Stops abuse of your site&#039;s XML-RPC by simply removing some methods used by attackers. While you can use the rest of XML-RPC methods.

Disable XML-RPC Pingback

<p>Stops abuse of your site&#8217;s XML-RPC by simply removing some methods used by attackers. While you can use the rest of XML-RPC methods.</p>
<p>This is more friendly than disabling totally XML-RPC, that it&#8217;s needed by some plugins and apps (I.e. Mobile apps or some Jetpack&#8217;s modules).</p>
<ul>
<li>The original one.</li>
<li>Simple and effective.</li>
<li>No marketing buzz.</li>
<li>Maintained and <strong>updated when needed</strong> since 2014.</li>
<li>100% compliant with <strong>WordPress coding standards</strong> which makes it fail safe.</li>
<li><strong>60,000+ active installations</strong> can&#8217;t be wrong.</li>
</ul>
<p>If you&#8217;re happy with the plugin <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/disable-xml-rpc-pingback/reviews/?filter=5" rel="ugc">please don&#8217;t forget to give it a good rating</a>, it will motivate me to keep sharing and improving this plugin (and others).</p>
<h4>Features</h4>
<p>Removes the following methods from XML-RPC interface.</p>
<ul>
<li>pingback.ping</li>
<li>pingback.extensions.getPingbacks</li>
<li>X-Pingback from HTTP headers. This will hopefully stops some bots from trying to hit your xmlrpc.php file.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Requirements</h4>
<ul>
<li>WordPress 3.8.1 or higher.</li>
</ul>


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