Stop vs WP Shield

Stops outgoing emails sent from WordPress. This plugin stops outgoing emails generated by WordPress core, plugins, and themes. Emails sent using the wp_mail() function, will not be sent. In the case where an author does not use the recommended wp_mail() function and instead sends the email using another mechanism, an email will still be sent. This plugin allows you to suspend sending emails when doing development work. Any calls to wp_mail() will fail silently. WordPress will operate as if the email were sent successfully but no email will actually be sent. On the admin menu page Settings > Stop Emails, there is the option to log all emails to the PHP error log. By default this logging is disabled. NOTE: If using the PHP mail() function directly, this plugin will NOT stop the emails. Built by Sal Ferrarello / @salcode

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.