Set FeedWordPress Update Scheduling
- Author: Tom Woodward
- Category: WordPress
- Tags: feed wordpress, feedwordpress
People often activate FeedWordPress but forget to set the feeds to update. I added this little bit to the Motherblog plugin so that on activation of that plugin FWP gets set automatically.
update_option( 'feedwordpress_automatic_updates', 'init', true );//set FWP settings to run prior to page load if you want after page load 'shutdown' rather than 'init'
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