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.
- Use object cache for tree storage, when it’s available.
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_WarmerAJAX::start_warm_up( false ); - Stop:
Cache_WarmerAJAX::stop_warm_up( false );
Run from WP CLI
- Start:
wp cache-warmer start - Stop:
wp cache-warmer stop
Required PHP extensions
- json
- simplexml (optional)
