diff --git a/functions.php b/functions.php
index 5d086f9e9..bc26bf77a 100644
--- a/functions.php
+++ b/functions.php
@@ -443,6 +443,7 @@
 		} else {
 			$rss = new SimplePie();
 			$rss->set_useragent(SIMPLEPIE_USERAGENT . MAGPIE_USER_AGENT_EXT);
+			$rss->set_timeout(MAGPIE_FETCH_TIME_OUT);
 			$rss->set_feed_url($fetch_url);
 			$rss->set_output_encoding('UTF-8');
 			$rss->init();