Title: Forcing updates for custom fields
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Forcing updates for custom fields

 *  [thewillseph](https://wordpress.org/support/users/thewillseph/)
 * (@thewillseph)
 * [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/forcing-updates-for-custom-fields/)
 * I have an RSS feed being generated on another server, which generates posts through
   FeedWordPress. I have a number of custom fields being mapped from the RSS feed
   to the custom fields of the posts, which are important. Unfortunately, when FeedWordPress
   updates, it does not check to see if the values of these custom fields are different
   from the new RSS feed, and therefore does not update the entire post.
 * However, if I update the description, then it does consider the post “updated”
   and it updates the description as well as all of my custom fields along with 
   it (presumably because the “description” RSS element is considered a major part
   of the post).
 * Is there a way to let FeedWordPress consider the other custom RSS elements when
   deciding when to update everything, or better yet, just update every post’s custom
   fields from the new RSS regardless?
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## Tags

 * [custom fields](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/custom-fields/)
 * [RSS](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/rss/)
 * [Updates](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/updates/)

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 * Last reply from: [thewillseph](https://wordpress.org/support/users/thewillseph/)
 * Last activity: [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/forcing-updates-for-custom-fields/)
 * Status: not resolved