Title: RSS Feeds – Disable
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# RSS Feeds – Disable

 *  [earleygirl](https://wordpress.org/support/users/earleygirl/)
 * (@earleygirl)
 * [20 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-feeds-disable/)
 * Is there a way to deactivate the feeds? I don’t wish to offer RSS feeds right
   now so I’d like to turn the feature off. If there isn’t a way to do this in the
   Admin, where within the templates would I find it? I see links in the code for
   this in the sidebar.php and the header.php. (Do I need to have the RSS links 
   in the header?) Would I simply delete those links?
 * Also, forgive the terminology if I’m using it wrong. RSS/XML/Feeds is what I’m
   trying to disable. I don’t want any readers hitting the site and grabbing content
   or comments.
 * Thanks,
    EG

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 *  [fruitfly](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fruitfly/)
 * (@fruitfly)
 * [20 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-feeds-disable/#post-328362)
 * The only option in the admin is the number of posts, so conceivably, you could
   set that to 0 and that would effectively kill feeds. However, your site will 
   still have a feed, just one that won’t load.
 * If someone else has a better solution, feel free to correct me, but this is what
   I would do:
 * Take all of the RSS links in the header out (no, you don’t need to have those).
 * And then just to make sure – I’d remove wp-feed.php, wp-rdf.php, wp-rss.php, 
   and wp-rss2.php from the main directory. AFAIK, those files only apply to the
   feeds, and this way there’s no feed published at all.
 * HTH.
 *  Thread Starter [earleygirl](https://wordpress.org/support/users/earleygirl/)
 * (@earleygirl)
 * [20 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-feeds-disable/#post-328420)
 * Thanks Fruitfly!

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 * [RSS](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/rss/)

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