Do you have the private ‘feedkeys’ turned on in the Global Settings Options admin panel?

Yellow Swordfish said
Do you have the private ‘feedkeys’ turned on in the Global Settings Options admin panel?

Yep – it’s on! maybe something else?

you are trying to display the feeds in an RSS widget?  on same site?  why?  better to use the recent posts widget or template tag…

any private forums?

what url for the sp feed are you using?  is this the default wp rss widget or from another plugin?

Mr Papa said
you are trying to display the feeds in an RSS widget?  on same site?  why?  better to use the recent posts widget or template tag…

any private forums?

what url for the sp feed are you using?  is this the default wp rss widget or from another plugin?

Well – it’s a longer explanation but I have my reasons. One of them was to use some of the build in RSS displays to create a news ticker type display of the recent posts across the top of the forum page. There are a ton of plugins to do that but I would pretty well have to roll my own if I wanted to do it with the native Simple:Press.

I am using the default WP widget. I do have private forums protected by the membership plugin s2Member. Is it possible that is somehow blocking the forum RSS feed? Maybe that’s the issue?

yes it could be… to see private feeds, you have to use a feedkey… but if you put a feedkey in the rss reader it wont be private anymore and visible to anyone who can see the feed…

Mr Papa said
yes it could be… to see private feeds, you have to use a feedkey… but if you put a feedkey in the rss reader it wont be private anymore and visible to anyone who can see the feed…

OK – I went an disable the s2Membership protection and nothing happened to the RSS widget display – still only displaying posts from my site and not the actual forum feed. The other strange thing I am seeing is using the Recent Post widget only my own recent posts are showing and none of the member post are showing up. I am wondering if that is related.

Are your forum User Groups and forum Permissions all set up correctly? Can you go check through them?

in this single widget you are able to display feeds from two distinct different urls?

Yellow Swordfish said
Are your forum User Groups and forum Permissions all set up correctly? Can you go check through them?

I would guess so but are there specific places I should be looking?

Mr Papa said
in this single widget you are able to display feeds from two distinct different urls?

Here’s what I do – I setup the RSS WP widget to display my own forum RSS then I grab another RSS feed widget and test it on other RSS feeds. The other ones always work as expected, mine performs as above. If I use any RSS plugin (and I tried a few ) they all perform the same.The Simple:Press Recent post widget also only seems to be displaying my own posts and nobody elses. Which is also really odd.

lol…  sorry, when I read your own posts previously, thought you were saying your blog posts, not your personal forum posts…

and do you have private forums?  not in the s2 sense, but in the sp sense?  limited permission to view certain forums… and are you still feeding the feedkey to the rss widget?

we have not come across the sp widget only displaying your posts – not something we have set it up to handle (ie no direct options for)…  which leads to permissions, I guess…

Mr Papa said
lol…  sorry, when I read your own posts previously, thought you were saying your blog posts, not your personal forum posts…

and do you have private forums?  not in the s2 sense, but in the sp sense?  limited permission to view certain forums… and are you still feeding the feedkey to the rss widget?

we have not come across the sp widget only displaying your posts – not something we have set it up to handle (ie no direct options for)…  which leads to permissions, I guess…

hehe – no worries. Yes i do have private forums in the Simple Press sense with limited access and yes I use the RSS site key. The very strange part is the RSS feed works in the Firefox toolbar just fine. It’s only on the site RSS widget it won’t function as intended. As for the Simple Press Recent post widget it only seems to display my own forum posts also! No one elses.

As I was saying – are there some specific permissions you know of I should check?

Thank you for the help so far!

sorry, if missed it, but do you have a link to your site?

Mr Papa said
sorry, if missed it, but do you have a link to your site?

No worries – sent you a PM with log-in info.