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.

Daev.tech

Unified aims to provide standard functionality that almost all sites use or should use, such as page caching, clean responses, custom SMTP and good security.
Our current features:
<ul>
<li>Email log
<ul>
<li>Searchable list of email sent from the site, where emails content can be viewed, re-send and more.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Email Queue
<ul>
<li>Never make the user wait for emails being sent by the system again, where it might fail</li>
<li>Queue emails and send the emails in the background instead, with support for retrying when mails cant be sent.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Page caching
<ul>
<li>Very fast page caching – Just enable and we take care of the rest</li>
<li>WooCommerce support</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>SMTP setup
<ul>
<li>Configure a custom SMTP server to send your emails through</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Clean-up
<ul>
<li>Clean up the response generated by WordPress</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Security
<ul>
<li>Configure security headers to make your site more safe</li>
<li>Enable header X-Frame-Options</li>
<li>Enable header X-Content-Type-Options</li>
<li>Enable header Referrer-Policy</li>
<li>Enable header Strict-Transport-Security (HSTS)</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
Our goal is to make the functionality simple, with high performance and low memory footprint, over the cost, which is that it can not support all the same features as the specialized plugins.
But the argument here is that simplicity, high performance, low memory usage and easy setup is more important than frontend users gets served 10ms faster with the bloated specialized plugins.
Having specialized plugins for common functional needs could seem like a good idea, but they are often over-engineered and bloated. 
Each plugin often has its own libraries loaded, configurations, files and more to make it work.
So you have to configure them in different places and they may not even work well together.
Also, having many plugins, tend to make to the admin section (/wp-admin) very slow, as it often loads the entire world in all plugins, each of them checking their licenses etc.
What if Unified doesnt support feature X that I need?
Unified does not intend to be the plugin with all functionality, but only the have the basics with high performance. 
But we would appreciate your input, if you feel like something is missing. Please contact <a href="mailto:support@daev.tech" rel="nofollow ugc">support@daev.tech</a> for the details.
As example, if you need another SMTP plugin with a certain feature set, you can just install that and disable it in Unified. 
When you disable features in Unified, you really disable it, so that it no longer loads anything.
<h3>Plan for Unified</h3>
We have great plans for Unified and many features planned already.
Our ultimate vision for Unified, is that our users use Unified as a base plugin on their sites, to cover most of the standard functionality that most sites use.

Unified – Email Log, Email Queue, Page cache and more

Unified is a plugin that combines functionalities that most sites use, all in one plugin, with a sharp focus on high performance and low memory usage.

Essentials by Digital Creatings vs Unified – Email Log, Email Queue, Page cache and more