Remove RSS Feed Button, Standard Theme
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I’m not wild about having my blog on an RSS feed. Is there a way to remove the RSS button from the top menu bar of my blog and remove it from the RSS feed?
At some point, I may add it back, but right now, I’d prefer not to have it.
Thanks in advance for your help.
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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Hi,
I cannot check the exact RSS feature you’re referring to since your blog is private. However, if you’re referring to the RSS widget, you can take this widget out by going to My Sites > Customize > Widgets. Look for your RSS widget, click its respective drop down arrow and look for the option remove. -
Yes, my blog isn’t live yet and won’t be until I get it completely set up. I’m not wild about having an RSS feed that broadcasts my every move to the world… lol.
There is a button on the top menu bar. I’m fairly certain this change will require CSS customization.
Thanks, Carladoria! Have a great evening.
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Hi there, we can hide the RSS button, but that does not disable the RSS feed. It exists regardless of whether the RSS feed icon is showing or not, and all someone has to do is add the appropriate bit to the end of your site URL to get the RSS feed. In this case, /feed/.
Here is the CSS to hide the RSS feed link.
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Thanks again for your kind help.
Is there any way to completely disable the RSS feed?
When someone goes to that page on my site, I’d like it to say something like “Page Not Found.” Right now, I have the blog set to private, and I am terrified to remove it from that status if I feel like I’m being stalked online, if you know what I mean. I’d like to be able to delete posts and not have worry about them show up in feed readers. I do have some friends with blogs that do not seem to be archived; so, I suspect this must be possible.
Thanks in advance for your advice.
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Hmmm… if I set the syndication feeds to 0 (in the reading area), that might do what I want.
Except, it looks like there are some “site stalking” services out there, according to this:
So, I guess no matter what you do, it’s important not to post anything out there that could come back to bite you… lol.
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Update: I did try setting the number of posts to zero, but I got a message saying it had to be at least one. *sigh*
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Is there any way to completely disable the RSS feed?
No there is not. If you were hosting your own WordPress installation on a different web host, you may be able to find a plugin. A quick search of WordPress.org plugins yielded two, but neither have been updated lately so I would be reluctant to use them. You could, if you were self-hosted, hire s plugin developer to build one for you. It might not be too expensive, but there is always the chance that a future update to WordPress would render it inoperative and you would then have have it updated to again work.
Scrapers and such on the internet do not need an RSS feed. They can visit the pages on your site and pull things directly off of it.
You could set your site to Private and then invite only those you want to see your stuff. Even this though is not a sure thing. Someone you invited could copy/paste some of your stuff and publish it somewhere else on the web, or pass it around in emails.
My rule is: NEVER put anything on the internet you do not want others to find. Period. This goes for text-based stuff as well as images etc.
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Thanks, Sacred Path.
I do programming, but when I was in high school, we used Fortran and marked cards… lol. I haven’t much time to really dig into web programming and CSS. I understand that web spiders can crawl your site and such. I know better than anyone else that you don’t put anything online that you don’t want printed in the New York Times. How? Well, I used to chat on the classical music boards of a service called Prodigy. One of my conversations ended up in the New York Times. Pretty amusing, actually.
I don’t particularly want my site to be private after it goes live (the point is to connect and share), but I don’t necessarily want people informed about a new article or something the second it gets posted. Why? I may edit it a couple of times while I’m playing with it. I suppose I could train myself to do this with the “draft” version. I also found that there is a “summary” box that you can check under the “Reading” area, and that might be useful, as it only puts small portions of an article in the feed.
To me, it would make more sense to allow the site owner to control when the reader notifications take place. Oh well. I guess I will have to learn to live within the system and make sure everything is perfect before it leaves the “draft” form.
Thanks again for your help. I’m having fun playing with all of this!
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I do programming, but when I was in high school, we used Fortran and marked cards…
Yup, me too. :)
In general, most people want notification sent out nearly immediately, so being able to set a delay is something that we have probably never really considered.
You can schedule a post, if that is something that would work for you. You can set it to a future date, perhaps a couple days.
I have the same issue. No matter how many times I edit or read through a draft, I always find something else after I publish. It’s something I do my best to keep from happening, but it does.
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Yep, Fortran. Those were the days. And ADA, and 8086A assembly language, and Pascal… oh, I could go on… lol.
As far as the RSS stuff goes, I can work around it, but it will force me to be more careful. I’ll just have to remember to tweak everything until I’m content in the “draft” area. It’s good to iron all of these details out before I make my site live.
Thanks again for all of your help.
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