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

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!

All-in-one bundle of essential plugins and functions for all WordPress websites. Features include: Twitter Feed Twitter feed shortcode and widget available. WP Essentials uses the new Twitter 1.1 API. Filter your Twitter feed by hashtags. Cache system prevents API call limit. Flickr Flickr feed shortcode and widget available. Cache system prevents API call limit. Comes with multiple options, including a custom image count and a ‘random image’ feature. Google Analytics Allows you to add multiple tracking codes to all pages of your website. Google Maps Easily include multiple Google Maps throughout your site either as a shortcode or a sidebar widget. Includes options for setting the address, zoom level, custom marker, etc. The ‘Email’ Button The WYSIWYG editor comes with an email button for easily adding email links without any HTML knowledge. Date Shortcode Includes a simple shortcode for displaying today’s date. Customise the date format to whatever you want. Video Shortcode Includes a simple shortcode for embedding any YouTube, Vimeo, or Facebook videos anywhere on your website. Get Shortcode Utulise URL query strings with a simple shortcode. The ‘Cleanup’ function: Sets search engine friendly permalink structure (if one hasn’t already been set) Removes useless widgets from the dashboard Removes superfluous meta tags from your theme head (including the WordPress version number) Removes detailed login errors (for extra security) The ‘User Roles’ function: Creates a new User Role and lets you customise their access rights. Debug Mode For developers, enable the debug mode to include detailed PHP errors when developing your theme. WordPress Error Reporting WP Essentials can alert you to several potential problems that are important for when a site goes live. (Ensuring robots aren’t blocked, etc.) Media Image Quality Change the quality of uploaded images to your website. Custom Image Sizes Add your own custom thumbnail sizes for your images. Advanced PHP Functions Custom Excerpt function lets you override the default WordPress excerpt with additional options. A Get Image Source function lets you get the image URL for any image uploaded to WordPress at any custom thumbnail size. An automatic link function lets you hyperlink any web or email addresses that may otherwise be plaintext. A Relative Time function lets you display dates and times in a relative manner (i.e. ‘5 minutes ago’). And more… We’re always open to new ideas and suggestions for adding new features to the plugin. WP Essentails Premium A Premium version of this plugin is also available. Features include: Twitter Feed Supports multiple Twitter accounts. Instagram Feed Include an Instagram feed either as a shortcode or a sidebar widget anywhere throughout your website. Includes a caching system to protect you from reaching your API call limit. Comes with multiple options, including a custom image count and a ‘random image’ feature. Social Stream Combine Twitter, Instagram and Flickr into one social stream feed. Supports Isotope and infinite scrolling. Login Notification Users will be automatically emailed any time their account is used to log in. Holding Page Display a holding page with a custom title and message. Password protect your settings. Unlimited User Roles: No restriction on the number of User Roles you can create. The ‘Database’ functions: Allows you to email yourself a database backup at any time. Includes an automatic weekly backup function that emails you with full database backups. Styling Options WP Essentials includes functions to render LESS or SASS files directly on the server before outputting the CSS to the browser. Choose between CSS, LESS or SASS. Get Shortcode Utulise URL query strings with a simple shortcode.