[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #43604: Add option to completely disable syndication feeds

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#43604: Add option to completely disable syndication feeds
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 Reporter:  seanleavey          |      Owner:
     Type:  enhancement         |     Status:  new
 Priority:  normal              |  Milestone:  Awaiting Review
Component:  Feeds               |    Version:  trunk
 Severity:  normal              |   Keywords:
  Focuses:  ui, administration  |
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 Some site owners do not want to provide RSS/Atom/whatever feeds, for
 various reasons. Right now, there is no way to globally disable feeds. The
 current way to disable feeds involves:

  - hiding feed URLs from the end user (by removing the "Meta" widget from
 the sidebar and removing the feed links from the header)
  - filtering the functions that write the feed URLs
  - disabling feed endpoints by deleting the array containing the feed
 types in WordPress core
  - hooking in to the `do_feed_x` actions to redirect the user to a 404

 See for example the instructions for disabling feeds one user provides
 [https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/33072/how-to-remove-feeds-
 from-wordpress-totally here].

 It would be nice if there was a setting in `options-reading.php` to
 disable syndication feeds altogether, which disables display and
 generation of the feeds across the whole site.

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