Auto Republish & Permalink Manager vs Really Simple Security – Simple and Performant Security (formerly Really Simple SSL)

Is your old content getting buried? Auto Republish & Permalink Manager breathes new life into your evergreen posts, bringing them back to the top to increase your traffic and engagement. It’s the ultimate tool for content creators who want to maximize their existing work and improve their site’s SEO without manual effort. By intelligently updating the “last modified” date, you signal to Google that your content is fresh and relevant, which can significantly boost your search rankings. Why Choose Auto Republish & Permalink Manager? 📈 Boost Your SEO & Traffic: Refreshing content tells search engines your site is actively maintained, helping you rank higher. Choose to update the original publish date to bring posts to the top of your blog, or just the modified date for a pure SEO boost. ⚙️ Works With EVERYTHING – Automatically!: Our plugin dynamically detects ALL custom post types. Whether you run a blog, a WooCommerce store, or have custom post types for recipes, jobs, or listings, it just works. No configuration is needed. 🕒 Save Dozens of Hours: Stop wasting time manually updating old posts. Set up a schedule in minutes and let the plugin handle the rest. Our powerful and reliable cron-based system runs silently in the background. 🚀 Safe for Large Websites: Processing thousands of posts? No problem. All bulk operations are done in safe, asynchronous batches to prevent server timeouts and ensure smooth operation on any hosting environment. 🎨 Modern & Intuitive UI: We’ve designed a clean, tabbed interface that makes managing your settings a breeze. No clutter, no confusion. Core Features Powerful Automatic Scheduling: Set a schedule to run every few minutes, hourly, or daily to republish a specific number of your oldest posts. Dynamic Post Type Support: Automatically finds and works with Posts, Pages, Products, and any other public custom post type registered on your site. SEO-Friendly Update Mode: Choose to update only the “Last Modified” date (recommended for SEO) or the original “Publish Date”. Granular Control: Select exactly which post types to include in the automatic schedule. Republish only Posts, or Posts and Products—the choice is yours. Advanced Republish Order: Choose to republish your oldest posts first (to revive forgotten content), your newest posts, or completely random posts. Manual Bulk Republisher: Need to refresh an entire category or post type at once? The manual tool with its live progress bar makes it simple and safe. Keyword Filtering: Finely tune your republishing jobs by only including or completely excluding posts that contain specific keywords. Permalink Cleanup Tool: Easily remove any numeric suffixes (e.g., -1234) that have been added to your permalinks with a single click. Search Engine Notifications: Automatically notifies Google (via Rank Math) and Bing after updating content to encourage faster re-indexing.

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!