Gwolle Guestbook vs Really Simple Security – Simple and Performant Security (formerly Really Simple SSL)

Gwolle Guestbook is the WordPress guestbook you’ve just been looking for. Beautiful and easy. Gwolle Guestbook is not just another guestbook for WordPress. The goal is to provide an easy and slim way to integrate a guestbook into your WordPress powered site. Don’t use your ‘comment’ section the wrong way – install Gwolle Guestbook and have a real guestbook. Current features include: Easy to use guestbook frontend with a simple form for visitors of your website. List of guestbook entries at the frontend with pagination or infinite scroll. Widget to display an excerpt of your last or your best entries. Simple and clean admin interface that integrates seamlessly into WordPress admin. Dashboard Widget to easily manage the latest entries from your Admin Dashboard. Easy Import from other guestbooks into Gwolle Guestbook. Notification by mail when a new entry has been posted. Moderation, so that you can check an entry before it is visible in your guestbook (optional). 7 anti-spam features, like Honeypot, Nonce, Form Timeout, Akismet, Stop Forum Spam and Custom Quiz Question. Simple Form Builder to select which form-fields you want to use. Simple Entry Builder with the parts of each entry that you want to show. Multiple guestbooks are possible. MultiSite is supported. Localization. Own languages can be added very easily through GlotPress. Admins can add a reply to each entry. A log for each entry, so that you know which member of the staff released and edited a guestbook entry to the public and when. IP-address and host-logging with link to WHOIS query site. RSS Feed. BBcode, Emoji and Smiley integration (optional). Easy uninstall routine for complete removal of all database changes. … and all that integrated in the stylish WordPress look. Import / Export You may have another guestbook installed. That’s great, because Gwolle Guestbook enables you to import entries easily. The importer does not delete any of your data, so you can go back to your previous setup without loss of data, if you want to. Trying Gwolle Guestbook is as easy as 1-2-3. Import is supported from: DMSGuestbook. WordPress comments from a specific post, page or just all comments. Gwolle Guestbook itself, with Export supported as well (CSV-file). Support If you have a problem or a feature request, please post it on the plugin’s support forum on wordpress.org. I will do my best to respond as soon as possible. If you send me an email, I will not reply. Please use the support forum. Translations Translations can be added very easily through GlotPress. You can start translating strings there for your locale. They need to be validated though, so if there’s no validator yet, and you want to apply for being validator (PTE), please post it on the support forum. I will make a request on make/polyglots to have you added as validator for this plugin/locale. Demo Check out the demo at https://demo.zenoweb.nl. Add-On Gwolle Guestbook: The Add-On is the add-on for Gwolle Guestbook that gives extra functionality for your guestbook. Current features include: Meta Fields. Add any field you want; company, phone number, you name it. Social Media Sharing (optional). Star Ratings, with voting and display and Rich Snippets for SEO (optional). Average star rating per guestbook. Like an entry and view likes for each entry. Preview for the frontend form. Preview for the admin editor form. Automatic Refresh of guestbook list with new entries. Admin reply on the frontend with AJAX. Edit content/author/origin of entry on the frontend with AJAX. Report Abuse. Easy String Replacement in the default text so you can make this guestbook into a review section or anything you want. Delete button in each entry for the moderator and author (optional). Permalink button in each entry for easy access (optional). Email button to contact each author (optional). Upload Images through the form. (Only for Author, Editor and Administrator with capability ‘gwolle_gb_upload_files’) (optional). Sitemap support for popular SEO/Sitemap plugins. Auto Anonymize timer (optional). Auto Delete timer (optional). Since version 5.0.0 the Add-On is included in the main plugin. Demo with Add-On Check out the demo with the Add-On enabled at https://demo.zenoweb.nl. Compatibility This plugin is compatible with ClassicPress. Contributions This plugin is also available in Codeberg.

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!