I have never used XMLRPC for any activity for my WordPress sites and also not going to do so. There are many articles on disabling XMLRPC on your site for additional security. In the use case scenario that I discussed when if that service is not required, why to disbale it or make it more … Read more
XMLRPC is great for remote publishing to WordPress, but there has been many security issues attributed to it. How do it make it more secure? More specifically, only user from the intranet will be publishing through XMLRPC. WP is currently running on Lighttpd and php5.3. 4 Answers 4 XMLRPC is as secure as the rest … Read more
I am fairly new to WordPress and I recently noted a huge amount of traffic hitting the following: 162.242.170.222 – – [01/Aug/2014:08:18:54 -0500] “POST /xmlrpc.php HTTP/1.0” 503 4859 162.242.170.222 – – [01/Aug/2014:08:19:01 -0500] “POST /xmlrpc.php HTTP/1.0” 503 4859 162.242.170.222 – – [01/Aug/2014:08:19:01 -0500] “POST /xmlrpc.php HTTP/1.0” 503 4859 162.242.170.222 – – [01/Aug/2014:08:19:02 -0500] “POST /xmlrpc.php … Read more
I have large number of images in media library so I am accessing images in chunks via pagination in my Ruby on Rails application. I pass page number and offset to wp.getMediaLibrary API and it returns fixed number of images. So counting returned images is useless. Here is my approach to get total number of … Read more
I’m creating a theme using the CF Post Formats plugin. But I’ve run into some trouble I don’t know how to solve. Here’s what I want to be able to do: Create a new standard-format post Enter a url into the _format_link_url custom field If the custom field is not empty, on save/update, change the … Read more
I want to consider removing the next <link> files from the <head> section of my website: …wp-json …xmlrpc.php?rsd …wlwmanifest.xml But I don’t really know how would this may affect my wordpress site – I don’t use any plugins at all – and how to actually remove them efficiently, because while googling, I notice there’s some … Read more
I was creating my application to automate all of my blogs from my desktop. Target, I’ll post blog. That’s all. I used XMLRPC service, as you know “xmlrpc.php”. I built many of parts, near to done… But stucked at custom fields which are starting with (_) an underscore. I would like to save as “_thumbnail_id” … Read more
I want to disable feeds and things like that (rpc, pingbacks, wlwmanifest, prev/next). Reason is that the website is not a blog, so these are of no use. I wrote the following in a plugin: remove_action(‘wp_head’, ‘rsd_link’); remove_action(‘wp_head’, ‘feed_links’, 2); remove_action(‘wp_head’, ‘wlwmanifest_link’); // and so on… Indeed the links are no longer in the header. … Read more
How Can Enable XML in Version 4.8.2 ? I Want Enable XML RPC Then Connected to it with Programming library thx i can not connect to xml-rpc with https://github.com/abrudtkuhl/WordPressSharp WordPress Library for .net 1 Answer 1 XML RPC is enabled by default in WordPress since version 3.5, including WP 4.8.2. Here is the more info … Read more
I need to insert a post via PHP outside the WordPress environment (but on the same server) and I’m looking for the most efficient way to do this. I was thinking about 2 solutions: 1) Using XML-RPC, as explained here 2) Load the WordPress core requiring wp-load.php and then using wp_insert_post() Wich one uses less … Read more
