WP Fastest Cache: breaking PHP code in template file, ignoring exclude settings

  • Resolved H.O.W.D.Y. Media

    (@howdymedia)


    5 years, 1 month ago

    In trying to troubleshoot a website, I uploaded a contact form theme template to a website using WP Fastest Cache (0.8.9.7). I set up a test page with the permalink of “test-contact”.

    When trying to view the page, it spat out the WordPress “The site is experiencing technical difficulties.” message. I enabled the debugging messages so that I could find the issue, and it reported that one of the files in the cache was causing the issue.

    So, opening the cache file, I see the issue is that WP Fastest Cache is modifying the content of the template, and erroneously replacing inline PHP code with an HTML 4.1 close entity “/>”.

    <div class="input text required"><label for="ContactName">Name</label><input name="data[Contact][name]" type="text" id="ContactName"<?php if ($nameerror) echo ' class="form_error"';?><?php if ($name) echo ' value="'.htmlentities($name).'"';?> /></div>

    is destroyed by WP Fastest Cache which changes the code to:

    <div class="input text required"><label for="ContactName">Name</label><input name="data[Contact][name]" type="text" id="ContactName"<?php if ($nameerror) echo ' class="form_error"';? /><?php if ($name) echo ' value="'.htmlentities($name).'"'?> /></div>

    As you can see, the “;?><?php” is changed to “;? /><?php”.

    On top of this error, it refuses to exclude this page. I’ve tried adding exclude filters for the URI “test-contact/”:

    Is Equal To: test-contact
    Starts With: test
    Contains: test
    Pages
    Contains: contact

    None of these prevent the caching. Even with it claiming that all pages are excluded, it still caches this page.

    I also tried updating to the latest version 0.8.9.8, but the issues were the same.

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  • Plugin Author Emre Vona

    (@emrevona)

    how many pages do you get the error on?

    Thread Starter H.O.W.D.Y. Media

    (@howdymedia)

    Only this page.

    Plugin Author Emre Vona

    (@emrevona)

    which?

    Thread Starter H.O.W.D.Y. Media

    (@howdymedia)

    Hold the phone. It looks like this website has more than one caching system running, and the caching system causing problems is not WP Fastest Cache.

    This would explain why the filters aren’t working as well.

    The actual culprit is something called WPLatte built in to the AIT Theme’s “Anchor” theme.

    My client apparently has a paid copy of WP Fastest Cache, and it was the only caching plugin installed, so made a bad assumption it was WP Fastest Cache.

    Plugin Author Emre Vona

    (@emrevona)

    no problem ??

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