Barry Kooij

Remkus de Vries

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Cloudflare

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<h4>What this plugin can do for you</h4>
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Automatic Platform Optimization (APO)
Speed up your WordPress site by up to 300% with Cloudflare’s Automatic Platform Optimization (APO) plugin. APO allows Cloudflare to serve your entire WordPress site from our edge network of over 250+ data centers worldwide ensuring fast & reliable performance for your visitors no matter where they are.
Optimizing your WordPress site with multiple plugins can be overwhelming. Take your WordPress site’s performance to the next level by switching to a single plugin for CDN, intelligent caching, and other key WordPress optimizations with Cloudflare (APO). Visit our <a href="https://blog.cloudflare.com/automatic-platform-optimizations-starting-with-wordpress/" rel="nofollow ugc">announcement blog</a> to learn more about APO.
What makes APO different from other caching plugins?
The key differentiating factor between Cloudflare APO and other traditional page caching and CDN solutions is its ability to directly cache static HTML at Cloudflare’s edge. Every other plugin and CDN will cache your static assets (images, javascript, CSS), but none help you cache the actual content on your site (the HTML) using a massive edge network like Cloudflare’s.
APO intelligently caches your HTML pages and will automatically purge content from the cache that you update, so users will always see the latest content without compromising the performance of pages that haven’t been recently updated
What you get with Cloudflare APO
APO is a $5 add-on with Cloudflare’s free plan and comes with an unlimited amount of subdomains. With APO you also get to leverage many of the other benefits of Cloudflare such as Free DNS, Free Automated SSL Certificates, Free DDoS Mitigation, and more. APO is free for all paid plan users so if you have Cloudflare Pro or Business already you can just turn it on. You can compare all our plans <a href="https://www.cloudflare.com/plans/?utm_source=promo&utm_medium=social&utm_term=&utm_content=&utm_campaign=g421o-pl-apo-wordpress-plans" rel="nofollow ugc">here</a>.
Protect your WordPress site with Cloudflare’s Web Application Firewall (WAF)
Cloudflare’s WAF is available on all our <a href="https://www.cloudflare.com/plans/?utm_source=promo&utm_medium=social&utm_term=&utm_content=&utm_campaign=g421o-pl-apo-wordpress-plans" rel="nofollow ugc">paid plans</a> and comes with built-in rulesets, specifically tailored to mitigate WordPress threats and vulnerabilities. These security rules are regularly updated by our team of experts. At the flip of a switch, you’ll have your WAF up and running without any difficult adjustments to your site. With over 26 million internet properties under our protection, you can sleep easy knowing Cloudflare has your back.
<h4>Additional features</h4>
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Header rewrite to prevent a redirect loop when Cloudflare’s Universal SSL is enabled
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Change Cloudflare settings from within the plugin itself without needing to navigate to the cloudflare.com dashboard. You can change settings for cache purge, security level, Always Online, and image optimization
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View analytics such as total visitors, bandwidth saved, and threats blocked
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Support for <a href="https://blog.cloudflare.com/announcing-support-for-http-2-server-push-2/" rel="nofollow ugc">HTTP2/Server Push</a>
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All of Cloudflare’s performance and security benefits in a simple one-click install.

Vikash Chand

<h4>What Is xmlrpc.php?</h4>
<a href="http://www.xmlrpc.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">XML-RPC</a> is a remote procedure call (RPC) protocol, a feature included in WordPress, which enables data to be transmitted. It uses HTTP as the transport mechanism, and XML to encode its calls.
Unless you use remote technologies and mobile applications to update your WordPress site, you might not be familiar with XML-RPC. For the uninitiated, you can use xmlrpc.php to establish a remote connection to WordPress, and make updates to your site without directly logging in to your WordPress system.
XML-RPC is indeed useful for enabling remote connections between various external applications and WordPress. On the other hand, disabling this feature can help improve your site’s security.
<h4>Why You Should Disable xmlrpc.php?</h4>
The problem is that xmlrpc.php poses a security risk. It creates an additional access point to your site, which could leave it vulnerable to external attacks. Every time you authenticate XML-RPC, you need to supply your username and password. As you can imagine, this isn’t exactly ideal for security purposes.
For example, in order to prevent brute force attacks, you can limit login attempts on your WordPress site. However, with XML-RPC enabled, that limit does not exist. There’s no capping on login attempts, which means it’s only a matter of time before a determined cybercriminal gains access.
By disabling the feature, you are closing a potential area of entry for hackers.
XML-RPC functionality is turned on by default since WordPress 3.5. This plugin completely disables the XML-RPC API which can be abused by hackers on a WordPress site, providing an easy and simple way to disable/enable the XML-RPC API.
<h4>Requirements</h4>
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Simple XML-RPC Disabler

This plugin completely disables the XML-RPC API which can be abused by hackers on a WordPress site, providing an easy and simple way to disable/enable …

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