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1. panagia
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   The RSS did not appear to be working on my site but is BUT only once very 24 hours, the feeds have been set to update very 10 minutes.
   Is there somewhere within wordpress that controls any criteria regarding RSS update time?????

2. whooami
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   your feeds wont ever update unless you post, and dont rely on feed readers to gauge that. Look at the actual feed.

3. panagia
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   My feeds are coming in from external sources,i.e a message baord whci had post updated 12 hours before wordpress showed it
   if it helps site is here
   http://www.ionian-island.co.uk

   I am not to proud to admit i am thick where these things are concerned hence me using wordpress as a CMS for my site!!

4. whooami
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   oh, so youre talking about feeds from other sites.

   how did you go about setting this 10 minute time you mention?

5. panagia
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   I think! that is what i have set from the external feeds as an update time,know its correct for the message board as i am the admin

6. panagia
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Bump
   Anyone able to assist???

7. Otto
   Tech Ninja
   Posted 2 years ago #

   WordPress doesn't have any way to get external feeds and publish them. It can only do feeds in the sidebar. Is this what you're talking about? Or are you referring to some other method?

   We can't tell you what to do if we don't know what you're already doing.

8. panagia
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Otto42
   yes its a sidebar widget, hoefull you can see it in link to website above, if you ned any further details ask away as i am really after soem assiatance becaus ei am thick where thius is concerned.
   Cheers, martin

9. Otto
   Tech Ninja
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Oh. Okay, no, it's 12 hours. The RSS widget only checks feeds for updates once every 12 hours, maximum.

   If you want to change that to every 10 minutes, then you could add this to your theme's functions.php file:
   add_filter( 'wp_feed_cache_transient_lifetime', create_function('$a', 'return 600;') );

10. panagia
    Member
    Posted 2 years ago #

    Otto
    Thanks for this but could you assist some more
    would this be
    theme.options.php file
    and if so
    whwre would i post it, i.e., would it be additinal or replace something?

11. Otto
    Tech Ninja
    Posted 2 years ago #

    would this be theme.options.php file

    No. It's the "functions.php" in your theme folder.

    And it would probably be additional. Just add that line of code right after the starting <?php line.

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