Was Okay and Then

  • Hummingbird upon first installation (on another account I gave this 5 stars) however I’m going to give this review 3 stars due to one little annoyance that is driving me crazy. It has do with caching. If I make any change to the website, I need to clear the Hummingbird cache by going into it and pressing the clear cache button. Now I realize this is something that is possibly being complicated by something upstream (caching server that I have no control over, load balancer algorithm, whatever) and has nothing to do with Hummingbird itself. I mean I do clear the cache occasionally; occasionally means every month or so.

    Now with Hummingbird installed, I must clear the cache every single time something changes on my site, which means I’m pressing that clear cache button sometimes over 10 times a day, which is just annoying.

    I have several WordPress instances and this behavior ONLY applies to the instances which have Hummingbird.

    I’m going to spend a couple of hours on testing/refining/fixing and testing another piece of caching software (right now as far as I know I have the Hummingbird cache, and the php cache (php-apcu); who knows, that may be the issue right there). I’m additionally going to test removing all caching software from within WordPress and see how that goes.

    It’s definitely a polished product, but little things annoy me and my sanity requires as little pushback as possible.

    Anyways, thanks.

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  • Hey @ronaldljohnson,

    Thanks for leaving such detailed feedback, we really appreciate you taking the time to do so.

    Based on what you wrote, I’d assume you already enabled the “Clear full cache when post/page is updated” setting inside Page Caching and you’re still facing these issues, right?

    I might be wrong in my assumption so please correct me if so but if you enabled that setting and you’re still experiencing caching issues with our plugin, I highly encourage you to create a support thread here: https://www.ads-software.com/support/plugin/hummingbird-performance/#new-topic-0 sharing more details about your site’s setup so our support team can assist you :).

    Regards,
    Erick

    Thread Starter ronaldljohnson

    (@ronaldljohnson)

    Based on what you wrote, I’d assume you already enabled the “Clear full cache when post/page is updated” setting inside Page Caching and you’re still facing these issues, right?

    Oh, no, didn’t know that one. That sounds like it could fix the issue and maybe I can get Hummingbird back. Thank you for the response. I will go and check later and will update either way but just the sound of that sounds like it is the workaround/fix for the specific issue I was facing. Thank you, and forgive my shortsightedness. I’ve only been using WordPress a few months so still learning.

    Hey @ronaldljohnson,

    Thanks for your follow up.

    Let me know how it went after enabling that setting and if you need further assistance or guidance, you can create a support ticket so our team can assist.

    We’ve all been new users to all the things we use (WordPress or any other product/service) so no worries, I know exactly where you’re coming from and we’re here to help :).

    Have a marvelous day,
    Erick

    Thread Starter ronaldljohnson

    (@ronaldljohnson)

    To be honest I have been so busy with other things that I’ve not yet had time to approach this again. I loaded Hummingbird because a theme requested it. Since then I’ve found out that particular company (the theme company)is not well liked because of little things like making it difficult to near impossible to remove footer text because of callbacks to said company inside of the theme code and fanatically checking to make sure the footer text is intact if you don’t PAY them.

    Because of that I’m slowly removing that theme from the two sites I use it on. Even though I modified the theme code to get rid of all the ridiculous footer checks I learned how fanatical they were when I discovered the footer code check is in EVERY SINGLE piece of php code they wrote.

    I’ll spend some time today playing around with Hummingbird again on another one of my sites and will report back shortly my findings.

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