Essentials by Digital Creatings

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

New Features in 1.3

🆕 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

Support

For support, please visit Digital Creatings.

1. Upload the plugin to your /wp-content/plugins/ directory.
2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress.
3. Go to “Essentials by DC” in the WordPress admin panel.
4. Configure security, SMTP email settings, and login security options.

1.3

• Added: SMTP Email Configuration (SMTP settings for outgoing emails)
• Added: Test Email Functionality (Send test emails from the admin panel)
• Added: Login Security (Customize login URL)
• Added: Disable RSS feeds, REST API links, and self-pingbacks
• Added: Remove jQuery Migrate, shortlink, RSD link, and embeds
• Improved: Performance optimizations for WordPress sites

1.2.2

• Added: Option to disable XML-RPC
• Added: Option to remove WordPress version information
• Improved: Security enhancements and settings page UI

1.2.1

• Initial stable release with essential security and performance features.