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BetterShield
Find out what is actually wrong with your site’s security, in plain language, then fix what you want. Every change can be undone.
BetterShield ranks #54,408 among WordPress.org plugins with 0+ active installations, is #3,434 of 4,512 in the Security category, and was last updated Sep 13, 2026. Data from WordPress.org, refreshed twice daily — see methodology.
Compatible with WP 7.1
v1.0.0
Current Version v1.0.0
Updated 3 days ago
Last Update on 13 Sep, 2026
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- Version
- 1.0.0
- Last Updated
- Sep 13, 2026
- Requires WP
- 6.7+
- Tested Up To
- 7.1
- PHP Version
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Frequently Asked Questions
Common questions about BetterShield
Yes. Every finding, every explanation and every point of the score is free, and so is every fix, two-factor, passkeys, login protection, the recovery link, the activity log and the file comparison. No account, no payment, and nothing withheld to make a point. There is a separate add-on, BetterShield Ultra, for people who look after sites for others: trusted devices, sign-in screens carrying your own branding, Slack and webhook alert channels, a scheduled report to send a client, temporary access that ends on its own, an hourly check of the code nobody publishes, and a longer activity history. It is a paid purchase and it is nobody’s idea of a requirement — nothing in this plugin is reduced or held back without it.
Rather than answer that, the Overview measures it and shows you the number for your own site: how many database queries and how many milliseconds this plugin added to the pages your visitors actually loaded. It is measured on a sample of real page views, and the panel says what was counted and how large the sample was. The design behind the number: the only thing running for your visitors is whichever fixes you turned on, activity is written after the page has been sent rather than during it, and on the WooCommerce cart and checkout nothing is added at all.
Open your recovery link. Every protection pauses for an hour and your settings stay exactly as they are, which is enough time to log back in and sort things out. The link is emailed when you activate the plugin, and you can generate a fresh one from Protect → Recovery at any time. Generating a new one stops the old one working. Each link works once. The page you land on shows you your next link straight away and emails a copy, so using one never leaves you without one — keep it as carefully as a password.
No. There is no account, and nothing about your site is sent anywhere. BetterShield contacts WordPress.org’s own addresses — and your own AI provider, if you have connected one to WordPress and you press Explain — and the WordPress.org requests only ask public questions: what are the official checksums for this version of WordPress, and for this version of this plugin. The answers are what let it tell you a file has been altered. Those requests carry the versions of the public software you have installed, which is unavoidable in asking the question, and nothing else: no site address, no email, no username, no keys. They happen on a schedule, when you press a button, and when a plugin is installed or updated, including automatic updates — never while a visitor is loading a page. “External services” below names them. Every email it sends goes through WordPress to an address on your own site and nowhere else: your recovery link to the admin address; a link that clears a lockout sooner, sent to the address of the account someone was guessing at; the weekly summary; and an event rated high or critical, on its own. The weekly summary and the instant alert go to the addresses you choose under Settings → Alerts, or to the site’s administration email if you choose none, and one switch on that screen stops all of it.
Each one tells you beforehand what it changes and what could break, and each one can be undone at any time. If you apply something and regret it, the undo restores exactly the state that was there before.
Yes. Each site keeps its own findings, settings and fixes, and the network administrator gets a screen of its own: every site’s score and open findings in one table, the whole network’s activity log, a two-factor or passkey rule set once as a floor under every site, and a recovery link for the network itself.
Its records stay by default — the activity log, the findings and the undo history — so reinstalling picks up where you left off. One switch under Settings removes them at deletion instead. Copies of files it has put back are kept either way, in wp-content/uploads/bettershield-quarantine/. When you restore a file, the version that was there is kept rather than deleted, and that copy may be exactly what somebody put on your site — so deleting it on the way out is not a decision this plugin makes for you. Remove them one at a time from the Files tab before you delete the plugin, or delete the folder yourself afterwards.
