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title: Manage your WordPress RSS feeds
url: "https://www.seopress.org/support/guides/manage-your-wordpress-rss-feeds/"
lang: en-US
updated: 2025-07-11
---

# Manage your WordPress RSS feeds

[SEOPress PRO](https://www.seopress.org/wordpress-seo-plugins/pro/) is required to manage RSS feeds.

## What are RSS feeds?

**RSS** means *Real Simple Syndication*. Basically this is a file (an XML or a JSON file usually) containing your latest content. People can easily subscribe to it, and by using feed readers, browse your content quickly and easily.

RSS feeds were very useful before the advent of social networks, with the popular Google Reader service.

By default [WordPress generates a whole series of RSS feeds](https://wordpress.org/support/article/wordpress-feeds/): posts, comments etc.

The two major disadvantages of RSS feeds are:

- the ease for malicious people to copy your content
- the reduction of your traffic and therefore of your conversions: the user remains in his RSS feed reader, and no longer visits your site.

## Customize WordPress RSS feeds

With [SEOPress PRO](https://www.seopress.org/wordpress-seo-plugins/pro/), you can add custom content before and / or after each post of your RSS feed.

To do that, go to **SEO**, **PRO**, **RSS** tab and enter your custom content using “**Display content before each post**” and “**Display content after each post**” textareas.

You can use these dynamic variables:

- `%%sitetitle%%, `
- `%%tagline%%, `
- `%%post_author%%, `
- `%%post_permalink%%, `
- `%%post_title%%`

Use this hook to [add your own custom dynamic variables for RSS feeds](https://www.seopress.org/support/hooks/add-your-custom-global-dynamic-variables-for-rss-feeds/).

### Display Excerpt only

WordPress also provides an option related to RSS feeds to let you choose between displaying the full content or just the excerpt for each post. Go to **Settings**, **Reading** settings page, “**For each post in a feed, include**” option to change this behavior. We strongly recommend you to choose **Excerpt** to prevent content scrapping. SEOPress also warns you from the **SEO dashboard** page about this.

## Disable WordPress RSS feeds

Still from **SEO**, **PRO**, **RSS** tab, you can disable native WordPress RSS feeds by checking the available options below:

- **Disable comments RSS feed **
- **Disable posts RSS feed **
- **Disable extra RSS feed** (author, categories, custom taxonomies, custom post type, comments feed for a single post)
- **Disable all RSS feeds**

The first three options remove the link from the source code. The last one, completely disable the RSS feature and redirect the user to the homepage.

[![PRO > RSS Feeds tab - SEOPress PRO](https://www.seopress.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/08-15-pro-rss-feeds-tab-seopress-pro-scaled.png)](https://www.seopress.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/08-15-pro-rss-feeds-tab-seopress-pro-scaled.png)

*PRO > RSS Feeds tab – SEOPress PRO*