How can I exclude certain posts from WordPress RSS feeds?

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1. Assuming you do not want to use plugins like THIS ONE or THIS, you have many ways :

   One is to assign a category for the posts you would like to exclude and then you can just change the URL of the RSS link like so :

   http://www.mydomain.com/feed?cat=-x,-y,-z
   

   You can also FILTER with a function :

   function o99_my_rss_filter($query) {
   if ($query->is_feed) {
   $query->set('cat','-7'); //Put category ID - here it is : 7
   }
   return $query;
   }
   
   add_filter('pre_get_posts','o99_my_rss_filter');
   

   The point is that you will need to assign SOMETHING (tag, custom field, category) to identify what to exclude , assuming that you do not want always to add the ID to exclude from the query.

   The easiest is by category as demonstrated above .

   ** Edit I **

   Just for the sake of it – (I still recommend the cetegory method) r
   Even if I dislike custom-fields when they are overused – this is another way that change the query by assigning a custom field :

   function o99_my_rss_filter_by _field( $where, $wp_query = NULL ) {
       global $wpdb;
   
       if ( !$wp_query ) global $wp_query;if ( $wp_query->is_feed ) {
   
           $posts = get_posts( array( 'meta_key' => 'norss' ) );
   
           if ( $posts ) {
               foreach( $posts as $post ) {
                   $exclude .= $post->ID . ',';
               }
           }
           $exclude = substr( $exclude,0, strlen( $exclude )-1 );
   
           $where .= ' AND $wpdb->posts.ID NOT IN ( ' . $exclude . ')';
       }
       return $where;
   }
   add_filter( 'posts_where', 'o99_my_rss_filter_by _field', 1, 4 );
   

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