ShieldPRO 18.3 Upgrade Guide

ShieldPRO 18.3 is one of our most exciting releases, ever. Building upon our new Change Reporting feature, we’ve designed an all-new reporting system.

Our main focus for this release has been to make it easier for admins to see exactly what’s happening on a site at any given moment.

This guide outlines what have been added, changed, or improved and what fixes we've made.

Firstly, we're going to explain what major changes are made and which options you'd need to review.

New Added Features

You can now create custom reports on-demand, for any period for which you have data.

This option can be found under the Reports section.

  • Reports Archive

Automated and manually-created reports are now full HTML pages.

Example, Alert report from scans

They are also saved/archived for future reference.

Email reports are also completely redesigned. Now, you'll receive URLs to the full Alert or Info reports.

Example email report

You can now temporarily switch the Traffic Log to live logging mode to capture all WordPress requests.

This feature is available under the the main Config menu > Traffic section > Traffic Logging Options:


As also added Live Traffic Log Viewer, a live logging tool. It lets you view all requests sent to the site, and automatically refreshes with the latest requests.


Read more about the Live Traffic feature here.

  • Traffic Log Download

All traffic logs can be downloaded to plain-text log files.

  • Enhanced Summary Dashboard

We've created a brand new dashboard, to be used as a launchpad for many security actions.

Removed/moved options

For this release, we removed/moved the following options

  • Stats/Chart section is removed

"Changes" section is removed and added into Reports section

  • "Rules" section is moved and it's available now under the "Debug Info" section.
  • Admin Notes section is removed completely.

Improvements

For 18.3 release we've made the following improvements

  • Breadcrumbs For Better Navigation

    Navigating the plugin and various pages is improved and more intuitive for users.

  • User Sessions Management

Improved the loading of user sessions to be more thorough.

  • Major reworking and improvements of code.

  • Activity and Traffic Logging Conflicts Resolved

    In the case that logging was disabled where you had a conflicting PHP logging library, logs are now available for you again.

18.3.9 patch release

  • Added activity log event for WP Core Reinstall (distinct from core upgrade).
  • Fixed Fatal error on older WordPress installations for missing function get_user_count().

For more information on Shield 18.3 release, read this blog article here.