Topic: Private group RSS? · BuddyPress.org

Private group RSS?

@zamoose

Participant

16 years ago

Is it possible to enable RSS feeds for private groups? When I attempt to navigate to http://host/groups/groupname/feed/ from either a web browser or using Thunderbird’s RSS reader functionality, I get “http://host/groups/groupname/feed/ is not a valid feed.”

This is a fairly major issue for a subset of my users.

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@r-a-y

Keymaster

16 years ago

RSS is probably disabled because the group is private.
If it was made available, anyone could access your private group’s activities!

Though if you’re logged in, it should work fine.

You could hack the groups_action_group_feed() function in /bp-groups.php to make this wide open though.
Or remove this function and create your own.

@zamoose

Participant

16 years ago

*sigh* Not what I wanted to hear. There are ways to password-protect RSS feeds. Anything that could be done in that respect, perhaps?

@r-a-y

Keymaster

16 years ago

The problem is WordPress doesn’t support HTTP authentication, which is what is used for most password-protected RSS feeds.

Not much you can do at the moment… unless someone else has any other ideas?

@nuprn1

Participant

16 years ago

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/http-authentication/ ? (maybe extract what is needed and wrap it around the activity rss feed pages?)

@r-a-y

Keymaster

16 years ago

Unless I’m wrong, that plugin requires users to be externally authenticated, so it doesn’t take into consideration WordPress’ existing accounts.

@xberserker

Participant

15 years, 10 months ago

Came here looking for a solution and found this thread Ah well.

I may go with this plugin. Anyone try this ?

https://buddypress.org/community/groups/buddypress-group-email-subscription/

@functionmunchkin

Participant

15 years, 8 months ago

There is Private rss plugin that uses authentication https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/private-rss/ (Not sure how it would work for groups)