[wp-hackers] Disabling Feeds
Trevor Turk
trevorturk at yahoo.com
Mon Sep 12 21:03:54 GMT 2005
I've been looking high and low for a way to disable
feeds (for security) without changing any "core"
files. I'm using the registered_only plugin
(http://carthik.net/blog/vault/2005/05/12/registered-only-plugin-reworked/)
and trying to plug the last hole - disabling feeds.
I was looking into plugins, and I think I have
something here that would work. Here's the content of
it:
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$disablemessage = '';
function disableFeeds($content) {
global $disablemessage;
if(is_feed()) {
return $disablemessage;
} else {
return $content;
}
}
add_filter('the_content', 'disableFeeds');
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I haven't tested at all, but that's just to give you
an idea of what it would do and what I've been looking
at doing.
HOWEVER, I just realized - you can set the number of
items to show in your feeds via Options -> Reading.
So, I set that option to 0, and now the feeds all seem
to be empty.
The question is: does setting this option to 0
effectively "disable" all of your feeds?
Obviously, I'd love a way to "protect" instead of
"disable" these feeds, but disabling them is good
enough for now. Most people don't even know what RSS
is anyway...
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