There are two alternatives store the caching on an NFS “drive” put a caching proxy before your instances and forget about stupid caching plugins. Variation on 2 is to use a CDN like cloudflair to do the caching.
Had you verified that there is no advanced-cache.php already there from another plugin (or as leftover of one)? You can try to copy this file manually from W3TC folder: wp-content\plugins\w3-total-cache\wp-content\
get_bloginfo() is not cached and calling it over and over would harm your performance just like creating many calls to the database yourself. a simple solution which doesn’t evolve any caching in to minimize the database and function calls by defining a an array with all the info you need and save that as an … Read more
I find that W3 Total Cache works well for me in doing minifying and gzipping. (I’m not sure about the others.) More generally, if there’s a plugin that does something, I use the plugin. It’s very rare to see a do-it-all theme do something better than a specialized, single-function plugin, particularly when that plugin is … Read more
The point of caching is to increase performance, not specifically to reduce server load, but there is pretty obviously a relationship– perhaps not exactly the one(s) you expect. This is by no means a canonical answer but here are several things I can think of: Some kinds of caching increases memory usage. Caching that uses … Read more
Do not rely on changing plugin details to work around this issue. The code that decides a match in official repository is a black box — they don’t disclose how it works and what it considers, except in very general terms. Even if it ignores your plugin today, who knows if it will do the … Read more
The main obvious problem with your scheme is that when someone wil try to reload an old page it will get all kinds of 404 when requesting the JS and CSS since those files are not on the server anymore. There is seriously no need to reinvent the wheel, just follow WordPress’s best practice unless … Read more
4.1 is coming from your WordPress version. Also you should not append ver= to the src manually but use the fourth parameter of wp_enqueue_style.
Stop what you’re doing – it’s so much simpler! function wpse_191369_post_password_expires() { return time() + 10; // Expire in 10 seconds } add_filter( ‘post_password_expires’, ‘wpse_191369_post_password_expires’ ); That’s all you need.
You can host your WordPress on a server with PHP 7 running on SSD. It speeds up by alot.