Intriguing Point System for Blocking

  • bzle

    (@bzle)


    4 years ago

    Shield Security has a ton of great options to improve the security of WordPress, and a lot of these can be found in other security plugins too. However, their point system is fairly unique from what I’ve seen. You get to control whether an action is ignored, logged, counts as a point, two points, or immediate block. Those options aren’t available for everything, but it’s an interesting way to let you customize how tight the security is.

    Sometimes I still find it difficult to navigate all the settings modules. Many times I’ve had a specific settings in mind and I don’t know which module to click on, so I have to hunt around in different modules and tabs within those modules. But on the plus side, those settings and features are there… just need to find them. Worth it.

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  • Plugin Author Paul

    (@paultgoodchild)

    Thanks so much for leaving a great review – we appreciate you taking the time to do so.

    On the topic of UI… How do you find the latest changes help? Have you also seen the options drop-down finder on the dashboard screen?

    Cheers!

    Thread Starter bzle

    (@bzle)

    At the moment, I’m missing the old tabs and left sidebar because it was quicker to navigate around… I just don’t understand where all the settings were divided up into. The new Shield Security dashboard has 16 very similar looking boxes. Most of the boxes have two links… maybe if there were more links showing per section, I’d be able to scan and find what I’m looking for. Right now it’s hard for me to know what settings each box represents.

    The most recent thing I was looking for were the settings for auto updating plugins. I looked around and couldn’t decide which section the auto-updates would be under. Eventually I found the search bar and typed “auto”, scrolled down and found “Automatic Update”. It was under the “Hack Guard” section. That ended up being a different auto update than the section I was looking for. Then I went to the “Security Overview” page and scanning over everything I quickly found the auto updates for plugins. The Security Overview page is much improved. Thanks for making some changes there.

    Also, checking the dashboard again, I see the “Jump the module settings” section. That will be helpful and I just didn’t understand where that had gone with the UI update.

    The visual design of the new dashboard seems very on-brand for Security Shield with the green link and borders, and I like the large bold headings. Nice job there. It’s just the content I’m having trouble understanding and interacting with.

    I think one other thing I’m missing from the old design is quickly moving from one module to the next. Aaaand now I see the “Jump to Module Settings” if you’re on a page such as “Settings: User Management”. It’s the third link at the top, but it’s not actually a link when you click on it (because it opens the dropdown for finding another module). That also helps, but feels a little odd. It’s not evident the functionality is there by scanning around, you have to read the text and think what it might do.

    Sorry, this is probably more feedback than you were looking for here, but hopefully it helps too.

    Plugin Author Paul

    (@paultgoodchild)

    This is great feedback, thank you! We’ll take a look and see how we can make navigating a bit easier. It’s a large plugin, so this is a bit of a challenge. But your comments are very helpful, thank you!

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