Running A Website » Feeds http://www.runningawebsite.com Practical tips and advice for running a successful website! Thu, 07 Oct 2010 10:20:21 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Disabling RSS Feeds in WordPress http://www.runningawebsite.com/disabling-rss-feeds-in-wordpress/ http://www.runningawebsite.com/disabling-rss-feeds-in-wordpress/#comments Tue, 07 Jul 2009 10:59:32 +0000 Dan Harrison http://www.danharrison.co.uk/?p=300

Disabling RSS in WordPress

Sometimes, if you’re using WordPress as a content management system (CMS), you don’t want to enable RSS feeds. For example, if you’re running a corporate website, an informational site, or any other kind of website that doesn’t need to have RSS, then its worth disabling RSS on your WordPress site. After some digging around, I’ve found some tricks that allow you to disable RSS feeds.

I haven’t yet found a (non hacky) way to remove the RSS entry in the <head> tags, but when I do, I’ll update this article.

Updating your template functions.php

In your template code, if you copy and paste the following code into the functions.php file, users will get a message saying that RSS feeds have been removed.

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function disable_our_feeds() {
   wp_die( __('<strong>Error:</strong> No RSS Feed Available,
   Please visit our &lt;a href="'. get_bloginfo('url') .'">homepage</a>.') );
}
 
add_action('do_feed', 'disable_our_feeds', 1);
add_action('do_feed_rdf', 'disable_our_feeds', 1);
add_action('do_feed_rss', 'disable_our_feeds', 1);
add_action('do_feed_rss2', 'disable_our_feeds', 1);
add_action('do_feed_atom', 'disable_our_feeds', 1);

Updating .htaccess

To stop users reaching the RSS page in the first place, you can redirect domain.com/feed back to domain.com using your apache .htaccess file.

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# Remove RSS feed
<ifModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule feed(.*) http://www.yourwebsite.co.uk/ [L]
</ifModule>

Doing it with a plugin

The code changes above should only be done if you know what you’re doing. If you still want to disable RSS feeds, but you’re not that comfortable editing code, then I suggest using the Disable RSS plugin to do it.

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