RSS Feeds – Disable

  • Is there a way to deactivate the feeds? I don’t wish to offer RSS feeds right now so I’d like to turn the feature off. If there isn’t a way to do this in the Admin, where within the templates would I find it? I see links in the code for this in the sidebar.php and the header.php. (Do I need to have the RSS links in the header?) Would I simply delete those links?

    Also, forgive the terminology if I’m using it wrong. RSS/XML/Feeds is what I’m trying to disable. I don’t want any readers hitting the site and grabbing content or comments.

    Thanks,
    EG

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  • The only option in the admin is the number of posts, so conceivably, you could set that to 0 and that would effectively kill feeds. However, your site will still have a feed, just one that won’t load.

    If someone else has a better solution, feel free to correct me, but this is what I would do:

    Take all of the RSS links in the header out (no, you don’t need to have those).

    And then just to make sure – I’d remove wp-feed.php, wp-rdf.php, wp-rss.php, and wp-rss2.php from the main directory. AFAIK, those files only apply to the feeds, and this way there’s no feed published at all.

    HTH.

    Thread Starter earleygirl

    (@earleygirl)

    Thanks Fruitfly!

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