Recommended Settings for W3 Total Cache Plugin for WordPress
The article distills the most helpful and optimal settings for the W3 Total Cache WordPress Plugin.
Optimized Settings for W3 Total Cache Plugin
* Extensions
Disable all
* General Settings
check – Toggle all caching types on
UNcheck – Database Caching
UNcheck – Object Cache
UNcheck – CDN enable (OPTIONAL CLOUDFLARE, REQUIRES FREE ACCOUNT)
UNcheck – Enable reverse proxy caching
UNcheck – Enable Google Page Speed dashboard widget
UNcheck – Show page rating in admin bar
UNcheck – Anonymously track usage to improve product quality
* Page Cache
check – Cache feeds: site, categories, tags, comments
check – Automatically prime the page cache
check – Preload the post cache upon publish events
* Minify
set Minify error notification to Admin Notification
set HTML & XML, HTML minify settings: check Enable, Inline CSS minification, Inline JS minification, Line break removal
JS, JS minify settings: check Enable, radio Minify
CSS, CSS minify settings: check Enable, Line break removal, @import handling: select ‘Process’
* Broswer Cache
– General
– – check – Prevent caching of objects after settings change
– – check – Don’t set cookies for static files
/* Optional if using free service such as CloudFlare
* CDN (Extensions, CDN – CloudFlare – Settings)
check Minify JS, CSS, HTML
UNcheck Server side exclude, Email obfuscation, Hotlink protection
– check Host Attachments, wp-includes, theme files, minified css and js, custom files
– check Add canonical header
– If you run into mixed-content warnings use the checkbox to Disable CDN on SSL pages to resolve the mixed content issue. You can also disable the CDN for certain types of logged-in users with the option to Disable CDN for the following roles.
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