Shortcodes Ultimate – Content Elements vs WP Shieldon – WordPress Firewall

Building new pages with Gutenberg? Explore VovaBlocks, a focused collection of native marketing and content blocks from the creator of Shortcodes Ultimate. View VovaBlocks → About Shortcodes Ultimate Shortcodes Ultimate is a WordPress shortcode plugin for adding tabs, accordions, buttons, FAQs, sliders, carousels, lightboxes, columns, boxes and other reusable content elements without coding. It is ideal for site owners who want richer content layouts and practical UI elements without switching to a full page builder. Use Shortcodes Ultimate in the Block Editor, Classic Editor, widgets and template files. Generate shortcodes visually, preview the result before inserting it, and reuse the same elements across posts, pages and existing shortcode-based content. Trusted by hundreds of thousands of WordPress sites, Shortcodes Ultimate helps you replace multiple single-purpose UI plugins with one maintained toolkit. Explore live examples What you can build With Shortcodes Ultimate, you can quickly add common WordPress content elements such as: Accordions and FAQ sections Responsive tabs CTA buttons and download buttons Boxes, notes and callouts Columns and layout helpers Sliders and carousels Lightboxes for images and custom content Post lists and dynamic content blocks Spoilers, toggles and expandable content Media embeds and visual content blocks Instead of installing a separate plugin for every small content element, Shortcodes Ultimate gives you one maintained toolkit for everyday WordPress content tasks. Works with modern and classic WordPress workflows Shortcodes Ultimate works with the Block Editor, Classic Editor, widgets and template files. You can insert shortcodes manually, use WordPress shortcode blocks or use the built-in shortcode generator to configure elements visually. This makes the plugin useful for: Site owners who want to improve content without coding Bloggers and affiliate publishers who need reusable CTA and content blocks Agencies and freelancers maintaining multiple WordPress sites Developers who want shortcode-friendly output in templates Existing sites with older content that already uses shortcodes Why use Shortcodes Ultimate? 50+ ready-to-use WordPress shortcodes Visual shortcode generator Live preview Works with the Block Editor and Classic Editor Shortcodes can be used in posts, pages, widgets and template files Responsive elements that work with your theme Built-in Custom CSS editor Developer-friendly hooks and documentation Free version available on WordPress.org Pro version available for advanced shortcodes, extra styles and premium support Why shortcodes still matter in WordPress The WordPress Block Editor is great for visual content editing, but shortcodes are still useful when you need portable, reusable content elements that work across different parts of a WordPress site. Shortcodes are especially helpful when you want to: Reuse the same content element in many posts or pages Add dynamic content inside widgets or templates Maintain older WordPress sites that already use shortcodes Work across Classic Editor and Block Editor workflows Add content elements without switching to a full page builder Keep common UI elements available through a simple text-based syntax Shortcodes Ultimate is designed for these practical workflows. It gives you a large collection of ready-made shortcodes and a visual generator, so you do not need to write shortcode syntax manually unless you want to. Free and Pro The free version of Shortcodes Ultimate includes a large collection of useful shortcodes for everyday WordPress content tasks. Shortcodes Ultimate Pro adds advanced shortcodes, additional styles, Content Slider, Pricing Table, Testimonials, Shortcode Creator, Elementor support and premium support. Compare Free and Pro Useful links Documentation Live Examples Pro features Support

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.