Quick Feed Copyright WordPress Plugin
Quick Feed Copyright adds a copyright notice and a link to the original article at the end of every post in your RSS feed. Wherever your posts end up, in feed readers or on sites that copy them, they still say who wrote them and link back to you.
Refreshed for 2026. First released in 2007 as Simple Feed Copyright, version 2.0 is rebuilt with a settings page and a live preview. Choose every part of the notice, change the wording, write your own, and add extras below it. Far more control than the original fixed notice, and more useful than ever now that feeds are copied more widely.
What’s new in version 2.0
- Choose each part of the copyright line: the symbol, the year (this year, the post’s year, or a range such as 2006–2026), the name and the rights wording
- Write your own notice with HTML and placeholders such as
{title},{link},{site_link}and{author} - Extras below the notice, off until you switch them on: a list of your latest posts, and any text you like, such as a newsletter link
- Live preview of the notice as it will look in a feed reader
- Summary feeds too, if you want, not just full-text feeds
- Feed details: adds your copyright line to the feed’s own
<copyright>and<rights>fields
What your feed looks like
Out of the box, every post in your feed ends with a linked “Original article” line and a copyright line such as © 2026 Your Blog Name. All Rights Reserved. Those links tell readers and search engines where the article came from, even on a site that copied it.
Fighting feed scrapers? See 7 Steps to Stop RSS Feed Scraping and Content Theft.
How to install
- In your WordPress dashboard, go to Plugins > Add New, search for Quick Feed Copyright, then click Install and Activate.
- Your feed now has the notice. Visit yoursite.com/feed/ or open it in any feed reader.
- To change the wording, go to Settings > Quick Feed Copyright.
Questions
Where does the notice appear?
Only in your feeds, at the end of each post. Your site’s pages are never changed.
I updated from Simple Feed Copyright. Has my feed changed?
No. Until you save new settings, the notice is exactly the one the plugin always added.
My feed shows summaries. Will the notice appear?
Yes, if you switch on “Also add it when your feed shows summaries” in the settings. Full-text feeds always get the notice.
Does it slow my site down?
No. It loads nothing on your site’s pages and works only when your feed is built.
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Need customization? We wrote this plugin, so we can add a feature or change how it works for you, delivered as a ready-to-install zip. No WordPress login needed.