Title: [Plugin: WP Super Cache] Cache expiration
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# [Plugin: WP Super Cache] Cache expiration

 *  [Claudio Simeone](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mrbrown/)
 * (@mrbrown)
 * [18 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wp-super-cache-cache-expiration/)
 * Hi,
 * I would like to know how exactly works the cache expiration. In the WP Super 
   Cache Options you can set the Expiry Time in seconds, so I suppose that every
   X seconds the cache files are re-created even if the page content is not changed.
   
   Since I have a lot of posts that will don’t change more (about 500/600), I think
   that’s more efficient to generate **once** the cache files and re-create them
   only if the post content is changed. Does WP Super Cache works this way? And 
   if not, there’s a way to do this? Can I safely increase the Expiry Time to a 
   month, six months, one year?
 * Thanks in advance.

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 *  [Donncha O Caoimh (a11n)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/donncha/)
 * (@donncha)
 * [18 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wp-super-cache-cache-expiration/#post-730286)
 * You can set the expiry really high but that means there’ll be a lot of cached
   files. That’s not a problem for WP Super Cache but it is for the WP-Cached files.
   
   See the FAQ “Why are there two expiry times?” at [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-super-cache/faq/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-super-cache/faq/)
 *  Thread Starter [Claudio Simeone](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mrbrown/)
 * (@mrbrown)
 * [18 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wp-super-cache-cache-expiration/#post-730293)
 * Thanks for the tip. So, can I set the values this way?
    Expire time: 5 days (
   in seconds) Super Cache Expire time: 10 days

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 * Last reply from: [Claudio Simeone](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mrbrown/)
 * Last activity: [18 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wp-super-cache-cache-expiration/#post-730293)
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