Problem With New Posts Exploding Theme

Hi @mojosavingscom,
Can you please deactivate this plugin and then also deactivate WP Rocket and then check if under /wp-content/ folder the advanced-cache.php file has been removed. Then just enable this plugin and use it without using the WP Rocket and let me know if the issue still persists or not. Do not enable the WP Rocket plugin while testing.

Thanks for the reply, I think I did try manually removing that file before when I was testing, but maybe not in that order. Let me try it again and see.

Yah, try it and make sure WP Rocket is fully deactivated from the WP Admin > Plugins section.

So oddly enough deleting that file before activating it again did help. I notice that when WP Rocket is disabled that file becomes 0 byte size but is still there. Before, I know I had checked that file (because I suspected it might be an issue) and it was definitely the one created by SPCFC, but the problem persisted. So maybe having that 0 byte file there threw something off with the setup.

It still causes one odd anomaly on my site (a mega menu loads incorrectly on all posts, but somehow is totally normal on all pages) but that’s a minor annoyance on a menu that I’ll probably be getting rid of anyway.

I was even able to re-activate WP Rocket to use it’s other (non-caching) features, and so far so good after making two new posts and clearing every cache a couple times to thoroughly test it.

I’m wondering if part of the issue may have also related to the option to clear HTML only (which I also changed). Perhaps some CSS was getting left behind which was combined/minimized or otherwise not what was expected and getting found somewhere in the bowels of an nginx cache file.

As a suggestion, maybe a third option would be nice. “Clear HTML, CSS, Fonts, etc. but not Media”. That way larger files like images don’t need to be cleared but we can still clear everything else when say a theme update is pushed out and it gets tweaked.

In any event, thanks for an awesome plugin! Please keep up the good work. I look forward to one day buying the pro version with all the bells and whistles (combine/minify CSS, javascript, unload unused js, lazyloading, etc) of other caching plugins.

Hi @mojosavingscom,
Thanks for confirming that the issue was coming from WP Rocket. Here are my recommendations:

1. I will suggest you not to use WP Rocket and instead use a plugin like Perfmatters which is not a caching plugin but rather an optimization plugin.
2. If you must need to use WP Rocket, use this to stop WP Rocket from generating advanced-cache.php. Read: https://gist.github.com/isaumya/d5990b036e0ed2ac55631995f862f4b8
3. Do not make changes to this plugin settings unless you completely understand what it is doing or it’s recommended in the support.

Try these recommendations and let me know if you are still facing issues.

Thanks! I’ll look into that if any problems persist. Even when I was having problems before, the advanced-cache.php file was exactly as it is now. So it doesn’t seem that Rocket is doing anything to that particular file.

Regardless, right now this is what I’m getting in Lighthouse:

So until it breaks again I’m not touching it ;). Seems I finally found the perfect combination to make google pagespeed happy and have a site that’s blazing fast.

Thanks you wordpress wizard!

Hi @mojosavingscom,
I’m happy to help. ?? If you like the plugin, please consider sharing a review in the review section of this plugin. I’m resolving this thread now.