Title: Set Cache Directory Last modified: August 30, 2016 --- # Set Cache Directory * [JK](https://wordpress.org/support/users/justin_k/) * (@justin_k) * [10 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/set-cache-directory/) * Hi Mike, * Thanks for the awesome plugin – it’s been a life saver 🙂 * I was hoping to move the cache directory, so that it resides with all my other caches / temporary site files (vs within the /plugins directory, amongst code). I can see that the path is hardcoded (si-captcha.php, line 1241). * My hope was that “Enable PHP sessions” would prevent this cache directory from being used (i.e. temp data would be stored in sessions), but that appears not to be the case – it continues to be populated. * Could I request a setting to change the cache directory – or at least, a filter so that I can override it in code (without needing to edit the plugin)? * Thanks much in advance! 🙂 Justin * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/si-captcha-for-wordpress/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/si-captcha-for-wordpress/) Viewing 10 replies - 1 through 10 (of 10 total) * [mbrsolution](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mbrsolution/) * (@mbrsolution) * [10 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/set-cache-directory/#post-6759900) * Hi Justin thank you for your request. The plugin developer will investigate further your suggestion. * Regards * Thread Starter [JK](https://wordpress.org/support/users/justin_k/) * (@justin_k) * [10 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/set-cache-directory/#post-6759901) * Great, thanks, I’ll be keeping my eye out for it. * [joe-fwmedia](https://wordpress.org/support/users/joe-fwmedia/) * (@joe-fwmedia) * [10 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/set-cache-directory/#post-6759994) * I agree, this is a very good plugin and my clients swear by it. * My only issue is the location of the cache directory — it gives me all kinds of headaches because of strict permissions we use in our environment. An “si- captcha-cache” directory somewhere under “uploads” would work much better for me but the sorts of overrides that the OP suggested would also be awesome. * Thanks! * Thread Starter [JK](https://wordpress.org/support/users/justin_k/) * (@justin_k) * [10 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/set-cache-directory/#post-6759998) * Yeah, I was just gonna reach out to the author again too – since two updates have been posted & 3 months elapsed since I mentioned this. Would it help if I provided a patch? Should be an *extremely* quick 1-liner to just add a filter. * Thanks again * [Mike Challis](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mikechallis/) * (@mikechallis) * [10 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/set-cache-directory/#post-6759999) * it is technically a challenge to do this since the php file that displays the image runs separate from the wordpress environment. * I can look at this issue though * > My hope was that “Enable PHP sessions” would prevent this cache directory from > being used (i.e. temp data would be stored in sessions), but that appears not > to be the case – it continues to be populated. * Thread Starter [JK](https://wordpress.org/support/users/justin_k/) * (@justin_k) * [10 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/set-cache-directory/#post-6760000) * Sure, that would be equivalently good 🙂 As long as the plugin doesn’t write files to a hard-coded location. * Thanks! * Thread Starter [JK](https://wordpress.org/support/users/justin_k/) * (@justin_k) * [10 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/set-cache-directory/#post-6760004) * Does it look likely to happen at any point…? Is there maybe some temporary hack/ modification I could do in my own copy? I really really love this plugin, but the constant appearance of those files in my plugins directory remains an issue essentially every time I push/pull my site…. :/ * [Mike Challis](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mikechallis/) * (@mikechallis) * [10 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/set-cache-directory/#post-6760005) * About the setting “Enable PHP sessions” * Enable this setting to use PHP sessions for the CAPTCHA. PHP Sessions must be supported by your web host or there may be session errors. * When the setting is not enabled it writes temporary php files to this folder wp-content/plugins/si-captcha-for-wordpress/captcha/cache * I did some testing and have determined that the setting “Enable PHP sessions” is working properly. When you have the check box enabled, it will not use the cache directory. * Note: if you have a page cache plugin: after you change this setting, empty the page cache * Thread Starter [JK](https://wordpress.org/support/users/justin_k/) * (@justin_k) * [10 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/set-cache-directory/#post-6760006) * With the PHP sessions option disabled, new files appear in the cache directory each time a captcha is ‘generated’ (i.e. by reading a post while not logged in, or by manually refreshing the existing captcha). This is as I’d expect. * If I enable the PHP sessions option, I don’t see these files predictably appearing– i.e. I can refresh the captcha image numerous times without dir populating (as desired). However, the issue is that the dir *does* still seem to populate eventually– albeit much more slowly. For instance, if I leave that option enabled then check the cache dir 15 minutes later, one or two files have indeed appeared. I can’t make them appear explicitly by refreshing the image (as when the option is disabled)– but they do still appear from time to time. * Thoughts? I don’t have any caching plugins on my site. * Thread Starter [JK](https://wordpress.org/support/users/justin_k/) * (@justin_k) * [10 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/set-cache-directory/#post-6760015) * …Should I just assume this plugin isn’t being supported anymore? Been hoping to resolve this for a full 6 months, but it seems like trying to have a dialog isn’t really fruitful… Viewing 10 replies - 1 through 10 (of 10 total) The topic ‘Set Cache Directory’ is closed to new replies. * ![](https://s.w.org/plugins/geopattern-icon/si-captcha-for-wordpress_dde4c1.svg) * [SI CAPTCHA Anti-Spam](https://wordpress.org/plugins/si-captcha-for-wordpress/) * [Frequently Asked Questions](https://wordpress.org/plugins/si-captcha-for-wordpress/#faq) * [Support Threads](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/si-captcha-for-wordpress/) * [Active Topics](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/si-captcha-for-wordpress/active/) * [Unresolved Topics](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/si-captcha-for-wordpress/unresolved/) * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/si-captcha-for-wordpress/reviews/) * 10 replies * 4 participants * Last reply from: [JK](https://wordpress.org/support/users/justin_k/) * Last activity: [10 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/set-cache-directory/#post-6760015) * Status: not resolved