Disable RSS Feed?

I'm amazed that this has not been addressed. It should be as simple
as disabling a module called "RSS" or something. Almost every other
feature has this functionality. I think maybe they have setup the RSS
to be prevalent throughout the system and are trying to find all the
pieces. That is my best guess on this. I hope this gets resolved. I will
have to revert to other methods now, since I really don't like that icon
on my site. I feel like a complaining machine. We should be more
thankful for all the free functionality it DOES have. :) But, I still hope it
gets resolved.

» Respectfully, GreenLED
» Stable Files . net

I found your post when I was looking for a way to enable my RSS. I'm not sure what went wrong but my site just doesn't have the feed. Is it supposed to be www.xxx.com/node/feed?

http://snippetsnap.com/snippets/1161-Disable-RSS-logo-in-Drupal

This link gives the solution. I tested it and it works

I removed the print $feed_icons; from page.tpl.php theme file and the RSS icon and feeds are disabled too. Walla?

^{(cross-posted for other users benefit since this is the first search result for "disable RSS")}

Note To Core Developers: This should be already be included in the Drupal Core

I am using the simple combination of two techniques from above:
"Turn RSS off the simple way... - dfrake - July 23, 2007"
"On second thoughts, I - menneke - July 25, 2007"

in ./modules/system/system.admin.inc, after line 1433 "function system_rss_feeds_settings() {",

I added the following lines:

  $form['feed_enabled'] = array(
      '#type' => 'checkbox',
      '#title' => t('RSS Feed enabled'),
      '#default_value' => variable_get('feed_enabled', 1),
      '#tree' => FALSE,
      '#description' => t('Check here if you want the RSS Feed to be enabled.')
    );

in ./includes/common.inc, after line 163 "static $stored_feed_links = array();",

I added the following lines:

  if (variable_get('feed_enabled', 1) != 1) {
    return $stored_feed_links;
  }

Now, go to Administer -> Content management -> RSS publishing
Uncheck "RSS Feed enabled" and click "Save configuration"

RSS Feeds are now disabled for Drupal 6.4.

Note to Drupal Users: It has been stated that no new features are being added to Drupal 6, only bugs fixes and security patches. This certainly is a security issue for one site of mine, while also being a desired feature on other sites. Hopefully, someone can get this issue recognized a security issue and get it addressed with the Core group. Thank you.

That temp solution worked, but really hope this feature request goes into D7.

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I get this error in 6.9:

warning: implode() [function.implode]: Invalid arguments passed in /home/username/public_html/URL/includes/common.inc on line 188.

function drupal_get_feeds($delimiter = "\n") {
  $feeds = drupal_add_feed();
  return implode($feeds, $delimiter);
}

Do I need to run update.php for this patch?

Suggestions?

thanks a ton jkmickelson!

this works so well for me .. !! .. exactly what i wanted ! :)

Nice work!!

Btw, not FYI, but for everyones information, I use 6.8

Radhika

Add the following CSS rule to prevent all (!) RSS icons from appearing:

a.feed-icon {
	display: none;
}

NB: Users can reveal and use elements that are hidden this way, by altering the CSS on the client side. Hence, aforementioned solution is an unsecure workaround only!

jkmickelson's trick works in 6.13 and solved a major issue with security in my intranet site. Concur with the general sentiment of this post; this is a security issue in the vein of "privileged data leaking out of the permissions structure via RSS is a catastrophic failure of security", no question about it. If RSS feeds can't obey the permission roles that we lay out for our users, then Drupal fails to provide for the needs of a significant client base of site operators who need to maintain hierarchical sanity. The fix seems simple and consistently stable, why can't it be inserted into the official code?

I suppose on a similar vein, is there any impetus to modulize this work around so that we can avoid futzing about with the core code manually? Thanks to jkm for the assist.

In Drupal 6 you can use hook_menu_alter to remove the rss.xml menu item:

function mymodule_menu_alter(&$items) {
   unset($items['rss.xml']);
}

May be an overkill but it works.

Thanks. This worked perfectly.

Forgive me if I'm wrong, but RSS articles will only be included in the feed if the Anonymous role has access to them. For Drupal 6, there's the Content Access module that lets you limit access by role to each content type.

I have been wondering how to go about doing this as I do not use RSS feeds for my website, works perfectly!

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Just remove $feed_icons from page.tpl.php..

        <?php if ($feed_icons): ?>
          <div class="feed-icons"><?php print $feed_icons; ?></div>
        <?php endif; ?>

Remove this code from your theme's page.tpl.php and you won't see RSS icon again!
Easy way.

I'm a total n00b, and just installed Drupal. I'm trying to disable RSS feeds following jkmickelson's patch, but system.module seems to have changed a bit.
I might be reading this wrong, but system_rss_feeds_settings() is not a "method", but an "array"?
has system_rss_feeds_settings() been moved to a different file?

the contents of system.module for 6.14:

  $items['admin/content/rss-publishing'] = array(
    'title' => 'RSS publishing',
    'description' => 'Configure the number of items per feed and whether feeds should be titles/teasers/full-text.',
    'page callback' => 'drupal_get_form',
    'page arguments' => array('system_rss_feeds_settings'),
    'access arguments' => array('administer site configuration'),
    'file' => 'system.admin.inc',
  );

How do i modify it to include the patch:

    $form['feed_enabled'] = array(
      '#type' => 'checkbox',
      '#title' => t('RSS Feed enabled'),
      '#default_value' => variable_get('feed_enabled', 1),
      '#tree' => FALSE,
      '#description' => t('Check here if you want the RSS Feed to be enabled.')
    );

Any assistance would be appreciated.

The "Feed Icon Jammer" submodule (http://drupal.org/project/jammer) removes (without requiring configuration) the feed icon from themes that use the PHPTemplate engine.

There is a contributed module for that for Drupal 6: http://drupal.org/project/rss_permissions

see also https://www.drupal.org/node/944476