ShieldPRO 21.2.0 Upgrade Guide

ShieldPRO 21.2.0 is our main release. It introduces many improvements, such as new search and faster capabilities for Activity Log and Traffic Log tables, improved security reports, added translation into nearly 40 languages and much more.

This guide outlines what have been added/removed, 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

For 21.2.0 release we added

Activity Log and Traffic Log tables

We added powerful new search capabilities for Activity Log and Traffic Log tables, including free-text search, plus filters by IP address, username, email, user ID, event description, and metadata values.

There's a new search syntax help panel to guide users through available search options (for example ip: and user_id:).

Example: Activity Log

Translation into nearly 40 languages

We've completed translation for the Shield Security plugin into nearly 40 languages. We've also hugely improved translation coverage so that practically all text in the plugin can be translated. Our translations were built using our own in-house AI Translations system - so there may be some errors here and there and some translations might be missing. We'll continue working on improvements.

We also added Remote Language Translation Downloads.

Shield now downloads translations on-demand rather than shipping them with the plugin, significantly reducing plugin size. You might see In-plugin notification for available translation downloads like in the below screenshot.

Additionally, Activity Log and Traffic Log table are running much faster - loading through optimised database queries.

[Pro] Paid Memberships Pro Integration

We added SilentCAPTCHA bot detection support for Paid Memberships Pro plugin checkout requests.

Changes

Security report emails and layouts have been redesigned for improved clarity and a more professional presentation. Enhanced report emails now include richer inline statistics and more detailed scan data (including up to 20 relevant results in key sections).

Example: Alert Report email from scans (hourly)

Example: Info Report email (hourly)

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Improvements

For 21.2.0 release we've made the following improvements

Fixes

For 21.2.0 release we've made the following fixes

For more information on Shield 20.1 release, read the release blog article here.