{"id":67385,"date":"2011-12-22T08:00:08","date_gmt":"2011-12-22T13:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wpmu.org\/?p=67385"},"modified":"2012-11-20T14:58:55","modified_gmt":"2012-11-20T19:58:55","slug":"daily-tip-disable-your-wordpress-rss-feed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/daily-tip-disable-your-wordpress-rss-feed\/","title":{"rendered":"Disable Your WordPress RSS Feed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"lightbox[67385]\" class=\"blog-thumbnail\" href=\"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/daily-tip-disable-your-wordpress-rss-feed\/closed-big\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-67386\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-67386\" src=\"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/closed-big.jpg\" alt=\"Post image\" aria-hidden=\"true\" width=\"628\" height=\"359\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Although most people will always want to keep their RSS feed running, you may have a reason for wanting it shut down. Many people, for example, think they are running a private blog, yet they still have their RSS feed pumping out the content of the site to whomever wants to read it.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/extend\/plugins\/disable-rss\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Disable RSS plugin<\/a> will shut your feed down for you. (Note: This plugin is a little old, but it worked for me. Another &#8220;disable RSS&#8221; plugin I tried that was much more recent didn&#8217;t work.)<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"lightbox[67385]\" class=\"blog-thumbnail\" href=\"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/daily-tip-disable-your-wordpress-rss-feed\/disable-rss\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-67388\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-67388\" src=\"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/disable-rss.jpg\" alt=\"Post image\" aria-hidden=\"true\" width=\"626\" height=\"250\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nAnd that\u2019s pretty much it. Nothing to see here, folks. Move along, move along.<\/p>\n\n<p>Photo: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bigstockphoto.com\/image-157111\/stock-photo-aged-sorry-we%27re-closed\" target=\"_blank\">Aged Sorry We&#8217;re Closed<\/a> from BigStock<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you need to shut it down for some reason, this will do the trick.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84404,"featured_media":67387,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"blog_reading_time":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_tutorials_categories":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[803],"tutorials_categories":[],"class_list":["post-67385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plugins","tag-rss"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84404"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67385"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":216243,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67385\/revisions\/216243"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67385"},{"taxonomy":"tutorials_categories","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tutorials_categories?post=67385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}