Disable WordPress WLWMANIFEST.XML Plugin
After upgrading our WordPress installation i noticed a new url reference in the source code that didn’t used to be there called “wlwmanifest.xml”. After doing some research it seems the WordPress Dev’s added this to enable enable tagging support for Windows Live Writer however, as none of us use Windows Live Writer it completely useless to us.
To remove this you need delve into the php to remove the two references for it but not everyone is comfortable editing php so we’ve written a very light plugin that will remove this for you.
To install this plugin, simply upload the wlwmanifest-disabler.php file to your /wp-content/plugins directory then navigate in your WordPress Admin to your Plugins area, find the pugin and Activate it.
This will remove the reference from the source code, it really couldn’t be more simple. Hopefully the WordPress Dev’s will add this themselves in future releases so users have the option of enabling it or not but until that happens this will do the trick.
Tested on WordPress Versions 2.5, 2.6, 2.7, 2.7.1
We will do our very best to keep this plugin up to date and will add a new comment when new versions are released but please understand that freebies are not our major priority 
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January 30th, 2009 at 3:41 pm
awesome idea! just subscribed to your RSS. I searched for “hobbies” and I found your post “WordPress WLWMANIFEST.XML Plugin | Hampshire Web Design Blog”. Thank you for these good moments reading your blog.
February 22nd, 2009 at 8:32 pm
Sunday In searching for sites related to web hosting and specifically free hosting web window, your site came up. Great site and some informative posts
April 1st, 2009 at 3:01 am
Hello!
Very Interesting post! Thank you for such interesting resource!
PS: Sorry for my bad english, I’v just started to learn this language
See you!
Your, Raiul Baztepo
August 30th, 2009 at 11:46 pm
Nice write up…usually I never reply to these thing but this time I will,Thanks for the great info.
September 28th, 2009 at 3:48 pm
Just FYI this download link gives you a zip file with 3 templates for privacy policies…
September 28th, 2009 at 11:20 pm
Sorry about that. I’ve changed the link now and tested it to make sure it’s correct
October 21st, 2009 at 3:59 am
Will this work on 2.8.4?
October 21st, 2009 at 7:54 am
Yes
October 23rd, 2009 at 8:35 am
Great work, webmaster, nice
September 28th, 2010 at 6:59 am
another awesome tutorial. it was so nice to read and easy to follow.
September 28th, 2010 at 11:42 am
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