Problem with Merged files

  • Today I’ve had a serious problem that I think should be fixed urgently. Here’s my situation:

    • I’m using the W3 Total Cache plugin on my website
    • I’m using your APH plugin to just merge and minify the CSS files
    • This morning, I checked my website in incognito mode and BUUM! the styles are missing!

    And here’s why: the APH plugin detected that the merged file needed to be regenerated (cache age). So it deletes the old file and creates the new one. But, when a user enters the page and my server serves the website from the cache, the old merged styles are not there anymore!

    And that will continue happening until the W3 Total Cache refreshes the static files. So there is a period of desynchronization where my website has no css file to render.

    So, the solution would be to add an option (or hardcoded) to keep some of the old merged files as backup, so the cached version of the website can work.

    I must say that I’m in love with this plugin ??

    Hope this helps,
    Regards!

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  • Plugin Author Agus Prawoto Hadi

    (@agusph)

    Hi, I’m sorry to your problem when using the plugin.

    The W3 total cache uses static files, while the plugin always generates new files each time it combines the CSS and js files, this is for push the browser not to use the old one and download the newly generated merged files.

    W3 cache plugin is a complex system, so I’m not sure could deal with it in the near future.

    Thank you so much for your appreciation to the plugin that I wrote, it motivated me a lot ??

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