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Is Simple Disable XML-RPC | Reduce Brute Force & DDOS Attacks still maintained?

Its last release was 10 months ago. Still alive, slower.

Maintenance
SLOWING
still alive, slower — last release 2025-11-09.
Active installs
1k
as the directory reports it, in buckets — a floor rather than a count.
Rating
too few ratings to mean anything. 0% of 1 support threads resolved.

This measures maintenance, not quality. A small, finished plugin that genuinely needed no changes in three years grades ABANDONED here and may still be the right choice. What the grade tells you is whether anyone is there if something breaks.

By Delower Hossain, tested up to WordPress 6.8.8. Listing on wordpress.org.

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