Disable XML-RPC Pingback

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.

• Extract the zip file and just drop the contents in the wp-content/plugins/ directory of your WordPress installation (or install it directly from your dashboard) and then activate the plugin from Plugins page.
• There’s not options page, simply install and activate.

1.2.2

• Improved WP version checking to avoid a notice under certain versions of WP.

1.2.1

• Minor changes to make code 100% compliant with WordPress Coding Standards.

1.2

• Added support for X-Pingback header removal in recent versions of WP.

1.1

• Added code to remove X-Pingback from HTTP headers as suggested by user https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-x-pingback-http-header

1.0

• Initial release.