The plugin does not seem to be working?

you need to write some “if conditions” as you want.

disables Woocommerce from working or serving any pages once

what does it mean? what does not work?

OK thanks Emre, I am not a php developer at all, but I will give it a go. I think it is time to do some serious research. I will let you know how I get on. Thanks for your help so far, it is much appreciated.

Ah, I mean that it stops any Woocommerce pages/posts from being displayed or found on the front end of the site. The plugin still works on the back end though.

your welcome. does it work witg w3c or super cache?

I haven’t tried it with W3TC as I want to stay away from that plugin. Had it installed on a previous site and although it did do wonders to begin with it soon became a nightmare due to it’s size, complexity and some buggy releases. I have tried it with WP Super Cache and Quick Cache but with the same outcome as I have found with yours. I really want to use yours as out of the above I think yours is the better and so is the support!!!

thank you so much ?? I really wanna help you. but woocommerce should so something.

Indeed, I am trying to get an answer from them at the moment, haven’t heard anything back as yet.

Hi Emre,

I have reinstalled your plugin and it is now working great, bringing down the page load times quite substantially. I managed to get to the bottom of the problem with Woocommerce, here’s the fix I did, it will not work for those needing the no cache of cart etc. in Woocommerce but for my set-up this was the fix. I found the call of the Cache Helper within woocommerce.php and just simply commented it out.

plugins/woocommerce/woocommerce.php on line 287:

// Classes (used on all pages)
		include_once( 'includes/class-wc-product-factory.php' );				// Product factory
		include_once( 'includes/class-wc-countries.php' );						// Defines countries and states
		include_once( 'includes/class-wc-integrations.php' );					// Loads integrations
		/**include_once( 'includes/class-wc-cache-helper.php' );					// Cache Helper*/
		include_once( 'includes/class-wc-https.php' );						// https Helper

I am no developer so don’t know whether this is a good fix or not but it works for me at the moment. Obviously the next time WC needs updating I will have to reimplement this change, unless anyone can give me pointers to a more permanent solution? Like excluding the class using functions.php or something…

hmm. I cannot say that it is a good solution. time will show us that it is a good solution or not ?? Developers of Woocommerce have to solve this problem. They have to make the theme to be compatible with cache plugins.

Yes, unfortunately though they didn’t really help at all, just suggested I use W3TC. Which I installed but found that the inode count on my server went through the roof making the plugin unworkable for me. Hence my hack of the WC code, which enabled me to use your plugin ??

If no-one can suggest a better workaround I will close this thread, as I have sorted out my problem as detailed above.