Title: [Plugin: Image Feed Widget] Doesn’t refresh
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# [Plugin: Image Feed Widget] Doesn’t refresh

 *  [kakulash](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kakulash/)
 * (@kakulash)
 * [16 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-image-feed-widget-doesnt-refresh/)
 * The only way the image feed refreshes is if you change the URL and re-save. Very
   inconvenient.
 * Otherwise, its 5/5 stars.
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/image-feed-widget/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/image-feed-widget/)

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 *  [yorik](https://wordpress.org/support/users/yorik/)
 * (@yorik)
 * [16 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-image-feed-widget-doesnt-refresh/#post-1321602)
 * Normally it refreshes alone… Maybe it is because the simplepie component, which
   is responsible for fetching rss feeds in WP (and in this plugin) has a default
   refresh rate of about one hour I think… And the RSS feed itself might take some
   time to update.
 * I think there must be a way to force simplepie to update its cache more often,
   but doing that you might increase much you page loading time…
 *  [Chuscastilla](https://wordpress.org/support/users/miraquetv/)
 * (@miraquetv)
 * [16 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-image-feed-widget-doesnt-refresh/#post-1321626)
 * I tried to change the url and resave, as Kakulash suggested, but still the widget
   not refreshes the images so I’ve the same static images.
    Anyway my posts are
   published every 2 hours so I can’t change the url everytime a post is published.
   Yorik, I believe that Simplepie is another plugin that I don’t use so It cannot
   be the problem. (Correct me if I’m wrong) So anyone knows where could be the 
   problem or point me in the right way to fix it?
 *  [therocks](https://wordpress.org/support/users/therocks/)
 * (@therocks)
 * [15 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-image-feed-widget-doesnt-refresh/#post-1321672)
 * Hey,
 * I had the same problem. What you need to do is go into your wp-includes/feed.
   php file and search for
    `$feed->set_cache_duration(apply_filters('wp_feed_cache_transient_lifetime`
 * There’s a value at the end of that line of text, mine was at 43200 which is =
   a refresh rate of 20 hours. I changed it to 1200 which is a 20 minute refresh
   rate. You can googele “SOA refresh rate” to figure out different numbers. Hope
   that helps.

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 * Last reply from: [therocks](https://wordpress.org/support/users/therocks/)
 * Last activity: [15 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-image-feed-widget-doesnt-refresh/#post-1321672)
 * Status: not resolved

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