Actually, it’s a 2 second timeout.
Add this to your wp-config.php file:
define('MAGPIE_FETCH_TIME_OUT', 2);
Adjust the number as you see fit.
thanks Otto!
that worked a treat, now how would I implement that in the plugin so that a user of the plugin wouldn’t have to actually edit their own config file?
Just put it in the plugin instead of wp-config.php. The plugins load before the rss functions do.
I was having a problem with feeds from one blog not showing up on another block (which I diagnosed as a rss_fetch error), that remained a mystery.
I’ve now upgraded WordPress from v2.2.1 to v2.3.2, and happened to find this thread. I suspect that my problem is a timeout error, and am experimenting. I’ve added define('MAGPIE_FETCH_TIME_OUT', 5); to wp-config.php .
I had written a branch, i.e. on http://daviding.com/blog , `<h2>Recently on coevolving.com</h2>
<?php require_once(ABSPATH . WPINC . ‘/rss.php’); ?>
<?php $rss = fetch_rss(‘http://coevolving.com/blogs/index.php/feed/’); ?>
`
… and now you can see the page load hang as it tries to access the other feed.
It’s still a mystery to me! I had thought that Magpie does some caching, so I’ll leave this change in place for a little while, to see if it shakes itself out.
I tried the define code (and triple-checked syntax) and I get an error that wp-blog-header.php has undefined functions (directly below the line where it imports wp-config.php). No matter whether I copy and paste from here or manually type in the line of code, it simply won’t work.
Looking at the code again, I’ve noticed that …
<?php require_once(ABSPATH . WPINC . ‘/rss.php’); ?>
… reads on the codex as …
<?php include_once(ABSPATH . WPINC . ‘/rss.php’); ?>
I’m not a real WordPress expert, so I’m not sure what the difference between the require_once and include_once is … but it seems to have solved my problem — at least in one direction of feeding the blog to the other.
