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Did you ever solve this? I’m looking to do the same thing! I can’t believe more people don’t have this same problem.

ok, the quick fix is to install – https://wordpress.org/plugins/disable-feeds-wp/

So long as this is set to redirect to the homepage (in settings>>Reading), then is will redirect all feed requests to the referring page.

However, those feeds are still being produced, and I have found a filter to disable them completely.

‘bp_is_action_variable’

I’ll see if I can come up with some code for this later.

This is a very quick and dirty way to remove those feeds –

add_action( 'bp_init', 'disable_bp_activity_feeds' );  

function disable_bp_activity_feeds() {  
    remove_action( 'bp_actions', 'bp_activity_action_sitewide_feed' ); 
    remove_action( 'bp_actions', 'bp_activity_action_personal_feed' );
    remove_action( 'bp_actions', 'bp_activity_action_friends_feed' );
    remove_action( 'bp_actions', 'bp_activity_action_my_groups_feed' );
    remove_action( 'bp_actions', 'bp_activity_action_mentions_feed' );
    remove_action( 'bp_actions', 'bp_activity_action_favorites_feed' );
}

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' );

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.

I woke up thinking, don’t forget bbPress.

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.

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.

@mike8022 It’s certainly something something that I’ve done, because removing items from search can really hit large servers, it’s a known performance issue. So it’s better to not offer search to the bots, so that you can have a more nuanced approach to search for logged in users, and also for people visiting the site. A bot should not ne using search at all, in fact this is a primary part of a DOS attack, to het WordPress constantly searching for none existent pages. So what I’m thinking for my plugin, is to exclude bots from all searches, to give logged in users full search, and to have controls on what site visitors are able to search for. Included in this is the need to have control over the xml sitemap, and to enable hard rules for exactly what site visitors are allow to search for. Include in this a strategy of honeypots and other traps for those with prying eyes.

bbPress tags seem be a bit of a target, as a lot of the security solutions out there do not cover them. it pretty simple to turn those off for not logged in users, and also to choose to turn them off just for bots I reckon, but it shows a comprehensive approach is needed I reckon, and this DOS attack I’m looking at currently is helping my ideas gel into that comprehensive approach. As I see it, ideally, next time I get an attack, I’ll have a single page allowing me to lock down the entire site if I need to.

@venutius,

How about this for bbPress:

function goto_home() {
    wp_redirect(get_option('siteurl'));
}
add_action('bbp_feed', 'goto_home', 1);

@whyknott, are you using bbPress or only BuddyPress. I didn’t see anything in what you posted above that would disable bbPress feeds.

Actually, for my purposes the redirect actually works better for all the disables that wp_die() which appears to result in a funny page that some browser still think is an XML page. Does anyone know of a downside in using wp_redirect() here?