{keyword}/shop/wp-includes/wlwmanifest.xml Apr 2026

While you can delete the file from /wp-includes/ , it will often reappear when you update WordPress.

Automated bots and web crawlers frequently scan common WordPress paths (like /shop/ , /blog/ , or /wordpress/ ) for this file to identify if a site is running on WordPress. {keyword}/shop/wp-includes/wlwmanifest.xml

Tools like Perfmatters can toggle off the wlwmanifest link in your site's header. While you can delete the file from /wp-includes/

If you are seeing 404 errors for this file on a non-WordPress site, you can safely ignore them; it just means a bot guessed incorrectly that you were using WordPress. you can safely ignore them

Many administrators use Cloudflare or other firewalls to block requests to these paths automatically.