Any benefit to having Litespeed Cache Plugin if Caching Turned Off?

  • Resolved Azam

    (@azaminfo)


    3 years, 8 months ago

    We have a blog using WordPress. It uses Cloudflare’s CDN (but no caching).

    We can’t use the Litespeed Plugin’s caching feature because it caches the desktop versions of our webpages and serves them to our site visitors from mobile phones.

    Therefore, we’ve had to turn the cache off under LiteSpeed Cache Settings > Cache > Enable Cache.

    Now we see the following message at the top of every section within the plugin settings:

    “WARNING
    LSCache caching functions on this page are currently unavailable!

    Please enable LiteSpeed Cache in the plugin settings. Learn More”

    Are there any advantages to us keeping the Litespeed Cache Plugin installed or, if not, should we just delete it?

    Thank you.

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  • Plugin Support qtwrk

    (@qtwrk)

    Hi,

    maybe you can try enable “mobile cache” , this will serve different page for mobile and desktop

    yes , even without caching , you can still get benefit of these optimization options

    Best regards,

    Thread Starter Azam

    (@azaminfo)

    Thank you for the quick and helpful reply.

    Our blog uses the Wptouch WordPress plugin to show the mobile version of our website to mobile users. It has worked perfectly for ten years before we installed Litespeed.

    > “maybe you can try enable “mobile cache” , this will serve different page for mobile and desktop”

    We’ve tried having “Enable Cache” to “on” and also “Cache Mobile” to “on” previously. However, having tested it extensively over many days, it tends to cache the desktop version of the website and then show the desktop version to people even on mobiles. Do you know why this may be and how we can resolve?

    Therefore I’m now wondering if I can set Cache Mobile” to “on” but leave “Enable Cache” to off? See settings here. Or would that render ALL caching, desktop and mobile, to off?

    “yes , even without caching , you can still get benefit of these optimization options”

    What are the benefits if all caching is set to off please?

    Thread Starter Azam

    (@azaminfo)

    I’ve set it as per the settings in the above screenshot (Cache Mobile” to “on” but leave “Enable Cache” to off). Could you kindly check to see if the website is now being cached with Litespeed?

    Plugin Support qtwrk

    (@qtwrk)

    Hi,

    yeah …

    WP touch uses different way to detect mobile/table/desktop as default WP and our plugin does , that makes the detection result inconsistant

    for example LSCWP thinks this page is mobile , while WP touch thinks it is a table , and eventually theme renders table page as desktop —> this will result as mobile cached with desktop page

    we are aware of this issue and working on it

    “Enable Cache” is the master switch for the options in that page , so if you set this to OFF, rest options won’t work no matter how you set them

    page optimization -> like css minify , combine , js minify combine , image optimization , webp replacement , critical css, LQIP …etc basically all the options you see in the plugin , except the caching.

    Best regards,

    Thread Starter Azam

    (@azaminfo)

    Thanks for the helpful feedback.

    I’ll wait until the issue that affects WPTouch is resolved. In the meanwhile, we’ll leave Litespeed plugin installed but leave the Cache to “off”.

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