Really Simple Security – Simple and Performant Security (formerly Really Simple SSL) vs WP

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!

WP Email Template 2 things – beautifully Applies a responsive, customizable, optimized HTML email template to every email sent from your WordPress site including plugin generated emails. Gets your beautiful / professional emails delivered. Easily Configure advanced email sending providers with any of these supported providers SMTP via your server Gmail SMTP Mandrill (API or SMTP) SparkPost (HTTP API or SMTP API) EMAIL TEMPLATE The plugin applies a HTML template to email sent from your WordPress site. The Template is optimized to show your HTML emails perfectly in the10 most popular email browsers. Apple iOS Devices MS Outlook Hotmail Apple Mail Yahoo! Mail Google Gmail Android Devices Windows Live Desktop Mozilla Thunderbird TEMPLATE EDIT OPTIONS Option to Turn the Template ON | OFF. OFF to just use the plugin use to set up wp email sender without using the template (see below). Dynamic Template Width – admin can edit the 600px default width of the Template. Template Background colour selector Background Pattern ON | OFF setting. Upload and position Email Template Header image Header Image container background, border, and padding settings. Footer – add email template custom footer content via the WordPress editor. Follow us on – add links to social media site where users can follow you. Many more dynamic style options available in the Pro version. EMAIL SENDING OPTIONS The biggest issue users have are: Email Spammers make successful email delivery a very complicated and specialized function. WordPress by default uses your web hosts local mail server to send all WordPress and plugin generated emails. Emails sent from a web host local mail server have poor delivery rates because they have very little or no reputation. Configuring any type of email delivery provider will improve email delivery rates. Every different Email Provider requires another plugin to configure. For example here are just a few of the available choices. Send Email via SMTP – WP SMTP Mail, WP SMPT, Easy WP SMTP Send Email via Gmail SMTP – SendPress Lite and any SMTP plugin if you know what you are doing. Send Email via Mandrill – wpMandrill Send Email via SparkPost – SparkPost Send via WordPress default ‘local mail server’ if using GoDaddy Hosting – Auto Config WordPress default Email Sending – SendPress Lite At a3rev we want users to be able to Create a Beautiful / Professional HTML Email template. Auto apply that template to all emails sent from WordPress and installed plugins. Easily configure a sending provider to get those emails delivered. Do it all with one plugin, quickly and easily. That is why we have added the Email Sending Provider Configuration Options so you can do all of that with just one plugin – WP Email Template. EMAIL FROM PLUGINS WP Email Template will not work with any plugin that: Applies it’s own HTML Email Template (WP Email Template is still applied but the 2 together will look bad). Send it’s emails via the php() function. WP Email Template is applied to all mail that goes through wp_mail() Some of the better known plugins of the 1,000’s of plugins that WP Email Template works beautifully with. Gravity Forms – see the screen shots – looks sensational with the default Gravity style. Contact Form 7 – see the screenshots Formidable Forms – both Lite and Pro Versions of that plugin WooCommerce – Version 2.3.9 and backward compatible to version 2.1.0. By default the plugin ignores WooCommerce email output – but you can choose to apply your WordPress Email Template to all Woocomerce emails to give you consistent branding across your entire site. WP e-Commerce – applies the template to every store generated email to customers and admins WP Mail SMPT – WP Email Template does not interfere with the way any WordPress or any plugin handles email output – it just applies the template to any output content. BackupBuddy – I love it when even my admin emails are branded – see the screenshots Wordfence – Branded security emails – nice. PREMIUM VERSION For those who want more advanced features there is a Premium version. View addition features at WP EMAIL TEMPLATE PREMIUM CONTRIBUTE When you download WP Email Template, you join our the a3rev Software community. Regardless of if you are a WordPress beginner or experienced developer if you are interested in contributing to the future development of this plugin head over to the WP Email Template public GitHub Repository to find out how you can contribute. Want to add a new language to WP Email Template! You can contribute via translate.wordpress.org Usage Install and activate the plugin Go to WP Email menu on your wp-admin dashboard. Go to the Template sub menu and add your template styling Go to the Send WP Mail sub menu and configure your preferred email sending provider. Enjoy.