can I block Feed in wordpress? Wise?

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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?
#search engine optimization #block #feed #wise #wordpress


  • 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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