[Plugin: Image Feed Widget] Doesn’t refresh

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…

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?

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.