diff --git a/agent/fw_wordpress.c b/agent/fw_wordpress.c
index 5e0bedf46..4f9544636 100644
--- a/agent/fw_wordpress.c
+++ b/agent/fw_wordpress.c
@@ -381,6 +381,7 @@ NR_PHP_WRAPPER_END
 static void nr_wordpress_call_user_func_array(zend_function* func,
                                               const zend_function* caller
                                                   NRUNUSED TSRMLS_DC) {
+  const char* filename;
   /*
    * We only want to hook the function being called if this is a WordPress
    * function, we're instrumenting hooks, and WordPress is currently executing
@@ -391,6 +392,17 @@ static void nr_wordpress_call_user_func_array(zend_function* func,
     return;
   }
 
+  if (NRINI(wordpress_hooks_skip_filename)
+      && 0 != nr_strlen(NRINI(wordpress_hooks_skip_filename))) {
+    filename = nr_php_op_array_file_name(&func->op_array);
+
+    if (nr_strstr(filename, NRINI(wordpress_hooks_skip_filename))) {
+      nrl_verbosedebug(NRL_FRAMEWORK, "skipping hooks for function from %s",
+                       filename);
+      return;
+    }
+  }
+
   /*
    * We'll wrap this as a callable to handle anonymous functions being
    * registered.
diff --git a/agent/php_newrelic.h b/agent/php_newrelic.h
index 2025ea23d..87dca3be9 100644
--- a/agent/php_newrelic.h
+++ b/agent/php_newrelic.h
@@ -249,6 +249,9 @@ nrinistr_t browser_monitoring_loader; /* newrelic.browser_monitoring.loader */
 
 nrinibool_t drupal_modules;  /* newrelic.framework.drupal.modules */
 nrinibool_t wordpress_hooks; /* newrelic.framework.wordpress.hooks */
+nrinistr_t
+    wordpress_hooks_skip_filename; /* newrelic.framework.wordpress.hooks_skip_filename
+                                    */
 
 nrinibool_t
     analytics_events_enabled; /* DEPRECATED newrelic.analytics_events.enabled */
diff --git a/agent/php_nrini.c b/agent/php_nrini.c
index 7afddcfb7..6e054f9d4 100644
--- a/agent/php_nrini.c
+++ b/agent/php_nrini.c
@@ -1964,6 +1964,14 @@ STD_PHP_INI_ENTRY_EX("newrelic.framework.wordpress.hooks",
                      zend_newrelic_globals,
                      newrelic_globals,
                      nr_on_off_dh)
+STD_PHP_INI_ENTRY_EX("newrelic.framework.wordpress.hooks_skip_filename",
+                     "",
+                     NR_PHP_REQUEST,
+                     nr_string_mh,
+                     wordpress_hooks_skip_filename,
+                     zend_newrelic_globals,
+                     newrelic_globals,
+                     0)
 STD_PHP_INI_ENTRY_EX("newrelic.framework",
                      "",
                      NR_PHP_REQUEST,
diff --git a/agent/scripts/newrelic.ini.private.template b/agent/scripts/newrelic.ini.private.template
index a55c10723..b638a16f0 100644
--- a/agent/scripts/newrelic.ini.private.template
+++ b/agent/scripts/newrelic.ini.private.template
@@ -192,3 +192,12 @@
 ;          sent to the daemon when Infinite Tracing is enabled.
 ;
 ;newrelic.infinite_tracing.span_events.agent_queue.timeout=1s
+
+; Setting: newrelic.framework.wordpress.hooks_skip_filename
+; Type   : string
+; Scope  : system
+; Default: ""
+; Info   : PHP files that contain this string will not have their Wordpress
+;          hooks instrumented.
+;
+;newrelic.framework.wordpress.hooks_skip_filename=""