WP HTTP Blocker

WP HTTP Blocker A lightweight WordPress plugin that blocks outbound HTTP requests from WordPress core and plugins - update checks, telemetry, license pings, and other "phone home" traffic - with a minimal settings page for update controls, blocked domains, allow-list rules, and logging. Features - Disables WordPress update channels (automatic updater, core, plugins, themes). Each one is independently toggleable from the dashboard, so it stops contacting api.wordpress.org in the background. - Blocks outbound requests to an editable list seeded with common offenders (Yoast, RankMath, WP Rocket, Elementor, ACF, Delicious Brains, TranslationsPress, Wistia, and more). - Edit the full active blocklist from Settings HTTP Blocker. You can add your own domains or remove defaults you do not want blocked. - Allow-list field for URL substrings that should always be let through, even if the host is on the blocklist. - Optional debug logging of every blocked URL. - Translation-ready with a wp-http-blocker.pot template in /languages. Installation 1. Download this repository as a ZIP, or clone it into your wp-content/plugins/ directory. 2. In WordPress admin, go to Plugins and activate WP HT