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Guides to install, set up and use BetterShield: from the dashboard, WP-CLI or your AI assistant.
Popular: Locked outHardeningTwo-factor and passkeysConnect an AI assistant
Four steps to a safer site
Each step opens the guide that covers it.
Your assistant, the Hub and WP-CLI
Look after one site from a chat or the command line, or many from BetterShield Hub.
- Site MCP
Connect an AI assistant
BetterShield’s built-in MCP server: choose what an assistant may read and change. - Hub
Connect to BetterShield Hub
Read-only or read-and-fix, approved on the site’s own consent page. - WP-CLI
WP-CLI commands
Every wp bettershield command, with its options and an example.
Browse by topic
34 guides, grouped by the part of BetterShield they cover.
Getting started
Install BetterShield, run Quick Setup, and land on a sound baseline.
Switching
Coming from Wordfence, All-In-One Security, Kadence Security or Really Simple Security: what carries over, and how.
Overview and Findings
What your score and grade mean, how to fix, snooze or set aside each finding, and where else the score shows.
Protect
Hardening fixes, sign-in protection, two-factor, passkeys, recovery, and what each person can do from their profile.
Activity
What happened on the site and who did it, what changed in its files, and what assistants called.
AI assistants
The built-in MCP server: what an assistant may read, and what it may change.
BetterShield Hub
A free, optional dashboard for looking after several sites in one place.
Settings
The plugin’s own settings, who gets alerts, and running it across a network.
Ultra
The paid add-on’s own screens: sign-in policies, temporary access, reports, alert channels, automatic response and Cloudflare.
3 moreReference and help
Every command and its options, every outside address the plugin contacts, and what it keeps about people.
Close the open doors today
Install the free plugin. The first audit runs when you activate it, and nothing changes until you choose a fix.
Requires WordPress 6.7 or newer and PHP 8.0 or newer.