feeds don't refresh with new tweets

Am having the same issue, would be good to find out why this is happening.

I’m having this issue as well. The latest tweets are from 1 week ago. I tried removing the widget and re-adding the api keys. I also tried deactivating and deleting the plugin and reinstalling, but neither of these resolved the issue. The latest tweets were the same, from 1 week ago.

The only relevant update we did is we did update the core of WordPress to 4.3 in the last few weeks.

Also having this problem, anyone found a solution?

Hello
Greetings !!

Thanks for using our plugin.

Honestly this is still likely an API limit issue. It often happens on shared hosting when another site on your server (or server cluster) starts pounding on the API and using up all the requests. Since the limit is only 150 requests per hour per IP, it’s not that hard to exceed your hourly limit in as little as half a second if someone is doing something wrong (purposefully or otherwise).

The plugin DOES cache the results from Twitter. It stores the response as an option and stores a second option with an expire date/time. It will continue to use the results forever, but once the time has expired it will try to update that option with new results (on failure to update though, it will continue to use the old data).

Please Let us know if you need more help.

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Team Vivacity

That wasn’t the problem for me. In controllers/twitter_widget.class line 210 it has the following if(false === ($tweets = get_transient($transName) ) ) : This was always evaluating to false and so the api was never even being called. Can you provide some details in to why this was happening? I’m not familiar with get_transient and the docs don’t shed much light on it.

Anyway, after commenting out the line and the endif; down on line 262 I got it working again, but I would like some explanation here.

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As a quick follow up, I debugged the value of $timeto_store as you might ask me what it was set to, but it was set to 4 which means, according to the docs that set_transient should have expired after 4 minutes. I assume the get/set transient functions acts like a cache, and if that’s the case they were never clearing for me. I checked the database table wp_options as well for the backup option and it was there and the autoload columns was set to yes. Not sure if you need that information, but I thought I’d add it just in case.

Our twitter feed hasn’t updated in a week and we have many, many tweets in that time frame. Not an API issue.

Hi, up until about a week ago I’ve had no problems at all with the plugin, however now it no longer seems to refresh anymore. The most recent Tweet it shows is from five days ago although I’ve tweeted today and yesterday.

Any ideas please ?

My Website : s1monlock.com

Hello @s1monlock
Greetings!!

Can you please try to delete transient options from your option table by using any free plugin, and then activate again this Twitter plugin, This is might be not loading any transient options from your option table or skipping them.

Let us know what did you get with this?, because we have tried this many times on our demo server and it seems working fine there.

Thanks & Regards
Team Vivacity

Hi Vivacity,

I tried what you suggested but it didn’t seem to help any.

So I completely deleted the Plugin from WordPress and then reinstalled it and regenerated my Twitter API keys and it’s working again now ??

Thanks for your support!

Hello @s1monlock
Greetings!!

Please can you put your valuable comments/ratings to our plugin?

Thanks & Regards
Team Vivacity

Just wanted to add in that @pzanno’s solution resolved my problem. Thanks for digging in and finding this!

I second @pzanno’s solution! But for me the line was on line 211, but the instructions were perfect. Hopefully this will be fixed in the next update. Thanks!