Iks Menu – WordPress Category Accordion Menu & FAQs vs Really Simple Security – Simple and Performant Security (formerly Really Simple SSL)

Iks Menu is a WordPress plugin that provides powerful customizable system and has loads of settings for creating WordPress accordion menus and FAQs. Showcase: Skins & Animations Showcase: FAQs Showcase: WooCommerce Categories Sidebar Menu Documentation: User-friendly with screenshots Iks Menu is the best choice for sidebar menu and not only. This plugin allows you to select custom WordPress menus, any taxonomy (categories, post tags, WooCommerce product category, etc.) and automatically created FAQs post type as a source for accordion menus. It also provides images support both for custom menus, taxonomies (also supports WooCommerce categories images) and FAQs. You can show your menu using WordPress widgets, shortcode or PHP code. And you do not need to learn coding to use Iks Menu! Just set all the settings using a specially designed super-fast live editor with instant changes and no pages reloading! It will speed up your developing process. Iks Menu has more than 15 starter skins (6 FREE) – so it’s super easy to use for beginners and very customizable for advanced users. Plans Iks Menu has 2 plans: FREE and PRO (Buy PRO plan here). FREE Version Features Supports Taxonomies (Categories, Tags, WooCommerce products, any other) Supports Custom WordPress Menus (created in “Appearance” > “Menus”) Supports FAQs with Groups (created in special custom FAQs post type) Supports images for all sources of menu Supports showing posts for a taxonomy source Fast and usable menu editor with instant preview! Customize appearance for any part of menu (colors, fonts, margins, paddings, heights and widths without any coding) Customize appearance for multiple states (like Hover, Current and Children) Supports exporting and importing settings to reuse it again (all settings or just for appearance) Provides various unique settings for your menus Provides 6 free awesome looking skins out of the box: start using skins with clean design right now with just one click. Supports keyboard accessibility: “Tab” & “Enter” navigation + “Focus” state for all elements in menu … Just take a look at screenshots to see all features! PRO Version Features All features from the FREE plan Settings “Initial Expansion” to expand some items, when page loads Expand and collapse animations for submenus Ability to display Posts count “Custom styles” setting Setting to use parent-elements as sub-menu toggles Toggle: 50+ icons and 5+ animations for expanding 20+ skins … Take a look at pricing Settings Using taxonomy menu you can configure the next settings: Hide empty terms – Whether to hide terms not assigned to any posts. Order by – Field to order terms by. Order – Whether to order terms in ascending or descending order. Hierarchical – Whether to include terms that have non-empty descendants (even if ‘hide_empty’ is set to true) Include terms – Comma/space-separated string of term ids to include. Exclude terms – Comma/space-separated string of term ids to exclude. Search – Search criteria to match terms. Will be SQL-formatted with wildcards before and after. Child of – Term ID to retrieve child terms of. Parent – Parent term ID to retrieve direct-child terms of. Childless – True to limit results to terms that have no children. This parameter has no effect on non-hierarchical taxonomies. Usage 3 variants of how to use Iks Menu (plugin includes user-friendly publishing guide inside the plugin) Widget – Use it directly in widget area Shortcode – Use it anywhere with shortcode PHP code injection – Use it anywhere in your theme with PHP code Help Get help anytime 24/7 – Ask your question and we will help you anyway See documentation for plugin – Super detailed docs for better understanding of how plugin works FAQ (Answers to popular questions) – See special chapter in documentation Does not suit for you? – Suggest a new features for plugin and we will provide it as soon as possible

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!