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.

Joseph Mendez

Security Headers helps site owners manage modern browser security headers from inside WordPress.
Features include:
<ul>
<li>Admin settings page under Settings > Security Headers</li>
<li>HSTS controls with preload warning</li>
<li>Referrer-Policy and X-Frame-Options settings</li>
<li>Permissions-Policy custom value field</li>
<li>Content-Security-Policy builder with Report-Only mode</li>
<li>Diagnostics screen showing configured headers</li>
<li>Test tool to fetch and inspect your live response headers</li>
<li>Import, export, and reset settings tools</li>
<li>Cleanup on uninstall</li>
</ul>
<h3>Why security headers important?</h3>
When auditing websites, security headers are frequently forgotten.
Although some may argue that website security is unrelated to SEO, it does become so when a site is compromised and search traffic completely disappears.
Everyone who publishes content online should pay special attention to security headers.
Getting hacked is not good. You lose traffic, customers and it’s a pain to resolve all the issues.
But good thing you’re smart and have searched for this plugin :).

Security Headers

Security headers are directives used by web applications to configure browser-side security defenses.

Essentials by Digital Creatings vs Security Headers