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

CSS changes not taking effect [closed]

A couple of thoughts for you. –Are you creating a new theme from scratch? If so, drive on. If you are modifying an existing theme, changing another’s theme style.css file can be trouble. If you are modifying an existing theme, stop what you are doing, and spend 30 (yup, 30!) minutes to learn how to … Read more

Levels of caching and impact on the WordPress web site

Adding custom variables(query strings) to static resources doesn’t affect caching at some of the levels you’ve listed above: WordPress plugin caching Webserver software caching PHP opcode caching MySQL caching WordPress query caching Several more etc. All of these don’t cache static resources(js, css and so on) but rather cache the output of application codes at … Read more

Caching with dynamic content

Looks like I solved this. Found this very good tutorial/extension for W3TC http://www.xoogu.com/dynamic-shortcodes-extension-for-w3-total-cache I have tried this out and it works wonderfully and the difference is nice. Got a much better score on Pingdom speedtest.

User cannot authenticate after signup when object cache enabled

This is now solved The solution was this in the activation script: $blog_real_id = $wpdb->get_var(“select blog_id from wp_bp_user_blogs where user_id = “.$user_id.” limit 1″); wp_cache_key_delete(“1:users:”.$user_id); wp_cache_key_delete($blog_real_id.”:users:”.$user_id); This clears the cached user info for blog id 1 and the signed up blog ud. For some reason the password hash that is in memcache is wrong. Clearing … Read more