Really Simple Security – Simple and Performant Security (formerly Really Simple SSL) vs Trendly AI Post – AI Content Generator, ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude and Google News Auto Blog

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!

Trendly AI Post is a free AI content generator for WordPress. It picks up real trending topics from Google News and writes a full blog post for you in one click, with the title, headings, featured image, internal links, FAQ section and schema already in place. You bring your own API key from any one of these three AI services: Google Gemini (free tier available) OpenAI ChatGPT (GPT-4o mini, GPT-4o, GPT-4.1) Anthropic Claude (Haiku, Sonnet, Opus) And pick how you want the images: Pexels stock photos (free) DALL-E 3 by OpenAI Google Imagen 3 That is it. No subscription, no premium tier, no hidden upsells. The whole plugin is GPL and stays free forever. Built and maintained by Sprout Sage Solutions — developed by Nitish Sharma and Mandeep Singh. See our WordPress.org profile for other plugins and support. What you get One-click SEO post. The plugin writes the full article with title, intro, H2 and H3 headings, FAQ, internal links, featured image and JSON-LD schema. Ready to publish. Trending topics from 25+ regions (India, US, UK, AU, DE, FR, IT, ES, BR, JP and more). Fetched live from Google News every cron run and deduped so you never write the same story twice. Three AI brains. Gemini for free and fast. GPT-4o or Claude Sonnet for premium long-form. Claude Opus for the most nuanced output. Configure all three at once and switch per post if you want. Automatic featured images. Free Pexels stock photos, or AI-generated images using DALL-E 3 or Imagen 3 with smart prompt rewriting so they look editorial. Auto schedule or manual. Set 1 or 2 posts per day on autopilot, or generate manually from the Generate page. Drafts can go to a Review Queue so you stay in control. SEO built in. Article and FAQPage JSON-LD schema, OpenGraph and Twitter Card meta, auto Table of Contents, reading-time badge, internal linking automation and a Related Articles grid. No extra SEO plugin needed. Brand Voice trainer. Paste 3 paragraphs of your own writing, click Analyze and every new post will sound like you. Custom prompt templates. News, How-to, Listicle and Opinion ship built-in. Clone any one of them and tweak the tone, length and structure. Analytics page. See exactly how many posts you have generated, which AI wrote them, how features are landing and what your top source topics are. Privacy first. No telemetry, no tracking pixels, no third-party CDN, no OAuth. Your API keys live in your own database and never leave your server. How it works Pick your AI provider (Gemini, OpenAI or Claude) and paste your API key. Free tiers are available for all three. Pick your image source (Pexels, DALL-E 3 or Imagen 3). Choose a region and a writing style (News, How-to, Listicle, Opinion or your own template). Turn on auto-schedule, or generate manually from a trending topic or your own idea. Each post comes out with a featured image, internal links, FAQ accordion, JSON-LD schema and social captions. Fully SEO-ready. Who is this for Bloggers, niche site owners, news publishers, affiliate marketers, agencies, SaaS founders and ecommerce store owners. Basically anyone who wants a steady content schedule without spending hours every day brainstorming and writing. If you run a tech blog, a sports news site, a finance affiliate site or a lifestyle niche site, this plugin will keep your archive fresh and Google happy. External Services This plugin connects to the following external services: Google News RSS – to fetch trending news data Data sent: region parameter for news feed Terms: https://news.google.com/ Gemini API (by Google AI) – to generate AI-based post content (when Gemini is the selected text provider) and optionally AI-generated featured images via Imagen Data sent: text prompts; image prompts derived from your post topic Terms: https://ai.google.dev/terms Privacy: https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/terms OpenAI API – to generate AI-based post content (when OpenAI is the selected text provider) and optionally AI-generated featured images via DALL-E Data sent: text prompts; image prompts derived from your post topic Terms: https://openai.com/policies/row-terms-of-use/ Privacy: https://openai.com/policies/row-privacy-policy/ Anthropic Claude API – to generate AI-based post content (when Claude is the selected provider) Data sent: text prompts Terms: https://www.anthropic.com/legal/commercial-terms Privacy: https://www.anthropic.com/legal/privacy Pexels API – to fetch and download stock images Data sent: search keywords Terms: https://www.pexels.com/api/terms/ Features AI writers (pick any): * Google Gemini (2.5 Flash / 2.5 Pro) – free tier, fast, recommended for most users * OpenAI ChatGPT (GPT-4o mini, GPT-4o, GPT-4.1) – paid, best for long-form quality * Anthropic Claude (Haiku 4.5 / Sonnet 4.6 / Opus 4.7) – paid, best for nuanced writing Image sources (pick any): * Pexels – free stock photos, no usage cost * OpenAI DALL-E 3 / gpt-image-1 – AI-generated images * Google Imagen 3 (via Gemini) – AI-generated images Content automation: * Trending topic discovery from Google News across 25+ regions * Custom prompt templates – News, How-to, Listicle, Opinion ship built-in, plus your own with variable substitution * Brand Voice trainer – paste 3 writing samples and every new post mimics your style * Auto-schedule 1-2 posts per day, or generate manually * Auto-publish or send to a Review Queue with bulk approve / discard * Duplicate prevention – recognizes the same trending topic even when worded differently On-page SEO (built-in, no extra plugin needed): * JSON-LD Article / NewsArticle schema in * JSON-LD FAQPage schema for Google rich results * OpenGraph + Twitter Card meta (og:image, og:type, article:published_time, etc.) * Auto Table of Contents from H2/H3 headings with jump-link IDs * Reading-time badge (“X min read”) * AI-generated FAQ accordion (3-8 Q&A pairs per post) * Related Articles grid using internal-linking matches * Internal linking automation – Dice-coefficient relevance scoring + word-boundary anchor placement Social: * AI-generated captions for X (Twitter), LinkedIn, Facebook * Optional frontend share buttons (X, LinkedIn, Facebook, WhatsApp, Reddit) – privacy-first, no OAuth, no auto-posting Analytics: * All-time / 30-day / 7-day / today generation counts * 14-day generation timeline bar chart * AI provider mix + image source mix * Feature adoption rings (featured image / internal links / social captions) * Status distribution + top source topics Privacy & compliance: * No telemetry, no tracking, no external CDN * API keys stored encrypted in your wp_options * Per-user hourly rate limit prevents runaway AI calls * Fully GPL-compatible – no premium tier, no upsells