I’m not aware of any specific problems with the latest WordPress and the feed-fetching mechanism.
You might begin debugging by installing the WP Crontrol tool. Then, navigate to Dashboard > Tools > Cron Events. Do you see anything there called ‘pf_retrieve_feed’?
Thanks for the direction, it’s a problem on the server.
My host is requesting more info, they don’t see anything wrong yet. Can you tell me any details of what cron jobs are supposed to be running?
Currently manually updating works, just not any schedule.
“Have you contacted the development team for this plugin about this issue? I’m not seeing any outstanding cron tasks: wp_privacy_delete_old_export_files 2025-12-05 20:44:59 9 minutes 45 seconds 1 hour pf_process_delete_queue 2025-12-05 20:44:59 9 minutes 45 seconds 1 hour take_feed_out 2025-12-05 20:44:59 9 minutes 45 seconds 1 hour wpdiscuz_generate_thumbnails 2025-12-05 22:44:59 2 hours 9 minutes 3 hours wdev_logger_clear_logs 2025-12-06 00:00:00 3 hours 24 minutes 1 day recovery_mode_clean_expired_keys 2025-12-06 00:44:58 4 hours 9 minutes 1 day wpmudev_scheduled_jobs 2025-12-06 00:44:58 4 hours 9 minutes 12 hours wp_site_health_scheduled_check 2025-12-06 00:44:59 4 hours 9 minutes 1 week wp_statistics_daily_cron_hook 2025-12-06 00:44:59 4 hours 9 minutes 1 day wp_version_check 2025-12-06 00:44:59 4 hours 9 minutes 12 hours wp_update_plugins 2025-12-06 00:44:59 4 hours 9 minutes 12 hours wp_update_themes 2025-12-06 00:44:59 4 hours 9 minutes 12 hours wp_smush_daily_cron 2025-12-06 00:45:02 4 hours 9 minutes 1 day wp_update_user_counts 2025-12-06 00:45:02 4 hours 9 minutes 12 hours wp_scheduled_delete 2025-12-06 00:54:25 4 hours 19 minutes 1 day delete_expired_transients 2025-12-06 00:54:25 4 hours 19 minutes 1 day wp_statistics_record_daily_summary 2025-12-06 05:00:00 8 hours 24 minutes 1 day wp_statistics_dbmaint_hook 2025-12-06 05:00:00 8 hours 24 minutes 1 day wp_statistics_report_hook 2025-12-07 13:00:00 1 day 16 hours 1 week wp_statistics_check_licenses_status 2025-12-12 00:44:59 6 days 4 hours 1 week wp_statistics_referrals_db_hook 2026-01-04 00:44:59 4 weeks 1 day 1 month wp_statistics_anonymized_share_data_hook 2026-02-03 00:44:59 1 month 4 weeks 2 months I don’t know specifically what cron name this plugin is using for their intended action.”
Thanks
Cron events are now running but the plugin is not pulling any feeds. Doing a manual just spins the indicator. Debugging is enabled and the log is empty. Deleting the plugin and reinstalling did nothing. Deleting the feeds and re-adding did nothing. My host just says it’s a plugin problem, which I’m not sure of but I need some direction of where to look/try next…
I cleared everything, ran a manual refresh on 1 feed. Here is the log:
https://cigarobsession.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/log.txt
The plugin update this morning finally fixed everything FYI, so I assume I was right it was needed because of the recent WP update.
Thanks for reporting back. There was a bug in PF that was causing feed import to break on certain versions of PHP, and I fixed that problem in this week’s release. Glad to hear that it’s working now!
