MailPoet – Newsletters, vs Really Simple Security – Simple and Performant Security (formerly Really Simple SSL)

Use MailPoet to create, send, manage, and grow your email marketing campaigns – all without leaving your WordPress dashboard. Our newsletter builder integrates perfectly with WordPress so any website owner can create beautiful emails from scratch, or by using our responsive templates that display flawlessly across all devices. Schedule your newsletters, send them right away, or set up new blog post notifications to send automatically, in just a few clicks. Trusted by 500,000 WordPress websites since 2011. With a free plan to get started, and scaling paid plans with enhanced functionality available, MailPoet is an email marketing solution suitable for both beginners and proficient email marketers. Visit our website for more information on plans and pricing All features Create and add a newsletter subscription form to your website Manage your subscribers and subscriber lists in WordPress Build and send newsletters with WordPress Create automatic emails to send new post notifications Send automated welcome emails Behavior and interest-based subscriber segmentation options Pre-built and customizable email and subscription form templates Multiple subscription form placements: below pages, fixed bar, popup, slide-in, shortcode, on exit intent WooCommerce emails: abandoned cart, first purchase, specific product, product category, order status change, review added Customize WooCommerce transactional emails Automate subscriber management (add/remove from list, add/remove tags, update subscriber data) (paid plan required) Create custom automation triggers and actions (paid plan required) Branch your automations with if/else conditions to improve engagement (paid plan required) Reliable email delivery with MailPoet Sending Service (available for free – plan required) Basic engagement statistics (available for free) and detailed engagement statistics (paid plan required) Multi-condition segmentation (paid plan required) Google Analytics integration (paid plan required) Support via our Knowledge Base and Community Forums (available for free), and Priority Customer Support (paid plan required). Why choose MailPoet Easy to use WordPress newsletter builder Beautiful templates that work perfectly across all devices No configuration needed: works out of the box Manage everything within your WordPress dashboard Higher delivery rates with the MailPoet Sending Service GDPR compliant Free plan for small senders or those just starting out Advanced functionality available to help achieve growth. WooCommerce emails Promote your business, sell more products, and enhance your customer service with MailPoet’s WooCommerce features. Use the automated email options to: Welcome your new customers when they make their first purchase Upsell by sending emails to customers who purchased a specific product or from a specific product category Convert more customers by sending a series of abandoned cart emails Re-engage customers who haven’t made a purchase in a while with personalized offers (paid plan required) Follow up with customers who left a review to encourage more engagement (paid plan required). And with WooCommerce-specific segmentation options, you’ll be able to send targeted emails to your customers based on criteria such as their country, the number of orders they’ve placed, how much they’ve spent, and if they have an active product subscription (powered by WooCommerce Subscriptions) or membership (powered by WooCommerce Memberships). In addition, you’ll also be able to increase brand recognition by customizing your WooCommerce transactional emails. Create a unified brand experience by changing the layout, colors, and fonts used in your emails, as well as adding any images or additional information to them. MailPoet Sending Service The MailPoet Sending Service is free if you only have a few subscribers, with scaling plans available thereafter. Read more. Sending emails and newsletters with your host is not a good idea. You might face sending speed limitations and see your emails ending up in the spam box. To help your sending go without a hitch, we’ve created an advanced email delivery infrastructure built for WordPress. Our technology allows you to: Reach inboxes, not spam boxes Send your emails super fast (up to 50,000 emails per hour) Maintain your sender reputation and improve engagement levels with automated bounce and complaint handling. Stop sending to non-deliverable and complaining addresses, automatically Authenticate your emails (with SPF and DKIM) to improve deliverability and avoid spam boxes. The MailPoet Sending Service is very easy to set up, you just have to enter a key in your WordPress dashboard and you’re all set! MailPoet plans and pricing MailPoet is available to download for free. Our free download includes all of the features listed above (with the exception of those indicating a plan requirement) under the following criteria: Up to 1,000 subscribers MailPoet branding in emails Send emails with your own sending method (host, SendGrid, Amazon SES, etc). Or if you opt for a MailPoet plan, you’ll get access to the MailPoet Sending Service. A free plan is available for those who want to get started with a few subscribers and would like to use the MailPoet Sending Service. And our paid plans offer features and functionality for those with larger lists who are looking to grow their business using email marketing. Take a look at our pricing page for full details on what’s included in each plan. Before you install Please note: Multisite support is limited Review our minimum requirements. Translations Albanian Arabic Catalan Czech Danish Dutch Dutch (Formal) French (Canada) French (France) German German (Switzerland) German (Formal) Greek Hindi Italian Japanese Polish Portuguese (Brazil) Portuguese (Portugal) Romanian Russian Serbian Slovak Spanish (Mexico) Spanish (Spain) Swedish Turkish Ukrainian We welcome experienced translators to translate directly on our Transifex project. Please note that any translations submitted via the “Translating WordPress” website will not work. Security Our repository is public on GitHub. Have a question for us? Reach us at security@ our domain, or report security issues to our Bug Bounty program. Use of 3rd Party Services MailPoet uses the following services that are necessary for its full functionality: Translate WordPress.com – used to download translations for the plugin. To improve user experience, MailPoet may use the following 3rd party libraries if the Load 3rd-party libraries setting is enabled: Google Fonts – used in Form Editor which you can use to customize your forms, and in the Email Editor to style emails. This can be individually disabled by a filter. TOS and Privacy Policy WordPress.com – used for searching in Knowledge Base with the help of AI. Mixpanel – used to send data about the usage of the MailPoet plugin when you agree with sharing usage data with us. TOS and Privacy Policy Satismeter – used to ask for feedback. TOS and Privacy Policy Crowdsignal – used to load our deactivation poll to improve our plugin. TOS and Privacy Policy Loading all these libraries is disabled by default. The option can be enabled in the MailPoet’s Settings > Advanced > Load 3rd-party libraries.

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!