Title: Exclude posts from preload
Last modified: May 21, 2019

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# Exclude posts from preload

 *  Resolved [T4ng](https://wordpress.org/support/users/schwipps/)
 * (@schwipps)
 * [7 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/exclude-posts-from-preload/)
 * As I have a lot of blog posts, and’d rather like to focus on my pages performance,
   I would like to exclude posts from being automatically preloaded.
 * I tried the RegEx way in “Never cache the following pages”, setting the pattern
   to my blog posts. My post being located in /news/ or /en/news/, is site:
    news/\*
   en/\news/\*
 * According to my server logs, after saving and purging caches, posts keep being
   warmed up.
 * As I can only set a single sitemap, that means I can only ask for all website
   pages caching… or a single Yoast sub sitemap (so for example, all my pages but
   no products, nor categories or nor product categories, …).
 * How can I get round these limitation?
 * Thanks

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 *  Plugin Contributor [Marko Vasiljevic](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vmarko/)
 * (@vmarko)
 * [7 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/exclude-posts-from-preload/#post-11555096)
 * Hello [@schwipps](https://wordpress.org/support/users/schwipps/),
 * You need to make other non-public sitemap file and feed W3 Total Cache with it.
   OR – call those pages via crontab: curl [http://my-website.com/mypage/](http://my-website.com/mypage/)
 *  Thread Starter [T4ng](https://wordpress.org/support/users/schwipps/)
 * (@schwipps)
 * [7 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/exclude-posts-from-preload/#post-11558711)
 * OK, I can give it a shot to the no-public sitemap methoud.
    The curl method is
   not relevant in our case, because Cloudfront might catch the request.
 * Any reason why the pattern didn’t exclude these pages?
 *  Plugin Contributor [Marko Vasiljevic](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vmarko/)
 * (@vmarko)
 * [7 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/exclude-posts-from-preload/#post-11558839)
 * Hello,
 * If you are using Cache Preload with the sitemap, then excluding pages will have
   no effect. If you, however, do not use cache preload then you can exclude those
   pages from being cached by adding them to “Never cache the following pages”
 *  Thread Starter [T4ng](https://wordpress.org/support/users/schwipps/)
 * (@schwipps)
 * [7 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/exclude-posts-from-preload/#post-11559230)
 * Ok, thanks for clarifying!

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 * Last reply from: [T4ng](https://wordpress.org/support/users/schwipps/)
 * Last activity: [7 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/exclude-posts-from-preload/#post-11559230)
 * Status: resolved