Blocking feed

  • Resolved ontheroad

    (@ontheroad)


    1 month, 3 weeks ago

    Hi Jeff,

    Quick question for you. I’ve narrowed down the feed error

    wp_die WordPress &rsaquo; Error No feed available,please visit our <a href=”https://www.example.com”>homepage</a&gt;!

    To Blackhole for Bad Bots – when the plugin is disabled the feed works again. I’ve tried adding /feed/ etc to the settings of bots to include (hoping) but to no avail. I’m aware feeds can be fetched by any number of bots, though my own browsers chrome, FF are also getting the error.

    Anyway of fixing this?

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  • Thread Starter ontheroad

    (@ontheroad)

    1 month, 3 weeks ago

    Apologies, it’s

    Disable XML-RPC-API that’s causing the issue.

    No idea why it worked for a while after disabling Blackhole. Feel free to delete this post.

    Plugin Author Jeff Starr

    (@specialk)

    1 month, 3 weeks ago

    Thanks for the follow-up, glad you determined the cause of the issue. I will go ahead and mark this topic as resolved. Cheers, @ontheroad.

    techguysa

    (@techguysa)

    3 weeks, 6 days ago

    @ontheroad

    You can do that via htaccess instead of a plugin. its more lightweight less stuff too

    # Block WordPress xmlrpc.php requests
<Files xmlrpc.php>
    Order Deny,Allow
    Deny from all
</Files>

    or if you want to add just your static IP

    # Block WordPress xmlrpc.php requests
<Files xmlrpc.php>
    Order Deny,Allow
    Deny from all
    Allow from xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
</Files>
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