Newsknit RSS

No. The shortcode, Gutenberg block, and classic widget all work standalone. The Elementor widget and WPBakery element are optional integrations that only register themselves if those builders are active.

Each group has its own cache duration (in hours, default 3). An hourly background cron job checks every group and re-fetches any whose cache has expired, so visitors always see a pre-warmed cache rather than waiting on a live fetch.

Yes — add multiple shortcode/block/widget instances, each pointing at a different group slug.

It's a list of negative keywords per group. Any match subtracts from an article's score; combined with your minimum score threshold, this excludes articles that trip your negative terms. A lower threshold lets more articles through, a higher one shows fewer. The filter can be switched off per group without deleting the saved keyword list.

"Newest first" sorts strictly by publish date. "Relevancy score" sorts by the keyword score computed from your group's positive/negative terms (falling back to date as a tiebreaker).

Yes — every group is available at /csrkk-feed/{group-slug}/, a standard RSS 2.0 feed containing the group's curated (filtered, deduplicated) articles.

That feed is skipped for that fetch cycle and marked with an error status (visible in the group's feed health list in wp-admin); the rest of the group's feeds are unaffected.

Yes — regardless of a group's desktop pagination setting (numbered pages or a manual "Load More" button), mobile visitors always get automatic infinite scroll.

Yes, two ways: use the plugin's own JSON export/import (full settings, replaces existing groups on import) or OPML export/import (works with any RSS reader, and import adds groups rather than replacing).

Yes — downloaded thumbnails are validated as real image data, capped in file size, and fetched with protection against requests to internal/private network addresses.

From the Newsknit RSS settings screen (per group or all groups), or via the "Purge All Caches" link under the Newsknit RSS menu in the wp-admin toolbar.