Popup – Popup Maker vs Really Simple Security – Simple and Performant Security (formerly Really Simple SSL)

Popup – Popup Maker by ActiveConvert helps build your email list, convert abandoning visitors, and send drip email sequences. It works on desktop and mobile and integrates with Gmail, MailChimp, Constant Contact, Campaign Monitor, and other mail providers. Popup Maker by ActiveConvert Our Popup Maker WordPress plugin is part of the ActiveConvert platform. You must have an ActiveConvert account in order to take advantage of this plugin. We offer a 14-Day Free trial and low cost monthly subscriptions. Click here to create your account. Features Popup Maker for email list building, coupons, feedback, and social networks Easy integration with any WordPress theme Quickly grow your email newsletter list* Asynchronous loading that won’t affect page load speed Multiple unique template to choose from Simple email integration with MailChimp, Constant Contact, and Campaign Monitor 100% mobile optimized. Customize templates to make your popup look amazing Customize email templates Track open rates, click rates, and bounce rates Full control of popup content Custom popup and overlay timing Scroll trigger popups Export email subscribers in a .csv file Easily add Facebook, Google+, and Twitter Sharing Outbound Drip Email Sequences right from Gmail Multiple Domain Support Custom background images and logos Page level targeting MailChimp, Constant Contact, and Campaign Manager list integration Collect Email Template Building your email subscriber list is one of the most important aspects of building your brand and increasing sales. Our exit intent overlays and popups engage the user as they are about to leave your site. You can also trigger the popup after a few seconds. Call To Action Template Use this Call to Action template to direct users to a specific page or offer when they are about to leave the site. Great to attract attention as a visitor is abandoning the site. Yes/No Template Similar to the Call To Action template but with 2 options. Great for rhetorical questions like “Do you Like Bouncing Users? Yes, I do. No, I like new leads” Social Sharing Template Increase Facebook Likes, Facebook Shares, Tweets, and Google +1’s with our social sharing template. This popup can quickly increase your social user brands. Display Coupon Template Offer visitors coupons as they are about to leave your site from specific pages to increase sales and conversions. Feedback Template Gather real-time unbiased feedback from users of your site. Ask survey questions and gain valuable insight into your business. Outbound Email Sequences Once you add new subscribers, trigger unique email sequences to convert the subscribers into customers. Add send rules, custom templates, photos, and more to each step in your sequence. Easily customize design Each template is completely customizable. Quickly change wording, fonts, colors, logos and background images to match the rest of your website. A/B testing your pop ups You can create multiple popup campaigns to test the effectiveness of different images, text, and messages. Track impressions and conversions to see which perform the best. Exit Intents Trigger the popup when a user moves their mouse to the top of the page as they are leaving your site. This is one of the most unobtrusive and effective ways to gather leads. Notes Our email list builder, social sharing, and call to action templates help WordPress users build their audiences online.

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!