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In reply to: [WP Super Cache] Need Help Configuring Cache Timeout & PreloadingThank you so much for that information. I wasn’t sure what garbage collection intervals were okay to use without stressing the server/site.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [WP Super Cache] Need Help Configuring Cache Timeout & PreloadingI have the following pages excluded from caching:
cart
checkout
account
wishlistI will experiment with increasing the cache timeout on the rest and see how that goes.
I currently have garbage collection set to 1/6 of the cache timeout. When I did the math on the examples in the documentation, it was 1/6, i.e, 3600 timeout/600 garbage collection. I just wanted to make sure that’s not “hard” on the server to have garbage collection set to 1/6 when the cache timeout is really long (days). As I indicated earlier, I do have a dedicated server, not shared hosting.Thank you again.
Thank you for the reply. I’ll give the premium version a try and write back if I encounter any issues with the “batch process.” I wasn’t trying to do 1000s of images at once, more like 100 images at a time.
Thank you.
So with premium, would I still get the warning due to smush being busy? I would like to get premium anyway for the other features, but need some way to get the bulk of images compressed (after deleting the unused ones in premium.)
Thank you for the quick reply!
I want to make sure I understand.
1. All newly uploaded images will be automatically compressed in the background.
2. For all my pre-existing images, I have to select “all” and mark them as not compressed so they’ll be added to the background task?
Here’s the problem: we have literally 27,000 images that need to be compressed. (I can likely get this figure down by purchasing the premium plugin so I can delete orphaned and unused images…) I’m not sure if those will be added to the background task or not? My understanding was that for pre-existing images, I have to manually bulk select and mark them for compression.
If smush is overloaded and the compression fails, do I have to manually mark the skipped ones as “uncompressed” before I try again?
Sorry if I’m being dense here!Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [WP Super Cache] Need Help Configuring Cache Timeout & PreloadingThank you for the quick and helpful reply. It’s greatly appreciated! I tested preloading, but the site seems to work better leaving if off for some reason. I will follow your advice and keep trying longer cache timeout settings to see if I can improve things more since the site doesn’t update much more than weekly.
Just one more quick question please: Is it unreasonable to set the cache timeout to something as long as a week? I read about “nounces” and other plugins left the timeout to 10 hours for this reason, but I don’t see any mention of this in any of documentation and support threads for WP Super Cache. Should I just keep bumping it up (perhaps from 1 day to 2 days, etc.) and see what works best?
I will also check out the Jetpack links you gave above. There’s tons of information there.
Once again, thank you for all the help! It’s really great to get such good support.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [WP Super Cache] Need Help Configuring Cache Timeout & PreloadingThank you for the detailed reply. Regarding your answer:
Static Assets Not Being Cached
I’m glad to know I’m not doing something wrong with the static assets. I’m not sure if my host supports a CDN or not, but it is a dedicated server. I also wondered if a plugin that defers and/or concentrates css and js would help but I’m not sure if such a plugin would be compatible with WP Super Cache.
Image Loading Issues
I had a feeling we need an Image optimization plugin to improve things. Are there any recommendations that are compatible with WP Super Cache? Our host is a private company and there’s no built in cache, CDN or anything else of that nature to interfere. He did install WP Super Cache for us when he installed WordPress.
Should You Enable Preload?
We have a dedicated server. I have enabled preload before and set it to once every two days. I didn’t notice problems and this way, pages that haven’t yet been visited get cached. Is turning off garbage collection here recommended? It says this is the recommended setting.
Do you think my advanced settings for cache timeout is long enough or should I set it higher?
I’m going to start looking for an image optimization plugin and perhaps one to combine and defer css/ js if that’s recommended. To be honest, the site seems fairly fast except for the image loading issues. Thinking this should be my main concern right now.
Once again, your reply and help are greatly appreciated!