Title: rss?
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# rss?

 *  [Andy Skelton](https://wordpress.org/support/users/andy/)
 * (@andy)
 * [22 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-2/)
 * kinda new to wordpress so the features are overwhelming to me haha. jst wanted
   to know what rss is and if i can disable it somehow. going for that simplicity
   design heh. and also what’s pingback? im thinking its sending your post to another
   site or something but no sure.

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 *  [alexkingorg](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alexkingorg/)
 * (@alexkingorg)
 * [22 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-2/#post-24670)
 * RSS is Rich Site Summmary or Really Simple Syndication depending on who you talk
   to. It is a really good thing, don’t turn it off. 🙂
    I talked about it some 
   on my blog after I started using it: [http://www.alexking.org/blog/index.php?p=103](http://www.alexking.org/blog/index.php?p=103)
   and there is a ‘what is RSS’ article here: [http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2002/12/18/dive-into-xml.html](http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2002/12/18/dive-into-xml.html)
 *  [blueblimp](https://wordpress.org/support/users/blueblimp/)
 * (@blueblimp)
 * [22 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-2/#post-24671)
 * Rss is short for Rich/RDF Site Summary (or Really Simple Syndication) . They 
   are XML files that allow other website or readers and such to pull the content
   from your blog and reference it. There are also programs that pull all these 
   into one place (ex: all my daily comics, news sites, blogs etc. get pulled into
   a single program.) so a person never had to go out and visit every single wesite.
   I use one called sharpreader (www.sharpreader.com).
    I would suggest leaving 
   them alone but if you REALLY want to you could just delete the files marked rss
   and then remove the links to them in the template file.
 *  [otaku42](https://wordpress.org/support/users/otaku42/)
 * (@otaku42)
 * [22 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-2/#post-24672)
 * Hi.
    RSS is a XML format (actually WordPress supports three different formats
   with the same purpose) that allows others to import your headlines to their pages.
   This is important for news aggregation sites, for example, which provide an overview
   on the news that are provided by a huge amount of pages. But it also allows other
   blog users to import news items that they find interesting enough. If you want
   to know more about RSS, you should take a look at [What is RSS?](http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2002/12/18/dive-into-xml.html),
   an article by Mark Pilgrim. You can turn off RSS support by simply renaming and/
   or deleting the files b2rss.php, b2rss2.php and b2rdf.php from your WordPress
   directory. Pingback is a feature that allows you to inform other bloggers that
   you referenced a blog entry in your blog. “Referencing” in the meaning of “I 
   mentioned your URL in one of my blog entries, which can be found here”. This,
   as well as TrackBack, allows some kind of virtual meshing between blogs. Hope
   that helps. Bye, Mike
 *  [mulinux](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mulinux/)
 * (@mulinux)
 * [22 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-2/#post-25191)
 * I’m playing with [magpie rss](http://magpierss.sourceforge.net/) for a news page.
   right now it’s all static RSS links (yahoo news etc.)
    I’m considering adding
   a table for RSS links that are user specific. So user Joe can view his favorite
   RSS feeds, same for user Sally and so on… Initially I think I’d re-use much of
   the table definition that “links” already uses, and ultimately add an admin page
   that’s much the same. Is there enough interest in a feature like this in the 
   project? Speaking of links, I haven’t tested, but are they user specific? (each
   logged in user sees their own blog roll?) -mulinux

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