RSS feed for invitation blog

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  djmatdigi · Member · Jun 6, 2013 at 3:05 pm

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  I have an invitation only blog. I want the invited people to be able to read it with RSS. Is this possible?

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  raincoaster · Member · Jun 6, 2013 at 3:14 pm

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  I don’t think so, but I flagged this for staff attention. They’ll know for sure.

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  helper-heroponriki · Member · Jun 7, 2013 at 7:24 pm

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  @djmatdigi – no, if your site is marked as private, there will not be an RSS feed generated.

  I hope that clarifies things!

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  djmatdigi · Member · Jun 7, 2013 at 7:32 pm

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  Too bad. You have a cool title.
  I was hoping there was a way for users to specify their userid and password. Eg
  http://<myblog&gt;.wordpress.com/feed/?userid=<userid>&password=<password>

  My use case is… I want a blog for a dept of a company.
  It has to be private but I also want to encourage people to subscribe to the RSS feed in their mail programs so they are notified when something is posted. Seems like a think lots of places could use.

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  helper-heroponriki · Member · Jun 7, 2013 at 8:11 pm

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  Adding a user’s name and password to a RSS feed is never a good idea. Plus, there would be a risk of someone outside of your company getting access to your private blog if they can hack the username and password.

  If you want users to be notified when there are new posts, you can have them follow the blog via email by using the Follow Blog Widget in your site’s sidebar. That way when there are new posts added to the site, the will receive an email notification in their inbox. Here’s more information on that widget:
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/widgets/follow-blog-widget/

  I hope that helps!