z720

A basic default category plugin. 
The main purpose of this plugin is to provide different default categories on a per user basis.
I was looking for a plugin to set a different default category for my flickr posts (through XMLRPC API). 
And there was no built-in function to set a default category to a particular user.
This plugin is very simple :
<ul>
<li>any author can set it’s own default category (user can <code>edit_posts</code>)</li>
<li>any admin can modify an author default category (user can <code>edit_user</code>)</li>
<li>anywhere in WordPress a user get it’s default category where applicable : posts, API posts, … except in the writing settings page</li>
</ul>

Author Default Category

Any author (user can edit posts) can set its own default category on his profil page.

Jonny Harris

Simple plugin that disables XML-RPC, since it is enabled by default on WordPress 3.5 and above. It also removed references in the headers and in the body of the html.
If you wish to follow the development of this plugin, view the code on the official plugin <a href="http://www.jonathandavidharris.co.uk/scripts/disable-xml-rpc-fully/" title="website" rel="nofollow ugc">website</a> or follow me on twitter <a href="https://twitter.com/thespacedmonkey" rel="nofollow ugc">@thespacedmonkey</a>

Author Default Category vs Disable XML RPC Fully