Remove WP Super Cache

  • Resolved folkspoke

    (@folkspoke)


    5 years ago

    Hi there,

    I believe I have conflicts with WP Super Cache and prefer your extension. I want to safely delete WP Super Cache without affecting the functionality of your extension. Here are the instructions to remove WP Super Cache – from their developers. Are there any steps that I should skip (or add) to ensure that W3 Total Cache still performs as it should:

    Turn off caching on the plugin settings page and clear the cache.
    Deactivate the plugin on the plugins page.
    Remove the WP_CACHE define from wp-config.php. It looks like define( ‘WP_CACHE’, true );
    Remove the Super Cache mod_rewrite rules from your .htaccess file.
    Remove the files wp-content/advanced-cache.php and wp-content/wp-cache-config.php
    Remove the directory wp-content/cache/
    Remove the directory wp-super-cache from your plugins directory.

    Thanks for your assistance!

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  • Plugin Contributor Marko Vasiljevic

    (@vmarko)

    Hello @folkspoke

    Thank you for your inquiry and I am happy to assist you with this.
    Indeed using more than one caching solution can cause a lot of conflicts.

    Turn off caching on the plugin settings page and clear the cache.
    Deactivate the plugin on the plugins page.

    This will clear the cache generated by wp super cache and it will deactivate the plugin.

    Remove the WP_CACHE define from wp-config.php. It looks like define( ‘WP_CACHE’, true );

    define( ‘WP_CACHE’, true ); needs to be in the wp-config.php so caching can work. W3 Total Cache adds that constant to wp-config.php as well. So you can remove it and add the following ight after the <?php:

    /** Enable W3 Total Cache */
define('WP_CACHE', true); // Added by W3 Total Cache

    Remove the Super Cache mod_rewrite rules from your .htaccess file.

    Yes you should remove those rules. Make sure not to remove W3 Total Cache rules which need to be between #Begin W3TC <something> and #END W3TC <something>

    Remove the files wp-content/advanced-cache.php and wp-content/wp-cache-config.php

    You should delete these as well. advanced-cache.php is a drop-in that W3 Total Cache also adds. You should remove it so W3 Total Cache can safely drop-in advanced-cache.php to avoid conflict.

    Remove the directory wp-content/cache/
    Remove the directory wp-super-cache from your plugins directory.

    You can safely delete those as well. After you save the settings in the W3 Total Cache dashboard a new /cache/ folder will be created in your wp-content folder.

    Thank you!

    Thread Starter folkspoke

    (@folkspoke)

    Thanks Marko!!

    This is most helpful ??

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