Cache Warmer

Visits website pages to warm (create) the cache if you have any caching solutions configured.

Settings

• Configure cache warming entry points and the depth of the warming;
• Add all public site posts as entry points;
• Add entry point sites sitemaps as entry points;
• Select which types of assets to load, with 4 checkboxes: scripts, styles, images, fonts;
• Set custom URL params (?foo=bar);
• Set custom user agent;
• Set custom request headers;
• Set custom cookies;
• Set connection timeout;
• Set speed limit (pages to visit per minute);
• Autorun Interval: to run the warming each N minutes;
• Exclude pages (by substring or regex);
• Rewrite URLs to HTTPS;
• Visit pages second time without custom URL params (if they are set);
• Warm-up posts (on their publication and edit (Can be seen in Logs -> Triggered)):
  • Set custom posts warming interval.
• Store warm-up queues in MySQL so scheduled work is safe across interchangeable web nodes.

Additional

• Adds a graph to your dashboard with page load time before and after the warming (2 lines) per day.
• Cleans up Action Scheduler log after itself (older than 30 days for failed actions, and older than 2 days for completed actions).

External services

• Connect to paid service for warming from external global servers.

Run from code

• Start: \Cache_Warmer\AJAX::start_warm_up( false );
• Stop: \Cache_Warmer\AJAX::stop_warm_up( false );

Run from WP CLI

• Start: wp cache-warmer start
• Stop: wp cache-warmer stop

Required PHP extensions

• json
• simplexml (optional)

Bug reports / Questions / Suggestions

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