Caching Compatibility with AffiliateWP Plugin

  • Resolved Mark

    (@markob17)


    2 months, 3 weeks ago

    Hi Oliver,

    First off, thank you for this plugin. I’ve been using few a few years now and it works great to speed up my sites – front and back-end. I tried Redis on my sites and client sites and it often had problems. Your plugin has been set and forget for the most part. Great stuff!

    So I am working on a client’s site and it’s a bit more advanced than the typical blogs I work with – it’s a membership site with affiliate tracking. The use Paid Memberships Pro and AffiliateWP.

    In the AffiliateWP documentation, it says that if I use server-level caching such as Varnish or Redis, I may likely need to exclude URLs and cookies. Is your plugin considered a server-level cache? If so, is there any way to exclude URLs and cookies? Any other considerations?

    Thank you!

    Mark

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  • Plugin Author OllieJones

    (@olliejones)

    “Varnish or redis” ? That’s a confusing statement in the AffiliateWP documentation. Varnish is a type of page cache and redis (at least the way redis is used in this plugin https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/redis-cache/) is a persistent object cache. “Varnish or redis” == “apples or asterisks”.

    The persistent object cache API, used by redis and this plugin, doesn’t know anything about URLs or cookies. It operates at a different level of the system.

    It’s possible to misuse the object cache, and try to store permanent data in it. Hopefully these plugins you mention don’t do that.

    I think this warning from AffiliateWP applies only to page caches.

    Please don’t hesitate to start another support topic if I can help further.

    Thread Starter Mark

    (@markob17)

    @olliejones Thank you, Ollie.

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