[Plugin: W3 Total Cache] Will deleting the contents of wp-content/cache cause problem?

  • timt13

    (@timt13)


    13 years ago

    I installed W3TC about 4 months ago, had problems because my host didn’t support compression, so I uninstalled W3TC. During that time period I had an unknown Permalink problem. I’ve subsequently moved the site to a new host, fixed the permalink issue, reinstalled W3TC and it’s working great!

    However, Google webmastertools is complaining that I have hundreds of posts that are not found because of the old permalink problem. After searching the website, I discovered the cache folder contains a boatload of references to the bad permalinks. So I think google must be picking it up there, because the sitemaps are clean.

    If I delete all the files in the Cache folder, and then tell W3TC to flush all the caches to restore them, will this cause problems?

    Thanks,

    Tim

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

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  • Plugin Contributor Frederick Townes

    (@fredericktownes)

    What exactly was the permalink problem?

    Thread Starter timt13

    (@timt13)

    Frederick,

    Early-on when I was setting up the website, I accidentally set the permalink structure to https://website.com/https://website.com/postname

    This naming convention percolated through all my posts until I changed the permalink definition in January 2012. However, Google still says it can’t find all these posts, even though the sitemap shows only the new structure . The only place this old stuff exists is in a cache folder that another caching plugin used.

    I’ve emptied that cache folder and Google still thinks the old permalinks are still in the website “somewhere”.

    Plugin Contributor Frederick Townes

    (@fredericktownes)

    You need to use webmaster tools to get the 404 log and then create some 301 redirects and add them to your .htaccess file to address the issue.

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