Why that is the point
Almost every serious WordPress plugin in these categories eventually moves its real interface to a hosted dashboard, and asks you to sign up to reach it. That is convenient for the vendor and worse for the person running the site: another account, another password, another service that has to still exist in three years for your own data to be legible.
These plugins are built the other way round. Everything in wp‑admin, no account required. Where a paid service is planned it is added alongside, never by taking something out of the free plugin and putting it behind a login.
What we build
SureBook
Take bookings. Take payments. Appointments and rentals for WordPress, with Stripe, deposits and refunds included — and a reservation engine that cannot double‑book you.
Pharos In development
Security assessment and hardening for WordPress. Verifies your files against WordPress.org’s own published checksums, checks what is installed against published advisories, and fixes what it safely can — showing its working rather than asking you to take a green tick on trust.
Not released yet. It will be free, and it will be listed on WordPress.org when it is ready.
Who is behind it
Pharos Secure is the work of James Betchley. The plugins are GPL, developed in the open against real WordPress installs rather than against assumptions, and released free on WordPress.org.