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This is NOT cool! You activated an *optional* feature by default. You should let users choose, and not force it on them with an upgrade. This caused us SEO problems due to your plugin enabling sitemaps of ALL post-types. Some of which were not to be indexed. You should instead have given a notification that we could enable the Sitemap feature, if you noticed another plugin that had the same functionality. This is the kind of stuff that causes unnecessary headaches.

This is very strange. We should also have got 404 then. I know the browser cache was empty and the _old suffix applied. We never actually deleted it from the cache ourselves, but the day after we purged, it was gone from page_enhanced.

When I do a google search for “https://www.obwiik.se/ukategorisert/pvc-presenning”, I can see it’s still cached there.

Thank you so much for your feedback. We’ll have to do some more testing ourselves to see if everything works as expected. We probably shouldn’t have redirected it so quickly, but our SEO manager got worried…

So, I’m still wondering why I didn’t get a 404 error after we purged the cache and it had the _old suffix added to it. We’re not using server side caching or CDN… Or have I misunderstood something? Will the page be served from the cache even after purging (with _old?) – or could it be that it was cached by Google? I’m just trying to understand exactly how this works.

Thanks again.

Hi again @vmarko , the page is re-directed to and does no longer exist the cache folder. Are you actually seeing that page, or the redirected page?

Thanks for your replies. We are using W3TC, but no CDN. I did see that it placed the _old suffix on the index files after purging. However, I was then expecting it to give a 404 when I tried to access the page from a clean browser. That was before we added the 301 redirect in .htaccess. I see today that the page is gone completely from the page_enchanced folder, so how can I reproduce this behaviour when the page in question is gone, and THE URL is being redirected?

I the correct way of completely removing a page from the cache to delete it from page_enhanced?

I can confirm that the URL in question is https://www.obwiik.se/ukategorisert/pvc-presenning

Thanks again in advance!