Disable RSS Plugin for Wordpress

Disable RSS Plugin for WordPress

12.02.08Posted by clifgriffin in Code49 CommentsTags: Disable RSS, rss, wordpress

Smashing Magazing did a post today including several RSS related WordPress hacks. One of them featured a method to disable all RSS feeds. As they say:

“Let’s say you’re using WordPress as a CMS to manage your online portfolio or your company’s website. In such cases, the RSS feed isn’t that useful, and some people would probably want to remove it.”

Notably, they did not encapsulate the functionality in a plugin. So I will be converting the ones without a associated plugin into plugins over the coming days. This is the first one.

Simply put, all you have to do is upload the plugin, activate it, and viola! No more RSS feeds. You can edit the error message users receive by editing the actual plugin file. (disable-rss.php)

The code:

add_action('do_feed', 'fb_disable_feed', 1);
add_action('do_feed_rdf', 'fb_disable_feed', 1);
add_action('do_feed_rss', 'fb_disable_feed', 1);
add_action('do_feed_rss2', 'fb_disable_feed', 1);
add_action('do_feed_atom', 'fb_disable_feed', 1);
 
function fb_disable_feed() {
	wp_die( __('No feed available,please visit our <a href="'. get_bloginfo('url') .'">homepage</a>!') );
}

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seb

One question: what is about when you publish an article .

I have a error 500 for the last articles feed and comments feed on my blog..

The next will be publish without comments/feed and feed?

Thanks fot this.
Sébastien

http://clifgriffin.com clifgriffin

I’m not sure I understand.

After enabling my plugin, your RSS feed(s) return a 500 error?

sebastien

Yes it seems it works but what about old posts ? (error 500)

and escuse me for my english, isn’t rich ;o)

http://clifgriffin.com clifgriffin

I’m not sure what you mean by old posts. The plugin simply disables the functions that generate the RSS feeds.

Can you give me the link for your blog so I can see what you’re talking about?

http://arvidtp.net arvid

Doesn’t seem to work in WP 2.7. or 2.7.1

RSS is still there.

When I try to add the code manually to functions.php I get an error
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Diane

Hi, Does the plug-in that disables RSS also stop feed readers like Bloglines from accessing the feed?

http://clifgriffin.com clifgriffin

It disables the RSS feeds without discrimination or exception.

http://mpgclinics.net p0w3r

Ur plugin not working, for my WP 2.7 Still have that Stuppid RS, how do i remove this sh*t ?
I HATE THIS “If you enjoyed this post Subscribe to our feed”
How can i remove it ??? It’s all over my Posts on my web

http://clifgriffin.com clifgriffin

It disables the RSS feed. It doesn’t remove the link to it.

http://www.blythefashion.com anne

Just installed the plugin, it’s working fine, thank you !

I had published an article and after a few minutes went on to edit it quite heavily and I was so embarrassed to still find the old version in my feed reader (I use Vienna).

Googled to find a solution, and here I am. I don’t think I have many readers through rss, but I certainly do not want that to happen again.

So thank you !
rene

Hi,
Brilliant plug-in and plug and play as well.
I am using it for a CMS type of website with posts that may only be viewed by specific logged in members. RSS was the backdoor I forgot initially.
Great work.
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http://timothyaaron.com TimothyAaron

Actually, I released this exact code as a plugin 3 months before Lifehacker’s article; couldn’t believe nobody had done it yet. …seemed so simple.

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/feed-disabler/

http://www.designbylanoue.com Michael LaNoue

This is an awesome plugin… thanks a million!

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john

It dose not remove the icon.

http://clifgriffin.com Clifton Griffin

It’s not supposed to. That’s built into the theme. This just ensures the feed itself is inaccessible.

http://redspiral.me Yogesh Nagarur

Plugin works fine and a good plugin .

I have 1 problem this plugin works fine in FF but in Google Chrome you can still see the RSS (Not with Atom 0.3 but with the other one).

http://redspiral.me Yogesh Nagarur

Sorry, I retract that last comment. It worked fine after I deleted my cache.

Andrew

I love the plug-in, it works with Firefox and Safari well. However on Safari I don’t get the plug-in message I get with Firefox. Any ideas?

As for an enhancement, I would like to see a re-direct to a WP page without the message in between.

Thanks again.
Andrew

Andrew :
I love the plug-in, it works with Firefox and Safari well on WP 2.8.6. However on Safari I don’t get the nice plug-in message I get with Firefox. Any ideas?
As for an enhancement, I would like to see a re-direct to a WP page without the message in between.
Thanks again.
Corentin

Hi, and thanks for your plugin.

I have a question: how is it possible to deactivate the plugin ? Even if I do so in the plugin menu, the previous links to the RSS feeds can’t be restored. What can I do to get back my feeds, please ?

Thanks in advance !
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http://www.center-tools.info/ Michele

The plug-in “Disable RSS 1.0″ works with wordpress 2.9.2?
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crypto.scythe

Lovable, the plug-in even works in WP 3 ^_^
As I haven’t found anything on that topic I have something to add to the plug-in as I wanted to remove the comments feed in WP 3 too.

add_action('do_feed_comments-', 'fb_disable_feed', 1);
add_action('do_feed_comments-rdf', 'fb_disable_feed', 1);
add_action('do_feed_comments-rss', 'fb_disable_feed', 1);
add_action('do_feed_comments-rss2', 'fb_disable_feed', 1);
add_action('do_feed_comments-atom', 'fb_disable_feed', 1);

http://clifgriffin.com Clifton Griffin

That’s surprising.

I’ll implement your suggestion soon.

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Antonio

Corentin :
Hi, and thanks for your plugin.
I have a question: how is it possible to deactivate the plugin ? Even if I do so in the plugin menu, the previous links to the RSS feeds can’t be restored. What can I do to get back my feeds, please ?
Thanks in advance !

Hi i have same problem please help.

I use last wordpress.

Best Regards

http://clifgriffin.com Clifton Griffin

Disabling the plugin should work just fine. I’ve reviewed the code and don’t see any issue.

Stacy

Not compatible with my Buddypress themes.

http://clifgriffin.com clifgriffin

Hi Stacy,
This disables the feed for everyone. If your theme requires a feed, no plugin with this functionality will work. If the problem is that you still see the links for the feed, that is by design. You’ll have to modify the theme to hide these…this only shuts off the connection.

Clif

Stacy

Bp has an activity feed which is not needed.

Stacy

Hello again, I am trying to omit the link for “no feed available ect” but it deactivates the plugin. How exactly would I write in an external link at least so that it doesn’t redirect to an error page, or any page on my site? I don’t want it to “get blog info”.
http://profiles.google.com/arty69 Artem K

Good ! Try it on http://uakino.net
arnold

it works wonderfully

THANKS A TRILLION TRILLION TRILLION !!!
http://www.678passengervehicles.com Alex

Thank you! It’s working great in Verizon 3.2.1. I had an issue with turkeys stealing content.

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