wp-polls.php direct invocation

[pkirk]

Dear Lester, I'm using your plugin since, I think, 2006. And from time to time I see that Google bot try to access it directly, causing an error 500 (add_action() not defined). Do you remember if any time ago it was used to be called directly? What do you think about adding a little code to avoid direct call?

Something like this below or a redirect to the home?

// If this file is called directly, abort.
if ( ! defined( 'WPINC' ) ) {
        die;
}

Thanks for your work,

Paolo

[lesterchan]

Nope, there should not be anytime they are called directly. In fact Google Bot should not index wp-content/plugins folder.