RSS feeds for private blog

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  lionelbncl · Member · Sep 30, 2010 at 9:08 am

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  I am an administrator for a private blog on wordpress.com, and find I am unable to subscribe to RSS feeds (e.g. Thunderbird gives an “invalid feed” error, Google reader cannot find feeds). Is there any way for registered blog users to subscribe to feeds for my blog? I imagine some form of authentication would be involved…

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

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  raincoaster · Member · Sep 30, 2010 at 9:41 am

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  Feeds for your blog do not exist. WordPress.com private blogs do not have feeds, otherwise anyone could get around your privacy protection by just typing in the URL of your blog and adding /feed to it and subscribing.

  I am not entirely sure, but I believe the Subscribe By Email option does work if you use the Subscribe widget

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  lionelbncl · Member · Sep 30, 2010 at 12:10 pm

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  Right… I thought there might be something like “authenticated RSS” that could restrict subscribers for a specific feed – in my case, to (registered) subscribers to my blog. Oh well, shall check email subscription.

  Thanks.

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  lionelbncl · Member · Sep 30, 2010 at 1:40 pm

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  Some Googling reveals that there is such thing as authenticated RSS but (a) most RSS clients don’t support it (e.g. Google reader, Thunderbird, …) and in any case (b) WordPress doesn’t appear to implement it. Interesting article on the subject:

  http://instantbadger.blogspot.com/2007/08/perennial-rss-authentication-dilemma.html