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Hi Mattiejas,

Please let me add something to ivanatanasov’s answer.

WP Super Cache (and similar plugins) perform useful tasks other than caching to speed up your website. Two of these tasks are Gzip compression and browser’s cache leveraging (ex. https://torquemag.io/2016/04/enable-gzip-compression-wordpress/). Usually these two features write some lines in your .htaccess that, in my experience, do not interfere with caching.

Therefore, here’s my advice: use caching from SG Optimizer, disable caching from WP Super Cache, but keep other non-caching-related optimizations from WP Super Cache (or, at least, keep the htaccess lines).

Cheers,
Guido

Thank you for your reply! I will do so.
In the process, maybe you might consider taking inspiration from Global SMTP: https://github.com/rohmann/global-smtp. It is a plugin that uses hard-coded SMTP configuration in wp-config.php and works automatically for all sites in a Multisite installation.

Cheers,
Guido

Good luck getting an answer! It has been months SiteGround has been ignoring this forum. You’ll have more luck if you open a support ticket directly with them.

Hi,

Maybe you missed this ticket? I am sorry to insist, but the ability to purge the cache via command line would be quite useful to our web agency.

Thank you,
Guido

I see, thank you. Will check out Redux for my own plugins ??

Thank you and have a nice Halloween weekend!
Guido

Hi,

Same here.

Postman won’t sent WooCommerce emails.

Will switch to “WP Easy SMTP” which works fine also with WooCommerce.

Cheers,
Guido

Hi, this is quite an important point, I am looking for the same feature.

How can we show in Google the stars for the single products??

Thanks,
Guido

Yes, OK got it, on plugin activation the cache is automatically setup as active, as discussed.

Sorry if I wasn’t clear, but I am making a subtler point here, which is not specific to cache. The point is: when you de-activate and then re-activate a plugin, its settings should be preserved.

This is a default behaviour for all WordPress plugins, a standard on which webmasters rely all the time: re-activating a plugin should not change any setting in the plugin itself.

Many times during a webmaster’s activity the need arises to temporarily de-activate a plugin; it is not conceivable that re-activating it changes one of its settings, let alone the most important one.

About the Gzip, all our tests returns a green A grade. Could you create a free account on our website, referring to this post and use the support ticket? We need to test that deeply.

Ok thanks, I am going to transfer this issue on your ticket system.

In the meanwhile, a couple of more bugs:

1. The plugin adds a line to wp-config.php, which is perfectly fine, but it also messes up the whole file by doubling the end-of-line characters; see https://prntscr.com/cs3p6i.
2. De-activating the plugin should remove the line define( 'WP_CACHE', true ); in wp-config.php, rather than changing it to define( 'WP_CACHE', false );. Again this is a corollary of the theorem whereby installing and then removing a plugin should leave the website completely unchanged.

Thank you for your time,
Guido

Hi, thank you for your answer!

I appreciate your patience in going through my many points ??

It is not a major point, but I would suggest having the cache disabled by default. Doing otherwise might makes things easier for non-experts, but it could break things down when there is another caching system active. This might be the reason why two of the most popular caching plugins (WP Fastest Cache and WP Total Cache) have the cache disabled by default.

Concerning Gzip compression, I have activated it and run WebPageTest.org, but got an F for the “Compress transfer” test (see https://prntscr.com/cs0fe3); could it be that your PHP Gzip compression fails on our website? In any case, this is my console output: https://prntscr.com/cs0g0s. I do see the line “accept-encoding: gzip, deflate”, but please note that I see it also if I disable your plugin.

Concerning the UX problems, I am on 4.6.1; I can see with Addendio that 4.6 works fine. If I disable all plugins but WPSOL on my installation (cavour313.it), I can see that the buttons’ colors are fixed. The out-of-bounds menu name, though, stays the same. Weird!

Another small glitch: if I disable the cache, deactivate the plugin and reactivate the plugin, the cache is enabled again.

If you think it could help your developers, I am happy to give you the credentials of our admin area so that you can better debug these issues.

Thank you for your attention,
Guido

PS: I did not know of Addendio: great service, thanks!

4. After clicking “Apply” on a bulk-delete of 17 comments, I got these messages on a blank page:

Warning: Missing argument 2 for WpSoL_SpeedOptimization::purge_post_on_comment_status_change() in /home/wwwcavou/public_html/wp-content/plugins/wp-speed-of-light/inc/wpsol-speed-optimization.php on line 131

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/wwwcavou/public_html/wp-content/plugins/wp-speed-of-light/inc/wpsol-speed-optimization.php:131) in /home/wwwcavou/public_html/wp-includes/pluggable.php on line 1174

Hi raiserweb, thank you for your reply!

What I would like to test are the email notifications associated to custom statuses, not the statuses themselves.

To be clear, I would like to test all email templates that appear under the “Emails” tab in the WooCommerce settings. That is, not only the “New Order”, “Processing Order”, “Completed Order”, “Customer Invoice” and “Customer Note” templates, but also the custom ones.

Would that be possible? ??

Thank you for your attention,
Guido

Thank you Matt for your reply!

I am intrigued by Version Press, but AFAIK it does not consistently support 3rd-party plugins yet (es. WooCommerce).

Data Hawk seems promising, as it is from Delicious Brains, the same guys behind WP Migrate DB. But it is not clear to me when they will be releasing this tool…

Have you ever tried Database Version Control (https://dbv.vizuina.com/)? I am looking into it and it seems promising.

Hi!

I second blueantinoo’s request: how can I have unique product reviews for a product that comes in different weights?

Thanks,
Guido

Thanks for your reply. If it can help your quest for knowledge, in ImageOptim I have used 70% lossy compression (JPEG).

I guess I will use FTP + ImageOptim in the future for radical compressions, and EWWW for the rest.

Thanks.

Thank you Hristo for getting back to me!

Have you got the Really Simple SSL plugin installed? The reason why I wrote in this support forum in the first place is that the creation of the staging copy (your point 1) fails unless I comment the Real Simple SSL lines.

In any case, I guess we are abusing of Rogier’s hospitality ?? If I have further issues, I will just open a SiteGround ticket.

Best wishes,
G