---
title: "Hide your WordPress website from Matt Mullenweg"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/hide-your-wordpress-website-from-matt-mullenweg-3vhqsrffx
source_url: https://aurisecreative.com/blog/2024/12/hide-your-wordpress-website-from-matt-mullenweg/
type: article
source: "Community Picks"
published: 2024-12-28T12:32:50.588Z
updated: 2024-12-28T12:33:18.670Z
tags: ["security", "webdev", "wordpress", "privacy"]
reading_time: 9
upvotes: 35
comments: 2
language: en
---

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# Hide your WordPress website from Matt Mullenweg

**[Community Picks](https://daily.dev/sources/community)** · 9 min read · 35 upvotes · 2 comments

## Summary

WordPress installations send HTTP requests to WordPress.org, which may include identifiable information like the domain, protocol, and user-agent string. The post discusses concerns over Matt Mullenweg's announcement that WordPress.org is his personal site, highlighting potential privacy and security risks. It reviews various endpoint requests, detailing the data sent and providing recommendations on whether each request should be blocked, anonymized, or modified.

## Full article

daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: <https://aurisecreative.com/blog/2024/12/hide-your-wordpress-website-from-matt-mullenweg/>

## Community discussion

Top comments from developers on daily.dev.

**@baflow** · 1 upvotes

> War. War never changes

**@petecapecod** · 0 upvotes

> Nice I thought this post was well thought out and well written 🙌🏻
>
> A learned a lot, and will definitely be applying this in the future.
> Thanks

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Tags: [#security](https://daily.dev/tags/security), [#webdev](https://daily.dev/tags/webdev), [#wordpress](https://daily.dev/tags/wordpress), [#privacy](https://daily.dev/tags/privacy)

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