Day: June 27, 2018

Changing the Email Template

You will be sending emails to your users, from your server. This means you can edit the email template to your liking. Here we will explain how to override the HTML template, and use your own logo. The unbranded version of the email will be sent to your users. Overriding the default E-mail 2FA template – Create a new folder in the /wp-content/ directory of your WordPress site, rename the folder to custom-email-templates – Navigate to /wp-content/plugins/really-simple-ssl-pro/mailer/templates/, and create a

Leon Wimmenhoeve April 30, 2025

About the Firewall

The Firewall module in Really Simple Security is a powerful feature that allows you to monitor and filter requests to your WordPress site. You can activate the firewall by enabling the “Enable Firewall” slider under SSL & Security -> Settings -> Firewall. This article explains how to configure the firewall rules in Really Simple Security to identify and lock out unwanted, malicious traffic from your WordPress site. Table of Contents 404 Blocking Region Blocking User Agents IP Allowlist & Blocklist Event

Jarno Vos October 10, 2024

Using Really Simple Security with a custom wp-config.php file

Really Simple Security writes some rules to the wp-config.php file on your WordPress site, for instance, to load the Firewall and Security Headers. But it could be that your WordPress installation uses a ‘custom’ file, instead of the standard wp-config.php file on a standard WordPress installation. For example, the hosting provider Convesio uses a file called wp-convesio.php, and any changes that the Really Simple SSL plugin makes to the “standard” wp-config.php file would get overwritten & lost as a result.

Jarno Vos July 16, 2024

Disabling LLA (Limit Login Attempts) when you are locked out

Really Simple Security Pro includes Limit Login Attempts functionality to protect your site against brute force login attacks. Repeated attempts to login using incorrect credentials will be blocked automatically. However, it could be that you’ve accidentally triggered too many invalid Login Attempts yourself, and that you’re (temporarily) locked out of your WordPress Account as a result. Renaming the really-simple-ssl-pro folder in the wp-content/plugins/ directory will allow you to regain access to the site; but as this would deactivate the plugin entirely,

Jarno Vos July 5, 2024

About File Change Detection

The File Change Detection feature (located under SSL & Security -> “Settings” -> Hardening -> File Change Detection) enables a daily scan to monitor if any changes have been made to files in WordPress Core, or files from Plugins or Themes on your site. If files are being modified without performing any updates, and without manually having modified those files via FTP this could indicate that your WordPress installation was infected by malware that targeted & modified those files on your server.

Jarno Vos May 31, 2024

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