RSS Syndication Options for Wordpress

This simple plugin lets the administrator modify the RSS sy:updateperiod and sy:updatefrequency parameters in their RSS feed (see http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/). These parameters tell RSS aggregators how frequently they can expect changes to your blog, and should in theory affect crawl rates.

Once installed, the RSS syndication options can be set from the Wordpress "Reading" settings page.

Note: if you are familiar with PHP and Wordpress code, I suggest that rather than installing this plugin and adding unnecessary overhead to your blog, you can just add the following lines of code to your functions.php file:

function custom_rss_update_period() {
	return 'weekly';
}
function custom_rss_update_frequency() {
	return '1';
}
add_filter( 'rss_update_period', 'custom_rss_update_period' );
add_filter( 'rss_update_frequency', 'custom_rss_update_frequency' );

You can adjust the returned values. Permitted rss_update_period values are hourly, daily, weekly, monthly and yearly. The rss_update_frequency must be an integer.

This plugin requires PHP version 5 or greater.

If you have any problems or suggestions, you can email me. I can’t fix it if I don’t know it’s broken!