What a way to ignore a deficiency
The wp-cache plugin is known not to work with Wordpress 2.5, but there is an alternative which people are switching to. It’s called WP Super Cache.
In description tab, they talk about a few the plugin having an issue of not generating fresh static pages when required. And they simply ignore it saying:
The good news is that probably more than 99% of your visitors don’t do any of the above! Those users who don’t see the static files will still benefit because they will see regular WP-Cache cached files and your server won’t be as busy as before. This plugin should help your server cope with a front page appearance on digg.com or other social networking site.
I think that is really silly. Digg even if it does implement similar caching techniques, has updated static cached pages. You don’t have to wait till you post something new till your cache gets updated.
What they were talking about is the fact that if you use caching, comments won’t show up. WP Super Cache leaves it up to the user to choose a time limit to regenerate the cache, depending on post frequency. The only problem is, the plugin doesn’t work very well in filtering out pages it’s NOT supposed to cache.
Exactly. Better not to use caching then, I guess.
This plugin should help your server cope with a front page appearance on digg.com or other social networking site
By this, they actually are referring to the spike that your website gets when they get a front page appearance on digg.com , its not quite referring to Digg’s caching.
Some other CMS have caches of different kinds - menu cache, views cache, block cache, main page content cache, comment cache - that way when a new comment comes in, only the comment-cache is refreshed.
Dont even think of dumping caching from a CMS - it would literally start crawling!
I don’t think so Anshuman. It depends on your server and bandwidth capacity. If your server is slow at generating pages, cache is really useful. If it’s your internet that’s slow, you can’t help it anyway. If you require more bandwidth, caching reduces the load. But otherwise, it isn’t necessary.
I cannot afford to have my comments not showing up. Disastrous. Of course, the cache plugin can be edited to perform a cron job every 30 minutes to make sure that comments are up to date. I guess that’s the mechanism Gizmodo uses because they say your comments might take some time before they appear.