We’re going to focus on using WP Super Cache on the WordPress blog today. WP Super Cache and W3 Total Cache are two excellent plugins that may be used for caching. One of them needs to be enabled on your blog, depending on your needs; however, for this discussion, we will only cover how to use WP Super Cache on WordPress blogs
Your blog’s dynamic WordPress PHP files are collected and transformed into static HTML files by WP Super Cache. This file’s benefits are both lighter than the PHP file directly and speed up page loads, which pleases visitors because nothing likes to wait. Along with faster loading times for pages, There is a greater chance that search engines will index your pages and display them to new visitors.
Most of what is said above is right, but there is a catch: everyone who is not logged into your website or who has made a comment on your blog will receive the static HTML file. This bias results from the legacy caching engine handling the user’s name being displayed on your blog when they have left a comment or are logged in, as opposed to the static file.
WP Super Cache feature:
- Permit the caching system to be used in concert with the Content Delivery Network (CDN).
- compressed web pages to speed up page loads.
- PHP pages can also be cached; tablets and mobile devices can also cache data.
How to use WP Super Cache on a WordPress blog
The plugin must first be installed on your WordPress blog to use WP Super Cache. Let’s look at how to do that. First, access your admin account. Next, select Plugin > Add New. Next, look for WP Super Cache. Finally, install and enable the plugin.
Following installation, the plugin will display the following message:
Before using the WP Super Cache plugin, make sure to enable it. To do this, click the “plugin admin page” link, which will take you to the WP Super Cache Settings.
Configure WP Super Cache
To activate WordPress Super Cache, check the box next to Caching On (Recommended). Then, click the Update Status button to save your changes.
Let’s click the Test Cache button under Cache Tester to see if the plugin is working or not. Should things proceed as planned, you could see something similar to this:
You can just click the Delete Cache button to get away of the cached pages if that’s the case.
There are four settings available in Advanced Options:
- getting track of
- Other
- Progress
- Location of the Cache
Let’s just go over each one of them and see how you can make the most of the WordPress Super Cache settings.
Caching
Put a checkmark in the box. Enable cache by caching hits to this website for faster access (Recommended).
The next step is to choose one of three caching options. PHP is used by default to serve the cache files, but we don’t want to use PHP because it will slow down page loads. Click the radio button next to “Use mod_rewrite to serve cache files” to provide your HTML files as quickly as possible without using the PHP engine.
Miscellaneous
Enable the Compress page settings under Miscellaneous. This option is deactivated by default. This choice leads to a shorter overall page load time.
Turn on browser caching for the 304 not Modified response, which shows whether or not a page has changed since the last request. Allow users and administrators to view the actual pages without any caching, don’t cache pages for known users.
Allow Because GET parameters are processed by PHP engines, avoid caching them and instead use the Cache rebuild option.
Advanced
Turn on mobile device support, which will likely make WP Super Cache mobile device compatible. Next, make it possible If you have a long cache expiration date, you should keep this option as is. Otherwise, clear all cache files when a post or page is published.
To make sure that homepage caching stops suddenly and is working successfully, enable extra homepage checks. Furthermore, allows Displaying of the PHP page to the user again after they leave a remark, only refreshing the current page when comments are made.
Cache Location
thankfully you don’t even need to change this option; just leave it alone.
Click the Update status button when you’ve finished adjusting all of the above settings. Following a page refresh, some mode modifying rules will appear below the advanced settings, similar to this.
After selecting Update Mod_rewrite Rules, you should see something similar to this:
I hope you are now educated about all of the advanced settings and can instruct others on how to use the WP Super Cache plugin. However, before you depart, there are still a few more settings that you should be aware of:
Expiry Time & Garbage Collection
The validity time frame and rate of the cached data on your server can be adjusted here. The cache timeout is set by default to 1800 seconds, however you can make it lower if your website contains a lot of articles.
Accepted Filenames & Rejected URIs is the next section. Here, you can disable the following page types for caching based on your needs:
- All Posts
- Lookup
- Writer’s Pages
- the front page
- Classification
- Archives
- Pages
- Meals
- House
- Labels
Now that you know not to touch with this value, please continue.
Enable CDN Support
You must choose Enable CDN support (Make sure you have selected the CDN tab next to advanced settings) to use the WordPress Super Cache plugin with CDN support enabled.
Content
The next tab, Content, is found next to CDN. Since the stats are not created automatically, you can regenerate them here. You can also remove cached and expired pages.
Preload
The preload option offers all visitors a static version of your website after caching all pages and articles. By default, this option is set to 0, which is deactivated. To truly benefit from this plugin, you must enable all of the preload options and spend a minimum of half an hour.
After selecting Update Settings, wait for your page to refresh before selecting Preload Cache Now. Your site’s page load speed is going to improve as soon as the cache begins to build.
We sincerely hope that this post was useful to you and that you now know how to utilize the WordPress blog plugin WP Super Cache. Your website will load much faster after you’ve made the previously mentioned adjustments. Please feel free to ask any questions you may still have in the comments section below about this post.
Are you able to add any suggestions here? Do you know a hidden way to speed up the loading of your pages? Here, suggestions are always welcomed!
