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W3 Total Cache CSS & JS files GZip issues

Having checked my site with google page speed and gzipwtf.com I have noticed that my css and js files are not getting compressed (although html is). Have tried unchecking " Prevent caching of objects ...
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Limit cache size from W3 Total Cache

Is it possible to define a limit for how much space W3 Total Cache is allowed to use?
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Should i use wp transient with w3-total-cache apc caching

Should i use in my queries wp transient like this - <?php if ( ! $my_paged = absint( get_query_var( 'paged' ) ) ) $my_paged = 1; if ( ! $my_query = get_transient( "567recent_$my_paged" ) ...
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Writing a view count with w3 total cache

I am trying to develop functionality which counts how many times a post is viewed however I am also using page caching (APC possible memcache in the future) via w3 total cache. The "view count" value ...
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How does W3 Total Cache Load Images In Stylesheet via CDN?

W3 Total Cache uses all the PHP / WordPress API trickery at hand to make sure all static content (CSS, JS, Images, etc.) is served from the CDN URL. But how does it make sure that even the images ...
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Intercepting Before W3 Total Cache

I am writing a plugin where I want to read user agent and send custom headers back on certain agents. Unfortunately however several people have the W3 Total Cache plugin and what it's doing is that, ...
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Getting soft 404 errors (200 status) when caching plugins are enabled

I have a blog running the latest stable version of WordPress on a dedicated virtual server with the following situation. (Replace [caching plugin] with W3 Total Cache, Hyper Cache, or Quick Cache, as ...
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Is the W3 Total Cache plugin a good choice for WordPress MultiSite? [closed]

I heard that many people had issues with W3 Total Cache on a WordPress MultiSite install. And then I see this on the plugin page: Compatible up to: 3.2.1 Last Updated: 2011-8-26 Seeing that ...
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Theme compression/ minifying or W3 Total Cache - which should I use?

I run a WP3.x Multisite setup. One of the themes I use on a site has options for minifying, using Gzip compression and using data URIs for images (not sure what the latter function is or does). In the ...
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W3 Total Cache can't create files

I want to use W3 Total Cache plugin. Installed plugin succesfully but i'm trying to enable Page Caching and i'm getting this error : Page caching is not available: advanced-cache.php is not ...
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W3Total Cache problem with Nginx

Hi I installed w3 total cache on my nginx powered site, I'm having errors however. For example when I enable page caching disk:enhanced I get: It appears Page Cache URL rewriting is not working. If ...
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hide wp-content from urls

Here is what I am thinking of trying to hide wp-content from the urls of files included in page source. defining the following in wp-settings.php define ...
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Can I ignore caching of a plugin in W3 Total Cache?

I currently have a plugin that lets me display a random post in a widget. The problem is that if I activate w3 total cache it will only display that post as long as the cache hasn't been cleared. Is ...
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customize wordpress database error page

UPDATE Initially I suspected this was related to the Wordpress framework I'm using (Genesis) or to my child theme functionality, but turns out that's not the case as I was able to get this to work in ...
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How to hide W3 Total Cache from non admins?

I would like to be able to hide W3 Total Cache from non admins. How can I go about doing so? The following code I tried implementing in my functions.php file does not work: function hide_w3tc() { ...
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Where to put W3 Total Cache rewrite rules in .htaccess?

Should I put them in the following order or the order doesn't matter at all? # BEGIN W3TC Browser Cache # END W3TC Browser Cache # BEGIN W3TC Page Cache core # END W3TC Page Cache core # WordPress ...
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Combile External JS files using W3 Total Cache

Is there any option or is it recommended to combine external JS files using W3 Total Cache plugin for wordpress. When I say exxternal JS files, I mean that I want to combine .JS files that on other ...
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“W3 Total Cache” with “What Would Seth Godin Do” (and widgets?!)?

I would like to use "What Would Seth Godin Do" with "W3 total cache" - can that be done? Also, is there a way to use this inside widgets? (I was thinking of maybe using some sort of php widget for it ...
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Spam injected in w3 total cache page cache

I'm trying to fix a site which has been injected with external spam. After inspection I found out that the external content (so far just html advertising different kinds of drugs, no scripts) was in ...
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How can I output HTML in a template without it being passed through a caching filter?

I'm in a bit of a bind. I'm using W3TC, with the "Prevent caching of objects after settings change" option enabled, so that pagespeed service can be refreshed when needed. Unfortunately, this adds ...
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W3 Total Cache “Preview mode could not be disabled”

I receive the message: Preview mode could not be disabled. Please run chmod 777 /wp-content/w3-total-cache-config-preview.php to make the configuration file write-able, then try again. I ...
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Disable WordPress cache programmatically on a request

How do I turn off the WP Super Cache & W3 Total Cache functionality programmatically? For instance, I neither want to make it use the cache on some requests nor cache the output of the request, do ...
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Sociable buttons displaying seemingly at random

I'm using the Sociable plugin for WordPress. In the admin settings, the Live Preview of Sociable works exactly how I'd like it to: However, on the front-end, I'm getting varying different ...
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Scheduling doesn't work due to caching?

I'm using W3 Total Cache and Nginx with Varnish, and I'm very happy with the speed. However, I noticed that when I schedule a post, the post doesn't get automatically posted when I'm a visitor. When ...
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APC fragmention woes on Apache AWS EC2 Small instance with WordPress and W3TC

Asked this question at serverfault, and got confirmation that W3TC is most likely causing the issue, but several of my more W3TC/Wordpress specific issues weren't able to be answered. Reposting ...
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Split Testing with W3 Cache Enabled?

I'm trying to do some simple split testing on a category page, but W3 Cache is causing some issues. To do the split testing, I randomly select a layout (either grid or horizontal), then I store it in ...
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W3 total cach and theme changes

i have read that i have to weight with w3 total cache until my blog design is complete. But to be honest, it will never be finished. I'm constantly developing new stuff. How will this affect my site ...
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Getting “Internal Server Error” when enabling 'Set expires header' in W3 Total Cache

As soon as I enable the option Performance --> Browser cache --> 'Set expires header' to true I get a 500 Internal Server Error. Then I have to SSH into the server and delete the new entries to ...
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Can I flush W3TC's cache in a capistrano deploy?

I'm trying to simplify my deploy process and am making use of the Capistrano tool. Is there a way to have capistrano flush W3TC's cache in a deploy task?
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Run W3 Total Cache Flush Function with Crontab

Ok. I'm really stumped on this one. Basically, I need to call a function for the Wordpress plugin W3 Total Cache as part of a cron job in crontab. I'd like to automatically clear the entire page ...
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w3 total cache - Object Caching 2165/2469 objects?

Site is: http://kremim.com WordPress 3.2.1 MS, buddypress,bbpress installed. wp_options have 333 records. But Object Caching 2165/2469 objects? Why 2000+ ? Debug: ...
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W3 Total Cache Help - How to update DNS Zone for a static domain

I am running this site: www.thetechnofreaks.com on Wordpress. Recently I came through a plugin that claims to increase the page load efficiency of my site. the plugin details can be found here: ...
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Web App mode leaves users stranded when following image links when using WPTouch with W3 Total Cache

In most of the posts on my site, embedded images link to the actual image file. I'm also using Web-App mode via WPTouch. In web-app mode images linked to their larger versions shouldn't open; since ...
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Page comes up blank using w3 total cache

Im using the W3 Total Cache plugin on my site, and I made page using the wp_list_comments and for some reason the page keeps coming up blank, it comes back after I disable the plugin but when i enable ...
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W3TotalCache and Javascript — what should go where, when?

I'm just starting to use W3TotalCache and am a little perplexed by how I should load the gobs of javascript and CSS rendering on the site in the question. Adding some of the pre-minified jQuery ...
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Exclude Random Redirect from caching?

I have just deployed the W3 Total Cache plugin on my dedicated server (moillusions.com), but am not sure if it works already (server load still high). I have a very important random link generator: ...
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W3 Total Cache Minify + cforms II = POST /wp-content/plugins/cforms/lib_ajax.php 500 (Internal Server Error)

Enabling minify is causing cforms (ajax enabled forms) to produce the following error on submit, whereby it hangs: POST dearearth.net/wp-content/plugins/cforms/lib_ajax.php 500 (Internal Server Error) ...
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Memory consumption in w3-total-cache vs wp-super-cache?

I've been suggested by my hosting to move from w3-total-cache to wp-super-cache since the later is supposed to be using less memory then the first. Is there any knowledge about this comparison? Is ...
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Minifing js files with w3 total cache and expiring the combined file

I'd like to clarify several details about how w3 total cache works. I'm using w3 total cache to combine multiple js files into one. I'm also setting expires headers from the browser tab to twenty ...
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What archive plugin works with W3 total cache?

All plugins I've tried makes the page go blank. I tried so far: Smart Archives Reloaded Clean Archives Reloaded Better Extended Live Archives Thanks. Tal
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W3 Total Cache Plugin: How to bust browser cache?

How would I go about busting browser cache on the client site? I've noticed now that I activated browser cache, updates I push out to my server are not appearing immediately as the browser is now ...
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Exclude certain block from caching using Fragment Caching - doesn't work

I have a one form, and I'm inserting it on page footer from a function file. I need to display a random form to each visitors and thus have a function developed to support this. However, with caching ...
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Enable Minify in W3Total Cache using NGINX

I am having an issue with enabling minify with the W3TC plugin. I am using a LEMP stack and cloudfront as a CDN, and all of these features, except for the minify work fine. In order to enable fancy ...
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Multi-site Bug: Posts, template cross over among sites

I have a multi-site blog network with 9 websites. My problem is that sometimes the site template and posts tend to cross over. I can recreate the issue when I have these sites opened up in multiple ...
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Performance of wordpress blog in shared hosting [closed]

I have a blog which is hosted on the godaddy.com shared hosting plans. This web site receives around 10000+ unique visitors per day. In the recent days, loading the page takes longer time for my ...
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W3 Total Cache, Rackspace CDN and Load Balanced Servers

I'm using W3 Total Cache to host media attachments at Rackspace Cloud Files. I've got two servers running alongside one another with a load balancer. Everything works fine on the front end, but in ...
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How to setup W3 Total Cache CDN (Amazon CloudFront) without taking site down?

I setup a CDN with Amazon CloudFront (Origin Pull) and W3 Total Cache on my staging site and I noticed that it "disrupts" the content on the site as this process is taking place. How can I go about ...
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Git pulls (html/css/js updates) not populating with W3Total Cache and CloudFront

I am using Git/GitHub for version control. I develop locally commit/push to GitHub and pull from GitHub to my staging site. I have W3 Total Cache setup and Amazon CloudFront as a CDN. Since setting up ...
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404 Error For Home Page After Activating W3 Total Cache

I have activated w3 total cache plugin on my blog and ever since my home page is being redirected to http://www.example.com/wp-content/cache/page_enhanced/www.example.com/_index previously I have ...
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Are W3 Total Cache Rewrite Rules required for IIS web.config

I am unable to get Browser Caching to work, max-age is set to 0 and expires doesn't get set. The Wordpress install is on IIS 7.5. I was wondering if the reason was because there are no Rewrite Rules ...