Really Simple Security – Simple and Performant Security (formerly Really Simple SSL) vs Optima Express IDX

OVERVIEW Optima Express turns your real estate website into a marketing machine with a sleek, modern property search experience that rivals the national portals. And you get many more unique features you won’t find anywhere else to turn new leads into closing clients and work more efficiently. See what clients are saying > FAST, EASY INTEGRATION No framing, wrappers, or subdomains are required, so all IDX listing content is indexed directly on your domain. A number of IDX pages are provided for your site, and many features including listing galleries, map search, market reports, and lead capture forms can be added to your own pages with shortcode. All IDX content adopts the styling of your WordPress theme, and you can easily configure the look you want with design settings for photos, maps, colors and lead capture – or take it further with custom CSS. FEATURE HIGHLIGHTS IDX Property Search & Lead Capture Built on decades of property search design experience, Premium Search provides a search experience buyers and sellers love. They can search locations by name, draw custom locations on a map, and register to save their searches or favorite listings on your site. Listing alert emails with your branding provide the latest active & sold listing activity, keeping your leads returning to your site. You can create any number of Markets (saved searches) for your target locations and criteria, and display up-to-date listing galleries on your site for each Market. Learn more > MarketBoost – Automated Website & Email Reports Position yourself as the local expert with always-current listing reports for sold, active & open homes in all your targeted markets.We also crunch the numbers on prices, inventory, and timing for each of your targeted markets. Email report campaigns attract new subscribers, keeping them up-to-date and returning to your site. Learn more > Widgets & Shortcode In addition to the different IDX website pages provided with Optima Express, a variety of features can be added to your site using widgets & shortcode, such as property search options, listing galleries, lead capture forms, and more. Learn more > Integrations Connect your account with other online apps and services to work more efficiently. Learn more > Optima Leads – Real Estate Agent App Optima Leads, our companion app for agent account plans, keeps all of your leads’ information and property interests on your mobile device so you can work your leads any time, any place. Learn more > Real Estate CRM for Agents (optional) Automated text & email followup campaigns help you jump start enagement with new leads. Lead ratings, task management, calendar sync, any many more features all come together to make sure your business stays on track with your goals. Learn more >. SETUP GUIDE Visit our Quick Start Guide to access the Optima Express Setup Guide and other resources including our Knowledge Base, tutorial videos, and recorded webinars. Optima Express offers many ways to use shortcodes which are discussed in our article WordPress Shortcodes for Real Estate Websites. CONTACT You can contact us through live chat on our website during business hours, send us an email, or schedule a demo.

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!