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Improve site performance and user experience via caching: browser, page, object, database, minify and content delivery network support.

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W3 Cache plugin and Facebook sharing [closed]

LATEST UPDATE (June 13th 2012) I can't figure out what's wrong with my codes. When I want to share one of my blog posts and use either the Facebook share button or copy the link of the blog post ...
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Settings to get the most out of W3 Total Cache

I'm running a dedicated server which hosts one website - our WordPress install. Currently we're getting around 400,000 pageviews per month and that will likely rise quickly over the coming month - ...
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Sociable buttons displaying seemingly at random [closed]

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 results. ...
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Lighttpd, WordPress Caching plugin [closed]

If I use Lighttpd as webserver, how can I use caching plugin like w3 total cache or wp super cache? Need your help for configuring lighttpd. Thanks.
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Is it possible to disable caching of an option when using w3 total cache?

a plugin i'm working on has a conflict with w3 total cache. To be more specific, in my code i have static function get_instance() { if( self::$_instance === NULL ) { // get the settings ...
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Showing as logged in after logout (W3 Total Cache issue) [closed]

I've got a login/logout link using wp_loginout(). After a user logs out their user info is still being shown by get_currentuserinfo(), only after they visit a second page does it revert to not showing ...
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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 I'...
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How to exclude a specific template from being cached by a CDN [closed]

I’m using a specific template on my self-hosted WordPress blog to display a page with randomized posts. Recently, I configured W3 Total Cache to make use of a content delivery network (CDN). When ...
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APC fragmention woes on Apache AWS EC2 Small instance with WordPress and W3TC [closed]

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 here ...
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W3 Total Cache Minification: way to revert back? [closed]

W3 Total Cache Minification: after adding all my js files in the minification settings, what if something screws up? Is is possible to revert back to the original un-minified files? Thanks.
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How to disable Vary cache header on W3Total Cache plugin [closed]

I've hired incapsula.com performance services for my wordpress blog, and one of their techs is telling me this about the performance of my website: On important note, yoursite.org returns the Vary ...
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W3 Total Cache - How to disable "Performance" menu under multisite? [closed]

I am running a multisite install with domain mapping and W3 Total Cache set up on each of the sites. I don't use a network in the traditional sense - each site is generally independent. I only have ...
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Can't get rid of minify after uninstalling W3 Total Cache [closed]

I've tried to replace my WP Super Cache for W3 Total Cache but it didn't worked. It was bugged all over and minify wouldn't work properly. So I uninstalled it s suggested by the plugin creator in one ...
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W3 Total Cache, RackSpace Cloud Files, and Forcing Downloads [closed]

I'm using W3 Total Cache's CDN connection to RackSpace CloudFiles to serve severall hundred media files. My goal is to get the files to download in the user's browser, rather than stream. According to ...
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Split Testing with W3 Cache Enabled? [closed]

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 [closed]

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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Headway body classes and W3TC page cache conflict [closed]

I'm currently working on a website using WordPress, Headway, Modernizr and W3 Total Cache. The problem I'm having is that W3TC is caching the body tag, which means that this isn't being updated ...
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Getting "Internal Server Error" when enabling 'Set expires header' in W3 Total Cache [closed]

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? [closed]

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 [closed]

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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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 ('WP_CONTENT_URL','http://example.com/...
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w3 total cache - Object Caching 2165/2469 objects? [closed]

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: http://www.unsalkorkmaz.com/...
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Is it possible to share WordPress media files among different domains?

I have multiple Wordpress instances that live on separate domains (not a multisite installation). Since they provide the same content in different languages I'd like to share the images among these ...
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w3 Total Cache not Caching - Requested URI is rejected [closed]

For some reason Total Cache does seem to be caching my pages. Each time I got to a page, when I view source, the Total Cache comment shows that it regenerated the page for this request. What worse, ...
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W3 Total Cache Help - How to update DNS Zone for a static domain [closed]

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: http://...
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Combile External JS files using W3 Total Cache [closed]

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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Web App mode leaves users stranded when following image links when using WPTouch with W3 Total Cache [closed]

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 cache for categories not updating with W3 Total Cache [closed]

I noticed recently that the full page cache for category pages isn't getting updated. Other pages seem to work fine (home, posts, etc) but categories cache files stay untouched for days until I ...
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Has anyone used the wordpress plugin w3-total-cache on a Dreamhost VPS successfully? [closed]

I was encouraged by Dreamhost to go with FCGI, XCache and w3 total cache. But I'm not sure what the optimal settings are, especially re: the Object and Database cache. Any suggestions? Also, I can't ...
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Getting WPTouch and W3 Total Cache to Work Together [closed]

I cannot get WPTouch to work with W3 Total Cache. WPTouch admits that there is a known issue with the two, and they send you to a tutorial. The tutorial is out of date, however, and does not work for ...
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W3 Total Cache and IIS7 not doing much [closed]

I have my WordPress blog up and running on an IIS7 server and I installed W3 Total Cache. At some point prior to WordPress 3.2 upgrade, everything seemed to be working, but since then (and quite ...
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Page comes up blank using w3 total cache [closed]

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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Pros and Cons for high "expire time" on wp-super-cache or w3-total-cache? [closed]

In the wp-super-cache page, there is the following sentence, which I do not understand:: Checking for and deleting expired files is expensive, but it’s expensive leaving them there too. On a very ...
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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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Plugin Expires Headers - W3 Total Cache [closed]

Using the Google PageSpeed Online, it looks like the CSS/Images/JS files of most of my plugins (including wp-nivo-slider) do not get their expires-headers set. Is there a solution for this so that W3 ...
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Transient / object cache maximum key length [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Long option names fail silently? The WordPress Transients API makes it easy to save expensive values and look them up later. If you install an object backend (such as APC ...
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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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Rename W3 Total Cache admin menu

I'm developing a plugin that I'll install for all my clients to make WordPress slightly easier to use for them. One of the things it will change is name of the W3 Total Cache Admin menu from "...
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W3 Total Cache Minify + cforms II = POST /wp-content/plugins/cforms/lib_ajax.php 500 (Internal Server Error) [closed]

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? [closed]

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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Clear cache when a post is submitted [closed]

I have a question. How can I clear the cache when a post is submitted ? Actually, I need to clear two speficied pages which display these articles ? By default, I have noticed the index.php is ...
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Intermittently missing pages and posts in WordPress

Every now and then some of my Wordpress pages (and posts) seems to be missing, I get the 404 page (although the HTTP response code is 200). A couple of hours later the page is back, with no changes in ...
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Can I ignore caching of a plugin in W3 Total Cache? [closed]

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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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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How do I get W3 Total Cache not to cache sidebars? [closed]

At the moment I run PHP code in my side bars. Even though I have the following header("Pragma: no-cache"); header("cache-Control: no-cache, must-revalidate"); // HTTP/1.1 header("Expires: Mon, 26 ...
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W3 Total Cache can't create files [closed]

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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W3 total cache - cache refresh programmatically [closed]

I am building a Digg like website in WordPress. After installing W3 Total Cache, I noticed certain elements such as number of votes (and voters ids) per post are cached even though they shouldn't be (...
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W3 Total Cache Plugin with WP 3 MultiUser [closed]

I'm having some strange behavior with my W3 Total Cache solution working on my multi-user Wordpress 3 installation. The multi-user is setup to use sub directories, and I'm using all types of caching ...
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"W3 Total Cache" with "What Would Seth Godin Do" (and widgets?!)? [closed]

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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Minifing js files with w3 total cache and expiring the combined file [closed]

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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