Puneet Tiwari

Essentials by Digital Creatings is a lightweight and powerful WordPress plugin designed to improve security, optimize performance, and enhance email functionality. This plugin provides essential security features, removes unnecessary WordPress bloat, and allows you to customize SMTP settings for email delivery.
New in Version 1.3: 
✔ SMTP Email Configuration – Set up SMTP credentials for outgoing emails 
✔ Test Email Feature – Send test emails directly from the admin panel 
✔ Login Security – Customize the login URL to enhance security (Coming soon) 
✔ Additional Security Features – Disable REST API links, self-pingbacks, and Google Maps 
✔ Improved Performance – Remove jQuery Migrate, RSD links, shortlinks, and embed scripts
🔒 Security + Optimization + Email Control in one plugin!
Features: 
🔹 Security Enhancements: 
– Disable XML-RPC to prevent brute force attacks 
– Hide WordPress version details (meta, query strings, HTTP headers) 
– Remove REST API links to reduce exposure 
– Disable RSS feeds and feed links 
– Block self-pingbacks and comment spam 
– Remove RSD (Really Simple Discovery) link 
– Remove shortlinks for better privacy
🚀 Performance Optimizations: 
– Disable Emojis to reduce unnecessary script loads 
– Remove jQuery Migrate to improve front-end speed 
– Disable Google Maps API if unused 
– Remove WordPress embeds to prevent external content embedding
📧 SMTP Email Configuration: 
– Configure SMTP settings (Host, Port, Username, Password, Encryption) 
– Set custom “From Name” and “From Email” for outgoing emails 
– Send test emails directly from the admin panel
🔐 Login Security: 
– Customize the WordPress login URL to prevent brute force attacks
<h3>New Features in 1.3</h3>
🆕 SMTP Email Configuration – Custom SMTP settings for all WordPress emails 
🆕 Test Email Functionality – Verify email settings with a test email feature 
🆕 Login Security – Customize the login URL for added security 
🆕 Security Enhancements – Disable RSS feeds, REST API links, and more 
🆕 Performance Boost – Remove jQuery Migrate, Google Maps, and WordPress embeds
<h3>Support</h3>
For support, please visit <a href="https://www.digitalcreatings.com" rel="nofollow ugc">Digital Creatings</a>.

Essentials by Digital Creatings

Lightweight plugin by Digital Creatings that hides WordPress version info from source code, RSS feeds, scripts & HTTP headers for better protection.

Ebrahim Shafiei (EbraSha)

Abdal Security Headers is a powerful WordPress plugin that enhances your website’s security through HTTP security headers. It provides an easy-to-use interface for managing security policies and protecting against common web vulnerabilities.
Key Features:
<ul>
<li>Modern UI with iOS-style switches</li>
<li>Real-time CSP Header Preview</li>
<li>Automatic security header configuration</li>
<li>Protection against XSS attacks</li>
<li>Prevention of clickjacking attempts</li>
<li>MIME-type sniffing protection</li>
<li>Strict HTTPS enforcement</li>
<li>Full RTL support</li>
<li>Mobile-responsive interface</li>
</ul>
Security Headers Managed:
<ul>
<li>X-Frame-Options</li>
<li>X-XSS-Protection</li>
<li>X-Content-Type-Options</li>
<li>Strict-Transport-Security (HSTS)</li>
<li>Content-Security-Policy (CSP)</li>
<li>Referrer-Policy</li>
<li>Feature-Policy</li>
<li>Access-Control-Allow-Origin</li>
</ul>
<h3>Languages</h3>
This plugin is available in the following languages: 
– English (en_US) 
– Persian (fa_IR)
<h3>License</h3>
This plugin is released under the GPLv2 or later License. 
License details: <a href="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html" rel="nofollow ugc">http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html</a>

Abdal Security Headers

Enhance WordPress security with essential HTTP security headers, protecting against XSS, clickjacking, and other common web vulnerabilities.

Essentials by Digital Creatings vs Abdal Security Headers