RSS, Atom and RDF feeds are only useful if people subscribe to your content. If you run WordPress mainly as a website, not a blog, they’re overhead. Feeds switches them off, and gives you a choice of what happens when someone asks for one.
Settings
- Disable feeds: blocks every RSS, Atom and RDF feed and removes the feed links from your pages.
- When a feed is requested:
- Redirect to the matching page: a category’s feed goes to that category, a post’s comment feed goes to the post, and so on. Friendly for visitors and search engines.
- Return a 404 Not Found: makes it clear the feed no longer exists.
- Keep the main site feeds: still allows your main post feed (
/feed/) and main comment feed (/comments/feed/), and switches off every other feed: categories, tags, authors, search and individual posts’ comments.
Examples
| Request | Redirect | 404 and keep the main feeds |
|---|---|---|
/feed/ | the homepage | served as usual |
/category/news/feed/ | /category/news/ | 404 |
/hello-world/feed/ | /hello-world/ | 404 |
This section overrides Head Cleanup's RSS Feeds
While this section is on, its choices decide what feed addresses do, even if HTML Head Cleanup → RSS Feeds is also on.
See also HTML Head Cleanup and Comments.
Get the plugin: All-in-One Utilities is free, so you can add it to any site. Then, when you need more, its premium add-ons add extra features.