[wp-forums] SimplePie and WP core

[Gavin Pearce]

> Is there anything in core that will allow users to make use of the
> force_feed() functionality in SimplePie? When the Incoming Links feed
breaks in the Dashboard, SimplePie outputs the following:

A couple of developers and I have been having this issue on WP-Hackers
way back when. We put it down to just temporary network issues between
us and Google at the time, and neither of us investigated much further.

Try to avoid force_feed, as SimplePie is good at detecting valid feeds -
if it's invalid, it's normally invalid for a reason. 

There is an action called:
wp_feed_options that you can hook into which provides $feed & $url

It's located in the fetch_feed function in wp-includes/feed.php.

Gavin.