Installation Instructions (Jan 2019)

I have no idea if people still get confused with this but I got it working and though I’d post updated instructions.

Steps:
1. Download the plugin and save it on your desktop or something.
2. Unzip the plugin.
3. Open up rename-xml-rpc.php and change line 14 (where there’s a comment with a misspelled word “poiting” should be “pointing”). I simply renamed it to xmlrpc_wp.php. You can do the same.
4. Save the changes and rezip the plugin.
5. In your WordPress directory (top-level), find the file xmlrpc.php.
6. Rename xmlrpc.php to xmlrpc_wp.php (or whatever you have in step 3 above).
7. Log into your admin dashboard. Go and upload the plugin (the one you changed and is currently saved on your desktop) to your blog using the “Add New Plugin > Upload Plugin” tool.
8. Activate the plugin.

That’s it! If you’re a bit more saavy, you could’ve skipped the download to your desktop steps and simply edited the file in the Plugin Editor tool.

For me, even after doing this, I couldn’t login on the WordPress app (I could get to the login screen on the app). The reason was two-fold: first, I disabled XMLRPC through WP Security. The second is because I was using a custom captcha and that blocked all login attempts. Once I disabled the custom captcha, everything worked fine. I guess I should stick to the Google capcha :S