This plugin is NOT for the 'faint hearted' or inexperienced!

  • Installing this plugin seems pretty straight forward but you will most likely need advice from your hosting provider or a professional WordPress developer in order to configure it properly.

    Furthermore, this plugin can really mess up the caching and cause your site to behave very strangely indeed, especially if you are using a web firewall (e.g. SiteLock) and/or your hosting provider provides varnish-based caching to your website files.

    The plugin tends to leave a lot of ‘garbage’ in the wp-config.php and .htaccess files which stays there even after the plugin is deactivated and deleted!

    This can cause some very strange behaviour on your site (this is just one example) and unless you are an experienced developer or use a host with extremely good technical support who are experienced in how WordPress works, the root cause of such behaviour will be extremely hard to pinpoint and troubleshoot.

    Bottom line: unless you are a ‘techie’, I strongly recommend you stay away from caching plugins altogether!

    If you want to increase the load speed of your site, consider using a CDN or switch to a web host that can provide fast load times.

    If you are not a techie and choose to go down the caching plugin route, it is very possible you will either break your site completely or cause it to behave erratically.

    Not worth the risk IMHO unless you have the know-how and time to delve into the code to fix any mess this plugin can & will leave behind.

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