RSS Not Protected

It sounds like you have a plugin conflict. Try deactivating all others and see if the problem disappears. If it does, turn them back on by one one until it reappears: then you have the culprit.

I just deactivated all plugins except S2, and the problem is still there. Any other ideas?

Next two would be:

1. With all the other plugins still deactivated, switch to the 2014 theme. Is the problem still there?

If no, your theme is the issue. If yes:

2. Are you or your host running some caching module, whether inside or outside of WordPress?

Thanks. Do you have an example of a page where the RSS feed is being protected? I’d like to see how it’s supposed to work.

I just get this message:

This XML file does not appear to have any style information associated with it. The document tree is shown below.

And then there’s a short bit of code which goes nowhere.

I don’t understand your message.

When I go to feedly.com (my rss reader of choice) when I’m not logged in, and click “Start Reading,” then type my blog address in the search field (https://www.theflamingtorch.org/articles/), I see all the articles, even those that are protected.

Oh, I thought you meant how it showed on the site itself.

On feedly.com, I get: “Sorry. No feed found. Please try searching for another url, title or #topic.”

I just checked my site feed. I had one item showing up in Feedly. I checked that post to find the s2member level option box was left blank. I changed it to Level 0 and now it is protected. Although it does still show up I believe that is due to cache and that it will cycle back out over time. I also set my feeds to only show summaries and use the more tag on every post as well so that even if they do show up they only get a title and a small snippet of content before the get the read more link. You may have to change them all and then wait a bit for it to cycle through the cache.

Thanks for the advice. I changed the settings under settings>reading to summary, so hopefully that will help. Currently even the posts that I have protected are showing up and able to be read fully in the feed.

If I visit feedly.com and search for my blog page, I can read every article, even those protected. If I go to the site itself, I can’t read the articles without being logged in.

How are you protecting your content?

The posts are listed under “Posts That Require Level 1 Or Higher.”

Under “Alternative View Protection,” I also have “Feeds” ticked.

Under “Alternative View Protection,” do you have just “Feeds” ticked, or “All”?

Currently just “Feeds.” I tried ticking all, but then the summaries disappeared from my home page, and I want them there. But I don’t want the full article to be able to be read if someone isn’t subscribed.

Well, there was a thread a while ago where we discovered that checking “All” apparently does more than each of the sub-items put together.

If you can’t do that, though, then what I’d suggest is trying URI Restrictions. I presume that all your feeds have ‘/feed’ (or something similar) in the onsite URL (which is what I was giving you the output of earlier in the thread).

I would try putting that into the URI Restrictions box for level 1.

The blog page is https://theflamingtorch.org/articles. That lists summaries of all (even protected) articles. When I search for that in Feedly, I’m seeing the full posts. I’m not using the /feed, just the blog page to read the articles in Feedly.