Progressify – All-in-One Progressive Web App (PWA) vs Really Simple Security – Simple and Performant Security (formerly Really Simple SSL)

Progressify is an all-in-one plugin that empowers your website with Progressive Web App (PWA) features, to make it faster, smoother, and feel like a real app. Let users install your site on their home screens and increase engagement, repeat visits, and sales. 👉 Learn more about Progressify — full feature tour, screenshots, documentation and Pro pricing. 🚀 Turn your site into Progressive Web App Add to Home Screen – Let users install your site on their home screens in seconds, giving it a true app-like experience. Installation Prompts – Prompt users to install with banners, popups, overlays, buttons, or QR codes. App-like UI Components – Seamlessly integrate features such as loaders, pull-to-refresh, dark mode, navigation tabs, and more. Push Notifications – Send push notifications manually or automatically to users’ devices to drive them back to your site. Offline Usage – Keep your site available and accessible for users, even without an internet connection. Advanced Web Capabilities – Easily enable advanced Web API features such as periodic background sync, content indexing, and more. Usage Tracking & Analytics – Gain complete analytics on your web app, including how many users install and use it, which devices they’re using, and more. Easy Configuration – Easily configure and customize every aspect of your PWA features directly from the user-friendly settings. Generate Mobile Apps (Pro) – Optionally create real-time Android and iOS apps that mirror your website and publish them to app stores. 🗝️ Countless More Features Progressify offers a wide range of state-of-the-art features and seamlessly integrates them into your website, delivering a smooth, app-like user experience: Display Settings: Display and startup behavior Offline Settings: Offline cache and capabilities Navigation Tab Bar: Bottom navigation tab bar Dark Mode: Dark theme mode toggle Pull Down Refresh: Pull-down to refresh gesture Skeleton Loader: Page skeleton loading animation Smooth Page Transitions: No-reload page changes Toast Messages: Popup toast notifications Share Button: Device native share button Background Sync: Fetch data in background Vibrations: Haptic feedback on tap Screen Wake Lock: Prevent screen dimming and locking Idle Detection: Detect inactivity and prompt updates Shake Refresh: Shake to refresh gesture Autosave Forms: Persist values to prevent data loss Countless more features and options… 🚀 Upgrade to Progressify Pro The free version turns your site into a fully working, installable PWA. Progressify Pro adds the app-like layer on top and gives you the data behind it: App-like UI Components – Bottom navigation tab bar, dark mode, pull-down to refresh, smooth page transitions, toast messages, shake to refresh, haptic vibrations and screen wake lock. Advanced Install Prompts – Extra overlay styles for blogs, checkouts, feeds, menus and snackbars, plus app shortcuts and store-style screenshots in your manifest. Push Notification Automations – Trigger notifications automatically on new posts, products and other site events instead of sending each one by hand, with app badge and custom prompt support. Detailed User Analytics – See how many users installed your app, how often they return, and which devices, browsers and countries they come from. Advanced Web Capabilities – Periodic background sync, content indexing, orientation lock, offline forms, offline notifications and autosaved form values. Custom CSS & JS – Style and script your PWA layer independently of your theme. Every Advanced Setting – All offline strategies, display options and fine-grained controls unlocked. Priority Support – Direct help from the team instead of the public support forum. Simple Pricing – Pro is $29.99 for Progressify on its own, or become a DaftPlug Pro member and get every one of our All-in-One Pro plugins in a single membership at daftplug.com/pricing. See everything in Progressify Pro → 🎉 PWA Success Stories PWA is actively implemented by big companies and they see amazing improvements regarding the performance and conversions +150% User Traffic: Trivago saw a 150% rise in engagement from home screen users, leading to a 97% increase in hotel offer click-outs. +76% Total Conversions: AliExpress upgraded to a PWA and saw a 76% boost in conversions and a 30% rise in monthly active Android users. +44% Ad Revenue: Pinterest new PWA boosted user-generated ad revenue by 44% and core engagement by 60%. +90% Storage Efficient: Tinder native application was a whopping 30MB, but after transitioning to a PWA, they reduced the file size to just 2.8MB. ⚡ Smart Features, No Hassle No Coding Required: The plugin offers ready-made, fully configurable features, enabling advanced web APIs without any technical expertise. Live Updates: Updates with fixes, new features and improvements are automatically pushed to your WordPress website. High Quality: The plugin is built with a modular design, ensuring fast, reliable performance without frequent bugs and failures. Support: Get support in the support forum from friendly professionals ready to answer your questions. 🌐 Fully Translatable Progressify supports multiple languages, typography options, and RTL layouts. It’s fully translatable via POT files using tools like Poedit and Loco Translate and is compatible with WPML, Polylang, TranslatePress, Weglot, and more. 🔌 Compatible with All Themes & Plugins Progressify works out-of-the-box with any WordPress setup, theme, or plugin. Whether you’re running a blog, e-commerce store, forum, portfolio, membership site, or news portal, it integrates seamlessly without requiring extra configuration. External services This plugin connects to external services to provide specific functionality. Below is a complete list of the services, what they do, when they are used, and what data may be transmitted. Workbox CDN (storage.googleapis.com) Purpose: Loads Google’s Workbox service worker library so the offline cache and routing strategies can function. What is sent and when: The browser downloads a static JavaScript file (workbox-sw.js) when the service worker is installed/updated. No user data is sent by this plugin as part of that request. Provider: Google. Terms: https://policies.google.com/terms — Privacy: https://policies.google.com/privacy — Workbox: https://developer.chrome.com/docs/workbox/ WordPress.com MShots (s0.wp.com) Purpose: Generates a screenshot (thumbnail) of your site’s start page used by the plugin for the offline fallback page background and for certain preview/icon generation cases. What is sent and when: The browser requests a static image from https://s0.wp.com/mshots/v1/ with your site URL included in the query string plus viewport parameters. As with any HTTP request, the visitor’s IP address and user agent are sent by the browser to the CDN. No additional user-specific data is sent by this plugin. Provider: Automattic (WordPress.com). Terms: https://wordpress.com/tos — Privacy: https://automattic.com/privacy GeoJS (get.geojs.io) Purpose: Resolves a visitor’s IP address to a country name/code for anonymous PWA analytics (Dashboard) and push subscriber metadata. What is sent and when: The visitor’s IP address is looked up server‑side on first PWA open and when a user subscribes to push notifications. The response is used to store country information only. Provider: GeoJS. Website/Docs: https://www.geojs.io/ — Privacy: https://www.geojs.io/privacy/ OneSignal SDK Worker (cdn.onesignal.com) Purpose: If the OneSignal plugin is active, the service worker imports OneSignal’s web push SDK worker to enable that plugin’s push features. What is sent and when: Requests the OneSignal SDK worker file. Any subsequent data flows are governed by the OneSignal plugin/account configuration. Provider: OneSignal. Terms: https://onesignal.com/terms-of-service — Privacy: https://onesignal.com/privacy Webpushr Service Worker (cdn.webpushr.com) Purpose: If the Webpushr plugin is active, the service worker imports Webpushr’s worker to enable that plugin’s push features. What is sent and when: Requests the Webpushr worker file. Any subsequent data flows are governed by the Webpushr plugin/account configuration. Provider: Webpushr. Terms: https://www.webpushr.com/terms-of-service — Privacy: https://www.webpushr.com/privacy-policy Notes: – OneSignal and Webpushr integrations are conditional and only load if those plugins are active on your site. – Web push delivery uses the standard browser push endpoints associated with each subscription (e.g., services operated by browser vendors). The specific endpoint domain varies per browser and is not controlled by this plugin.

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!