How to remove feed from WP Core

  • sneakerobsession

    (@sneakerobsession)


    14 years, 2 months ago

    How’s everybody doing.

    I’m trying to figure out how I go about deleting the files that are used to create my sites feed?

    There’s a boat load of scrapper sites (thousands) that have been duplicating my content. I imagine they’re getting the info from my feed. In order to avoid this from happening anymore, I would like to get rid of my feed altogether, but I’m not quite sure how to do so.

    So far, I’ve deleted my feedburner account and deleted the line of code in my header.php file that went sometime like <link rel=”alternate” type=”application/rss+xml” title=”RSS 2.0″ href=”……………./feed/” /><!– Feed –>

    Even after doing that, a feed is still able to be pulled up on my site, as shown here: http://tinyurl.com/7wyu6ex

    Looking in my WordPress files, I notice several files that seem to pertain to the feed (wp-rss, wp-rss2, wp-atom, wp-feed). Do I simply just delete these files to get rid of my feed?

    Any sort of help here would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

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  • jevets

    (@jevets)

    14 years, 2 months ago

    You shouldn’t delete any core files. Even if you do, when you update WordPress in the future, they’ll just come back.

    You’re far better off disabling feeds. Here’s a post that covers it. A few google searches will lead to many more posts.
    http://www.doitwithwp.com/completely-remove-rss-feeds-in-wordpress/

    Thread Starter sneakerobsession

    (@sneakerobsession)

    14 years, 2 months ago

    That doesn’t seem to completely do the trick, for some reason or another.

    It disables it when you go to “/rss”, “/atom” and “/rdf”, however, when you just go to “/feed”, there’s still a feed listed.

    Len

    (@lenk)

    14 years, 2 months ago

    Hi sneakerobsession

    The solution posted by jevets should work. After adding the pertinent code to your theme’s functions.php file, go to your last post and hit update. That should clear the cache, which is probably what we’re looking at.

    Thread Starter sneakerobsession

    (@sneakerobsession)

    14 years, 2 months ago

    Thank you both. Works like a charm.

    Len

    (@lenk)

    14 years, 2 months ago

    You’re most welcome. Could you mark this thread as resolved please?

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