Epic Fail

Ok, to be fair, it DID clearly speed up my site. But: running a woocommerce digital store with a lot of digital prodcust for download, it’s very counterproductive when people get 403 errors when trying to download the files they have just purchased. That and the massive cart upfdates and invoicing plugin compatibility issues.
BTW I removed W3 Total Cache 3 weeks ago and my site is full of 403 here and there. Took me that long to realise that it had installed files all over the dirctories (you should see how the htaccess file looked like – after removing the plugin) and it took no less than 34 minutes alone to delete the contents of a “cache” folder in wp-contents, which had nothing more to do here since I had uninstalled the plugin. And oh, now that I wasted hours of my time manually hunting down and deleting all W3 TC files one by one – again AFTER the plugin was deleted 3 weeks ago – my site works like a charm.

In short: I should NEVER have installed it in the first place. Wiping your website clean from it if you ever want to uninstall it is a complete pain in the… That plugin is much more trouble than it’s worth. Sorry.