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MattWaters replied on Sep 2, 2011 at 8:09 pm Permalink Reply

The solution I've found that seems to work is changing the cache time in the SimplePie library. Copy concrete/libraries/3rdparty/simplepie.php up to the proper override directory: (your site root)/libraries/3rdparty/simplepie.php. Open the new copy in a plain text editor and search for this value:

var $cache_duration = 3600;

This is the number of seconds it waits before refreshing. Change this to something like 120 (two minutes). Don't get too aggressive with it or you'll get your site banned from the feed, I guess.

Try that and let me know how it works. Lots of thanks to ScottC for this fix.

czestate replied on Oct 31, 2011 at 10:42 am Permalink Reply

This did not work for me. I didn't think 120 would if 3600 didn't. Any other suggestions?

noonchyo replied on Nov 1, 2011 at 12:44 pm Permalink Reply

Didn't work for me either. I tried turning all caching off, clearing the cache. Will let you know tomorrow when my RSS feed updates.

noonchyo replied on Nov 1, 2011 at 2:36 pm Permalink Reply

Talked to a co-worker...says he just noticed his RSS block has not been updating since he upgraded a year ago. Said it used to work fine under 5.4.1.1

Perhaps this is an unreported bug?

http://www.concrete5.org/index.php?cID=229446...

robert1984 replied on Apr 24, 2012 at 5:50 am Permalink Reply

Hi,

I have cleared the cache and disabled the basic cache but when it comes to updating the (var $cache_duration = 3600;) the document opens in notepad and when I save it it doesn't update to the simplepie.

any ideas as to how i can get round this??

thanks

Robert

robert1984 replied on Apr 24, 2012 at 5:58 am Permalink Reply

think i have found it...silly me!

czestate replied on Nov 1, 2011 at 4:43 pm Permalink Reply

I don't know but I wish they'd address this. There a lot of people complaining about it. There's no point in having a "news" of an RSS feed if it never updates.

12345j replied on Nov 1, 2011 at 4:54 pm Permalink Reply

pretty sure if you go into root/concrete5/blocks/rss_displayer/controller.php and copy to root/blocks/rss_displayer/controller.php and delete this stuff

protected $btCacheBlockRecord = true;
      protected $btCacheBlockOutput = true;
      protected $btCacheBlockOutputOnPost = true;
      protected $btCacheBlockOutputForRegisteredUsers = true;

it'll work

noonchyo replied on Nov 1, 2011 at 5:40 pm Permalink Reply

Thanks for the tip! This appears to have solved the problem...however, I am fortunate to have root access to my server. Might not help everyone. :-)

12345j replied on Nov 1, 2011 at 5:43 pm Permalink Reply

you don't need root, just using that as the directory that c5 is installed in.

akopke replied on Nov 11, 2011 at 2:50 am Permalink Reply

Yes! Thanks so much for the help, only took a minute to fix.

kettc replied on Nov 22, 2011 at 11:09 am Permalink Reply

This fix works, but had a negative side-effect for me. It removed the formatting of the RSS Displayer block. Instead of bold Titles and nicely-spaced Summaries, it all became plain text. When I removed the controller.php changes, the block got pretty again! This may be a function of my template, css, etc. but still...

Here is another fix that works for me:
http://www.concrete5.org/index.php?cID=92552...

Thanks!

TheRealSean replied on Jan 20, 2012 at 2:43 pm Permalink Reply

Removing the caching info should not muck up your style, this suggests you took to much out.

webicine replied on Jan 20, 2012 at 2:26 pm Permalink Reply

Thanks so much! This solution worked for me too.