Stops abuse of your site's Pingback method from XML-RPC by simply removing it.
| Author: | Samuel Aguilera (profile at wordpress.org) |
| WordPress version required: | 4.8 |
| WordPress version tested: | 6.5 |
| Plugin version: | 1.2.2 |
| Added to WordPress repository: | 11-03-2014 |
| Last updated: | 06-04-2024 |
| Rating, %: | 78 |
| Rated by: | 14 |
| Plugin URI: | |
| Total downloads: | 412 337 |
| Active installs: | 60 000+ |
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Stops abuse of your site’s XML-RPC by simply removing some methods used by attackers. While you can use the rest of XML-RPC methods.
This is more friendly than disabling totally XML-RPC, that it’s needed by some plugins and apps (I.e. Mobile apps or some Jetpack’s modules).
- The original one.
- Simple and effective.
- No marketing buzz.
- Maintained and updated when needed since 2014.
- 100% compliant with WordPress coding standards which makes it fail safe.
- 60,000+ active installations can’t be wrong.
If you’re happy with the plugin please don’t forget to give it a good rating, it will motivate me to keep sharing and improving this plugin (and others).
Features
Removes the following methods from XML-RPC interface.
- pingback.ping
- pingback.extensions.getPingbacks
- X-Pingback from HTTP headers. This will hopefully stops some bots from trying to hit your xmlrpc.php file.
Requirements
- WordPress 3.8.1 or higher.
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