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Hey @venutius, good to know. I appreciate you keeping this thread alive.

You know, I’ve been thinking seriously about simply redirecting (or rewriting) anything that ends in /rss or /feed to the “not found” page, so as to solve the problem once and for all (and not just for BP and BBP). I *thought* this would be easy either using .htaccess or installing my own rewrite rules in WP. But I haven’t been able to make either approach work yet! (Ignorance on my part, I’m sure.)

But I guess that’s way beyond the scope of this forum.

This is something I’m working on in the plugin I’m building as a result of this thread: https://buddypress.org/support/topic/disable-rss/

I already have the code to remove stuff from wp search in another plugin I have, I just need to put that into this new plugin and update it specifically for this task.

I should have some code in the next week.

Currently, I’ve got part of the solution, I can redirect all the bbPress feed links to a 404 or back to the originating page. However, I want to remove those links, and ideally stop the rss functions from being triggered. I did find some clues for that on friday when I last worked on it, and should be back working on it on Monday.

Yep could you create a new thread for this? It just means we keep to the same topic and it won’t confuse future viewers.

I’ve decided to write a new bp privacy plugin which makes all bbp, wp, and bp pages private, disables xml rpc and also rest, removes the rss links and aims to deal with all privacy issues in one plugin, with settings to give flexibility.

Thanks Venutius, I spent some time using your code along with ChatGPT and this seems to have worked for me, all the feeds are gone….maybe this will help someone else!

function disable_all_rss_feeds() {
    // Disable all WordPress feeds
    function disable_all_feeds() {
        wp_die(__('No feed available, please visit the <a href="'. get_bloginfo('url') .'">homepage</a>!'));
    }

    add_action('do_feed', 'disable_all_feeds', 1);
    add_action('do_feed_rdf', 'disable_all_feeds', 1);
    add_action('do_feed_rss', 'disable_all_feeds', 1);
    add_action('do_feed_rss2', 'disable_all_feeds', 1);
    add_action('do_feed_atom', 'disable_all_feeds', 1);
    add_action('do_feed_rss2_comments', 'disable_all_feeds', 1);
    add_action('do_feed_atom_comments', 'disable_all_feeds', 1);

    // Remove RSS feed links from the header
    remove_action('wp_head', 'feed_links', 2);
    remove_action('wp_head', 'feed_links_extra', 3);

    // Disable BuddyPress feeds
    remove_action('bp_activity_feed', 'bp_activity_action_sitewide_feed');
    remove_action('bp_activity_sitewide_feed', 'bp_activity_action_sitewide_feed');
    remove_action('bp_member_activity_feed', 'bp_activity_action_sitewide_feed');
    remove_action('bp_group_activity_feed', 'bp_activity_action_sitewide_feed');
    remove_action('bp_member_feed', 'bp_dtheme_activity_feed');
    remove_action('bp_group_feed', 'bp_dtheme_group_activity_feed');

    // BuddyPress Nouveau template pack feed removals
    remove_action('bp_nouveau_group_header_meta', 'bp_nouveau_group_meta', 50);
    remove_action('bp_nouveau_group_header_meta', 'bp_nouveau_group_meta', 50);
    remove_action('bp_nouveau_action_activity_content', 'bp_nouveau_activity_feed', 5);

    // Disable BuddyPress members feeds
    remove_action('bp_members_directory_members_feed', 'bp_members_feed');

    // Disable BuddyPress groups feeds
    remove_action('bp_groups_directory_groups_feed', 'bp_groups_feed');
    remove_action('bp_group_activity_feed', 'bp_group_activity_custom_feed');

    // Disable BuddyPress blogs feeds
    remove_action('bp_blogs_directory_blogs_feed', 'bp_blogs_feed');
    remove_action('bp_blog_comments_feed', 'bp_blog_comments_custom_feed');

    // Disable BuddyPress forums feeds
    remove_action('bp_forums_directory_topics_feed', 'bp_forums_feed');
    remove_action('bp_forums_topic_feed', 'bp_forum_topic_custom_feed');
}
add_action('bp_init', 'disable_all_rss_feeds', 1);

// Disable BuddyPress Nouveau feeds
function disable_buddypress_nouveau_feeds() {
    remove_action('bp_nouveau_activity_feed', 'bp_nouveau_activity_feed');
    remove_action('bp_nouveau_group_feed', 'bp_nouveau_group_feed');
}
add_action('bp_init', 'disable_buddypress_nouveau_feeds', 1);

// Disable pingbacks and trackbacks for privacy
add_filter('xmlrpc_methods', function($methods) {
    unset($methods['pingback.ping']);
    return $methods;
});

add_filter('wp_headers', function($headers) {
    unset($headers['X-Pingback']);
    return $headers;
});

add_filter('pings_open', '__return_false', 10, 2);

// Remove RSS feed div by ID and class using jQuery
function remove_rss_feed_div() {
    if (is_buddypress()) {
        ?>
        <script type="text/javascript">
        jQuery(document).ready(function($) {
            $('#activity-rss-feed.feed').remove();
        });
        </script>
        <?php
    }
}
add_action('wp_footer', 'remove_rss_feed_div');

add_filter( 'bp_rest_api_is_available', '__return_false' );

Same issue cropped up for me three years ago …
I chose to simply hide the RSS feed button…

Add CSS to Customiser …

.feed { display: none !important; }

No perfmatters here!

Have same problem https://buddypress.org/support/topic/a-critical-error-has-occurred-on-this-site/

But sims to be a bug! i dont now. I hade never this problem vid buddypress vid wp before. RSS? no its not solution for this problem and i have deaktivate all other plugins, but dont changes enything! same trouble. Så i waiting for some solution here!

Is there a way to delete/block/disable all the RSS feeds?

Did you read here how to do it – https://perfmatters.io/docs/disable-rss-feeds-wordpress/

You can use https://wordpress.org/plugins/loginpress/ to style the default wp-login page or If you are planning to use any custom login page using any page builder you can use create it and map newly created page to login button in header via theme customiser setting for page mapping.
to disable rss feed
https://pastebin.com/zaiGH4Dr