W3 Total Cache
Improve site performance and user experience via caching: browser, page, object, database, minify and content delivery network support.
Download Version 0.9.2.4
0.9.2.4
- Added support for Microsoft SQL Server
- Added API support for MediaTemple ProCDN (EdgeCast)
- Added set_time_limit to self test
- Fixed LiteSpeed web server support
- Fixed native hostname 301 redirect
- Fixed redundant object origin push export
- Fixed WSOD (white screen of death) caused by minify in some hosting configurations
- Fixed text encoding in feeds
- Fixed incorrect mime-type in feeds (which caused feedburner anomalies)
- Fixed array to string notices
- Fixed expires header support for AWS
- Fixed minification of font-family
- Fixed object cache write issue in WP Admin
- Improved (reduced) memory utilization by up to 70%
- Improved disk enhanced page caching performance
- Improved object caching performance
- Improved activation reliability
- Improved reliability of minify auto mode
- Improved security (added nonces, no directory indexing, prevent direct file access)
- Improved compatibility with network based file systems
0.9.2.3
- Added additional CloudFlare IP range
- Fixed html tidy encoding
- Fixed NetDNA / MaxCDN purging
- Improved handling of markers in .htaccess files - easier upgrades
- Improved cache busting logic
- Improved numerous notifications and user interface behaviors
- Improved AWS S3 and Cloudfront reliability
- Improved reliability of minify auto mode
0.9.2.2
- Fixed minify directives, e.g.: "File param is missing," causing minify caching to fail
- Fixed document root detection for IIS server
- Fixed HTTP compression when using CloudFlare
- Fixed HTML validation with JavaScript embed tags
- Fixed fancy permalinks, sites with or without trailing slashes can now cache pages using disk enhanced
- Fixed appending WP_CACHE define into wp-config.php for some users
- Fixed path to JSON.php
- Fixed listing of buckets error with AWS S3
- Improved compatibility with WordPress SEO by Yoast, 404 error exception list sitemap value changed to: sitemap(_index|[0-9]+)?.xml(.gz)?
0.9.2.1
- Fixed existing installation upgrades: set minify to manual mode by default
- Fixed unsuccessful transfer queue button
- Fixed background in lightbox
- Fixed handling of local http requests being blocked on some hosts
- Disabled CDN for minify files when auto mode is selected and the CDN method is origin push
0.9.2
- Added support for nginx web server
- Added support for CloudFlare
- Added origin pull support for Amazon Cloudfront
- Added Microsoft Azure Storage support for CDN
- Added WinCache opcode cache support
- Added additional minifier engines for HTML, CSS and JS including: HTMLtidy, CSStidy, Closure Compiler, YUI Compressor
- Added Google Page Speed integration
- Added support for @import processing
- Added controls for page cache purging policy
- Added auto mode for minify (not compatible with CDN)
- Added support for set cookie domain setting
- Added reliability improvements for Amazon Web Services
- Added referrer group management for uniquely caching these cases
- Added Amazon S3 bucket location selection control
- Added support CNAMEs confguration support for Amazon Cloudfront
- Added purge tool
- Added support of custom wp-config.php location
- Added cache busting support
- Improved object caching performance when no plugins are active
- Improved non-blocking JS embedding implementation
- Improved reliability of CDN export operations
- Improved implementation of headers for all cache engines
- Improved minify help (recommendations) tool
- Improved handling of .htaccess directive changes
- Improved support of IIS web server
- Improved varnish support
- Fixed bugs with API changes with Rackspace Cloudfiles
- Fixed bugs with origin push content delivery network methods
- Fixed HTML encoding
- Fixed emptying cache for various cache keys
- Fixed rejected CDN file support
- Fixed HTTPS mode in WP Admin
- Fixed relative document root for disk enhanced page cache
- Fixed trailing slash for disk enhanced page cache
- Fixed minify template group settings being lost upon upgrade
- Fixed division by zero error
- Fixed object cache clones
- Moved browser cache rules to site root instead of document root
0.9.1.3
- Improved error messages with AWS S3 CDN
- Added SSL support for CDN
- Added control for CDN queue upload interval
- Added option for 404 file exceptions list in browser cache
- Added exception for NextGen Gallery flash image rotator to CDN settings
- Fixed external file imports
- Fixed document root detection for CDN
- Fixed minify file search
- Fixed bugs with AWS CloudFront distribution creation and saving
- Fixed Rackspace Cloud Files API
0.9.1.2
- Improved media library import compatibility
- Improved various notifications
- Changed expires implementation to last accessed instead of last modified
- Resolved Apache 1.3 compatibility issue
- Fixed issues with document root detection on some servers
- Fixed an issue with minification of script tags with HTML comments inside
- Fixed minify gzip compression
- Fixed cache-control headers
- Fixed empty fatal error notification on network activation
- Fixed minify when https is active
- Fixed fatal error upon activation when uploads path does not exist
0.9.1.1
- Added an additional notification to help users identify incomplete installations upon activation
- Reverted previous Cloud Files workaround
- Fixed preview mode buttons
- Fixed duplicate entries appearing when using minify help tool more than once
- Fixed browser cache rules generation for media files
0.9.1
- Improved Rackspace Cloud Files implementation
- Improved frequently asked questions implementation to support incomplete PHP distributions
- Fixed 500 Internal Server Error when upgrading with Disk enhanced mode enabled
- Fixed notification issues with preview mode
- Fixed an issue with fatal errors with minify and memcache(d) caching engine
0.9
- Added preview feature so all cache settings can be reviewed prior to deployment
- Added minify configuration wizard (help button on minify tab)
- Added "never cache the following pages" to database and object cache
- Added minify option to JavaScript embed after <body>
- Added minify error notifications
- Added drag and drop dependency resolution for minify CSS / JavaScript groups
- Added object caching
- Added option to automatically page cache prime (preload) with or without XML sitemap
- Added support for multiple CNAMEs to CDN
- Added support for minifcation of any respective theme installed a single site
- Added support for page caching of multiple themes for various user agent groups
- Added support for theme switching / redirection based on groups of user agents
- Added compatibility with WP Super Cache fragment caching method (disk basic mode only)
- Added HTTP compression and headers for AWS S3
- Added ignored comment stems field, with Google AdSense default value to HTML minify
- Added support for varnish purging
- Added Rackspace Cloud Files support
- Added native NetDNA / MaxCDN integration
- Added option to cache 404 pages
- Added changed files auto-upload to CDN
- Added option to handle 404 errors for static objects directly with the web server
- Added support for gravity forms to database cache default settings
- Added changed file auto-upload to CDN
- Database connection errors now return internal server (500) error response and are thus not cached
- Incomplete plugin installation / removal no longer generates public errors
- Unterminated string errors no longer display publicly
- Support tab improvements
- Install tab improvements
- Resolved conflicts with disk enhanced .htaccess directives insertion
- Improved compatibility with all mobile plugins
- Improved AWS reliability
- Improved browser caching support and management
- Improved directory management for disk caching methods for increased performance
- Improved handling of missing minify files
- Improved Media Library import
- Improved Multi Site support
- Improved SSL interoperability
0.8.5.2
- Added support for Bad Behavior plugin
- Added support for eAccelerator 0.9.5.3 and XCache opcode caches
- Added support for rewriting href attribute of anchors for images that use the CDN
- Added deflate http compression support to minify
- Added setting of file modification time after FTP upload
- Added check of file modification time and file size before FTP upload
- Added check of file hash before uploading to Amazon S3
- Added option to force replacement of uploaded attachments on CDN
- Added option to toggle feed minification
- Added combine only option for CSS minification to overcome invalid CSS files
- Added configuration file import / export
- Database caching now disabled by default to improve compatibility with some shared hosting environments
- Default page caching method now disk enhanced
- Improved HTTP Compression inter-operability
- Improved compatibility with Multi Site Manager
- Improved apache compatibility
- Improved .htaccess directives
- Improved header management for posts / pages
- Improved notifications
- Improved minify handling of external files
- Improved minify memory limit to avoid blank pages when document size is large
- Improved minify reliability by reducing comment removal options
- Improved Media Library Import versatility
- Improved reliability of plugin activation in WordPress MU
- Improved security handling for some operations
- Improved reliability of handling file names containing spaces in CDN functionality
- Improved non-blocking embedding reliability
- Improved memcached detection by supporting only PECL memcache
- Fixed disk enhanced method of page cache in WordPress MU
- Fixed false match of page cache files in disk enhanced method of page cache
- Fixed cron anomalies caused by caching of wp_options table
- Fixed missing trailing slash issue when using disk enhanced page caching
- Fixed auto-embed bug CSS and JS when already manually embedded
0.8.5.1
- Added option to CDN Settings to skip specified directories
- Added option to allow for full control of HTTP compression options for page cache (some WordPress installations have issues with deflate)
- Added sql_calc_found_rows to default auto reject SQL list
- Added more notification cases identified and configured
- Added new mobile user agents for Japanese market
- Page cache performance improvements for disk enhanced mode
- Improved FAQ and option descriptions
- Improved apache directives for minify headers
- Improved handling of redirects
- Improved name space to avoid issues with other plugins
- Improved handling of incomplete installations, caching runs with default options if custom settings file does not exist
- Fixed anomalies with memcached-client.php in some environments
- Fixed another interface bug with management of minify files
- Fixed minor bug with table column length for some MySQL versions
- Fixed minify bug with CRLF
- Fixed minify bug with handling of zlib compression enabled
- Fixed handling of pages with CDN Media Library import
0.8.5
- Added "enhanced" disk caching mode for page cache, a 160% performance improvement over basic mode
- Added disk caching as an option for Database Cache
- Added CDN support for Amazon S3 and CloudFront
- Added mobile user agent rejection and redirect fields to page cache for handling mobile user agents
- Added Submit Bug Report tab
- Added support for detection of custom templates for minify groups
- Added separate controls expiration time field for minify and page cache settings
- Added PHP4 Support Notification to handle fatal errors on activation
- Improved database caching by 45%
- Improved handling of cache-control HTML headers
- Improved handing of 3rd Party CSS file minification
- Improved media library import reliability
- Improved handling of
DOCUMENT_ROOT on some servers
- Improved garbage collection routine
- Improved handling of
<pre> and <textarea> minification
- Improved handling of regular expressions in custom file list in CDN settings
- Improved handling of media library attachments in RSS feeds
- Improved handing of subdomains for CDN settings
- Improved various notifications and error messages
- Improved optional .htaccess directives (located in /ini/_htaccess)
- Fixed JS minifcation saving group settings
- Fixed false positives for duplicate CSS or JS in minify settings
- Fixed bug causing settings to be lost on upgrade
- Fixed attachment URI when CDN mode enabled
- Fixed small bug with FTP upload when CDN Method is Mirror (Origin Pull)
- Fixed the URI for wlwmanfiest.xml when CDN enabled
- Fixed handling of HTTPS objects according to options
- Fixed emptying disk cache under various obscure permutations
- Fixed handling of obscure open_basedir restrictions
- Fixed various bugs with emptying cache under various obscure permutations
- Fixed installations deeper than document root
0.8
- Added disk as method for page caching
- Added support for mirror (origin pull) content delivery networks
- Added options to specify minify group policies per template
- Added options for toggling inline CSS and JS minification to improve minify reliability
- Added option to update Media Library attachment hostnames (when migrating domains etc)
- Added "Empty Cache" buttons to respective tabs
- Added additional file download fallback methods for minify
- Improved cookie handling
- Improved header handling
- Improved reliability of Media Library import
- "Don't cache pages for logged in users" is now the default page cache setting
- Fixed minify bug with RSS feeds
- Fixed minify bug with rewriting of url() URI in CSS
- Addressed more page cache invalidity cases
- Addressed rare occurrence of PHP fatal errors when saving post or comments
- Addressed CSS bug on wp-login.php
- Addressed rare MySQL error when uploading attachments to Media Library
- Modified plugin file/directory structure
- Confirmed compatibility with varnish and squid
0.7.5.2
- Added warning dialog to minify tab about removal of query strings locally hosted object URIs
- Added empty (memcached) cache button to each tab
- Improved reliability of memcache flush
- Minified files now (optionally) upload automatically according to update interval (expiry time)
- Changed directory of minify working files to wp-content/w3tc-cache/
- Fixed parsing memcached server strings
- Fixed minify sometimes not creating files as it should
- Addressed WordPress network activation/deactivation issues
- Provided memcache.ini directives updated to improve network throughput
0.7.5.1
- Added memcached test button for convenience
- Added option to concatenate any script to header or footer with non-blocking options for scripts that cannot be minified (e.g. obfuscated scripts)
- Added options to concatenate JS files only in header or footer (for use with obfuscated scripts)
- Improved notification handling
- Improved compatibility with suPHP
- Improved reliability of Media Library Export
- Fixed database cache that caused comment counts to become out of date
- Fixed minor issue with URI with CDN functionality enabled
- Removed unnecessary minify options
- Minification error dialogs now disabled when JS or CSS minify settings disabled
- Normalized line endings with /n as per minify author's direction
- Resolved bug in the minify library preventing proper permission notification messages
0.7.5
- Added handling for magic_quotes set to on
- Fixed issue with auto-download/upgrade and additional error checking
- Fixed bug preventing minify working properly if either CSS or JS minification was disabled
- Improved handling of inline comments and JavaScript in HTML documents
- Improved handing of @import CSS embedding
- Addressed privilege control issue
- Resolved warnings thrown in various versions of WordPress
- Memcached engine logic modified to better support clustering and multiple memcached instances
- Eliminated false negatives in a number of gzip / deflate compression analysis tools
- Total plugin file size reduced
0.7
- Added minify support for URIs starting with /
- WordPress network mode support bug fixes
- Minor CDN uploader fixes
- Minor error message improvements
0.6
- Added "Debug Mode" listing all settings and queries with statistics
- Improved error message notifications
- Improved cache stability for large objects
- FAQ and installation instructions corrections/adjustments
- Support for multiple wordpress installations added
- Resolved bug in minification of feeds
0.5
Requires: 2.8 or higher
Compatible up to: 3.2.1
Last Updated: 2011-8-26
Downloads: 971,020
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