Commercial sites should never update critical plugins without scrutiny

  • I appreciate our society’s need to “improve” things immediately.

    However, “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” is a solid principle to live by. Especially in plugin/theme updates.

    Developers, hopefully, address issues created by updates and offer appropriate fixes in due course. Just be patient.

    A massive overhaul as this update is bound to create some serious problems.

    I’m just glad FT is back providing updates to this phenomenal plugin. Let’s hope for more incremental patches from here on that minimize the risks.

    So if you don’t require this update (most likely you don’t), Wait!

    (btw, I applied the update to my hobby/not-for-profit site and after making the changes to my nginx.conf as directed by the plugin things are working swimmingly.)

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  • Are there any errors in the server error log?

    Thread Starter Chad R. Schulz

    (@chadschulz)

    No errors in the logs. I’m not using the entire plugin as I cache pages with nignx fastcgi-caching.

    However, minification (manual) and browser/object/database caching are seemingly working without issues.

    I’d been using a github variation of w3tc called w3tc-fix to correct php7.0 errors and other outdated code. Even vanilla w3tc 9.4.5 had worked with only a couple of minor code changes (Google for w3tc php7 compatibility solutions).

    My initial point was that Frederick Townes has most likely spent hundreds(?) of hours coding this update and we can’t possibly expect everything to work correctly for everyone.

    And as most of the million+ users of w3tc aren’t paying a dime for its use, we should be patient while FT addresses these problems.

    If you run a commercial site it is strongly advisable that you never install major theme/plugin updates without first checking support forums like these for potential crisis events.

    Good luck Mr. Townes.

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