That’s … well not impossible, but highly unlikely.
You should just be able to delete the plugin, though, at worst case, and things restore. I mean, it’s a filter. It doesn’t edit ay core code.
Well that was easy to reproduce, and fix.
Chrome cached it when I tested. Shift-Refresh, it came back. Not the plugin, just browsers being stupid. I’ll see if I can code in something to not cache the feed when it’s on the fail message, though, since that certainly scared the heck out of you!
Sorry.
Cool, thank you.
I ended up just adding some code to my theme’s functions.php to disable RSS feeds until I find a way to remove media from the RSS feed.
Something you could add to your plugin maybe?
An example of why: if you only want to post thumbnails (say 300×200) on your photoblog, but the original hi-res files (say 3000×2000) are uploaded with the post and then resized by ImageMagick for display on the webpage/post, well, wordpress includes the hi-res original file as a media attachment in the RSS2 feed anyway.
Pretty easy for unpermissioned users to get the high-res copy – just get them off the feed. For a photographer, that often means your images get stolen (and then uploaded to istockphoto and getty so someone else can make money off of them).
It would be cool if there was a way to have a feed without giving away all of your site’s content on the feed (I can put the thumbnail in the feed easily enough, but WP also attaches the whole image no matter what I do).
Easiest way is to set feeds to summary display, which will use the_excerpt_rss() template tag, and which by default strips all HTML tags.
That said… well. No. Every single attempt to prevent image theft, except for hiding the images behind a paywall, has been circumvented. If you put it on the web, it will be stolen.
I would say don’t upload the hi-rez images, personally.
