https://codex.wordpress.org/Hardening_WordPress

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  adsf12 · Member · Jul 25, 2017 at 7:20 pm

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  https://codex.wordpress.org/Hardening_WordPress -> needs to be updated to include information about blocking xmlrpc.php . They already have information about blocking the wp-admin directory from public access, so the information for blocking xmlrpc.php should be included.

  Which also begs the question: why not have xmlrpc.php inside of the wp-admins directory, as well?

  Granted, I am working with an older installation, so (I would hope) this oversight would have been fixed in future versions.

  Lastly, I am posting here because I searched through the wordpress.com site and failed to find *any* information regarding how to properly suggest edits to their site…so here I am…

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  garysixtyeight · Member · Jul 25, 2017 at 7:32 pm

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  Lastly, I am posting here because I searched through the wordpress.com site and failed to find *any* information regarding how to properly suggest edits to their site…so here I am…

  Hi there,

  The WordPress.org codex is a wiki, anyone can edit it.

  For full details on how to contribute to it, please see:
  https://codex.wordpress.org/Codex:Contributing

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  garysixtyeight · Member · Jul 25, 2017 at 8:00 pm

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  I think you might be confused about the differences between WordPress.com and WordPress.org. I tried to clarify it in the other thread you created.

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  adsf12 · Member · Jul 25, 2017 at 9:32 pm

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  Yes, I must have hopped over to the .com version of the site when I was looking for any means to contact someone about the issue.

  Thanks!

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  garysixtyeight · Member · Jul 25, 2017 at 9:33 pm

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  You’re welcome :)