ignored by your code management
software and required into your wp_config.php file) will override the enabled flag
if the plugin’s settings. Enable in production and add the above code. If that
require file doesn’t exist in your other environments, it will prompt users for the
set username and password.
Competitors & alternatives
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Frequently asked questions
What is WP Shield?
WP Shield is an app for WordPress. It is published on WordPress Plugin Directory and tracked by AppRanks, and AppRanks has been tracking its public marketplace data on the refresh cadence published in our methodology. AppRanks tracks its category position, review-velocity trend, and the top alternatives in the same space. Developed by drupalmatts.