GeoDirectory Docs “Dos and Don’ts” says not to use page caching.

For innumerable reasons our sites must have caching. We use WP Super Cache. They allow entering “file” strings to exclude from caching.

Can you provide a list of strings we can set not to be cached? We have subscribed to all Add-Ons as well if those apply.

I imagine a lot of users would benefit from this information.

Thanks

but…

GD was developed as a plugin to make it more practical to add a robust directory to other themes running a lot of other plugins

GD Booster is not appropriate for sites that do a lot more than just what Geodirectory does…

there are only two plugins that can handle it, WP Super Cache and W3 Total Cache

there is a lot more going on than just the geodirectory plugin

those strings would be very practical and useful to have, most people are not aware of the do’s and don’ts and I’ve seen a bunch of support issues that go back to the page caching issue, so it would behoove Everyone to address this issue appropriately

Stiofan

GD Booster is not appropriate for sites that do a lot more than just what Geodirectory does…

why do you say this?

GD Booster is the combination of quick cache and css/js booster, 2 excellent caching plugins, modeded to be able to handle GD out of the box, but it doesn’t just cache GD, it does cache everything about your website.

IMHO it’s equivalent if not better than both w3tc and wp super cache.

Definitely less bloated and there isn’t anything it can’t do compared to the 2 above.

Thanks

If GD Booster does all I need I’d be stoked. and while I appreciate lightweight, I’m not sure it does

How does GD Booster handle Push CDN moving multisite uploads folder to CDN?

I’m sure you’d agree that moving the uploads folder (with year/month intact) to CDN is the smart approach, especially if the multisite network includes things like BuddyPress and blogs in addition to director(ies).

SuperCache also has option not to cache SSL pages

Otherwise you would have fast loading images, but all GD pages would be un-cached.

Thanks

I decided to listen to wisdom and activated GD Booster and deleted WP Super Cache completely and went for AWS S3 and Cloudfront using https://wordpress.org/plugins/amazon-s3-and-cloudfront/

Amazon is surprisingly bad at explaining things and not intuitive in the IAM Manager – but muddled through without too much hassle. if you already have S3 account it is pretty fast and easy to setup using S3 for wp-content uploads folder.

might Not be suitable for existing sites however because while I did manage to get the GD dummy data images to upload to S3 using Regenerate Thumbnail, the existing listings are using images pulled from the local media library. there are mixed results on the wp plugin support forum about this

could be that the plugin didn’t know where to go to update the image source for the listings, might be possible to do a DB edit or something like Search and Replace (proceed with caution) – but not an issue on new sites, and old listings still work, just not provisioned from AWS/CDN

I haven’t activated cloudfront yet, but believe it will be painless pulling from S3

I’ve got WP Smush It so hopefully that will help optimize user updated media as it loads

I’m also still using Cloudinary when possible on article posts etc – free for moderate usage with good performance, and they offer a lot of wizardry too

if you could figure out how to integrate GeoDirectory with Cloudinary media library, that would be smokin’

the AWS S3 and Cloudfront plugin is moving copies of images to S3 but it isn’t changing the img src URLs in custom post types…