rss feed not updating

  • Resolved SmedleyButer

    (@smedleybuter)


    9 years, 11 months ago

    I’m having trouble getting RSS feeds to update on my wordpress blog.

    When I use the RSS widget and install a feed it gets the news off of the feed and displays it properly. Following that the news updates no farther, The same news shows on the site and never updates.

    I’ve checked the feed to make sue the content has updated. I’ve used the same feed in my yahoo page and it updates.

    I’ve cleared the cache in my browser (innumerable times)and reloaded the page and it still displays the old news.

    I’ve validated the feed and it’s fine. I’ve tried different feeds and they behave the same way.

    I created a brand new wordpress installation on a different domain using no theme and no plugins or widgets at all. (aside fro the widgets that come with new WP) The feed still behaves as above, no updates.

    I banged my head on the keyboard multiple times and still no results. I’ve been at this for days, any suggestions would be helpful 🙂

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  • esmi

    (@esmi)

    9 years, 11 months ago

    Perhaps the issue lies in the feed, Have you asked the feed’s owner how often it updates?

    Thread Starter SmedleyButer

    (@smedleybuter)

    9 years, 11 months ago

    I found the solution!

    The update rated is based on the rate at which the cache updates. You can control this by adding a filter to the functions.php

    add_filter(‘wp_feed_cache_transient_lifetime’, ‘sb_feed_time’, 10, 2 );
    function sb_feed_time( $time, $url ){
    return 1800;
    }

    “1800” is the amount of time in seconds between refreshes. I think it’s likely best to mot set that to low for feed purposes. I believe it would consume resources and slow things down a bit.

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