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Ah, thanks. I didn’t realize you could type in that dropdown area.

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.

Thanks for the reply Jelena. Is the automatic IP block list system part of the free and pro version, or just pro?

Hi Paul,

Thanks for the reply. Yeah, that makes sense. I was hoping maybe there was a way to whitelist certain URLs that don’t need to be protected with a 404.

Don’t know why the webhook endpoint is in wp-admin. I assume it’s just the way the plugin is setup. I’ve reached out to them asking about setting a location outside wp-admin, but I don’t have high hopes.

Unfortunately I don’t have an answer for you. The login pages for my subsites don’t work either. We only need to access the front-end (they’re archived), so I haven’t investigated getting those operational.

If you don’t mind posting back here once you’ve found a solution, I’d be interesting in knowing what the fix is.

Hi Alan,

Thanks for the quick reply. Yes, I do think it would be helpful to have a list of IPs, for the following reasons:
1) Looking to see if the plugins have been useful on the site where it’s installed and help me decide whether I should install it on another site too.
2) Cross reference this IP list with IPs that have been caught trying to brute force or otherwise login.
3) See which countries the IPs are from (if there was a column with country info).

May have found my answer: Looks like you can assign colors to categories, and I’m guessing that’s how you can change the color of events on the calendar.

Ah, I didn’t realize the design was only for the paid version. The free plugin page also shows the same graphic showing the newer design: https://ww.wp.xz.cn/plugins/event-calendar-wd/

Ok, I’ll use the form to put in my question. Thanks

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Brandon