Title: admin-ajax.php alternative?
Last modified: February 5, 2018

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# admin-ajax.php alternative?

 *  [blogadmin2018](https://wordpress.org/support/users/blogadmin2018/)
 * (@blogadmin2018)
 * [8 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/admin-ajax-php-alternative/)
 * Is there a way for mailpoet 3 to operate without needing access to admin-ajax.
   php? We restrict access to our /wp-admin directory and would prefer to not have
   to open up access to this directory.
 * Thanks!

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 *  [deltafactory](https://wordpress.org/support/users/deltafactory/)
 * (@deltafactory)
 * [8 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/admin-ajax-php-alternative/#post-9973707)
 * I support this and have done something similar in my own work. However, WP definitely
   leads us to this as the correct way to do ajax.
 * Could you whitelist that one file to bypass your restrictions?
 *  [Sarathlal N](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sarathlal/)
 * (@sarathlal)
 * [7 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/admin-ajax-php-alternative/#post-10457129)
 * Hello [@blogadmin2018](https://wordpress.org/support/users/blogadmin2018/),
 * Recently, I have tried WP-REST API & its custom end points are best alternative
   of `admin-ajax.php`.
 * Can you please check that possibilities?

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