It depends on the plugin and the cache method you are using. For example, as far as I remember, WP Super Cache offers two different cache methods: PHP Cache HTML Cache Using the first method creates PHP cache files that still load WordPress’s functions, but do not go through the whole loading process. If this … Read more
Some caching plugins that cache entire pages or sites in .html files so obviously anything generated on a page will be “cached” in that file. Other kinds of caching stores information in memory (RAM). The answer differs some according to which kind of caching you are talking about, but… If I use transient api is … Read more
do you have mod_expires installed and enabled in your apache module?
Make sure your hosting provider offer mod_expires. Because many shared hosting providers doesn’t offer mod_expires . Just contact your hosting support.
So any suggestions are welcomed. Suggestion #1 – Whenever Memcache is available in the server, I prefer Memcached Object Cache and Batcache, unless I have a specific reason to use W3 Total Cache. Whatever, W3 Total Cache offers, can be achieved without it too. For example, for minify, we have Better WP Minify, For Varnish, … Read more
How can I get W3 Total Cache to recognise Amazon ElastiCache? [closed]
How can I use fragment caching to exclude certain plugins from being cached?
W3 Total Cache has the following option that if enabled will cause this behavior: Cache 404 (not found) pages Reduce server load by caching 404 pages. If the disk enhanced method of disk caching is used, 404 pages will be returned with a 200 response code. Use at your own risk. Other caching plugins may … Read more
That security hole in W3 Total Cache was associated with data leaking through an exploit, and not explicitly with hackers changing code (that could happen afterwards, of course, but what you show isn’t this). The exploit has been fixed so just make sure your plugin is up to date. If unsure, disable / delete the … Read more
Caching plugins are very challenging to disable because on top of normal plugin functionality they tend to: created extra drop-in files set caching constants bypass PHP completely with .htaccess While it’s not impossible to mangle specific plugin into submission, it’s flaky. More reliable to explicitly disable it in dev and keep. Note that implicitly stopping … Read more