Disable FEEDS – Who needs that?

  • Let me start,
    This feeds and readers and RSS news where very popular back in 2000-2010.
    And somewhere in between that years illegal stuff happen, scrapers hit hard and now there are maybe zillions of ways to steal your content trough FEED, bomb your server trough FEED…

    Advantage of having feeds:
    1. your visitors can read your content trough RSS readers ( i dont know if this is advantage or disadvantage, sounds more like a disadvantage to me)
    2. You will get more visitors (yes, that is true)
    3. RSS readers can give you backlinks (but now with google backlink policy i doubt you want to have so many backlinks from god knows what places)

    Advantage of not using feed and disabling it:
    1. Faster server – scrapers will not be able to bomb you (if you have dedicated or VPS go check your apache log access and you can see get FEED spammers.
    2. WordPress will use less resources, less memory and CPU. If you google WOrdpress problems you will see it is mostly memory and CPU problems and it looks like it is well conected to this flooders that bomb your feeds
    3. Little harder to steal your content, no duplicate content , no google penalty

    Now if you put everything on the scale i think disabling it forever makes sense.

    FEED R.I.P.
    I hope WordPress realize this and disable it or give us at elast option to disable it by our self or to make noobie wordpress users happy, disable FEEDS by default and give option for turning it on. But by reading this topic i dont knwo who will turn them on…
    I will disable my FEED on all wordpress blogs.

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  • This plugin disable all feeds or any, and that’s not what i need. I already tried it a long time ago.

    But
    That’s not the point of this thread.
    It’s talking about if enable/disable feeds options.

    Andrew Nevins

    (@anevins)

    WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support

    It doesn’t just disable all feeds, it has settings to disable some and not others.

    Can you try the plugin?

    P.S.S. To disable feeds and prevent your websites eating too much CPU without reason, just create a folder /feed/
    That how i saved my server.

    Just an empty folder?

    Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

    ?????? Advisor and Activist

    Yes, any ‘real’ files or folders will always override WP.

    I would do a .htaccess to redirect /feed/ to my main page, personally.

    I did pretty much the same once. Just a redirect to a page that said “Sorry – we don’t have any feeds to offer you here.”. Problem solved.

    I would do a .htaccess to redirect /feed/ to my main page, personally.

    I already do that with a couple of things, and that makes sense to me.

    And a way for disabling feeds but keep only https://my.site.web/feed ??

    That wasn’t the question being asked here.

    don’t you think this question falls under the scope of the initial question ???
    only for knowing purpose and with one day more of search i found and it works :
    delele line in wp-includes/general-template.php
    echo '<link rel="alternate" type="' . feed_content_type() . '" title="' . esc_attr(sprintf( $args['comstitle'], get_bloginfo('name'), $args['separator'] )) . '" href="' . get_feed_link( 'comments_' . get_default_feed() ) . "\" />\n";
    source https://www.blogofchris.com/remove-comments-rss-feed-wordpress/
    best regards

    You should NEVER edit WordPress core files.

    I did not know that my “wordpress site” could be unstable with this…
    Unfortunately, I don’t have skills enough to transform this edit in a plugin or function…
    If anyone have got an alternative solution, i’m interested in.

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