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.

yehudah

multipie ways to help block xmlrpc attacks.
This plugin have this options:
First Option: 
Log errors and access – to debug plugin errors and access to the xmlrpc file.
The protection options:
<ul>
<li>Disable xmlrpc – disable the file complete with wordpress built in option.</li>
<li>Block login errors ip’s in htaccess – every WRONG login attempt will be blocked inside the htaccess file.</li>
<li>Enable xmlrpc for a specific user – give permission to access the file to pre define user you will choose.</li>
<li>Disable xmlrpc built in functions – xmlrpc have many options and actions to query on your wordpress site, with this option you can choose which option to disable and wich to keep enabled.</li>
</ul>

xmlrpc attacks blocker

multipie ways to help block xmlrpc attacks.

Author Default Category vs xmlrpc attacks blocker