Title: Exclude Timed-Content from Cache?
Last modified: December 3, 2021

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# Exclude Timed-Content from Cache?

 *  [bripatt](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bripatt/)
 * (@bripatt)
 * [4 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/exclude-timed-content-from-cache/)
 * Hi!
 * I am trying to figure a way to exclude Timed-Content from caching managed at 
   the host level.
    In order for timed content to show at the proper times, I need
   to manually hop in and flush the cache. I have a wp multisite setup on siteground.
   Long story short, at present, the SG Optimizer plugin and other plugins on my
   site don’t communicate properly. SO, I would like to either figure a way to exclude
   Timed-Content from cache at the plugin level (if possible) or set up a cron job
   to flush the cache when the timed content…. which I am not sure how to do yet.
 * Thank you!

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 *  Plugin Author [Arno Welzel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/awelzel/)
 * (@awelzel)
 * [4 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/exclude-timed-content-from-cache/#post-15132359)
 * Timed Content itself can not exclude any content from caches, as there is no 
   generic method to tell caching plugins not to cache anything.
 * About a cron job: well – it depends on your caching system how to do this, I 
   can’t help you here either.
 * Usually caching is not really needed if you don’t have a very complex site on
   a quite slow server. For example see my own site [https://arnowelzel.de](https://arnowelzel.de)–
   this runs with no cache at all and still loads in about only 1 second from clients
   in Europe and still in less than 3 seconds from US (according to [https://tools.pingdom.com](https://tools.pingdom.com)).
   Even large gallery pages like [https://arnowelzel.de/england-2017](https://arnowelzel.de/england-2017)
   are still quite fast with less than 2 seconds load time from Europe.
 * The server (which also hosts about 40 other domains) runs PHP-FPM with “static”
   configuration and 20 processes for each website and has 24 GB of RAM available.
   So if your site is slow you may need a better hosting as well.
 * My recommendation:
 * If you really need caching to avoid a lot of load to your server use a CDN like
   Cloudflare. CDNs usually also allow to update the cache automatically every day
   or every couple of hours – for example: [https://blog.cloudflare.com/edge-cache-expire-ttl-easiest-way-to-override/#:~:text=CloudFlare%20offers%20a%20range%20of,Business%2030%20minutes](https://blog.cloudflare.com/edge-cache-expire-ttl-easiest-way-to-override/#:~:text=CloudFlare%20offers%20a%20range%20of,Business%2030%20minutes)
 * Another solution might by be Cachify:
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/cachify/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/cachify/)
 * This will create static versions of every page from your site and is very fast
   in “Hard disk” cache mode since WordPress will not be involved at all when sending
   the cached pages. To keep the cache “fresh” you need to create a cron job which
   will remove the cache files regularly – this is not included with that plugin,
   but it should not be too hard to create that since Cachify just writes files 
   to a local folder if needed. You can just empty that folder to get a fresh cache.
 *  Thread Starter [bripatt](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bripatt/)
 * (@bripatt)
 * [4 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/exclude-timed-content-from-cache/#post-15163638)
 * I very much appreciate your response.
    We tried utilizing cloudflare within siteground,
   and something went haywire, so I am gunshy to try that again just yet. We are
   trying to avoid as many additional plugins as possible, we’ve had some bad experiences
   with a few of them not speaking to each other correctly. For caching at the moment,
   we manually log in to siteground, and flush the Dynamic Cache there to see the
   current timed-content. We have high traffic and many new posts going up on one
   of our sites, and sometimes the posts don’t show right away. We really like and
   utilize timed-content on each site for important content specific to that site.
   I am new to cron jobs (obviously 🙂 haha), but was hoping to figure a way to 
   set one up to flush the siteground dynamic cache at certain times each day to
   fix these issues.

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