[Plugin: W3 Total Cache] Total Catastrophe

  • This plugin, W3TC has been crashing my site by trashing my .htaccess file for the past month.

    I replaced it with the more prominent competing plugin and my performance problems disappeared and the trashing of the .htaccess file stopped.

    Not sure if it’s important to the authors but bringing down a web site pretty much daily is not acceptable. And I don’t see the performance improvement that was promised, just the opposite.

    Site is hosted by Bluehost, which is recommended by WP.

    Thanks.

    https://www.ads-software.com/extend/plugins/w3-total-cache/

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  • Just as a note to anyone who feels like this. One thing I learned about W3TC, is to not to try and learn it on a production website. If you don’t have considerable experience with it and it’s quirks, definitely copy your whole site and create a test version of your production site. Make sure all plugins and everything else are included.

    Then try to install W3TC on the test version and see how it reacts. Also, in reality, when dealing with W3TC, going slow and methodically is always best. It would be best to deactivate all the other plugins, then start it. Once, and if, you get it working, try to bring back your plugins one by one. Purge your caches and check that it works for every one.

    Also, if you are impatient, it is best to go with another option. W3TC does offer a number of good performance options (enough that I stuck around), but if you are happy with straight static caching, use another plugin like Super Cache.

    At least, that is my opinion.

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