Title: Plugin Organizer cache questions
Last modified: January 19, 2018

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# Plugin Organizer cache questions

 *  Resolved [andrew55](https://wordpress.org/support/users/andrew55/)
 * (@andrew55)
 * [8 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-organizer-cache-questions/)
 * I;m very happy to find this plugin. Seems like a great solution for such a big
   problem.
 * Like most WP sites, I have several plugin scripts loading on all pages, where
   they aren’t needed. I would love to prevent this and have scripts load only on
   pages where they are needed.
 * I have W3 Total Cache and Autoptimize in use, such as page cache, browser cache,
   etc.
 * I’ve been going through support comments here, and it seems like the cache plugins
   can cause conflicts with Plugin Organizer.
 * Does anyone have any guidance in how to approach this? Is it a choice between
   the using the caching plugins and Plugin Organizer? Can they be used together
   successfully? Is it pointless to try to use Plugin Organizer with W3 Total Cache
   and Autoptimize?
 * Thanks for any clarification or suggestions.

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 *  [Optimizing Matters](https://wordpress.org/support/users/optimizingmatters/)
 * (@optimizingmatters)
 * [8 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-organizer-cache-questions/#post-9880780)
 * from autoptimize’s point of view using plugin organizer can be very beneficial
   but also very detrimental depending on your P-O settings.
 * If you do fine-grained exclusions of a lot of plugins on all pages, then you 
   will end up with a different set of CSS/ JS on each page, resulting in AO to 
   create new optimized CSS/ JS for each, which has a negative perf. impact.
 * If on the other hand you use P-O to stop a plugin from injecting it’s JS on all
   but one page, the result will be positive as the AO’ed JS for all but one page
   will be the same and will be smaller.
 * The challenge -as often- is in striking the correct balance 🙂
 * frank (ao dev)
 *  Plugin Author [Jeff Sterup](https://wordpress.org/support/users/foomagoo/)
 * (@foomagoo)
 * [8 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-organizer-cache-questions/#post-9881978)
 * It’s exactly as Frank says. They can work together but they can also cause each
   other problems. It depends on how you set them up. You’ve got to have a really
   good grasp of what you are doing. Creating a lot of plugin filters and specializing
   the Plugin List for every page will nullify the use of a caching plugin. Because
   it won’t ever be able to cache the parts of the page that don’t change from page
   to page since they will always be changing.
 *  Thread Starter [andrew55](https://wordpress.org/support/users/andrew55/)
 * (@andrew55)
 * [8 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-organizer-cache-questions/#post-9883431)
 * Thank you for the replies. From the the way it seems now, Plugin Organizer might
   be a great option.
 * We have about 250 pages/posts on our site. These are the 3 plugins I’m really
   focused on (all load on every page):
 * 1. Youtube Embed Plus – we only use this on about 15 pages
    2. Download Manager–
   we only use this on about 2 pages 3. The Post Grid Pro – we only use this on 
   the home page, and one other page
 * So from what I’m understanding, because we only use these plugins on a few pages,
   Plugin Organizer should work well with W3TC and Autoptimize?
 * I’m thinking maybe disable plugins across the site, and only enable them on the
   needed pages?
 * Also Jeff, as far as “You’ve got to have a really good grasp of what you are 
   doing” – is there more detailed documention which might be helpful, so I can 
   learn?
 * Thanks for any suggestions.
 *  Plugin Author [Jeff Sterup](https://wordpress.org/support/users/foomagoo/)
 * (@foomagoo)
 * [8 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-organizer-cache-questions/#post-9894200)
 * By “You’ve got to have a really good grasp of what you are doing” I mean that
   you have to understand how your plugins work and the effect you are having on
   them when you disable them on a page/post. So I don’t have any documentation 
   on how your other plugins do ajax calls or processing on the backend. You need
   to understand what they do in order to know whether to disable them or not.

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 * Last reply from: [Jeff Sterup](https://wordpress.org/support/users/foomagoo/)
 * Last activity: [8 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-organizer-cache-questions/#post-9894200)
 * Status: resolved