WP Shieldon – WordPress Firewall for WordPress Plugin Directory
By Terry L.
WP Shieldon – WordPress Firewall is a WordPress app, with a 3.7 average rating from 3 reviews, as of Sep 11, 2026.
WP Shieldon – WordPress Firewall is a WordPress Plugin Directory app by Terry L.. With a rating of 3.7★ from 3 reviews.
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WP Shieldon – WordPress Firewall is a mixed-rating 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. 3 reviews put it in the early-traction tier — useful for early-stage stores willing to be on the leading edge. Early-traction review counts are sensitive to single launch periods or feature events, so a 30-day re-check before bigger commitments often resolves whether the trend is sustained. 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 Terry L. — established developer track record
Cons
- −Average rating below 4.0 (3.7★) — read recent low-star reviews before committing
- −Limited review base (3) — ratings can shift significantly with new feedback
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How WP Shieldon – WordPress Firewall works
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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. For more information about Shieldon, please visit shieldon.io
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:
https://github.com/terrylinooo/wp-shieldon
Core library:
https://github.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.
Check out my other WordPress works here:
Markdown Editor – WP Githuber MD – an all in one Markdown editor.
Cache Master – WordPress cache plugin.
Mynote Theme – Theme for programmers.
Copyright WP Shieldon, Copyright 2019 TerryL.in
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.
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Frequently asked questions
What is WP Shieldon – WordPress Firewall?
WP Shieldon – WordPress Firewall is an app for WordPress. It currently holds a 3.7-star rating from 3 merchant reviews, 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 Terry L.