How to Make My Hyper Cache Faster
Hyper Cache is a plug-in for WordPress. If you have a WordPress-built site, you can use Hyper Cache to make it run faster. If you find yourself wanting your pages to load even faster after Hyper Cache has been installed and running on your website, you can make simple changes to Hyper Cache to fit your needs. As with most WordPress plug-ins, the power is in the elegance and ease of use. You don't need to be an expert developer to tune up Hyper Cache.
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Instructions
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Log in to your WordPress website with your administrator account. Making changes to Hyper Cache requires administrator-level permissions.
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Click on the "Appearances" button. Select "Editor." Click on the "wpconfig.php" file.
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Add the following line of code after the line "define('WPLANG', ”)":
define('WP_CACHE', true);
Press "Save." This activates Hyper Cache. Your site may not have been loading quickly because Hyper Cache may not have been properly installed with this last, unusual step of adding PHP code to wpconfig.php.
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Press the "Settings" button in the administrator's panel. Click on "Hyper Cache."
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Change the value of the cache expiration time to a number longer than what it set to now, in minutes, which is the default unit for Hyper Cache. For example, if the expiration time is 1,000 minutes, try 1,500. A longer expiration time means a content item stays in Hyper Cache longer than it would before. Consequently, when a user of your site makes a request, Hyper Cache can respond to it more frequently. And since Hyper Cache responds inherently faster than a server, which delivers your other WordPress content to the user, your site runs faster.
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Choose "None" under "Invalidation Methods." Invalidation methods determine the type of requirements Hyper Cache needs to invalidate a request from a user, sending the request to the server, which takes longer than if Hyper Cache had responded. Setting the invalidation method to "None" means Hyper Cache accepts all responses, besides the ones for pages older than the expiration time set in Step 5. This works especially well for sites that are not updated frequently.
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Enter URLs of Web pages that you always want Hyper Cache to skip over, perhaps because they are never updated and rarely visited. Enter these in the "URI to Reject" text area. This makes a request that Hyper Cache would reject anyway skip Hyper Cache initially, making it return a response to the user faster.
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Tips & Warnings
To help your WordPress site run faster, crop and optimize image files or make shorter content pages with more links rather than long content pages with few links.
