Hi @itsgotime,
It’s generally not recommended to combine two caching plugins on your WordPress site to avoid conflicts.
At first glance, I see that the Powered Cache plugin offers object caching and supports Redis, Memcached, Memcache, and APCu. While WP Super Cache offers page caching, object caching is not a feature that it currently offers.
Thanks, that makes sense. The decision lies in the fact that I don’t currently have the ability to enable server object caching, thus the extra coding would potentially bog things down! So I’m going to give your plugin a go.
Does your plugin interfere with affiliate tracking links going out (a user clicks and opens in a new tab, whereby tracking details are in the new url) in any way? Obviously the link is hidden behind the site at the database level, and is activated upon click.
Hi @itsgotime,
It depends on how your affiliate links work, exactly. If affiliate links are assigned by JavaScript that is activated when you click the link, they will be unaffected by Super Cache.
However, if your site loads a special “redirection” page to send visitors to the correct affiliate destination, then you may need to consider how it will interact with your Super Cache options.
You can get around this issue by using the “Rejected URL Strings” setting in the “Advanced” tab of the WP Super Cache settings. If you add your affiliate “redirect” URL to that setting, then it will not be cached, and your affiliate links will be unaffected.
I hope that helps. If you need further help, please let us know more about how the affiliate links work so that we can give you more specific guidance.
I like the simplicity and the fact that your plugin is unlikely to affect ones site in any negative way.
Could you tell me your expert opinion on the benefit of having “object caching” and not having it? Is this something that would truly make a noticeable impact in speed or is it just something that might get in the way?
Plugin Contributor
Nauris
(@pyronaur)
Hey @itsgotime,
Object caching is a technique that stores frequently accessed data in memory, allowing the website to retrieve the data more quickly without having to access the database or perform other expensive operations. This can greatly reduce the amount of time it takes to serve a web page to the client, but it only applies to pages that are uncached. Pages that are already cached aren’t going to use object-cache.
