Basic answer to “what plugin” would probably be W3 Total Cache. It is one of the most functional and actively developed plugins at moment. However complete performance chain is much longer that WordPress plugin alone can handle. Web server (Apache or something else) configuration (response time, time to first byte, headers). Database (time spent processing … Read more
So, there are many sub-questions, i’ll try to address each. Views Counter Problem – I could make this Value/function be ran using Ajax. Once the new Cached/Static page is loaded, Javascript could then use Ajax to request and update the Views counter for that page. Totally agree: added benefit: loading it via ajax when “important” … Read more
The mix up is usually because these extensions are about two unrelated technologies: opcode caching and key-value data store. For WordPress you prefereably want both. Opcode caching is really the “normal” way to run PHP (and lack of it is essentially crippled shared hosting way). Data store can *(and should) be used by WordPress object … Read more
Should I use Transient API at all here? No. In a stock WordPress install transients are stored in the wp_options table, and only cleaned up during core upgrades. Suppose you have 50,000 posts, that’s 50,000 additional rows in the options table. Obviously they’re set to autoload=no, so it’s not going to consume all your memory, … Read more
Your solution with comment_author_proxyhash cookie will of course technically work – all caching plugins I know doesn’t analyze hash value and will just stop delivery of cached content based on comment_author_* cookie presense. Problem here is that page caching functionality is something websites really need and often page caching is configured exactly because naked WordPress … Read more
WordPress, by default, does a form of “Object Caching” but its lifetime is only a single page load. Options are actually a really good example of this. Check out this answer for more info. The summary: A page starts All options are loaded with a simple SELECT option_name, option_value from $wpdb->options statement Subsequent requests for … Read more
if you want to flush the cache you can do that: the plugin has functions for that <?php flush_pgcache() //page cache flush_dbcache() // database cache flush_minify() // minify cache flush_all() //all caches ?> and you just need to call it like this: <?php $w3_plugin_totalcache->flush_all(); ?> and that is basically the answer to the question in … Read more
You don’t have to use @import. It’s best not to, actually. Using an enqueued approach is probably better all around. Here’s the relevant part of twentythirteen’s code: function twentythirteen_scripts_styles() { … // Loads our main stylesheet. wp_enqueue_style( ‘twentythirteen-style’, get_stylesheet_uri(), array(), ‘2013-07-18’ ); … } add_action( ‘wp_enqueue_scripts’, ‘twentythirteen_scripts_styles’ ); Here’s what you do in your code: … Read more
On shared hosting plans your caching options are limited. You will only be able to statically cache the html output from your pages. This is the fastest way to serve pages but you loose the dynamic aspects of WordPress like making comments and seeing the latest comments on posts. There are disk caching options available … Read more
Add the filemtime() of your stylesheet as version parameter. Lets say, your default stylesheet is in css/default.css and css/default.min.css (not style.css). When we register a stylesheet on wp_loaded (not init), we can pass a version as fourth parameter. That will be the last modified time and therefore change every time we change the file. $min … Read more