Private posts/podcasts not showing up in feed

[RoryHodgson]

Not sure if this is fixable, but here goes:

Podcast works perfectly until I try to password protect it. It's not a roles problem. Rather it's the posts themselves. If I make them private or password protect them, the feed just doesn't work in iTunes. It'll work if I make them public though. I can go to the link itself when posts are private - http://powellhistory.com/crash021211/?feed=crashcourse - and that works. I can include log-in details using username:password@powellhistory.... but it doesn't make a difference. Am I right in thinking that posts just have to be public then?

To clarify what I mean by "works": I can clink on the link and the feed has all the correct details. The feed is being generated. iTunes just doesn't like it.

Further: when I try to validate the feed in feedburner, with login details at the start, it generates a similar problem telling me it can't get access to anything.

Playing around with it some more: tried using Role Scoper. Still produces the same problem. The site is functional, the RSS feed is valid, but iTunes just won't have any of it.

Cheers,

Rory

[mgdell]

If you make your posts private, itunes (and all the other directories / feed readers) will not be able to access the post. Private means you don't want people to see it.  RSS feeds are syndication which means publicly available.

There are other plugins that will work for pasword protected rss feeds, but unless you are charging for your content, there is no reason to do this.

-Mike

[RoryHodgson]

Aye, ok.

Thanks.

[RoryHodgson]

Could you please tell me what those password-protected plugins are? I do intend to charge people, see.

[angelo]

Wish List Member is the big one. Unfortunately we haven't teamed up with any of the membership plugins, we've tried reaching out to a couple of them including Wish List Member with no success. So unfortunately there is no membership plugin we 100% recommend at this point.