Possibly not compatible with W3 Total Cache?

  • Resolved BCHutchison

    (@bchutchison)


    6 years, 11 months ago

    I was able to get my site running pretty smoothly with both MMR and W3 Total Cache, however, once I leave it alone it loses all CSS. When looking at GTMetrix Waterfall, it always has a 404 for the CSS. If I purge the cache, the site comes back up but reverts back to the 404 on CSS within minutes. Is there a better option for cacheing?

    Right now I have w3 Total Cache disabled and the site is working, but I end up showing penalties for lack of cacheing, cookie free domains, configure entity tags, and expire headers. These all clear up when I have both running. Any thoughts?

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  • Plugin Author launchinteractive

    (@launchinteractive)

    It sounds like W3 is caching the html which would be caching the links to the js/css. When the js/css changes then the html needs to update to link to the new files. Is there an option to turn off page caching and if so, does that help?

    There is a hook in MMR that fires once it has completed a minify. If this is the issue then this could be utilised to tigger W3 to clear its page cache.

    Thread Starter BCHutchison

    (@bchutchison)

    Yes, I can ask it to not cache the HTML. Also, is there a way to get jquery out of your minifying? I realized everything jquery is broken with your plugin as well. Maybe a setting i’m missing?

    Plugin Author launchinteractive

    (@launchinteractive)

    jQuery usually fails because it’s normally minified. When you Minify a Minified script strange things happen. If your including jQuery yourself you can include an unminified version and it should work. Alternatively you can include jQuery in an external domain or CDN. Your last option is to add the jQuery path in the ignore scripts section of the plug-in settings.

    Thread Starter BCHutchison

    (@bchutchison)

    Thanks for the help. The path to the ignore scripts was key.

    Plugin Author launchinteractive

    (@launchinteractive)

    No probs. I’ll mark this as resolved.

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