diff --git a/serendipity_event_commentspice/UTF-8/lang_de.inc.php b/serendipity_event_commentspice/UTF-8/lang_de.inc.php
index f1f801c0..4205b052 100644
--- a/serendipity_event_commentspice/UTF-8/lang_de.inc.php
+++ b/serendipity_event_commentspice/UTF-8/lang_de.inc.php
@@ -12,6 +12,8 @@
 @define('PLUGIN_EVENT_COMMENTSPICE_ANNOUNCE_RSS_NOFOLLOW_DESC', 'Wenn die Artikel Bewerbung auf nofollow gesetzt wird, werden Suchmaschinen ihn ignorieren. Dies macht die Eingabe für manuelle Kommentarspammer uninteressant, gibt aber weniger Kudos an den echten Kommentator.');
 @define('PLUGIN_EVENT_COMMENTSPICE_ANNOUNCE_RSS_MAXSELECT', 'Maximale Artikel Anzahl, aus der beworben werden darf');
 @define('PLUGIN_EVENT_COMMENTSPICE_ANNOUNCE_RSS_MAXSELECT_DESC', 'Wie viele seiner neuesten Artikel sollen dem Kommentator maximal zu Auswahl vorgelegt werden?');
+@define('PLUGIN_EVENT_COMMENTSPICE_ANNOUNCE_RSS_CACHEMIN', 'Cache Minuten für Artikel Informationen');
+@define('PLUGIN_EVENT_COMMENTSPICE_ANNOUNCE_RSS_CACHEMIN_DESC', 'Wie viele Minuten sollen die Information für Artikel zwischen gespeichert werden? Ein bis zwei Stunden (60-120 Minuten) erscheint sinnvoll. Ein Wert von 0 schaltet den Cache aus.');
 @define('PLUGIN_EVENT_COMMENTSPICE_PATH', 'Plugin Pfad');
 @define('PLUGIN_EVENT_COMMENTSPICE_PATH_DESC', 'In normalen Installationen ist der Default die korrekte Einstellung.');
 
diff --git a/serendipity_event_commentspice/lang_de.inc.php b/serendipity_event_commentspice/lang_de.inc.php
index 65ce5568..81e0cb5f 100644
--- a/serendipity_event_commentspice/lang_de.inc.php
+++ b/serendipity_event_commentspice/lang_de.inc.php
@@ -12,6 +12,8 @@
 @define('PLUGIN_EVENT_COMMENTSPICE_ANNOUNCE_RSS_NOFOLLOW_DESC', 'Wenn die Artikel Bewerbung auf nofollow gesetzt wird, werden Suchmaschinen ihn ignorieren. Dies macht die Eingabe für manuelle Kommentarspammer uninteressant, gibt aber weniger Kudos an den echten Kommentator.');
 @define('PLUGIN_EVENT_COMMENTSPICE_ANNOUNCE_RSS_MAXSELECT', 'Maximale Artikel Anzahl, aus der beworben werden darf');
 @define('PLUGIN_EVENT_COMMENTSPICE_ANNOUNCE_RSS_MAXSELECT_DESC', 'Wie viele seiner neuesten Artikel sollen dem Kommentator maximal zu Auswahl vorgelegt werden?');
+@define('PLUGIN_EVENT_COMMENTSPICE_ANNOUNCE_RSS_CACHEMIN', 'Cache Minuten für Artikel Informationen');
+@define('PLUGIN_EVENT_COMMENTSPICE_ANNOUNCE_RSS_CACHEMIN_DESC', 'Wie viele Minuten sollen die Information für Artikel zwischen gespeichert werden? Ein bis zwei Stunden (60-120 Minuten) erscheint sinnvoll. Ein Wert von 0 schaltet den Cache aus.');
 @define('PLUGIN_EVENT_COMMENTSPICE_PATH', 'Plugin Pfad');
 @define('PLUGIN_EVENT_COMMENTSPICE_PATH_DESC', 'In normalen Installationen ist der Default die korrekte Einstellung.');
 
diff --git a/serendipity_event_commentspice/lang_en.inc.php b/serendipity_event_commentspice/lang_en.inc.php
index 212ff803..4b0d4571 100644
--- a/serendipity_event_commentspice/lang_en.inc.php
+++ b/serendipity_event_commentspice/lang_en.inc.php
@@ -12,6 +12,8 @@
 @define('PLUGIN_EVENT_COMMENTSPICE_ANNOUNCE_RSS_NOFOLLOW_DESC', 'If set to nofollow search engines will ignore the recent post link. It will make it less interesting for manual comment spammers but won\'t give search engine kudos to the real commenter.');
 @define('PLUGIN_EVENT_COMMENTSPICE_ANNOUNCE_RSS_MAXSELECT', 'Maximum article count for announcing');
 @define('PLUGIN_EVENT_COMMENTSPICE_ANNOUNCE_RSS_MAXSELECT_DESC', 'How many rescent posts should be loaded at maximum the user can announce?');
+@define('PLUGIN_EVENT_COMMENTSPICE_ANNOUNCE_RSS_CACHEMIN', 'Minutes to cache fetched article results');
+@define('PLUGIN_EVENT_COMMENTSPICE_ANNOUNCE_RSS_CACHEMIN_DESC', 'How many minutes CommentSpice should cache fetched article informations? Don\'t set this too high, as new articles will pop up late. one to two hours (60-120min) seems to be a good value. Setting this to zero will switch off the cache.');
 @define('PLUGIN_EVENT_COMMENTSPICE_PATH', 'Plugins path');
 @define('PLUGIN_EVENT_COMMENTSPICE_PATH_DESC', 'In normal installations the default is correct.');
 
diff --git a/serendipity_event_commentspice/serendipity_event_commentspice.php b/serendipity_event_commentspice/serendipity_event_commentspice.php
index 3cf0242e..dec6c6a7 100644
--- a/serendipity_event_commentspice/serendipity_event_commentspice.php
+++ b/serendipity_event_commentspice/serendipity_event_commentspice.php
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ class serendipity_event_commentspice extends serendipity_event
             'css'				=> true,
         ));
         $propbag->add('groups', array('FRONTEND_VIEWS'));
-        $propbag->add('configuration', array('twitterinput','twitterinput_nofollow', 'announcerss', 'announcerssmax','announcerss_nofollow','plugin_path'));
+        $propbag->add('configuration', array('twitterinput','twitterinput_nofollow', 'announcerss', 'announcerssmax','announcersscachemin','announcerss_nofollow','plugin_path'));
     }
 
     function generate_content(&$title) {
@@ -90,7 +90,12 @@ class serendipity_event_commentspice extends serendipity_event
                 $propbag->add('description', PLUGIN_EVENT_COMMENTSPICE_ANNOUNCE_RSS_MAXSELECT_DESC);
                 $propbag->add('default',     3);
                 return true;
-                
+            case 'announcersscachemin':
+                $propbag->add('type',        'string');
+                $propbag->add('name',        PLUGIN_EVENT_COMMENTSPICE_ANNOUNCE_RSS_CACHEMIN);
+                $propbag->add('description', PLUGIN_EVENT_COMMENTSPICE_ANNOUNCE_RSS_CACHEMIN_DESC);
+                $propbag->add('default',     90);
+                return true;
             case 'plugin_path':
                 $propbag->add('type', 'string');
                 $propbag->add('name', PLUGIN_EVENT_COMMENTSPICE_PATH);
@@ -167,7 +172,22 @@ class serendipity_event_commentspice extends serendipity_event
         if (!is_numeric($announcerssmax)) {
             $this->set_config('announcerssmax',3);
         }
+        $announcersscachemin = $this->get_config('announcersscachemin',90);
+        if (!is_numeric($announcersscachemin)) {
+            $this->set_config('announcersscachemin',90);
+        }
+        // clear cache
+        $cacheDir = dirname($this->cacheRssFilename("doesntmatter"));
+        if (is_dir($cacheDir) && $handle = opendir($cacheDir)) {
+            while (false !== ($file = readdir($handle))) {
+                $filename = $cacheDir . '/' . $file;
+                if (!is_dir($filename)) {
+                    unlink($filename);
+                }
+            }
+        }
     }
+    
     function printHeader() {
         global $serendipity;
         
@@ -245,10 +265,24 @@ class serendipity_event_commentspice extends serendipity_event
         $this->log("readRss for $comment_url");
         if (empty($comment_url)) return;
 
+        // First try to read from cache
+        $result = $this->cacheReadRss($url);
+        if (empty($result)) {
+            $result = $this->readRssRemote($comment_url);
+            $this->log("Fetched array: " . print_r($result, true));
+            if (!empty($result) && $result['articles']) $this->cacheWriteRss($url, $result);
+        }
+        if (empty($result) || !$result['articles'] || count($result['articles'])==0) return;
+        
+        echo json_encode($result);
+    }
+    function readRssRemote($url) {
+        $this->log("Fetchig remote rss from: " . $url);
+        
         require_once (defined('S9Y_PEAR_PATH') ? S9Y_PEAR_PATH : S9Y_INCLUDE_PATH . 'bundled-libs/') . 'HTTP/Request.php';
-        $req = new HTTP_Request($comment_url, array('allowRedirects' => true, 'maxRedirects' => 3));
+        $req = new HTTP_Request($url, array('allowRedirects' => true, 'maxRedirects' => 3));
         if (PEAR::isError($req->sendRequest()) || $req->getResponseCode() != '200') {
-            $this->log("Error reading $comment_url");
+            $this->log("Error reading $url");
             return;
         } 
         # Fetch html content:
@@ -264,12 +298,12 @@ class serendipity_event_commentspice extends serendipity_event
         else {
             $this->log("rss link not found");
             return;
-            
         }
 
         // Now fetch the RSS feed:
         require_once (defined('S9Y_PEAR_PATH') ? S9Y_PEAR_PATH : S9Y_INCLUDE_PATH . 'bundled-libs/') . 'Onyx/RSS.php';
-                        # test multiple likely charsets
+        
+        # test multiple likely charsets
         $charsets = array( "utf-8", "ISO-8859-1");
         $retry = false;
         foreach ($charsets as $ch) {
@@ -280,7 +314,7 @@ class serendipity_event_commentspice extends serendipity_event
             if ($rss->parse($rssUrl))
             break;
         }
-        
+    
         $articles = array();
         $article = array();
         $article['title'] = PLUGIN_EVENT_COMMENTSPICE_PROMOTE_ARTICLE_CHOOSE;
@@ -299,18 +333,42 @@ class serendipity_event_commentspice extends serendipity_event
             $articles[] = $article;
             $itemCount++;
         }
-        if ($itemCount==0) return;
         $result['articles'] = $articles;
-        $result['url'] = $comment_url;
-        echo json_encode($result);
+        $result['url'] = $url;
+        return $result;
+    }
+    function cacheReadRss($url) {
+        $filename = $this->cacheRssFilename($url);
+        $cachemin = $this->get_config('announcersscachemin',90);
+        if ($cachemin == 0) return null;
+        $this->log("Reading " . $filename);
+        if (file_exists($filename) && (time() - filemtime($filename))< $cachemin * 60) {
+            $fp = fopen($filename, 'rb');
+            $result = unserialize(fread($fp, filesize($filename)));
+            fclose($fp);
+            return $result;
+        }
+        return null;
+    }
+    function cacheWriteRss($url, $array_struct) {
+        $cachemin = $this->get_config('announcersscachemin',90);
+        if ($cachemin == 0) return; // cache switched off
+        $filename = $this->cacheRssFilename($url);
+        $cache_dir= dirname($filename);
+        @mkdir($cache_dir);
+        $this->log("Writing " . $filename);
+        $fp = fopen($filename, 'wb');
+        fwrite($fp,serialize($array_struct));
+        fclose($fp);
+    }
+    function cacheRssFilename($url) {
+        global $serendipity;
+        $url_md5=md5($url);
+        return $serendipity['serendipityPath'] . '/' . PATH_SMARTY_COMPILE . '/commentspice/rss_' . $url_md5;
     }
     
     function commentDeleted($eventData, $addData) {
-        $this->log('commentDeleted');
-        $this->log(print_r($eventData, true));
-        $this->log(print_r($addData, true));
-        $reult = DbSpice::deleteCommentSpice($addData['cid']);
-        $this->log("delete result: $reult");
+        $result = DbSpice::deleteCommentSpice($addData['cid']);
     }
     
     function spiceComment(&$eventData, &$addData) {