Front page and timings

Cand you plugin be set to preload the front page too ?

Well. Technically, it is possible. But, I’d like to keep the plugin’s functionality to the minimum so that anyone who wants to tweak it can extend it easily, depending on their individual use-case.

When a popular site posts a new blog post and the author shares its link via FB, twitter, etc, people usually rush only to the new blog post and not to the home page (generally). That’s why I kept it to the minimum.

You’d only need to add the following function and then trigger it (like how it’s done for the new blog post). Here’s the basic idea…

function zaone_preload_homepage( $post_ID, $post, $update ) {
  $homepage = get_site_url();
  // declare $desktop_url_args, $mobile_url_args, and $amp_url_args
  wp_remote_get( $homepage, $desktop_url_args );
  wp_remote_get( $homepage, $mobile_url_args );
  wp_remote_get( $homepage, $amp_url_args );
}

And what timings does it have set to access the post after publishing ?

It happens right after publishing the post.

Thank you so much!
I did see a problem though with the mobile preload. My varnish setup has different cache for desktop and mobile, as I use the wptouch pro plugin. Unfortunately the mobile cache isn’t triggered by the plugin, only the desktop one.
I’m guessing this is because the user agent used by the plugin is not recognized as being mobile.

• This reply was modified 7 years, 5 months ago by zaone. Reason: Added info

This plugin sets the following header info (aka user-agent info) for the mobile…

Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 8_0 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/600.1.3 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/8.0 Mobile/12A4345d Safari/600.1.4

By default, Varnish can not differentiate between desktop and mobile. We usually use a mod (such as devicedetect) to let it serve mobile pages differently. Do you know any mobile user-agent that actually works?

If you know it, you may update the plugin’s code at https://plugins.trac.www.ads-software.com/browser/preload-fullpage-cache/trunk/preload-fullpage-cache.php#L36 (line number #36) to include the user-agent that is recognisable by your Varnish setup.

You may fork it from the GitHub repo at https://github.com/pothi/preload-fullpage-cache so that any update to this plugin will not affect your local changes. I am unlikely to update this plugin, though, unless something breaks universally for all sites.

Thanks,
Pothi

Hi,

I will mark this topic as resolved for now. Please feel free to re-open or create a new topic when you have any further questions.

Thanks,
Pothi