My plugin creates a new feed every 24hrs from the "Last Run" time stamp in the plugin.

If you want to chnage the time it runs, just change this time to the middle of the night or a quiet time.

Manually force a new feed

To force the system to create a new feed, delete the time stamp, then save or apply the plugin.

Now go back to the website home page (where the public would see) and refresh the page.

The way the plugin works is every time a webpage is refreshed it runs a very light script which checks the time stamp, if it is less than 24hrs ago, then nothing happens, if it is over 24 hrs ago, it creates a new feed. This system was adopted, as the very early versions of the system used a cron job, which confused non technical people and some hosting control panels for the cheaper hosting companies don't provide cron job access. So I needed to use a system which would work easily and perfect for all Joomla users, which this does.

it doesnt slow down your site in anyway, the file that it checks uses less than 0.1% of the resources of the page refreshing, so it is so quick that a user will never notice the difference. When the feed is actually created, it depends on on how large the feed is, and how good your server is, but in general it takes a couple of seconds and it is done... then thats it for 24hrs.