JDanswers

Thanks for the reply but I gave up in frustration and switched to Hypercache plugin which is waaaay simpler to set up and less buggy. It is doing the job nicely. I only had to do a small edit to wp-config because of entries made by W3 Cache.

Sorry for my noobness about these tech issues. I am trying to determine how many times an attempt is made to fetch the feed from the feed source and how many times from the cache in that 10 hour period.

Feed fetch = ? times in 10 hours right now.
Cache fetch = ? times in 10 hours right now.

I am concerned about server load as I run multiple blogs. I am considering disabling the wp-cron.php from automatically triggering when the blog loads. Instead, I want to trigger wp-cron.php on a set schedule with a Cron job created on my server to better control server load.

I read about it here: http://wp.tutsplus.com/articles/insights-into-wp-cron-an-introduction-to-scheduling-tasks-in-wordpress/

Thanks again and again!
Jim

OK, Jason, I am beginning to understand some of this. Thanks for hanging in here with me.

The template=”1″ addition apparently works when clicking on the Read More link. The page it links to shows all the posts. I simply cannot get the posts to show on the Home Page.

I still don’t see how to limit the number of posts that get published. Are you saying that number is controlled by the feed itself and cannot be controlled on my end?

As for Crons: A visitor triggers the feed fetch and the data is cached and held for a time limit set in the cache timeout. The cache is replenished by the first visitor who arrives after the timeout. Since there is no automatic Cron built into HungryFEED, is the built-in wp-cron.php actually what is fetching the feed?

If I set the Cache Timeout for 36000 seconds (10 hours), just for example, the feed will be fetched from the feed source only once in that 10 hours, and, if I have 50 visitors in that 10 hours, the feed data is fetched from the cache 50 times in that 10 hours, once for each visitor. Is this correct?