I am using the rss method to pull latest discussions to a wordpress widget, but it is slow to update. If I add a topic it doesn’t show up on the other page for a while. Anyone have a better solution? WordPress 2.7 and bbpress 1 of course.

[@trent Member 16 years, 9 months ago]

I believe there is a plugin that does this by polling the DB. Not sure if it is on the plugins site here or over at https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins but it is called something like “bbPress Latest Discussions” or something like that.

[@slambert1971 Member 16 years, 9 months ago]

WordPress uses Magpie for doing RSS and by default will cache the feeds for 1 hour. To change this, you can add a line to your wp-config file like:

define(‘MAGPIE_CACHE_AGE’, TIME);

Replace the word ‘TIME’ with the length of time in seconds to cache. You can also turn off the Magpie cache with:

define(‘MAGPIE_CACHE_ON’, false);

Hope that helps.

[@polisciguy Member 16 years, 9 months ago]

What is the format for TIME?

[@chrishajer Participant 16 years, 9 months ago]

I am going to take a SWAG:

SimplePie supports RFC 822, RFC 2822, RFC 3339, and ISO 8601 datestamps. My guess is Magpie does as well. I would start by trying a RFC 2822 timestamp.

Sat, 24 Jan 2009 08:09:12 -0500

[@tomwi Member 16 years, 9 months ago]

thank you all for your replies!

i found this great topic:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/heres-how-to-show-bbpress-info-inside-wordpress-without-full-integration