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How to delete/remove wordpress feed urls from the head tag in header.php?

Example these URLs:

<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="Example Business &raquo; Feed" href="http://example.com/feed/"/> <link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="Example Business &raquo; Comments Feed" href="http://example.com/comments/feed/"/> <link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="Example Business &raquo; Home Page Live Comments Feed" href="http://example.com/home/feed/"/>

I don't want to use any plugin for the same.

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I’ve recently had a need to remove the feed url link elements and in trying to avoid customising the core WordPress functions the following solutions works.

Ensure you have a functions.php file in your theme directory that you are using. If not create the file and edit the file. The following lines will help remove select lines from your wp_head() function:

<?php remove_action( 'wp_head', 'feed_links_extra', 3 ); // Display the links to the extra feeds such as category feeds remove_action( 'wp_head', 'feed_links', 2 ); // Display the links to the general feeds: Post and Comment Feed remove_action( 'wp_head', 'rsd_link' ); // Display the link to the Really Simple Discovery service endpoint, EditURI link remove_action( 'wp_head', 'wlwmanifest_link' ); // Display the link to the Windows Live Writer manifest file. remove_action( 'wp_head', 'index_rel_link' ); // index link remove_action( 'wp_head', 'parent_post_rel_link', 10, 0 ); // prev link remove_action( 'wp_head', 'start_post_rel_link', 10, 0 ); // start link remove_action( 'wp_head', 'adjacent_posts_rel_link', 10, 0 ); // Display relational links for the posts adjacent to the current post. remove_action( 'wp_head', 'wp_generator' ); // Display the XHTML generator that is generated on the wp_head hook, WP version ?>
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This is a very clean solution. But note that if you don't use a selfmade theme or child theme these changes will be overwritten with the next theme update. To prevent this create a child theme or make a small plugin out of this.
To add to Gerald's comments, if you want to add this code to a child theme create a new function in the child theme's functions.php script called something like override_parent_actions() and then copy-and-paste Kailash's code into that function (minus the PHP tags, of course). Immediately after the new function, add the following code: add_action( 'after_setup_theme', 'override_parent_actions' ); This will then remove the feed URLs without needing to modify the parent theme.
Thanks @NoelWhitemore Very good suggestion to overcome the child theme update.
@KailashYadav, why are pagination rel links included here? Aren't they helpful for SEO bots to discover more of your website content quicker?
I found the remove_action()s worked in my child theme php WITHOUT wrapping them in a function called by add_action()
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You can add this code in your WordPress theme/plugin. to remove all the unnecessary tags from head including WordPress feed tags.

Github Gist URL: https://gist.github.com/coder618/29782921f79235f26285847916c2a122

add_action( 'after_setup_theme', 'prefix_remove_unnecessary_tags' ); function prefix_remove_unnecessary_tags(){ // REMOVE WP EMOJI remove_action('wp_head', 'print_emoji_detection_script', 7); remove_action('wp_print_styles', 'print_emoji_styles'); remove_action( 'admin_print_scripts', 'print_emoji_detection_script' ); remove_action( 'admin_print_styles', 'print_emoji_styles' ); // remove all tags from header remove_action( 'wp_head', 'rsd_link' ); remove_action( 'wp_head', 'wp_generator' ); remove_action( 'wp_head', 'feed_links', 2 ); remove_action( 'wp_head', 'index_rel_link' ); remove_action( 'wp_head', 'wlwmanifest_link' ); remove_action( 'wp_head', 'feed_links_extra', 3 ); remove_action( 'wp_head', 'start_post_rel_link', 10, 0 ); remove_action( 'wp_head', 'parent_post_rel_link', 10, 0 ); remove_action( 'wp_head', 'adjacent_posts_rel_link', 10, 0 ); remove_action( 'wp_head', 'wp_shortlink_wp_head', 10, 0 ); remove_action( 'wp_head', 'adjacent_posts_rel_link_wp_head', 10, 0 ); remove_action( 'wp_head', 'rest_output_link_wp_head' ); remove_action( 'wp_head', 'wp_oembed_add_discovery_links' ); remove_action( 'template_redirect', 'rest_output_link_header', 11 ); // language add_filter('multilingualpress.hreflang_type', '__return_false'); }
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Attention: be aware that this code will remove a lot more than just the RSS references. Test before using!
Perfect for me!
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The simplest way, to remove RSS FEED button is more simple, just go in Appearance / Editor / and REMOVE :

 <div id="profiles" class="clearfix gutter-left"> <?php do_action( 'graphene_social_profiles' ); ?> </div>

from Theme Header (header.php) of your theme, for me Graphene. Others ways don't work for me, but this way is very simple !!!! Tested!!! PS: Find the same type of script changing graphene, word with the name of your theme.

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