The RSS feed is not honoring the minutes to reach check for update setting. Is there way to force a refresh? I am running version 3.01
Thanks

I have tried updating the feed and saving. Also tried deleting and recreating the feed entirely. It is storing it somewhere, perhaps the database. Although I checked and did not see it in `smf_ezp_rss_cache` table

The RSS feed data is stored in an ezportal parameter

select * from {db_prefix}ezp_block_parameters_values as v, {db_prefix}ezp_block_parameters AS p

WHERE v.id_parameter = p.id_parameter AND p.parameter_name  = 'rssdata'   

And is the time is based the next updatetime time which is stored in the lastupdate parameter

SELECT * FROM {db_prefix}ezp_block_parameters_values as v, {db_prefix}ezp_block_parameters AS p

WHERE v.id_parameter = p.id_parameter AND p.parameter_name = 'lastupdate'


One additional information: I have made a new post so it updated showing a new item of what is now the oldest feed.  The feed is: http://blog.themobilephotographyblog.com/feed/

Edit: Trying something new. I set the RSS feed to 1 item so it updated to the correct one on the block. I set it again to 30 (my default) and will see if it starts to update correctly from now on.

I still have the issue with the characters and the problem with update is not properly solved. I think if I use some other RSS I will have the same problem (not having the newest one).

Fixed the showing one item issue. But now the issue is....I have it showing the oldest item first.....which has always been the case so it wouldn't work for what you are trying to do.

Posted an update that should help with all the issues.
3.0.3
+Two new settings for the RSS Feed block. Encoding type and the order in which feed items are displayed
!Fixed RSS feed block bug when only showing one feed item

I'm still trying to understand but I think the RSS Block is broken as it doesn't pushes feeds. Once 3.0.3 installed, I had no longer strange characters but instead of a "-" I had a "?" so I went to try changing to UTF-8. Any change on RSS Block makes it refresh so the feed first disappears until it refreshes. Point is, nothing appears now.

I tried going back to ISO-8859-1, changing time of refresh, number of items to load, changing reverse order but no luck.

Edit: Took a long time but finally appeared the characters are not the intended ones tho as they don't match the feed...  Good news is that Reverse is working.

Jonas,

I know you talk With Ez at his other site, But I will check into this and just to be certain what version of SMF are you using?