Title: RSS feed includes private forums
Last modified: September 1, 2016

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# RSS feed includes private forums

 *  Resolved [fabwintle](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fabwintle/)
 * (@fabwintle)
 * [9 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-feed-includes-private-forums/)
 * Hi,
 * I am using this awesome plugin however I am also using MailChimp to automatically
   update my members about any new posts in the forums.
    Unforutnately it seems 
   that the private posts get included in the RSS feed.
 * Are you aware of this issue and do you have any recommendations?
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbp-private-groups/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbp-private-groups/)

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 *  Plugin Author [Robin W](https://wordpress.org/support/users/robin-w/)
 * (@robin-w)
 * [9 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-feed-includes-private-forums/#post-7508931)
 * So are you using
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/mailchimp-for-wp/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/mailchimp-for-wp/)
 * either basic or premium
 * and do you have buddypress also installed?
 *  Thread Starter [fabwintle](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fabwintle/)
 * (@fabwintle)
 * [9 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-feed-includes-private-forums/#post-7508935)
 * Hi Robin.
 * We are using:
    - Paid Memberships Pro with their Mailchimp plugin
    - Buddypress
    - Bbpress
    - The Mailchimp RSS feed is sent to a list that I select in MailChimp so it 
      doesn’t have anything to do with Paid Memberships Pro (same would happen to
      any list). I have actually subscribed to the RSS feed on my feed reader hence
      why I discovered the problem.
 *  Thread Starter [fabwintle](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fabwintle/)
 * (@fabwintle)
 * [9 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-feed-includes-private-forums/#post-7508936)
 * The feed is: [https://www.tourismtribe.com/forums/feed/](https://www.tourismtribe.com/forums/feed/)
 *  Plugin Author [Robin W](https://wordpress.org/support/users/robin-w/)
 * (@robin-w)
 * [9 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-feed-includes-private-forums/#post-7508972)
 * ok, I don’t know much technically about rss feeds, but the idea of mailchimp 
   is that it sends one email to mailchimp who then emails it to many.
 * So if you have a mix of public and private group forums and possibly lots of 
   combinations of users with permissions to each, then you would need to maintain
   a mail list for each combination, and have some way to identify which list any
   new topic/reply goes to.
 * Then you would need for each forum to know which maillist to send to.
 * RSS feeds are not really designed for that degree of complexity, and although
   it is probably possible to code to do this, it is all a bit beyond my plugin,
   I’m afraid.
 * My initial answer would be to turn off the rss feed for forums, topics and replies
   and let the subscription part of bbpress handle updates.

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 * Last reply from: [Robin W](https://wordpress.org/support/users/robin-w/)
 * Last activity: [9 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-feed-includes-private-forums/#post-7508972)
 * Status: resolved