To what degree can use of caching-plugins and a CDN boost WordPress performance? [closed]

If your content is rarely updated and that you have configured a caching solution to have what is commonly called a ‘supercache’. This means that ounce a page is cached, next call to that page will return a static content, without requiring a call to a php interpreter. Even on a cheap hosting, you can … Read more

nginx + wordpress: Best practices for configuring it to be secure, reliable, and fast? [closed]

What permissions should I set on each of wp folders? Users will need to upload various assets (images, pdfs, office docs, audio, video). I found this article here that seems helpful, but would like to get some input from folks having done this? This will be the same as any other web server. Whatever user … Read more

Cache of site on browser

If you just want to clean the cache (using Chrome and Windows) you can: Open Developer Tools – F12 Right click on the reload button Choose an option from the dropdown menu – probably the last – “Empty cache and hard reload”

WP 3.5 caching problem

Sorry for this but I found out in the end that my ISP was doing some kind of caching on their end. Had to phone them and explain the issue. When they started seeing it too, I kwen the problem was with them. Thanks for all the comments btw.

Caching & Outputting RSS Data

I think you’re looking for the core function fetch_feed(), your new best friend! From the Codex: Retrieves an external feed and parses it. Uses the SimplePie and FeedCache functionality for retrieval and parsing and automatic caching. and fetch_feed caches results for 12 hours by default. You can modify this by modifying the time interval via … Read more

CSS messes up when CACHE is cleared

Caching is usually an issue with the visitor’s browser. Sometimes they won’t get a change that you have made to a page. So a Ctrl+F5 will force a reload of everything. If you have enabled caching on the back-end (usually with a plugin), then you may need to rebuild the cache for that page. If … Read more

what is the cache directory for in my theme? (version control it?)

If you use someway “compilable” WordPress theme (are they exist?!) cache-dir may contain theme-files, processed by some tools and prepared for using by httpd-server of site. As all and any artifacts, constructed from versioned data, these files can and have be excluded from versioning – everybody will be able to rebuild these files from versioned … Read more