How can you completely disable syndication?

chep · Post by **chep** » Sat Feb 10, 2007 11:14 pm

I have removed the syndication links from the sidebar.

The problem is that people are still using the feed links and extrapolating the feeds.

In order to conserve the MySQL query hits per day I want to completely disable feeds from my blog.

How can I accomplish this?

stm999999999 · Post by **stm999999999** » Sun Feb 11, 2007 4:09 pm

what is about using feedburner? You can redirect the feed-access to feedburner and feedburner will only access the original feed some times a day.

chep · Post by **chep** » Sun Feb 11, 2007 5:57 pm

I installed feedburner flare which doesnt look like that I want as it just adds a feed to the bottom of each entry... but how does somebody use it??? Was there something else you are talking about?

Anyone? I wouldn't believe that I am the first person asking for this. It's really bad when you have a bundle of people who fetch the RSS feeds every two minutes 24 hours a day.

chep · Post by **chep** » Sun Feb 11, 2007 11:52 pm

Aha! I went fishing and found what I needed here:

http://board.s9y.org/viewtopic.php?t=61 ... light=feed

Now I have to see if it actually polls from my feed every time or just a few times a day...

Post by **garvinhicking** » Mon Feb 12, 2007 1:58 pm

Hi!

If you really want to disable it, you can also just remove or rename the 'rss.php' file

Best regards,
Garvin

chep · Post by **chep** » Mon Feb 12, 2007 7:12 pm

Thanks for the tip. I preferred not to disable it for now. However I will keep that tool in the arsenal in case I need to use it.

I think that feedburner will work for me right now. It polls every 30 minutes and redirects the users to feedburner instead of nickel and diming MySQL usage every 2 minutes when my blog only changes at most once a day.