Don't forget to uninstall it

  • I needed this plugin to a very specific task, to clean stubborn cache when I was updating my site. However, having this plugin activated made my website extremely slow. Saving a page or post would take 20 seconds for the site to respond. And it also made the life of my visitors hard: likewise, they had to wait 20 seconds after posting a comment for the page to respond and show the comment. It was good for the purpose: cleaning the cache once, but I’m glad I found out the culprit and now this plugin is not on my list anymore.

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  • Plugin Contributor Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

    ?????? Advisor and Activist

    Well that’s abnormal behavior. The only thing I can think is that the plugin was unable to actually reach your varnish service to flush the cache and stalled.

    If you ONLY need to clear the cache once, though, I wouldn’t bother using this at all ??

    curl -X PURGE "https://example.com/.*"

    Run that from the command line and you’ve flushed the whole cache for the whole domain (if you use your site from https://www.example.com, put the www in the call).

    Out of curiosity, why do you only need to flush it once? What happens the rest of the time when someone comments? How does that update the cache for them?

    Thread Starter lcarlos

    (@lcarlos)

    Hi sorry for the delay to reply.

    I’m using wp supercache and it is good at knowing which cache to keep. When people comment it naturally deletes the cache of that post and it shows the new page with the comment.

    Thanks

    Plugin Contributor Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

    ?????? Advisor and Activist

    FWIW…. so does this plugin.

    I literally copied the WP Super Cache checks ?? Exact same logic.

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