Missing upload filter and api calls to api.wordpress.org

[Gustav Olsen]

Hi guys,

I've been following the mailing list for a while, but this is my first
post. I've been searching far and wide, with no results yet, so I hope
that you will be able to help me out.

I've been looking for a hook to rewrite filenames (both paths and urls)
on uploaded files. I've been using wp_handle_upload_prefilter with
success, but it has no effect on uploads done with XMLRPC. I haven't
been able to find any way to do this yet.

Another thing I've struggled with is stopping the version checks
WordPress sends when a user logs in to admin. I'm using
DISALLOW_FILE_MODS as I do not wish any users start those updates
themselves, and thus I do not need to check for new versions. I feel
that WordPress should know not to do that, but it does not seem to care
that updating is disabled. Is there any other way to disable the calls
to api.wordpress.org, without placing: "127.0.0.1 api.wordpress.org" in
the /etc/hosts file on the server?

Have a nice day!

[John Blackbourn]

Another thing I've struggled with is stopping the version checks WordPress
sends when a user logs in to admin. I'm using DISALLOW_FILE_MODS as I do not
wish any users start those updates themselves, and thus I do not need to
check for new versions. I feel that WordPress should know not to do that,
but it does not seem to care that updating is disabled. Is there any other
way to disable the calls to api.wordpress.org, without placing: "127.0.0.1
api.wordpress.org" in the /etc/hosts file on the server?

I'm not sure about the first point in your email, so I'll leave that
to someone else, but there are plugins available for disabling
automatic updates to WordPress:

* http://wordpress.org/plugins/disable-wordpress-core-update/
* http://wordpress.org/plugins/disable-wordpress-plugin-updates/
* http://wordpress.org/plugins/disable-wordpress-theme-updates/

Your site will still perform calls to the browser update check
endpoint though. There's also an API call on the About WordPress
screen which fetches the list of contributors. I'm not sure if there's
a plugin to disable those calls, or indeed disable all wordpress.org
API calls at once. Might be worth a Google.

John