Delay New Posts in RSS Feeds
Waits 15 minutes before new posts appear in your feeds, giving you time to fix typos before feed readers and newsletters pick them up.
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Code
add_filter( 'posts_where', function ( $where, $query ) {
global $wpdb;
if ( ! $query->is_main_query() || ! $query->is_feed() ) {
return $where;
}
$minutes = 15;
$cutoff = gmdate( 'Y-m-d H:i:s', time() - $minutes * MINUTE_IN_SECONDS );
return $where . $wpdb->prepare( " AND {$wpdb->posts}.post_date_gmt <= %s", $cutoff );
}, 10, 2 );Notes
Change $minutes to adjust the delay.
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