caching overrules refreshing; daily verse becomes weekly verse

The easiest solution would be configuring your caching plugin to have a cache expiration time of 1 day (or even less).

Which caching plugin do you use? I can check if I can fix it in my plugin. But I don’t think that’s possible, because it would ‘break’ the principle of caching.

My choice for a caching plugin was Quick Cache, since I want to keep solutions as plain and simple as possible. I don’t have much programming knowledge, that’s why.

You are right by saying that the easiest solution is to have an expiration time of one day. The point is that I am a newbee with just a few visitors at this time. Setting the expiration time on one day will present a “first-come-slow-load” issue to most visitors since all the pages need a refreshment after a day.

I have read somewhere that the common principles of cashing include that GET requests just like POST requests (i.e. forms with method=”post”) and CLI (and self-serve) requests are always excluded from the cache…

Quick Cache has two solutions though: 1) edit the wp-config.php file, which I prefer not to do because of my lack in programming knowledge. 2) buy the payed version, which I prefer not to do since it is not offered in the ‘plugin-store’ and requires more knowledge for installing and configutation then I have on this topic.

Since I thought GET requests should always be excluded from caching, I hoped you could help me out…

I’ve checked the caching plugin and the only way of fixing this is by disabling the whole caching for the page the bible verse of the day plugin is on. This is not something I want to add to my plugin, because most of the users are running the plugin on all pages of their website. So the whole caching wouldn’t have any effect.

Another thing you could do to keep your website active is using a site monitor (for example monitor.us). The monitor will check the availability of your website for example every 30 minutes. You could test if that’s a solution for the slow load times… Another advantage is you are notified when your website is down.