Page load speed…

This can happen sometimes depending on the feed source and your cache settings. Can you post the shortcode for the feed you’re having trouble with so we can test it?

Sure, thanks.

Using custom functions to get page title and use page title in the rss feed query.

//custom code for title shortcode
function post_title_shortcode(){
    return get_the_title();
}
add_shortcode('post_title','post_title_shortcode');

// create [custom_rss] shortcode
add_shortcode( 'custom_rss', 'execute_custom_rss_shortcode' );
function execute_custom_rss_shortcode() {
  return do_shortcode('[wp_rss_retriever url="https://news.google.com/rss/search?q=' . get_the_title() . '&hl=en-US&gl=US&ceid=US%3Aen" items="10" excerpt="50" read_more="true" credits="false" new_window="true" cache="3600"]');
}

Originally we had thumbnail=”200″ as a value but removed it because thumbnails were no displaying and thought it might be slowing page-load speed down. But page load speed still seems to have delay.

Any ideas?

Thanks!

Hello,

Please update to the latest version (1.5.0). This should solve any page loading issues you may have. I would also recommend setting thumbnail to “false”, this will prevent any attempt to fetch a thumbnail.

Hi Travis,

Pages seem to be loading way faster after update.
Have set the thumb value to false as well.

Don’t suppose there’s any way to “pre-load” the RSS feed content so there’s no visible loading time (spinner icon) for the viewers. It’s barely noticeable but just thought to ask in case you have any ideas. Maybe in conjunction with a plugin like WP Fastest Cache, etc.

Much appreciated!

Thanks again.

Great question. We could use the built-in WordPress cache API and check if the feed is already cached and load it via PHP if it is. The problem is when the cache expires the next visitor will see the loading icon. The only way to truly remove preloading is with a cron job, but this would create more steps when setting up a new feed as you would have to create them via custom post type (similar to pages/posts).

I’ve decided to go with option A for now. This will be included in the next version update (1.5.2). This is dramatically faster than any previous version.

Thanks for your feedback.

Thanks Travis,

Pages are loading pretty quick compared to previous version.

Can’t say for sure, but seems like when the RSS feed loads as the page loads, that Google has a higher likelihood of indexing the content from the RSS feed content in their search results. Which is a good thing. Experimenting with a fully automated blog based on fetching feed from Google Search Trends. So, if the RSS does not load fast enough with page load I think Goog is not indexing the RSS item (i.e. the content from the first item shown in the RSS feed) and will just show our “template” for posts, which will appear as duplicate description results under the title heading in Google search results.

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Could be cool if there were an admin option to cache feeds on blog posts that are newer than X days or some other way time-range control. On an automated site creating 25 posts each day, it adds up fast. Multiple 1000’s of posts… Just trying to think of way that the page will load fast with all content including the RSS feed with no spinner/delay. If we want to keep the news articles in the RSS feeds timely then probably don’t want to set the RSS feed cache to much older than 3 hours. So with 3 hour setting it’s likely that 50% of views are going to require the feed to update delay. Hope this makes sense.

Enjoying using the plugin otherwise. Thanks!

Sure would be nice if there were a feature to automatically create new cache for articles once they expire. Google does not index any of the articles feed like it did before the spinner …waiting for feed. So before even though it took a few second delay for the page to load, when it did…the article feed was already there. So when this was the case, Google indexes whatever new content is shown in the article feed list. Waaaaay better for seo.

I have 1000’s of posts, and each one uses the plugin to pull Google news feed based on the post title. So they are all going to have expired cache most likely for the user and Google bot.

Would be glad to BETA test a auto pre-caching feed feature.