Aggregator offers a number of different settings for importing items from your sources that may cause some of your source’s items not to be imported. Check the below source-specific settings to make sure they’re not at fault for any import issues on your site.
Limit the Amount of Stored Items
Every source can have a storage limit set whereby, when the limit you set is reached, older items from the source are deleted as new ones are imported. This might be causing your items to be deleted from your site even though you want them to remain there.
You can increase the limit as needed or even remove the limit entirely (“No limit”) so that no items are automatically deleted from your site due to storage limits.
Curate Posts
When using the “Curate Posts” option, all items are essentially kept in a “pending” state until you approve them manually. This might be causing you to not see items being published to your displays or your blog.
If you have this option checked, you either need to approve the missing items from your Aggregator Hub or uncheck the option to have all eligible items be automatically imported to your site.
Post Status
When on the Plus, Pro, or Elite plans, you can set the “Post Status” to apply to all imported items from a source. If you’re noticing that posts aren’t being published on your site, it may be because the source’s post status is set to “Draft” or something similar, whereby they require your manual intervention to be published.
If you want posts to be automatically published to your site without any intervention from your end, set the post status to “Published” for each source.
Block Duplicate Titles
In Advanced > General, there is a setting called “Block duplicate titles”. Although this is mainly there to prevent Aggregator from importing duplicates of any item, there are rare occasions where this might work against you.
A few source sites have their RSS feeds set up with every item using the same permalink (GUID), which essentially means that they all have the same URL in the RSS feed, even though each item is unique. Although this is rare, we have come across a few such cases over the years.
To check for this, open the RSS feed in your browser and look for the “permalink” or “GUID” tags for each item. If they’re the same and you want all items to be imported anyway, uncheck the “Block duplicate titles” option.
Limit the Number of Stored Items by Age
In Advanced > General, there is a setting called “Limit the number of stored items by age” which determines how long each item should be stored on your site. For example, if the limit is set to 10 days, every imported item will be automatically deleted from your site 10 days after it’s imported.
If you’re noticing items going missing from your site, it’s worth checking this setting for each and every source to make sure you don’t have an incorrect age limit in place.
Activate and Pause Feed
In Advanced > General, there are options to activate and pause a source feed on a schedule. For example, you can create a source today but set it to activate itself in a week’s time, perhaps to coincide with the launch of something. Likewise, you can set a source to pause from importing new items on a specific date for whatever reason.
If these are set to anything but “Immediately” for activation and “Never” for paused, they may be interfering with the importing of new items from your source. To reset them, simply click on the option and then click on the Reset button beneath the calendar.
Author Credit
In Advanced > Author > Credit method, there is a setting called “If the author is missing from the feed”. When this is set to “Do not import the item”, if a source’s RSS feed has certain items that don’t have an author assigned to them by the source site itself, they will not be imported by Aggregator.
If you don’t want this to happen, change this setting to “Credit the fallback user” and set a fallback user in the setting beneath it.
Ignore Posts without a Featured Image
In Advanced > Images, there is a setting called “Ignore posts without a featured image”. When this option is checked, any item that does not have a featured image available from the source will not be imported by Aggregator.
If you don’t want this to happen, uncheck this option. You can set a “Fallback image” for such items so that they aren’t left without a featured image when imported.
