But there may be times when you want to turn off your RSS feed, either because you don't want to offer one at all, or because you want to make some posts, or changes to existing posts that are not notified to your RSS subscribers.
Or you may need to turn it back on again - for example, if you want to use a dynamic template, to offer a subscribe-by-email option, or to enable automatic posting to Google +.
How turn off your blog's RSS feed
- Go to the Settings > Other tab.
- Under "Site Feed", use the drop-down to change Allow Blog Feed to "None".
(This is the only option that totally turns your feed off: the others, including Custom, leave some aspects of the feed on.)
How turn on your RSS feed
This is just the same as turning the feed off (see above), except that your need to choose one of these options instead:- Full - the whole post is shown in your feed
- Until Jump Break - only the part of the post before the jump break is sent to your feed
- Short - only the first 120 (ish) letters, or less if the jump break comes first, are sent to your feed.
Also, the new interface has a Custom option, and the old interface has an Advanced Mode. If you use these , you can individually set the value for post feed, comments feed (all comments), and comments-feed-per-post.
Private blogs and RSS
Blogs that are not public do not offer RSS feeds, because they cannot be secured. So if your blog is private, then it does not matter what setting you choose, your blog will not offer an RSS feed.
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