Affiliates Manager vs Really Simple Security – Simple and Performant Security (formerly Really Simple SSL)

Running your WordPress site with an e-Commerce plugin or solution? WP Affiliate Manager can help you manage an affiliate marketing program to drive more traffic and more sales to your store. Affiliate Marketing is the fastest growing advertising method and it is very cost effective. This wp affiliate plugin facilitates the affiliates recruitment, registration, login, management process. It will also track the referrals your affiliates send to your site and give commissions appropriately. Affiliates Manager integrates with some popular e-commerce solutions. It integrates with: WooCommerce WooCommerce Subscriptions Simple Shopping Cart WP eCommerce JigoShop Easy Digital Downloads iThemes Exchange WP eStore Sell Digital Downloads Paid Membership Pro S2Member Simple Membership Stripe Payments Gravity Forms PayPal Gravity Forms Stripe WP Express Checkout OptimizeMember MemberMouse AppThemes LifterLMS WP Courseware MemberPress GiveWP Real-Time Reporting Your affiliate’s traffic and sales are recorded and ready for display as soon as they happen. Unlimited Affiliates No matter if you have 1 or 1,000 affiliates, you can track them all. Automatic Affiliate Approval Automatically approve newly registered affiliates so they can start promoting your products. Manual Affiliate Approval Do you want to work with selected affiliates? With the manual approval option you can approve/decline each affiliate application. Flat Rate or Percentage Based Payouts You decide how you want to reward your affiliates. You can choose to pay your affiliates a flat rate per order, or choose to pay them a percentage of every order they initiate. Set Payout Rates Per Affiliate Each of your affiliates can be set to their own payout amount. Manual Adjustments and Payouts There may be a time when you need to credit an affiliate for something other than a sale. For example, a bonus for reaching a sales goal. Manual adjustments are treated as a line item for easy tracking. Pay Your Affiliates Using PayPal Ability to easily pay your affiliates their commission using PayPal. Manual Payout Pay affiliates with your preferred method and mark them as paid in the plugin. Unlimited Creatives and Ads for your Affiliates You can add as many banners or text link ads as you wish. Plus, you can easily activate or deactivate creatives as needed. Customizable Affiliate Registration You can decide how much or how little data to collect from your affiliates when they sign up. You can mark each field as optional or required. Disable Own Referrals Prevent affiliates from earning commissions on their own purchases. Affiliate Registration Form Customization Customize the affiliate registration form with custom affiliate fields. Affiliate Coupon Tracking Link affiliate accounts to WooCommerce coupon codes and track them to reward commissions. Manual Referral Tracking Manually track a purchase and create a commission/referral record for it. Referral Link Generator Affiliates can generate their own referral links from the affiliate dashboard. Social Sharing Links Affiliates can generate links for your products that can be shared on social media. Set Cookie Duration Specify how long the referral cookie should be valid for (30 days by default). Autoresponder Integration Sign up affiliates to your Mailchimp list. Sign up affiliates to MailPoet newsletter list. Sign up affiliates to your AWeber list. Sign up affiliates to your Mad Mimi list. Sign up affiliates to your Infusionsoft account. Sign up affiliates to your GetResponse list. Sign up affiliates to your ActiveCampaign list. Affiliate Ad Impression Tracking Track how many times a particular affiliate ad is getting viewed. Customize Email for Affiliates You can customize the email that is sent to an affiliate after they register for an account. The following messages are customizable: HTML message displayed to user at logon if affiliate STATUS = APPROVED HTML message displayed to user at logon if affiliate STATUS = DECLINED HTML message displayed to user at logon if affiliate STATUS = PENDING HTML message displayed to user after successfully submitting the affiliate registration form Body of the e-mail sent to the affiliate immediately after submitting their application. Body of e-mail sent to the affiliate immediately following their application being declined. Body of e-mail sent to a newly registered affiliate immediately following their application being approved. Body of e-mail sent to the affiliate immediately after earning a commission. Body of e-mail sent to the admin when an affiliate earns a commission. Body of e-mail sent to a newly approved affiliate if they have an existing user account. Translation Ready This plugin can be translated to your language. The following language translations are already available in the plugin: English German French Hebrew Portuguese Spanish Bulgarian Finnish Dutch Italian Icelandic Polish You can translate the plugin using this documentation. Support View the Plugin Documentation to get started. If you have a question, you can ask it on our support forum. Visit the affiliate manager plugin site for more details. Developers If you are a developer and you need some extra hooks or filters for this plugin then let us know. Github repository – https://github.com/wp-insider/affiliates-manager-plugin Arbitrary section None

Easily improve site security with WordPress Hardening, Two-Factor Authentication (2FA), Login Protection, Vulnerability Detection and SSL certificate. Really simple, Effective and Performant WordPress Security Really Simple Security is the most lightweight and easy-to-use security plugin for WordPress. It secures your WordPress website with SSL certificate generation, including proper 301 https redirection and SSL enforcement, scanning for possible vulnerabilities, Login Protection and implementing essential WordPress hardening features. We believe that security should have the absolute minimum effect on website performance, user experience and maintainability. Therefore, Really Simple Security is: Lightweight: Every security feature is developed with a modular approach and with performance in mind. Disabled features won’t load any redundant code. Easy-to-use: 1-minute configuration with short onboarding setup. Security Features Easy SSL Migration Migrates your website to HTTPS and enforces SSL in just one click. 301 redirect via PHP or .htaccess Secure cookies Let’s Encrypt: Install an SSL Certificate if your hosting provider supports manual installation. Server Health Check: Your server configuration is every bit as important for your website security. WordPress Hardening Tweak your configuration and keep WordPress fortified and safe by tackling potential weaknesses. Prevent code execution in the uploads folder Prevent login feedback and disable user enumeration Disable XML-RPC Disable directory browsing Username restrictions (block ‘admin’ and public names) and much more.. Vulnerability Detection Get notified when plugins, themes or WP core contain vulnerabilities and need appropriate action. Login Protection Allow or enforce Two-Factor Authentication (2FA) for specific user roles. Users receive a two-factor code via Email. Improve Security with Really Simple Security Pro Protect your site with all essential security features by upgrading to Really Simple Security Pro. Advanced SSL enforcement Mixed Content Scan & Fixer. Detect files that are requested over HTTP and fix them to HTTPS, both Front- and Back-end. Enable HTTP Strict Transport Security and configure your site for the HSTS Preload list. Firewall Really Simple Security Pro includes a performant and efficient WordPress firewall, to stop bots, crawlers and bad actors with IP and username blocks. 404 blocking – Blocks crawlers as they trigger unusual numbers of 404 errors. Region blocking – Only allow/block access to your site from specific regions. Automated and customisable Firewall rules. IP blocklist and allowlist. Security Headers Security headers protect your site visitors against the risk of clickjacking, cross-site-forgery attacks, stealing login credentials and malware. Independent of your Server Configuration, works on Apache, LiteSpeed, NGINX, etc. Protect your website visitors with X-XSS Protection, X-Content-Type-Options, X-Frame-Options, a Referrer Policy and CORS headers. Automatically generate your WordPress-tailored Content Security Policy. Vulnerability Measures When a vulnerability is detected in a plugin, theme or WordPress core you will get notified accordingly. With Vulnerability Measures, you can configure simple but effective measures to make sure that a critical vulnerability won’t remain unattended. Force update: An update process will be tried multiple times until it can be assumed development of a theme or plugin is abandoned. You will be notified during these steps. Quarantine: When a plugin or theme can’t be updated to solve a vulnerability, Really Simple Security can quarantine the plugin. Advanced Site Hardening Choose a custom login URL Automated File Permissions check and fixer Rename and randomize your database prefix Change the debug.log file location to a non-public folder Disable application passwords Control admin creation Disable HTTP methods, reducing HTTP requests Login Protection Secure your website’s login process and user accounts with powerful security measures. Two-Step verification (Email login) 2FA (two factor authentication) with TOTP Passwordless login with passkey login Enforce strong passwords and frequent password change Limit Login Attempts With Limit Login Attempts you can configure a threshold to temporarily or permanently block IP addresses or (non-existing) usernames. You can also throw a CAPTCHA after a failed login (hCaptcha or Google reCaptcha) Access Control Restrict access to your site for specific regions. Add specific IP addresses or IP ranges to the Blocklist or Allowlist. Useful Links Documentation Security Definitions Translate Really Simple Security Issues & pull requests Feature requests Love Really Simple Security? If you want to support the continuing development of this plugin, please consider buying Really Simple Security Pro, which includes some excellent security features and premium support. About Really Simple Plugins Our mission is to make complex WordPress requirements really easy. Really Simple Security is developed by Really Simple Plugins. For generating SSL certificates, Really Simple Security uses the le acme2 PHP Let’s Encrypt client library, thanks to ‘fbett’ for providing it. Vulnerability Detection uses WP Vulnerability, an open-source initiative by Javier Casares. Want to join as a collaborator? We’re on GitHub as well!