I've been playing with Toolset Layouts all day and it seems the test template that I've created showed up on my RSS feed, which was in turn posted to Facebook. How do I make this behavior stop?
Are you using some solution for generating RSS feeds?
The standard feeds include only standard posts, don't include custom posts types (which the Layout template would be), so presumably you are using a plugin or code to modify the feeds. You may want to revise the code/settings to include only the custom post types you require.
If you already have and still see the Layouts templates in the feed, let me know how you are customising the feeds and I can investigate.
There is a plugin called Stealth Publish which allows me to exclude posts from being pushed to the RSS feed. I enable it on a per-post basis. Why would this plugin cause the templates to be published as a post?
The Layouts templates are a custom post type (hidden in the admin UI), and custom post types are not included in RSS Feeds unless you add them.
A crude implementation would add all custom post types, a better one would only add custom post types that are explicitly required.
I suggest you disable the plugin and run some tests to confirm if it is responsible for the Layouts template appearing in the feeds. (You can just type the feed URL in your browser and see the XML version of the feed, it should be fairly easy to scan that and see what posts are included.)
If that is the case we can look at what the cause is in case there is something we can do about it from our end.
If not, then I would ask you to disable all non-Toolset plugins and switch theme to twentyseventeen and confirm that the Layouts templates are not added to the feed. Then try re-enabling your other plugins and theme and keep testing, it should be possible by a process of elimination if something else is creating a conflict that causes the issue.
(I ran some tests to confirm that Layouts templates are not added to a feed by mistake on a simple install.)
It is really weird that the test templates appeared in the RSS. I will try to disable the Stealth Publish plugin and add another test template and see what happens.
I suggest you also check other compatibility problem in your website:
1) deactivate all other plugins including the "Stealth Publish" plugin, and switch to wordpress default theme 2017, and test again
2) If the problem is fixed, then activate other plugins one by one, try to locate the problem plugin/theme
