All options live at AdminCP > Setup > Options > [MC] News Aggregator. They are grouped into the sections below.
| Section | Settings |
|---|
| Fetching | Concurrency, timeout, error threshold. |
| Items | Items per page, max item age, duplicate threshold. |
| Retention | Retention windows for visible and flagged items. |
| Ticker | Master switch, source filter, item count, cycle speed. |
| General | Branding. |
Fetching
| Setting | Default | What it does |
|---|
| Concurrent feed fetches | 5 | Maximum number of feeds fetched in parallel during each scheduled run. Higher reduces total fetch time at the cost of server load and pressure on upstream feed providers. |
| Feed fetch timeout | 15 | Seconds to wait for one feed's HTTP response (connect + read). Slow feeds that exceed this are recorded as errors. |
| Disable sources after X consecutive errors | (configurable) | Auto-disables a source after this many consecutive failures. Set to 0 to never auto-disable. |
Items
| Setting | Default | What it does |
|---|
| Items per page | (configurable) | Page size on the public news page. |
| Maximum item age | (configurable) | Items older than this are skipped at parse time even if the feed still lists them. |
| Duplicate detection threshold (%) | (configurable) | Title similarity percentage at which two items are considered duplicates across sources. 0 disables dedup. |
Retention
| Setting | Default | What it does |
|---|
| Retention period | (configurable) | How long visible items are kept. Set higher than Maximum item age to retain items after they stop being fetched. |
| Retention period for flagged items | (configurable) | Independent retention for items that are admin-hidden, filtered by a keyword rule, or detected as duplicates. Typically shorter than the visible retention window. |
Ticker
| Setting | Default | What it does |
|---|
| Enable global news ticker | Off | When on, a scrolling ticker is shown at the top of every public page. Logged-in users can hide it from their preferences. |
| News ticker sources | (all) | Restrict the ticker to a chosen subset of sources. Empty = all active sources. |
| News ticker items | (configurable) | How many recent visible items the ticker cycles through. |
| News ticker cycle speed | (configurable) | Seconds between headline rotations. |
See ticker and widget for the homepage widget configuration.
General
| Setting | Default | What it does |
|---|
| Remove branding | Off | Removes the "Powered by [MC] News Aggregator" footer text. |