W3 Total Cache plugin problems

  • Hell guys,

    I am using the W3 Total Cache plugin, enabled with most options ON (including CDN, Cloudflare, Minify, page cache etc.). I am experiencing serious problems in the WP-admin panel, frequently receiving nr.500 errors whenever I want to add a new post, make some changes, build a sitemap, etc.

    What can I do? I need the plugin because it really speeds up my website. I temporarily deactivated the plugin and everything comes back to normal.

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  • Hi MyDaily-Gadget,

    The plugin caused problems and you want to keep it anyway: more bugs may be waiting for a next surprise ??

    Anyway, the only “safe way” that I see here will be to de-activate one option at a time in order to spot which of its functionality is giving you a hard time (assuming there is such a thing).

    You may also take a look at other plugins offering the same kind of results.

    Good luck!

    Thread Starter mydaily-gadget

    (@mydaily-gadget)

    I will try that as soon as I get home.

    Also, what other plugins can offer similar results?

    I think you can check Hyper Cache or WP Super Cache (that seems a little bit harsh to install).

    For myself, maybe that I don’t have a huge blog with heavy traffics, but I use the simple Quick Cache plugin and all is going smoothly.

    Thread Starter mydaily-gadget

    (@mydaily-gadget)

    OK, it seems that once I disable the Object and Database cache, all things go smooth. How these two elements would of influence my website?

    P.S: Thanks for the alternatives Le-Pixel-Solitaire.

    I don’t have a clue about how these two have an impact on your blog, but I think you should pay an extra attention to this exerpt from the BuddyPress’s page of the plugin:

    *Optional: On the “Database Cache” tab, the recommended settings are preset. If using a shared hosting account use the “disk” method with caution, the response time of the disk may not be fast enough, so this option is disabled by default. Try object caching instead for shared hosting.

    *Optional: On the “Object Cache” tab, all of the recommended settings are preset. If using a shared hosting account use the “disk” method with caution, the response time of the disk may not be fast enough, so this option is disabled by default. Test this option with and without database cache to ensure that it provides a performance increase.

    Advice of the very last chance: maybe using another little plugin to handle just this feature (like DB Cache Reloaded for instance) in conjunction with W3-Total-Cache could do the trick..?

    @mydaily-gadget, what were the errors in your web server error log?

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