Plugiva ClientGuard
Plugiva ClientGuard helps prevent unintended changes in the WordPress admin by adding practical guardrails around sensitive operations, settings, content, and administration areas. It is designed for situations where site owners, clients, teams, or automated tools need to work in WordPress without a
Plugiva ClientGuard helps prevent unintended changes in the WordPress admin by adding practical guardrails around sensitive operations, settings, content, and administration areas.
It is designed for situations where site owners, clients, teams, or automated tools need to work in WordPress without accidentally changing something important.
ClientGuard combines Client Mode with operation-level protection. Client Mode provides a simplified admin experience by hiding selected administration areas, while protection is applied to sensitive operations themselves rather than relying only on whether an admin interface is visible.
You can protect plugin and theme operations, critical settings, protected content, and other sensitive WordPress operations while keeping the rest of the admin area usable.
Client Mode can also be locked via configuration to prevent it from being disabled from the admin interface:
define( 'PCGD_LOCK_CLIENT_MODE', true );
This can be added in wp-config.php or defined programmatically in custom code.
When enabled, Client Mode is forced on and cannot be turned off from the dashboard, helping maintain consistent protection.
ClientGuard also provides Sentinel, an activity and lifecycle event log for protected operations, configuration changes, bypass activity, and other ClientGuard events. Sentinel helps make changes and protection activity visible rather than leaving them unexplained.
On multisite installations, ClientGuard supports site-specific protection and Sentinel event handling while also covering relevant network-level operations.
Instead of blocking access aggressively, ClientGuard applies practical guardrails that let users continue working while reducing the chance of unintended changes.
ClientGuard is ideal for:
- Site owners managing their own WordPress site
- Developers handing off sites to clients
- Teams that want a simplified and safer admin experience
- Sites where administrative changes need to remain controlled and observable
See ClientGuard in action
Watch the demo to see how Plugiva ClientGuard helps control selected WordPress administrative operations.
Client Mode
Enable Client Mode to apply ClientGuard’s protection controls with one click:
