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Disable RSS Feeds Free

Turn off WordPress RSS feeds

Switch off the RSS and Atom feeds WordPress publishes for posts, comments and archives.

Free on WordPress.org, with nothing locked behind Pro.

in the free plugin
Free
Performance & Control modules
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Why you need Disable RSS Feeds

Feeds expose your content to scrapers and add URLs search engines crawl, on sites that never wanted syndication in the first place.

What Disable RSS Feeds does

  • All feeds off Post, comment and archive feeds stop being served.

Where Disable RSS Feeds helps

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    Business and members sites

    Keep content on your own pages instead of in scrapers’ feeds.

Disable RSS Feeds vs Disable Feeds

Disable Feeds has 20k+ active installs on WordPress.org. If you only need this one job, that’s a fine choice. If the site also needs other modules on this list, it’s one less plugin to update.

The difference
Disable RSS Feeds does the same core job inside WP Extended, so it shares one settings screen, one update and one support team with every other module you use.

Disable RSS Feeds questions

Disable RSS Feeds documentation

Yes. It is in the free plugin, with no settings to configure.

Get Disable RSS Feeds free

Disable RSS Feeds is in the free plugin on WordPress.org, alongside 34 other free modules you can switch on when you need them.

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