Remove or disable RSS feed

peregrine

@vrijvlinder said:
I can see now that it works.

Please use the browser extension Reload css so you can see the changes right away.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/css-reloader/dnfpcpfijpdhabaoieccoclghgplmpbd?hl=en

ok @vrijvlinder

I'm giving you 3 points. that is a nice tool.

vrijvlinder

Yes I would be a much angrier person without it

showstuff

this should work the same way if I am embedding the forum, correct? (if not, I need to head back to the liquor store...)

showstuff

see it embedded here: www.showstuff.org/forum.html

vrijvlinder

No you can't refresh the css of the forum while it is embedded. Only the style of where it is embedded.

The embedded will look the same as your forum when the cached pages refresh sometime in the foreseeable future.

showstuff

Thank you very much for sharing your time and expertise!

vrijvlinder

You are very welcome !

peregrine

@vrijvlinder

Maybe there should be a plugin called noRSS which blocks the feed altogether

I don't recommend this - but this would be a BAD way to break feeds.

<?php if (!defined('APPLICATION')) exit();
$PluginInfo['RSSDisabler'] = array(
   'Name' => 'RSS disabler',
   'Description' => 'Breaks your rss feeds (and breaks Googlebot from using Sitemaps, which you may not want to do)',
   'Version' => '1.0',
   'Author' => 'The Disabler',
   'MobileFriendly' => TRUE
);
class RSSDisabler extends Gdn_Plugin {

//http://localhost/vanilla/categories/general/feed.rss
}
/* Don't ever add the closing ?>  like you see below in your plugins because it will break your feeds, etc.*/
?>

vrijvlinder

or maybe adding this will remove it from the head so it wont be crawled ?

// head
         $this->Head->RemoveRss($this->SelfUrl.'/feed.rss', $this->Head->Title());

showstuff

off topic but I can't find the info... are the buttons below each post in this thread part of a plugin or the theme?

Flag, Quote, Insightful, ... Facebook, Twitter (those are cool)

vrijvlinder

Yes , it is just for this forum, but you can use the YAGA app which provides a good alternative. Also Peregrine badges and Peregrine reactions plugins.

showstuff

thanks...

vrijvlinder

Try pressing the eye or the heart to show you liked the help you got. It helps us gain points towards a house in Fiji. It's a time share but we are not kicking the gift yak in the mouth

showstuff

WILL DO!

peregrine

commenting this line would stop display even if someone had a link.

It would stop display of content but still allow the rss link to show category name.

https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla/blob/2.1/applications/dashboard/views/rss.master#L23

peregrine

@showstuff

you know with your caching issues - you could use

http://vanillaforums.org/addon/cssedit-plugin

and probably overcome the issues of caching and seeing changes instantaneously with the cssedit plugin.

showstuff

@peregrine‌

thanks, I'll give that a try...

showstuff

@peregrine‌

Where is the +1,000 point button? I would click it twice for you!

Icons are now gone! and I followed your advice on commenting out that line to stop display altogether.

peregrine

thx for feedback, 900 points of the 1000 points should go to Bleistivt for creating a plugin that helps busting caches among other things.

To me it seems it is a great plugin for developing when you have cloudflare or something similar installed, and don't have access to turn it off.

http://vanillaforums.org/addon/cssedit-plugin

I was just the messenger. you could add some feedback to his plugin feedback, to mention how it helped.

probably better to add a routing statement than changing core -

see what linc said:
https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla/issues/2168

I was thinking you wanted to prevent rss feeds for the purpose of blocking people from embedding your forum feeds on their sites.

kind of like: http://www.thesitewizard.com/apache/frame-blocking-anti-clickjacking.shtml

not sure what your goal was or why of if the X-FRAME-OPTIONS are still used or applicable.

showstuff

I was primarily dealing with the aesthetics of removing the icon; my intent to eliminate the functionality was secondary.