Turning off RSS publishing in Drupal 7

By tgeller on 18 Oct 2010 at 01:14 UTC

I have an oddly simple question. Is it possible to prevent RSS feeds from being published in Drupal 7?

[Edited for clarity]

Comments

Disable the module

rschwab commented 18 October 2010 at 04:51

Disable the Aggregator module?

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Trying to disable RSS publishing, not subscription

tgeller commented 18 October 2010 at 17:39

rschwab writes:

Disable the Aggregator module?

That only affects a site's ability to subscribe to RSS. It doesn't stop it from publishing.

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RSS Permissions (no D7 release...yet?)

sillygwailo

Toronto, ON

commented 18 October 2010 at 17:53

There's a module called RSS Permissions module that does this for Drupal 6, but not yet 7. It might be a good idea to submit a request there for a Drupal 7 release.

There's also discussion about a feature to disable RSS completely: #748956: Disable RSS completely though again, it's still for D6, and testing/reviewing the feature for 6 will help make it possible for a potential D7 release.

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Going into D8, maybe

tgeller commented 18 October 2010 at 18:14

Ah, thanks for the link! Following a link from that module's issue queue brought me to #28337: Add permissions to disable RSS feeds, which was first filed in 2005 and has been put off for D8. Here's to hoping it makes it in!

Any any case, that answers my question: It's not possible in core D6 or D7. Many thanks.

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Port to Drupal 7

sillygwailo

Toronto, ON

commented 18 October 2010 at 21:57

I made a first go at porting the module to D7: #945462: Port to Drupal 7. Still needs a little bit of work on the Taxonomy feed front, though.

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Just a quick note to

tgeller commented 31 January 2012 at 16:46

Just a quick note to recognize that the D7 version is now in beta. Thanks!

http://drupal.org/project/rss_permissions

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theming hack to remove feed link and icons

CarbonTurtle commented 13 October 2011 at 18:47

I spent a while looking for a solution to this same issue. I'm using Drupal 7.8, and I derived the following solution from a solution I found here that was tagged for Drupal 4.7.x and 5.x.

Disclaimer: this doesn't stop D7 from publishing the feed, but it strips the RSS link from the using the theme's template.

My theme is derived from Zen. I copied html.tpl.php and page.tpl.php into my theme's templates directory, where they will override the base template's behavior.

Then, I modified html.tpl.ptp by adding two lines just before the template's "print $head;"

<?php
	$rssfeed_replace_regex = '/<link\s+rel="alternate"\s+type="application\/rss\+xml".+?\/rss.xml"\s+\/>/';
	$head = preg_replace($rssfeed_replace_regex,'',$head);
	print $head; ?>

Then, in page.tpl.php I commented out the line that prints the feed icons:
<?php /* print $feed_icons; */ ?>

I think it'd be great if there was a checkbox in the core config where you could enable or disable feeds.

Feature request

sillygwailo

Toronto, ON

commented 14 October 2011 at 22:58

I've added this as a feature request to the RSS Permissions module: #1310366: Turn off just the link element and feed icon but keep RSS publishing.

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Removing feed link

jmanarivo commented 3 November 2011 at 11:30

I commented out the the 2454th line within the node.module and the function node_page_default(), it's worked !
I'm not an expert but tell me if it's not a good practice!!

/*drupal_add_feed('rss.xml', variable_get('site_name', 'Drupal') . ' ' . t('RSS'));*/

Hi @jmanarivo, modifying core

FiNeX commented 17 November 2011 at 20:12

Hi @jmanarivo, modifying core files is not a good practice, one reason is due to updates: when you will update your Drupal installation you will have to remember to re-apply all the changes you've done.

A better solution is to implement a custom module which override the defaults.

bye!

P.S: http://drupal.org/project/rss_permissions looks quite stable on D7, give it a try.

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I find it ridiculous that RSS

Cablestein commented 3 January 2012 at 21:20

I find it ridiculous that RSS is enabled by default.

hook_html_head_alter

dblue commented 12 January 2012 at 02:34

(I agree with everyone else who thinks RSS should be off by default, but that said...) in D7 at least we now have another (perhaps less hacky) way to stop publishing the link in the document head: hook_html_head_alter.

Be sure to notice what commenter malc0mn said over there on the api reference page, "Unlike other hooks, this is a theme hook..."

To get rid of the offending link, we implemented hook_html_head_alter in our theme's template.php to iterate over the head elements and remove the link for the RSS feed; something along these lines:

function MY_THEME_html_head_alter(&$head_elements) {
	$rss_title = check_plain(variable_get('site_name', 'Drupal')) . ' RSS';
	foreach( $head_elements as $key=>$elem ) {
		if( isset($elem['#attributes']['title']) && ($elem['#attributes']['title'] == $rss_title) ) {
			unset( $head_elements[$key] );
			break;
		}
	}
}

based on dblue solution

kimu commented 26 March 2012 at 16:54

I've made a change on dblue's solution, because site_name couldn't always be the right value to depend on.
Using a regex and unsetting the entire array seems to be more safe.

function MY_THEME_html_head_alter(&$head_elements) {
  foreach ($head_elements as $key => $element) {
    if (preg_match('/drupal_add_html_head_link:alternate:.*/', $key)) {
      unset($head_elements[$key]);
    }
  }  
}

Check for `type == application/rss+xml'

olaf.dietsche commented 20 October 2013 at 15:37

I modified this slightly and checked additionally for #attributes/type being application/rss+xml

function MY_THEME_html_head_alter(&$head_elements) {
    foreach ($head_elements as $key => $element) {
        if (strpos($key, 'drupal_add_html_head_link:alternate:') === 0 &&
            isset($element['#attributes']['type']) &&
            $element['#attributes']['type'] == 'application/rss+xml') {
                unset($head_elements[$key]);
        }
    }
}

Possible solution

cord1 commented 15 February 2012 at 11:10

You find a possible solution here

Possibly useful for some cases, but...

tgeller commented 17 February 2012 at 00:07

As the author notes, that only toggles the RSS icon on and off: Users could still go to the rss.xml address and get at all the data. Still, thanks for mentioning it.

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Just create new node and

KolesnikovD commented 1 July 2012 at 16:43

Just create new node and assign URL alias "rss.xml" to it through path module. Then users will get only that node.

Ooo... sneaky. ;)

tgeller commented 3 July 2012 at 14:26

Great idea!

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How about shrinking the RSS content?

dlshannon commented 1 April 2012 at 10:37

What about limiting the RSS content to a minimum? Through Administration/Configuration/Web services/RSS publishing, I set the "Number of items in each feed" to 1 and the "Feed content" to "Titles only". So, I still have an RSS feed, but there's not much there. BTW, it seems like a simple solution to this would be to allow us to set the "Number of items in each feed" to 0.

Utrecht

commented 1 July 2015 at 21:44

The solution is a combination of removing the link from the theme and using hook_menu_alter to block access. See http://drupal.stackexchange.com/questions/3782/how-to-remove-the-feed-ic...