Title: Recommended WP-Cache Interval
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Recommended WP-Cache Interval

 *  [macro](https://wordpress.org/support/users/macro/)
 * (@macro)
 * [19 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/recommended-wp-cache-interval/)
 * I was wondering what the recommended interval was for caching in WP-Cache. IIRC
   the default interval is two hours. But if it re-caches pages automatically when
   they’re updated, what’s the point in forcing the cache to automatically expire?
   Wouldn’t it be better to set the expiration time to be infinite? Either way, 
   why is the default two hours? I must be missing something here, so if anyone 
   could enlighten me on this issue, that’d be very nice.

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 *  [davidchait](https://wordpress.org/support/users/davidchait/)
 * (@davidchait)
 * [19 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/recommended-wp-cache-interval/#post-537036)
 * you could have dynamic content (such as external news) that you don’t want to
   have run dynamically with the little wrappering feature you can use, but rather
   just update whenever the cache updates. that’s the only main thing I can think
   of… aside from, I guess, bugs that might cause the auto-recache to NOT happen
   properly, so the timeout will still catch things.
 * -d
 *  Thread Starter [macro](https://wordpress.org/support/users/macro/)
 * (@macro)
 * [19 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/recommended-wp-cache-interval/#post-537148)
 * Ah, okay, thanks for your insightful response!

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 * [caching](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/caching/)
 * [interval](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/interval/)

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