Title: Kill the RSS ?
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Kill the RSS ?

 *  [Mark (podz)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/podz/)
 * (@podz)
 * [22 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/kill-the-rss/)
 * Is there a way of actually disabling the RSS feed completely ?
    I will be starting
   another weblog, but it will have much longer articles in it, and the frequency
   of publishing it to it will be lower – maybe only 2 articles / month. If someone
   subcribes the feed as it is to something like Bloglines, or a desktop newsreader,
   they will be pulling in the same data repeatedly for no benefit to them, yet 
   at a bandwidth cost to me. So I’d like to kill it off – not just hide / disguise
   the link. I know that the risk of repeat visitors just to see if there is a new
   post will also affect b/w, but again, I plan to have a date set for the next 
   article which will go against that. Also, that risk depends on someone taking
   the time to click a link. Once someone has subbed your blog to a service, it 
   goes automatically. (and on a side note, has anyone seen anything about discovering
   who *is* taking your feed ? and how often ? Server logs tell you so much, but
   not always everything. I search on this regularly, but have yet to find anything.)

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 *  Anonymous
 * [22 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/kill-the-rss/#post-55586)
 * Most readers support conditional GET, so should get a 304 Not Modified message
   instead of pulling the whole feed. It’d still use some bandwidth, but not nearly
   as much.
 *  [thomasmaas](https://wordpress.org/support/users/thomasmaas/)
 * (@thomasmaas)
 * [22 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/kill-the-rss/#post-55655)
 * on the side note:
    1) redirect links in feed If you only put the intro of your
   articles in your feeds you could put different links that redirect to the actual
   aricle. By logging this redirect you can measure howmany people looked up the
   article in a browser coming from a feed. example: [http://www.bbc.co.uk/syndication/feeds/news/ukfs_news/front_page/rss091.xml](http://www.bbc.co.uk/syndication/feeds/news/ukfs_news/front_page/rss091.xml)
   1) subscription feed (“private rss”) i.e. with http auth. for compatibility see
   [http://labs.silverorange.com/archives/2003/july/privaterss](http://labs.silverorange.com/archives/2003/july/privaterss)
 *  [carthik](https://wordpress.org/support/users/carthik/)
 * (@carthik)
 * [22 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/kill-the-rss/#post-55660)
 * podz, if you want to remove them, then delete the files wp-rss2.php etc, and 
   they will not be able to get to the feeds. I am not sure this is what you want
   though.
 *  [sead](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sead/)
 * (@sead)
 * [21 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/kill-the-rss/#post-56564)
 * Thank you so much.Just ran a search.I definately AM looking for a way to kill
   RSS feeds! I wasn’t sure whether deleting those files would break anything else.
 * Much appreciated.

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