Personalized Dashboard with RSS Feed

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  bjsweet3 · Member · Jul 27, 2017 at 7:00 pm

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  Right now my website is a blog, I’ll soon be transferring it to a business account. I want to have an RSS feed for blogs/podcasts/etc. but I want people to be able to make a customized dashboard. They’ll be a member, login, be able to search for blogs and podcasts but have a personalized page of their favorites. If you need a reference, it would be like hulu.

  I guess my question is two sided, if only one gets answered that’s fine. 1. Any plug ins or coding I can do for this RSS feed? 2. How can people who host the blogs have a login as well to edit their posting preferences? I guess it’s like a mutisite vendor deal, so to speak.

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  timethief · Member · Jul 27, 2017 at 8:08 pm

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  All wordpress sites come with multiple builtin feeds. Read https://en.support.wordpress.com/feeds/
  For podcasting read https://en.support.wordpress.com/audio/podcasting/

  I want people to be able to make a customized dashboard. They’ll be a member, login, be able to search for blogs and podcasts but have a personalized page of their favorites. If you need a reference, it would be like hulu.

  Then you are either looking at purchasing an annually renewable Business plan upgrade https://wordpress.com/pricing or moving to self hosted wordpress http://move.wordpress.com where you will pay only for hosting.

  The Business upgrade includes:
  • Google analytics
  • Footer Credit Options https://en.support.wordpress.com/footer-credits/
  • SEO Tools https://en.support.wordpress.com/seo-tools/
  • The ability to install most plugins including woocommerce and the ability to install third party themes.

  Please read this support doc: https://en.support.wordpress.com/plugins/ and https://en.support.wordpress.com/tutorials/build-a-membership-website-tutorial/

  I will also type modlook into the sidebar tags on this thread for a Staff follow-up re: clarity with regard to the Business pan and membership sites. How do I get a Moderator/Staff reply for my question? https://en.support.wordpress.com/getting-help-in-the-forums/#how-do-i-get-a-moderatorstaff-reply-for-my-question Please subscribe to this thread so you are notified when they respond and be patient while waiting. To subscribe look in the sidebar of this thread, find the subscribe to topics link and click it.

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  kokkieh · Staff · Jul 28, 2017 at 1:37 pm

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  Hi there,

  To have a membership-based site you’ll need a membership plugin. The WooCommerce plugin can work for that, especially if it’s paid memberships, though that’s not the only option.

  I have no idea if it’s possible to make customized RSS feeds like you’re speaking of. There might be plugins to do this, but the self-hosted WordPress forums would be a better place to ask. Or even just search the plugin repository for RSS plugins.

  https://wordpress.org/support/

  https://wordpress.org/plugins/

  Do note that anything that requires custom code will not be possible on a WordPress.com Business site, as we don’t offer any FTP access here, regardless of plan.