Title: Is xmlrpc.php Required?
Last modified: March 21, 2019

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# Is xmlrpc.php Required?

 *  [R1Law](https://wordpress.org/support/users/r1law/)
 * (@r1law)
 * [7 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/is-xmlrpc-php-required/)
 * Hi,
    Awesome plugin! Does this plugin require the XMLRPC.php WordPress file to
   function? I have a couple of sites experiencing massive requests on this file(
   xmlrpc.php) and would just as soon kill it if possible. Thanks.

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 *  Plugin Author [Sayontan Sinha](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sayontan/)
 * (@sayontan)
 * [7 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/is-xmlrpc-php-required/#post-11340539)
 * Not directly, at least. I don’t know if any of the standard calls that Photonic
   makes internally require XML-RPC, but I doubt they do.
 *  Thread Starter [R1Law](https://wordpress.org/support/users/r1law/)
 * (@r1law)
 * [7 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/is-xmlrpc-php-required/#post-11340608)
 * Great, this php file is creating large headaches for me…don’t want to install
   a heavy security plugin to deal with it so just disabling it will be simple and
   quick. I’ll let you know if I see any issues with the plugin as it relates to
   Google Photos.

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 * Last reply from: [R1Law](https://wordpress.org/support/users/r1law/)
 * Last activity: [7 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/is-xmlrpc-php-required/#post-11340608)
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