Disable RSS feed

Question

Is it possible to disable the RSS feed? I have a site that it isn't relevant for and just don't want it.

If it is not possible, how can I restrict what appears? How does Drupal choose what content appears in the feed?

Answer 1

Drupal 7

For D7 simply use Disable RSS.

This module will disable the core RSS feed at http://example.com/rss.xml, and remove any reference to it in the html header.

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Drupal 8

In D8 the feed is provided by a view. Disabling it will disable the feed. Go to http://example.com/admin/structure/views/view/frontpage/edit/feed_1 and disable this display:

Answer 2

Just disable the feeds' view on default taxonomy term view.

Answer 3

You disable in views {example.com}/admin/structure/views/view/frontpage/edit/feed_1 {example.com}/admin/structure/views/view/taxonomy_term/edit/feed_1

Choices menu Disable Feed

Answer 4

Drupal 7

Just unset the menu entries related to RSS. This allows to disable not only the main rss.xml but also blog and taxonomy feeds.

In a module add a hook to alter the menu:

function yourmodule_menu_alter(&$items) {
  unset($items['rss.xml']);
  unset($items['blog/%user/feed']);
  unset($items['taxonomy/term/%taxonomy_term/feed']);
}

Remember to clear the caches after adding this code (e.g. drush cc all).

Answer 5

You need to edit your page.tpl.php file and comment out or delete:

<?php print $feed_icons; ?>

Note: This will work only if no one has subscribed to the feed yet.

Answer 6

In Drupal 8 the printing of feeds is called from the theme.
The core base theme "Stable" inserts a line at the bottom of the template core/themes/stable/templates/views/views-view.html.twig that looks like {{ feed_icons }}. Just delete it. I'm trying out the basetheme "fortytwo" which has its own template views-view.html.twig and the relevant section is also at the bottom but looks like

{% if feed_icons %}
   <div class="feed-icons">
    {{ feed_icons }}
   </div>
{% endif %}

so the section to delete may vary.