Remove XMLRPC Pingback Ping

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Prevent your WordPress install from participating in pingback denial of service attacks. From sucuri.net: Any WordPress site with Pingback enabled (which is on by default) can be used in DDOS attacks against other sites. Read the FooPlugin’s post Beware : Your Site Is Part of a WordPress Pingback DDoS Botnet Learn More How To Prevent WordPress From Participating In Pingback Denial of Service Attacks – wptavern.com More Than 162,000 WordPress Sites Used for Distributed Denial of Service Attack – sucuri.net xmlrpc.php and Pingbacks and Denial of Service Attacks, Oh My! – hackguard.com Is Your Site Attacking Others? Use Sucuri’s WordPress DDOS Scanner to check if your site is DDOS’ing other websites Why Not Just Disable XMLRPC Altogether? Yes, you can choose to do that using the plugin Disable XML-RPC, but if you use popular plugins like JetPack (that use XMLRPC) then those plugins will stop working 100%. That is why this small plugin exists. How To Test Your Site? Follow the steps in the GitHub repo Disclaimer I did not write this code. I just put it together in a plugin so more people can easily install and use it. Original code from wptavern.com and sucuri.net in the links above.