function exclude_specific_posts_from_search($query) {
  // Check if it's a front-end search query (not admin)
  if ($query->is_search && !is_admin()) {
    // Replace 123, 456 with your page/post IDs to exclude
    $excluded_ids = array(123, 456); 
    $query->set('post__not_in', $excluded_ids);
  }
}
add_action('pre_get_posts', 'exclude_specific_posts_from_search');

Add to wp-config:

// Disable XML-RPC
add_filter( 'xmlrpc_enabled', '__return_false' );

This method does not prevent HTTP requests to xmlrpc.php from reaching the server. For environments where XML-RPC is not required, a more robust mitigation is to block access at the web server level.

add_action('acf/init', 'my_acf_init'); 
function my_acf_init() { 
   // Get ACF version. 
   $version = acf_get_setting('version'); 
   
   // add options page code here

}

Add this to your theme’s functions.php, then use <?php echo my_pagination(); ?> in your template to display pagination.

/**
 * Numeric pagination via WP core function paginate_links().
 * @link http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/paginate_links
 * @param array $args
 * @return string HTML for numneric pagination
 */
function my_pagination( $args = array() ) {
    global $wp_query;
    $output = '';
    if ( $wp_query->max_num_pages <= 1 ) { 
    return; 
    } $pagination_args = array( 'base' => str_replace( 999999999, '%#%', esc_url( get_pagenum_link( 999999999 ) ) ),
        'total'        => $wp_query->max_num_pages,
        'current'      => max( 1, get_query_var( 'paged' ) ),
        'format'       => '?paged=%#%',
        'show_all'     => false,
        'type'         => 'plain',
        'end_size'     => 2,
        'mid_size'     => 1,
        'prev_next'    => true,
        //'prev_text'    => __( '« Prev', 'text-domain' ),
        //'next_text'    => __( 'Next »', 'text-domain' ),
        //'prev_text'    => __( '‹ Prev', 'text-domain' ),
        //'next_text'    => __( 'Next ›', 'text-domain' ),
        'prev_text'    => sprintf( ' %1$s',
            apply_filters( 'my_pagination_page_numbers_previous_text',
            __( 'Newer Posts', 'text-domain' ) )
        ),
        'next_text'    => sprintf( '%1$s ',
            apply_filters( 'my_pagination_page_numbers_next_text',
            __( 'Older Posts', 'text-domain' ) )
        ),
        'add_args'     => false,
        'add_fragment' => '',

        // Custom arguments not part of WP core:
        'show_page_position' => false, // Optionally allows the "Page X of XX" HTML to be displayed.
    );

    $pagination_args = apply_filters( 'my_pagination_args', array_merge( $pagination_args, $args ), $pagination_args );

    $output .= paginate_links( $pagination_args );

    // Optionally, show Page X of XX.
    if ( true == $pagination_args['show_page_position'] && $wp_query->max_num_pages > 0 ) {
        $output .= '' . sprintf( __( 'Page %1s of %2s', 'text-domain' ), $pagination_args['current'], $wp_query->max_num_pages ) . '';
    }

    return $output;
}

NOT PERFECT: if you toggle the size down after toggling up, the bigger size still persists. To get back to original size, you have to close the browser tab and reopen the site in a new tab. Should be a matter of setting a cookie to read last setting, so I may update this after I figure that out. In the meantime, a very nice plugin, Accessibility Font Resizer, is fulfilling my immediate need.

HTML

<button class="textresize" onClick="bigParagraph()">&plusmn;</button>

CSS (example does not include styling for the button)

.post-entry p.bigger,
.excerpt p.bigger { font-size: 1.4rem; line-height:1.8; }
.post-entry .pagepix p.bigger,
p.nav-previous.bigger,
p.nav-next.bigger { font-size:1.2rem; }

JQUERY

//RESIZE PARAGRAPHS
jQuery(function($) {
	bigParagraph = function () {
  	$('p').toggleClass("bigger") //apply class to all paragraphs
  	sessionStorage.class = "bigger"; //store selection
	}
});
jQuery(function($) { //persist variable on subsequent pages
	$(document).ready(function(){ 
	if(typeof(Storage) !== "undefined") {
	$('p').addClass(sessionStorage.class);
	}
	});
});