Really Simple Security – Simple and Performant Security (formerly Really Simple SSL) vs Ultimate Member – User Profile, Registration, Login, Member Directory, Content Restriction & Membership 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!

User Profile & Membership Plugin for WordPress The ultimate user profile & membership plugin for WordPress. The plugin makes it a breeze for users to sign-up and become members of your website. The plugin allows you to add beautiful user profiles to your site and is designed for creating advanced online communities and membership sites. Lightweight and highly extendible, Ultimate Member will enable you to create almost any type of site where users can join and become members with absolute ease. Features of the plugin include: Front-end user profiles Front-end user registration Front-end user login Custom form fields Conditional logic for form fields Drag and drop form builder User account page Custom user roles Member directories User emails Content restriction Conditional nav menus Show author posts & comments on user profiles Developer friendly with dozens of actions and filters Read about all of the plugin’s features at Ultimate Member Paid Extensions Ultimate Member has a range of extensions that allow you to extend the power of the plugin. You can purchase all of these extensions at a significant discount with one of our paid plans or you can purchase extensions individually. Zapier – Allow to integrate the Zapier popular apps with Ultimate Member Stripe – Sell paid memberships to access your website via Stripe subscriptions User Notes – Allow users to create public and private notes from their profile Profile Tabs – Allow to add the custom tabs to profiles User Locations – Allow to display users on a map on the member directory page and allow users to add their location via their profile Unsplash – Allow users to select a profile cover photo from Unsplash from their profile User Bookmarks – Allow users to bookmark content from your website User Photos – Allow users to upload photos to their profile Groups – Allow users to create and join groups around shared topics, interests etc. Private Content – Display private content to logged in users that only they can access User Tags – Lets you add a user tag system to your website Social Activity – Let users create public wall posts & see the activity of other users WooCommerce – Allow you to integrate WooCommerce with Ultimate Member Private Messages – Add a private messaging system to your site & allow users to message each other Followers – Allow users to follow each other on your site and protect their profile information Real-time Notifications – Add a notifications system to your site so users can receive real-time notifications Social Login – Let users register & login to your site via Facebook, Twitter, G+, LinkedIn, Instagram and Vkontakte (VK.com) bbPress – With the bbPress extension you can beautifully integrate Ultimate Member with bbPress MailChimp – Allow users to subscribe to your MailChimp lists when they signup on your site and sync user meta to MailChimp User Reviews – Allow users to rate & review each other using a 5 star rate/review system Verified Users – Add a user verification system to your site so user accounts can be verified myCRED – With the myCRED extension you can integrate Ultimate Member with the popular myCRED points management plugin Notices – Alert users to important information using conditional notices Profile Completeness – Encourage or force users to complete their profiles with the profile completeness extension Friends – Allows users to become friends by sending & accepting/rejecting friend requests Free Extensions JobsBoardWP – This free extension integrates Ultimate Member with the job board plugin JobBoardWP. ForumWP – This free extension integrates Ultimate Member with the forum plugin ForumWP. Terms & Conditions – Add a terms and condition checkbox to your registration forms & require users to agree to your T&Cs before registering on your site. Google reCAPTCHA – Stop bots on your registration & login forms with Google reCAPTCHA Online Users – Display what users are online with this extension Theme Our official theme is purpose built for websites that have logged in and out users. The theme has deep integration with Ultimate Member plugin and the extensions, different header designs for logged-in/out users and works alongside the Beaver Builder and Elementor page builders. Our other plugins In addition to Ultimate Member, we also have two other plugins: ForumWP and JobBoardWP. ForumWP ForumWP is a forum plugin which adds an online forum to your website, allowing users to create topics and write replies. Forums are a great way to build and grow an online community. JobBoardWP JobBoardWP is a job board plugin which adds a modern job board to your website. Display job listings and allow employers to submit and manage jobs all from the front-end. Development * Translations If you’re a developer and would like to contribute to the source code of the plugin you can do so via our GitHub Repository. Want to add a new language to Ultimate Member? Great! You can contribute via translate.wordpress.org. If you are a developer and you need to know the list of UM Hooks, make this via our Hooks Documentation or Hooks Documentation v2. If you are a developer and you need to know the structure of our code, make this via our Documentation API. Documentation & Support Got a problem or need help with Ultimate Member? Head over to our documentation and perform a search of the knowledge base. If you can’t find a solution to your issue then you can create a topic on the support forum.