Limit RSS feed imports being auto-post to social channels in one hit
By Andrew Nicholls on Wednesday, 13 July 2022
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Can you limit the number of posts being auto-post to social media channels?

I am currently sending post to my social media channels but they are all be post at one time. This is making my social media posts appear spammy. I'd like to be able to autopost a RSS feed in a cycle. For example, Monday - Feed A, am post, pm post, Tuesday - Feed B, am post, pm post, and so on.

Any thoughts?

Cheers,
Andrew
Hey Andrew,
I have attempted to change that value but it automatically defaults back to 10.
I am able to reproduce this in my local instance. It appears that the setting is saved properly, but the display is showing wrong value. Will log this in our tracker.
Is there a way to get the cron to only pull from one feed?
Unfortunately this is not possible. The only way to pull certain feeds currently is by unpublishing other feed items or use different cron feed interval setting(short intervals in some and long intervals in some).
Raymond
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Monday, 08 August 2022 12:57
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Hi Andrew,

If you want to limit the number of posts to autopost for feed import, the only way is to reduce the number of items to fetch per import process(attached).
For example, Monday - Feed A, am post, pm post, Tuesday - Feed B, am post, pm post, and so on.
If you want to select the time of posting, the only way is to fetch/import these posts at selected times. This can be done by setting up your cron to fetch these posts at specific times. You would have to refer to your webhosting provider's guide on how to setup cronjob on specific times.
Raymond
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Thursday, 14 July 2022 12:57
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I have attempted to change that value but it automatically defaults back to 10.


Is there a way to get the cron to only pull from one feed?

This is, if I write the cron to pull only feed listing ID=1, what should the URL be written as?

/bin/wget -q -O "https://andacod.com/index.php?option=com_easyblog&task=cronfeed&ID=1"; >/dev/null
Andrew Nicholls
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Saturday, 06 August 2022 08:47
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Could this be a future improvement?
Andrew Nicholls
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Wednesday, 05 October 2022 19:28
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Hey Andrew,

No guarantees but yes it could be a future improvement.
Raymond
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Thursday, 06 October 2022 10:25
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