Souljacker, I would first take a look at your plugins. Star Ratings for Reviews hasn’t been updated for over 3 years and looks like its real heavy on the db. I saw some raw sql with some INNER JOINS that look troublesome. On the server side you should implement some object caching. APC is the … Read more
Thanks to @chrisguitarguy’s answer, you can control the http headers sent by WordPress via the “send_headers” hook. Here is the function I added to my theme’s functions.php file, and that solved the issue with the Varnish server. function varnish_safe_http_headers() { header( ‘X-UA-Compatible: IE=edge,chrome=1’ ); session_cache_limiter(”); header(“Cache-Control: public, s-maxage=120”); if( !session_id() ) { session_start(); } } … Read more
No, including this constant with a value of TRUE loads advanced-cache.php. Object-cache.php is loaded and used automatically. See https://wordpress.org/support/article/editing-wp-config-php/
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
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