Accelerate vs Really Simple Security – Simple and Performant Security (formerly Really Simple SSL)

Finally, A/B Testing & Personalization Built for WordPress You spend hours creating content, but are you sure it’s working? Every headline, button, and image you publish is a guess. Wasted traffic and lost sales are the cost of guessing wrong. Accelerate eliminates the guesswork. It’s the native CRO (Conversion Rate Optimization) platform that puts the power of A/B testing and personalization directly inside the WordPress Block Editor. No more expensive SaaS subscriptions. No more complex integrations. Just data-driven results. While Accelerate is still in beta, we have released the following features. What Can You Do With Accelerate? Run A/B Tests on Any Block: Create multiple versions of your headlines, calls-to-action, or images and let Accelerate tell you which one performs best. Know exactly what works. Personalize Content for Different Audiences: Show unique content to visitors based on where they came from, their on-site behavior, and more. Deliver the perfect message every time. Understand Your Content with Block-Level Analytics: See exactly how people interact with your site on a block-by-block basis. Our GDPR-compliant analytics gives you actionable insights you own completely. Promote Content Site-Wide with Broadcast Blocks: Instantly advertise new offers or important announcements across your entire site from one central location. Manage Everything from a Marketer’s Dashboard: Our Content Explorer gives you a single, unified view of your content performance. Built for the Modern WordPress Creator Accelerate is designed from the ground up to be seamless. It integrates directly with the tools you already use, including Synced Patterns (Reusable Blocks), to supercharge your workflow. Important Beta Information: Accelerate is in active development (beta). We invite you to be one of our first users and help shape the future of WordPress optimization. To power our analytics engine, a free account registration is required upon installation. All data is securely hosted in the EU and is 100% GDPR compliant. FAQ How do I use Accelerate? Please refer to our User Guide for Accelerate during our beta phase. How is the analytics data hosted? During this beta phase, all data is stored in the EU (specifically in Frankfurt, Germany). We may offer other jurisdictions in the future — please let us know if you have any requests with regards to jurisdictions .Data is never shared with third parties, or transferred out of the region. Everything is hosted at AWS and automatically deleted after 90 days. All data collected by Accelerate is subject to the European GDPR regulations, as processed by Human Made Ltd, a UK registered company. Accelerate is business-to-business software, and contractual terms including consent may apply per your contract. We automatically collect business-level usage data under the terms of these contractual agreements, and you can choose to opt-in to providing personal data to help us make our product better. Data about your visitors is automatically collected by Accelerate to power analytics and personalisation features, based on the visitor’s opt-in status. What’s Changed Onboarding: fix misleading connect copy and harden account unlink by @noeltock in https://github.com/humanmade/accelerate/pull/692 Allow asset-loader ^1.0 so the plugin can install on Altis 27 by @joehoyle in https://github.com/humanmade/accelerate/pull/693 Full Changelog: https://github.com/humanmade/accelerate/compare/4.3.2…4.3.3

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!