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rename-xml-rpc

Rename XMLRPC

Make XML-RPC work if you rename the file. Some hosts block access to xmlrpc.php file making it impossible to use

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complaint support · high severity · relevance 0.98
Try this first

Try this first: users show security, bugs, compatibility pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: test xmlrpc lockouts, bot/spam defenses, risky access changes, and incident alerts
Investigate Pain card complete trust and abuse-prevention operations Evidence linked to opportunity
Try this first So this plugin did not work for me, as I was trying to get JetPAck to work for me and came across the error HTTP 412 Site_inaccessible and it only supports up to 3.2.1 but in searching my hosts knowledge base when I stumbled upon the problem: Mod_security2.
complaint support · high severity · relevance 0.97
Installation Instructions (Jan 2019)

Installation Instructions (Jan 2019): users show security, compatibility, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: test xmlrpc lockouts, bot/spam defenses, risky access changes, and incident alerts
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Installation Instructions (Jan 2019) I have no idea if people still get confused with this but I got it working and though I’d post updated instructions.
complaint review · high severity · relevance 0.97
I thought this plugin could be the solution but…

I thought this plugin could be the solution but…: users show security, compatibility, migration pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: test xmlrpc lockouts, bot/spam defenses, risky access changes, and incident alerts
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I thought this plugin could be the solution but… Yesterday my server provider migrated servers using now cPanel 100.0.11 Apache 2.4.52 and PHP 7.4.
praise review · high severity · relevance 0.72
Worked worked me. But the instructions are wrong.

Worked worked me. But the instructions are wrong.: users show security, compatibility, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: test xmlrpc lockouts, bot/spam defenses, risky access changes, and incident alerts
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Testet with WP Version: 5.7 But the Install instructions are wrong.
complaint support · medium severity · relevance 0.86
[Plugin: Rename XMLRPC] PHP Endpoint change for rename XMLRPC

[Plugin: Rename XMLRPC] PHP Endpoint change for rename XMLRPC: users show compatibility, missing feature, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: test xmlrpc lockouts, bot/spam defenses, risky access changes, and incident alerts
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[Plugin: Rename XMLRPC] PHP Endpoint change for rename XMLRPC Can you clarify what this instruction means: 2.Upgrade the filename of the XML-RPC Endpoint in rename-xml-rpc.php (sorry there is not an option page yet!) Regards, Mark http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/rename-xml-rpc/ Can you clarify what this instruction means: 2.Upgrade the filename of the XM
complaint support · medium severity · relevance 0.86
[Plugin: Rename XMLRPC] Installation problem

[Plugin: Rename XMLRPC] Installation problem: users show compatibility, support, setup pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: test xmlrpc lockouts, bot/spam defenses, risky access changes, and incident alerts
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[Plugin: Rename XMLRPC] Installation problem Sorry I’m probably being dim but as a total newbie I’m having a little problem following the instructions.
complaint support · medium severity · relevance 0.81
Did someone manage to make this work with WP 4.4.2?

Did someone manage to make this work with WP 4.4.2?: users show compatibility, missing feature, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: test xmlrpc lockouts, bot/spam defenses, risky access changes, and incident alerts
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Hey, Unfortunately my host blocks access to XMLRPC.php, and right now switching hosts is not an option.
complaint support · medium severity · relevance 0.81
I installed and activated this plugin, now what?

I installed and activated this plugin, now what?: users show bugs, support, setup pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: test xmlrpc lockouts, bot/spam defenses, risky access changes, and incident alerts
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I installed and activated this plugin, now what?
complaint support · medium severity · relevance 0.8
Plugin not working?

Plugin not working?: users show compatibility, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: test xmlrpc lockouts, bot/spam defenses, risky access changes, and incident alerts
Investigate Pain card complete trust and abuse-prevention operations Evidence linked to opportunity
I have tried to find help for this plugin to rename the xmlrpc file but I don’t understand the instructions I have downloaded the plugin but I don’t know where I should be making the changes where is the endpoint .
complaint support · medium severity · relevance 0.75
Rename XMLRPC Plugin not working?

Rename XMLRPC Plugin not working?: users show bugs, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: test xmlrpc lockouts, bot/spam defenses, risky access changes, and incident alerts
Investigate Pain card complete trust and abuse-prevention operations Evidence linked to opportunity
I have tried these instructions, along with many other instructions “revisions”, etc, none which are correcting my issue, without posting my website is useless, why is it classipress works with 2.3.1 old version under wordpress 4.5.2 but 3.5.4 doesn’t?

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Remove & Disable XML-RPC Pingback praise owner · intel 75.0 · weakness 65.5
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stale update history below-average rating support bugs 2 source links Investigate Pain Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: test xmlrpc lockouts, bot/spam defenses, risky access changes, and incident alerts
Push Syndication praise owner · intel 71.2 · weakness 62.0
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stale update history 20 collected complaint signal(s) bugs missing feature 2 source links Investigate Pain Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: test xmlrpc lockouts, bot/spam defenses, risky access changes, and incident alerts
Disable XML-RPC-API praise owner · intel 68.8 · weakness 51.8
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12 collected complaint signal(s) compatibility setup 2 source links Investigate Pain Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: test xmlrpc lockouts, bot/spam defenses, risky access changes, and incident alerts
Disable XML-RPC praise owner · intel 68.7 · weakness 51.7
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23 collected complaint signal(s) compatibility missing feature 2 source links Investigate Pain Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: test xmlrpc lockouts, bot/spam defenses, risky access changes, and incident alerts
WP Login Door praise owner · intel 55.4 · weakness 39.8
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stale update history 2 collected complaint signal(s) support bugs 2 source links Proof Blocked Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: test security lockouts, bot/spam defenses, risky access changes, and incident alerts
REST XML-RPC Data Checker praise owner · intel 54.1 · weakness 37.9
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stale update history 1 collected complaint signal(s) missing feature support 2 source links Proof Blocked Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: test security lockouts, bot/spam defenses, risky access changes, and incident alerts
Control XML-RPC publishing praise owner · intel 42.3 · weakness 35.3
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stale update history 1 source link Proof Blocked Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: test security lockouts, bot/spam defenses, risky access changes, and incident alerts
WP Tweaks praise owner · intel 41.7 · weakness 34.8
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stale update history 1 source link Proof Blocked Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: detect optimization slowdowns, cache conflicts, asset regressions, and client-report impact

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complaint Update the plugin to match with the latest core version support · 2023-10-14T14:59:54+00:00 · medium severity · xmlrpc

Update the plugin to match with the latest core version: users show bugs pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Update the plugin to match with the latest core version I just used it on a site of mine, and it works without any issues.
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Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: test xmlrpc lockouts, bot/spam defenses, risky access changes, and incident alerts
praise Still works! (5 stars) review · 2023-05-20T19:43:40+00:00 · medium severity · xmlrpc

Still works!: users show compatibility pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Still works!
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Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: test xmlrpc lockouts, bot/spam defenses, risky access changes, and incident alerts
praise Works well! (4 stars) review · 2022-09-14T10:27:21+00:00 · medium severity · xmlrpc

Works well!: users show bugs, support, setup pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Works well!
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Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: test xmlrpc lockouts, bot/spam defenses, risky access changes, and incident alerts
complaint I thought this plugin could be the solution but… (1 star) review · 2022-03-02T18:08:15+00:00 · high severity · xmlrpc

I thought this plugin could be the solution but…: users show security, compatibility, migration pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: I thought this plugin could be the solution but… Yesterday my server provider migrated servers using now cPanel 100.0.11 Apache 2.4.52 and PHP 7.4.
security compatibility migration setup trust and abuse-prevention operations Investigate Pain card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: test xmlrpc lockouts, bot/spam defenses, risky access changes, and incident alerts
praise Worked worked me. But the instructions are wrong. (5 stars) review · 2021-04-06T17:21:45+00:00 · high severity · xmlrpc

Worked worked me. But the instructions are wrong.: users show security, compatibility, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Testet with WP Version: 5.7 But the Install instructions are wrong.
security compatibility support setup trust and abuse-prevention operations Investigate Pain card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: test xmlrpc lockouts, bot/spam defenses, risky access changes, and incident alerts
praise Fantastic (5 stars) review · 2021-02-15T16:52:57+00:00 · medium severity · xmlrpc

Fantastic: users praise easy, reliable, which suggests what competitors already do well.

Evidence: Fantastic It’s simple.
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Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: test xmlrpc lockouts, bot/spam defenses, risky access changes, and incident alerts
praise Works! (5 stars) review · 2020-03-28T14:09:06+00:00 · medium severity · xmlrpc

Works!: users praise reliable, which suggests what competitors already do well.

Evidence: Works!
reliable trust and abuse-prevention operations Investigate Pain card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: test xmlrpc lockouts, bot/spam defenses, risky access changes, and incident alerts
complaint Installation Instructions (Jan 2019) support · 2019-01-03T01:38:38+00:00 · high severity · xmlrpc

Installation Instructions (Jan 2019): users show security, compatibility, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Installation Instructions (Jan 2019) I have no idea if people still get confused with this but I got it working and though I’d post updated instructions.
security compatibility support setup trust and abuse-prevention operations Investigate Pain card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: test xmlrpc lockouts, bot/spam defenses, risky access changes, and incident alerts
complaint I installed and activated this plugin, now what? support · 2017-08-09T06:09:14+00:00 · medium severity · xmlrpc

I installed and activated this plugin, now what?: users show bugs, support, setup pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: I installed and activated this plugin, now what?
bugs support setup trust and abuse-prevention operations Investigate Pain card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: test xmlrpc lockouts, bot/spam defenses, risky access changes, and incident alerts
neutral Anyway to get this to work with Jetpack? support · 2017-06-28T16:27:08+00:00 · medium severity · xmlrpc

Anyway to get this to work with Jetpack?: neutral conversation with limited structured signal.

Evidence: Anyway to get this to work with Jetpack? Does this plugin work with Jetpack or with 4.8? Does this plugin work with Jetpack or with 4.8?
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Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: test xmlrpc lockouts, bot/spam defenses, risky access changes, and incident alerts
praise Help With The Rename Xmlrpc Plugin (5 stars) review · 2017-04-12T12:47:56+00:00 · medium severity · xmlrpc

Help With The Rename Xmlrpc Plugin: users show bugs, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Help With The Rename Xmlrpc Plugin I am having issues with the rename xmlrpc plugin.
bugs support trust and abuse-prevention operations Investigate Pain card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: test xmlrpc lockouts, bot/spam defenses, risky access changes, and incident alerts
praise Thanks to author (5 stars) review · 2016-07-13T09:40:12+00:00 · medium severity · xmlrpc

Thanks to author: users show compatibility pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Thanks to author My host provider blocks xmlrpc.php but I can solve this problem.
compatibility reliable trust and abuse-prevention operations Investigate Pain card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: test xmlrpc lockouts, bot/spam defenses, risky access changes, and incident alerts
complaint Rename XMLRPC Plugin not working? support · 2016-06-04T18:25:38+00:00 · medium severity · xmlrpc

Rename XMLRPC Plugin not working?: users show bugs, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: I have tried these instructions, along with many other instructions “revisions”, etc, none which are correcting my issue, without posting my website is useless, why is it classipress works with 2.3.1 old version under wordpress 4.5.2 but 3.5.4 doesn’t?
bugs support reliable quality trust and abuse-prevention operations Investigate Pain card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: test xmlrpc lockouts, bot/spam defenses, risky access changes, and incident alerts
complaint Did someone manage to make this work with WP 4.4.2? support · 2016-03-11T01:22:18+00:00 · medium severity · xmlrpc

Did someone manage to make this work with WP 4.4.2?: users show compatibility, missing feature, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Hey, Unfortunately my host blocks access to XMLRPC.php, and right now switching hosts is not an option.
compatibility missing feature support trust and abuse-prevention operations Investigate Pain card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: test xmlrpc lockouts, bot/spam defenses, risky access changes, and incident alerts
praise WORKS! (5 stars) review · 2015-10-21T23:32:33+00:00 · medium severity · xmlrpc

WORKS!: users show compatibility, setup pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: WORKS!
compatibility setup reliable trust and abuse-prevention operations Investigate Pain card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: test xmlrpc lockouts, bot/spam defenses, risky access changes, and incident alerts
praise Resolve the issue of blacklisted IP due to xmlrpc.php (5 stars) review · 2015-09-03T22:34:23+00:00 · medium severity · xmlrpc

Resolve the issue of blacklisted IP due to xmlrpc.php: users show bugs, compatibility pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Resolve the issue of blacklisted IP due to xmlrpc.php Work as stated.
bugs compatibility trust and abuse-prevention operations Investigate Pain card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: test xmlrpc lockouts, bot/spam defenses, risky access changes, and incident alerts
complaint Try this first support · 2014-04-05T08:55:49+00:00 · high severity · xmlrpc

Try this first: users show security, bugs, compatibility pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Try this first So this plugin did not work for me, as I was trying to get JetPAck to work for me and came across the error HTTP 412 Site_inaccessible and it only supports up to 3.2.1 but in searching my hosts knowledge base when I stumbled upon the problem: Mod_security2.
security bugs compatibility missing feature trust and abuse-prevention operations Investigate Pain card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: test xmlrpc lockouts, bot/spam defenses, risky access changes, and incident alerts
praise Resolved the issue with WordPress iPad/iPhone application (5 stars) review · 2013-06-23T04:26:29+00:00 · medium severity · xmlrpc

Resolved the issue with WordPress iPad/iPhone application: users show bugs, support, setup pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Resolved the issue with WordPress iPad/iPhone application But you need to re-install the blog in the Apple application But you need to re-install the blog in the Apple application
bugs support setup trust and abuse-prevention operations Investigate Pain card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: test xmlrpc lockouts, bot/spam defenses, risky access changes, and incident alerts
complaint Doesn't work (1 star) review · 2013-02-21T01:42:39+00:00 · medium severity · xmlrpc

Doesn't work: complaint conversation with limited structured signal.

Evidence: Doesn't work I followed the instructions exactly. It doesn’t work. I followed the instructions exactly. It doesn’t work.
trust and abuse-prevention operations Investigate Pain card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: test xmlrpc lockouts, bot/spam defenses, risky access changes, and incident alerts
complaint Plugin not working? support · 2013-01-03T09:29:27+00:00 · medium severity · xmlrpc

Plugin not working?: users show compatibility, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: I have tried to find help for this plugin to rename the xmlrpc file but I don’t understand the instructions I have downloaded the plugin but I don’t know where I should be making the changes where is the endpoint .
compatibility support trust and abuse-prevention operations Investigate Pain card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: test xmlrpc lockouts, bot/spam defenses, risky access changes, and incident alerts