Title: Blocking feed
Last modified: February 19, 2026

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# Blocking feed

 *  Resolved [ontheroad](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ontheroad/)
 * (@ontheroad)
 * [3 months, 1 week ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/blocking-feed/)
 * Hi Jeff,
 * Quick question for you. I’ve narrowed down the feed error
 * `wp_die` WordPress &rsaquo; Error No feed available,please visit our <a href=”
   [https://www.example.com”>homepage</a&gt](https://www.example.com”>homepage</a&gt);!
   
   To Blackhole for Bad Bots – when the plugin is disabled the feed works again.
   I’ve tried adding /feed/ etc to the settings of bots to include (hoping) but 
   to no avail. I’m aware feeds can be fetched by any number of bots, though my 
   own browsers chrome, FF are also getting the error. Anyway of fixing this?

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 *  Thread Starter [ontheroad](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ontheroad/)
 * (@ontheroad)
 * [3 months, 1 week ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/blocking-feed/#post-18827049)
 * Apologies, it’s
 * **Disable XML-RPC-API** that’s causing the issue.
 * No idea why it worked for a while after disabling Blackhole. Feel free to delete
   this post.
 *  Plugin Author [Jeff Starr](https://wordpress.org/support/users/specialk/)
 * (@specialk)
 * [3 months, 1 week ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/blocking-feed/#post-18827308)
 * Thanks for the follow-up, glad you determined the cause of the issue. I will 
   go ahead and mark this topic as resolved. Cheers, [@ontheroad](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ontheroad/).
 *  [techguysa](https://wordpress.org/support/users/techguysa/)
 * (@techguysa)
 * [2 months, 2 weeks ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/blocking-feed/#post-18854875)
 * [@ontheroad](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ontheroad/)
 * You can do that via htaccess instead of a plugin. its more lightweight less stuff
   too
 *     ```wp-block-code
       # Block WordPress xmlrpc.php requests
       <Files xmlrpc.php>
           Order Deny,Allow
           Deny from all
       </Files>
       ```
   
 * or if you want to add just your static IP
 *     ```wp-block-code
       # Block WordPress xmlrpc.php requests
       <Files xmlrpc.php>
           Order Deny,Allow
           Deny from all
           Allow from xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
       </Files>
       ```
   

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 * 3 replies
 * 3 participants
 * Last reply from: [techguysa](https://wordpress.org/support/users/techguysa/)
 * Last activity: [2 months, 2 weeks ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/blocking-feed/#post-18854875)
 * Status: resolved