SourcedFrom is a WordPress plugin used for content syndication. It’s quite brilliant! However, it is now totally unsupported and has not been updated in ages. Still, we have been limping along until about a month ago when we started getting errors like this:
SourcedFrom Error: WP HTTP Error: Operation timed out after 10000 milliseconds with 1065660 bytes received
First I contacted the host company. It wasn’t them (it never is!). Then I checked the RSS feed and found it needed to be validated. That’s always nice to do, but it made no difference on our end. So, I tried using the Feedburner RSS instead of the WordPress native RSS. Then it only showed 10 of the 243 posts.
Yes, you are right, 243 posts is a LOT! So, I ended up creating a new site just to house older posts, then imported them. Next, I deleted the older posts from the library site. In Library>client settings I simply add the URL for BOTH sites and …