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Hi, I have a couple of questions about the Planet plugin.

1. I also installed the cron job scheduler plugin. Does planet somehow automatically get run by cronjob scheduler? If now, how do I set that up?

2. Planet only seems to be grabbing the first post from each RSS feed. I want to grab all the posts, but I don't see any configuration options other than the list of feeds in the Planet plugin. Is there a configuration section elsewhere that I'm missing?


Thanks!

On question 1: yes, it gets automatically set up. Mostly. You need to check the planet plugin configuration, and set "cronjob" to how often you want to check the feeds. The feeds will only be updated when somebody visits your website at least that long after the previous update.

For example, if you've got the cronjob set to 'daily', and it's just updated, it will definitely not update again for 24 hours. The next visitor after the 24 hours is up will experience some delay, since you're not only showing your blog, but also updating your feeds.

If you hadn't installed the cronjob plugin, you would've had to visit yourblog.com/blog_directory/index.php?/plugin/aggregator whenever you wanted an update.

On question 2: Perhaps the RSS feeds you're getting have only one item apiece? Or perhaps your plugin's 'expire' option is rejecting the articles as too old (it's listed in days). If you've got any match expressions, it's possible only one article in each feed matches.