[Plugin: WP Super Cache] What is the difference between WP-Cache and WP-Super-Cache pages?

  • netnothing

    (@netnothing)


    17 years ago

    I currently have WP Super Cache 0.9.4.3 installed and working using the ON option.

    I’m having a hard time understanding what the difference is between a WP-Cache page and a WP-Super-Cache page?

    Also, I’m assuming that a page only gets cached IF it’s requested. In other words, there isn’t a process running to read all old posts and create cache versions for them correct?

    Thanks.

    -k

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  • viper007bond

    (@viper007bond)

    17 years ago

    WP-Super-Cache pages are a .html file served directly, via some mod_rewrite rules.

    WP-Cache pages are similar, but the cached data files are served via PHP instead (which is slower and more resource intensive).

    Thread Starter netnothing

    (@netnothing)

    17 years ago

    Viper007Bond thanks.

    So how are the posts classified. When is a post served by WP-Cache and when is it served by WP-Super-Cache? What determines this?

    Thanks again.

    -Kevin

    Donncha O Caoimh (a11n)

    (@donncha)

    17 years ago

    It’s all in the readme.txt, rtfm 🙂

    Thread Starter netnothing

    (@netnothing)

    17 years ago

    donncha thanks. Actually the readme.txt makes a little more sense after Viper007Bond’s explanation.

    I understand the static html pages and can see those in the supercache directory.

    Can I ask…….What is technically happening with WP-Cache pages? When you say they are handled by PHP, what is involved in this? Are there still calls to the database? These aren’t static files anymore?

    Thanks.

    -Kevin

    Donncha O Caoimh (a11n)

    (@donncha)

    17 years ago

    Look through wp-cache-phase1.php, no calls to the db, that file is loaded really early on and it picks out the right wp-cache cache file to serve.

    As I said in the readme, for normal traffic I doubt most sites would notice any difference in performance between the two types of caching.

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