Falcon caches only homepage

  • Resolved cycas

    (@cycas)


    9 years, 1 month ago

    I’m unable to get Falcon to cache anything but the homepage.

    I installed Wordfence, and I removed WP-supercache, which I had been using, and substituted Falcon.

    I turned on Falcon and checked that pages were caching. There was only one page recorded in /public_html/wp-content/wfcache after clicking around logged out, so I tried clearing the cache, turning Falcon on and off.

    I checked the .htaccess file, and noticed it still included lines that referenced WP-supercache so I cleaned out that manually, turned off Falcon, re-uploaded, turned Falcon back on. Falcon instructions were added to my .htaccess file, but I still wasn’t seeing caching on any page other than the home page.

    I compared my .htaccess against two other websites that are hosted on exactly the same server that are using Falcon caching successfully: it appeared identical.

    On the site that will not cache, I only have a handful of small plugins that are not used on the other site, mostly things that very slightly extend the theme: eg imagemapper, display widgets.

    I suspect the issue may be that wp-supercache, or maybe even W3 Total Cache which was in use for several years before that, has left behind something that is preventing Falcon from operating correctly, but I was unable to establish what that might be.

    The other possibility is that this site has some other legacy information stored somewhere that is causing a problem: the site that won’t cache was first live in 2005, and has proceeded since then with theme changes and updates, it’s never been replaced.

    Unfortunately the site that won’t cache is the one that really needs effective caching, as it’s a very large site that is relatively high in traffic and does get attacked, so I have switched back to wp-supercache for now. However, I thought I’d at least report the issue in case it was helpful to anyone else.

    https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/wordfence/

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  • Plugin Author WFMattR

    (@wfmattr)

    Thanks for the report — it helps knowing that other sites on the same server are caching properly, since that rules out a lot of issues. Do you mind posting a list of all of the plugins and the theme, if it’s a www.ads-software.com theme?

    I have seen some plugins that set some of the common “don’t cache” constants on every page where they appear, so it may be one of the plugins preventing caching on purpose, but it could be something else, too. I’m pretty sure the “display widgets” plugin is ok.

    If you wanted to test it, usually the best way is to temporarily disable all other plugins, and see if it still happens.

    You’re right that it could also be some other legacy information left somewhere that it shouldn’t be anymore. I have seen older versions of some caching plugins leave .php files or symbolic links in places after they are uninstalled or updated to a newer version.

    -Matt R

    Thread Starter cycas

    (@cycas)

    It’s using a child theme of 2015, not doing anything very clever.

    https://www.oldies.org.uk/

    Plugins in use are:
    Collapse-o-matic
    Contact Form DB
    Dashboard Widget Sidebar
    Display Widgets
    Exclude Pages from Navigation
    Fast Secure Contact form
    Get the Image
    Imagemapper
    Maintenance Mode
    Max Mega Menu
    Recent Posts Extended widget
    Restrict Widgets
    Sharethis
    Simple Tags
    Wordfence
    WP Super Cache (as above, I deactivated and then completely removed this, cleaned the .htaccess and deleted all the cache files. )
    WP Paginate
    Xcloner

    I know I should disable all plugins and test from there. I work on (and host) this site as a volunteer and because it’s quite popular I do tend to get people yelling when a menu vanishes and they cannot instantly get their fix of old dogs that like cats ?? I’m hoping to get some time to experiment further at the weekend.

    Plugin Author WFMattR

    (@wfmattr)

    Thanks for the list — nothing immediately jumps out as the type of plugin that would prevent caching on purpose, but I’m not familiar with some of them.

    If you do have a chance to test out the plugins that are different from the other sites, let us know how it goes. I’ll take a look at a few other things in the meantime.

    That’s a neat site, by the way!

    -Matt R

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