Within my SharePoint 2013 site, I have a blog subsite, within my main site I see a Blog Notifications web part that I can add to my home page. The description for that web part is {Provides quick links to register for blog posts notifications using Alerts or RSS feed}, I created an RSS feed from my blog site, however, how can I show it within the Blog Notification web part? When I go to edit web part there is nothing there to configure it to read something.

I know how to read the blogs from an CQWP, however, I was hoping to use the blog notifications web part.

can I even use it or is a useless web part?

Hi,

According to your description, my understanding is that you want to how to use Blog Notification web part in SharePoint 2013.

Per my knowledge, the Blog Notification web part should be used in blog site and it can provide quick links to see the RSS Feed and create alerts for the blog posts.

After adding the Blog Notifications web part in blog site, it will display RSS Feed and Alert Me quick links in the page, please refer to the picture below:

Best regards.

Thanks

So does that mean users cannot add a Blog Notifications Web Part to any site other than a blog site?  Because I've added it to my wiki site, which I plan to use as a KB site.  On the home page I've added the Blog Notifications web part and it is blank, doesn't show any icons.

I like to no the answer as well. I cannot get blog notification working either if I place the blog notification web part on other none blog websites.