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can I block Feed in wordpress? Wise?

by stockriderman
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One of the blogs we has site.com/feed section which I could not remove unfortunately.
Every day it receives up to 3000(!!!) hits from some kind of feed bots to that page, which in turn slow down the server.
What can I do?
Is there an easy way of perhaps disabling access to that page? If so, any negative of it SEO wise?
#block #feed #wise #wordpress
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    Originally Posted by stockriderman View Post

    my blog has mysite/feed section which I could not remove unfortunately.
    Every day I receive up to 1000(!!!) hits from some kind of feed bots to that page, which in turn slow down the server.
    What can I do?
    Is there an easy way of perhaps disabling access to that page? If so, any negative of it SEO wise?


    Check your server logs and see if the hits are on the wretched XML-RPC function.

    If so you can disable that sucker for good with this code...

    Code:
    add_filter('xmlrpc_enabled', '__return_false');
    Add this code to your Wordpress wp_config.php file after the line...

    require_once(ABSPATH . 'wp-settings.php');

    Take a copy of that file before you start, in case of mishap.

    the wp_config file is in the root domain folder of your site,
    not wp admin/includes or content.

    If you need to keep the XML-RPC make a note of all the IP's hitting it and ban them from your site with a plug-in or .htaccess.
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