pages with ?swcfpc=1 left behind after plugin deleted

  • Hi,
    I tried Super Page Cache for Cloudflare on my site a while back but deleted it shortly after. Then when doing a Screaming Frog site audit it showed that a number of urls had been left behind with the ?swcfpc=1 appendage.

    I reached out to your support and was given a number of things to try but none worked. I then deduced that it could be a plugin for internal linking causing the issue, so deleted that and the issues seemed to go. However, now some months later, when I did a Screaming Frog audit again yesterday, again tons of urls appeared with the ?swcfpc=1 appendage. Perhaps they never actually went and I was unaware of it. I have not reinstalled your plugin, nor the internal linking plugin since.

    The site uses OceanWP theme and Gutenberg, no page builders. It has WP Rocket, WebP Express and Cloudflare free CDN – all of which I was told to disable last time by your support, and to delete Advanced.php file in the File Directory – all of which I did at the time.

    Please can you tell me how to clear out ALL remnants of Super Page Cache for Cloudflare once and for all from my site and database, and get rid of the many urls still with the ?swcfpc=1 appendage.

    Thank you!

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  • Plugin Contributor iSaumya

    (@isaumya)

    If you have deleted the plugin that means the plugin is no longer adding the ?swcfpc=1 but that cache buster query param might be part of some internal link when you interlinked them maybe mistakenly that cache butser also got added.

    But whatever the cache is – the plugin is no longer adding that cache buster anymore as it is no longer present in your site. To get rid of the cache buster you need run a search and replace in your database to remove the cache buster form the URLs.

    Thread Starter natterramble

    (@natterramble)

    I did this a couple of days ago and the webpages are still showing when I put the urls into a search engine or click the link – cleared all caches on both the website and computer (when I do a url inspection on Google search console not indexed).

    Plugin Contributor iSaumya

    (@isaumya)

    If your database is showing no existence of ?swcfpc=1 then I don’t see how it can be added to your URL. Cause the plugin is not part of your site anymore.

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