W3 Total Cache is a plugin for WordPress content management system, this plugin improves the user experience of the site by increasing website performance, reducing download times via features like content delivery network (CDN) integration.
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W3 total cache caches pages for HTTPS 'uniquely' what does that mean?
W3 total cache reads:
Cache SSL (https) requests
Cache SSL requests (uniquely) for improved performance.
now i want hard caching for all pages, if https or not, that always a cached version is returned. Thing is, i cannot disable https for the…

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Wordpress w3total cache: Disk, Opcache or memcache
I have a wordpress site that has about 200.000 pages views everyday. I run this on a VPS with 6GB ram. I have w3total cache installed right now but the page is still loading slow.
What i am wondering now is what cache should i use for my site Disk,…

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WordPress W3 Total Cache Plugin not combining CSS & JS
Can anyone help me understand why W3 Total Cache Plugin for WordPress on this website isn't combining the CSS & JS (respectively)?
Here are my settings:
Page Cache: Enabled, Disk Enhance
Minify: Enabled, Auto, Disk, Default, JSMin, Default

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W3TOTAL CACHE : Disk Enhanced Vs Disk Basic
Regarding the w3total cache working mechanism,
I searched the internet but couldnt find any proper information regarding these two.
What is the difference between the disk enhanced and disk basic in w3Total cache.And why is disk enhanced preferred…

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Wordpress w3 total cache and load balancing concerns
The website we are working on right now will be hosted on two load-balanced IIS servers. The database will be common, on a third server.
The plugin (w3 total cache) saves all the files on the disk, inside a wp-content/cache folder.
Right now we are…

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WordPress W3 Total Cache Minify - JS and CSS Files Not Created (nginx)
I have a WordPress site I'm trying to minify with W3 Total Cache. It runs on nginx on Ubuntu 12.04.
I am in manual minify mode
In the minify settings, I have the Rewrite URL structure option OFF. It doesn't work either way, but this method needs…

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Where is New Relic API key?
I've installed Total Cache plugin in my wordpress application and it suggested me to create a New Relic account. I've done it, but now the plugin ask me for an API key, and no idea of where to find it. I thought it would be the license key, but not.…

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W3 Total Cache screws up my website on mobile hosted on Godaddy
I am raising this topic after trying to fix the issue myself for about a week. I have read the web and nothing seems to help.
I had installed and configured W3 Total Cache for website load optimization. Things worked well until next morning I found…

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W3 Total Cache - Allow Editors To Purge Single Post From Cache
I have been looking for a way to allow my editor to purge a post from the page cache.
The problem:
I am making meta description updates that do not get updated upon clicking "post update" and sometimes the titles do not get updated without purging…

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Caching dynamic pages / excluding parts from caching
I am using W3 Total Cache for caching my WordPress pages, posts, etc.
Now I made a button that sets a session variable to tell the server if the user wants mobile or desktop view and calls this function:

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W3 Total Cache Plugin writing to htaccess file
Three of our sites showed 500 Internal Server Error in the past couple of days. Upon investigation, we found that .htaccess file is being written. Deleting the .htaccess file solved the issue. Is anyone aware of this issue? Is the W3 Total Cache…

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How to handle relative font-face links in css when using minified css files generated by w3 total cache plugin for wordpress
I have to fix some issues at a wordpress site which another developer has set up with a custom theme. The theme includes a style.css file which is referencing a font file in the same theme:
@font-face {
font-family: 'foo';
src:…

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SSL added. Now W3 Total Cache redirects pages to the cache _index.html_gzip file
I have a WordPress website with the W3 Total Cache plugin.
I added SSL to my site and added a redirect in my .htaccess file
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R=301]]
But whenever I…

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W3 Total Cache: minified CSS and JS files not found in AWS S3-based CDN
My configuration consists of a Wordpress installation with the W3 Total Cache plugin that is set up to cache resources on a CDN (Amazon S3+Cloudfront).
The HTML resources and images are loaded correctly, but the problem is with minified CSS and JS,…

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W3 Total Cache plugin doesn't work without setting 777 permission for w3tc-config directory
I have my Wordpress website running on Apache and installed w3-total cache plugin installed. To enable Page Cache, it wants me to set 777 permission to w3tc-config and cache folder.
It shows the following warning.
Execute next commands in a…

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