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Do I really need to use this plugin?

From "Staticize Reloaded". Probably not, WordPress is fast enough that caching usually only adds a few milliseconds of performance that isn't really perceptible by users. Some reasons you may want to use Staticize Reloaded:

• If your site gets Slashdotted
• If you're on a very slow server
• If you've had a complaint from your host about performance

How can I tell if it's working?

WP-Cache adds some stats to the very end of a page in the HTML, so you can view source to see the time it took to generate a page and rather it was cached or not. Remember that the cache is created on demand, so the first time you load a page it'll be generated from the database. This first time WP-Cache will add a lines with the total time needed to create the page, if the page is directly served from the cache, it adds a second line telling it was served from cache.

I see gibberish on the screen when I activate this plugin?

Make sure that you deactivated compression on the Miscellaneous options screen and that gzip encoding is turned off on the PHP level.

How do I make certain pages stay dynamic?

You can specify rules that reject request based on URI strings and also specify acceptable files for caching.

How do I make certain parts of the page stay dynamic?

It's compatible with Staticze Reloaded. From their FAQ:

There are two ways to do this, you can have functions that say dynamic or include entire other files. To have a dynamic function in the cached PHP page use this syntax around the function:

<!--mfunc function_name('parameter', 'another_parameter') -->
<?php function_name('parameter', 'another_parameter') ?>
<!--/mfunc-->

The HTML comments around the mirrored PHP allow it to be executed in the static page. To include another file try this:

<!--mclude file.php-->
<?php include_once(ABSPATH . 'file.php'); ?>
<!--/mclude-->

That will include file.php under the ABSPATH directory, which is the same as where your wp-config.php file is located.

I removed WP-Cache and now Wordpress does not work

This occurs because Wordpress still try to run advanced-cache.php. Remove the following line to you wp-config.php` file:

define('WP_CACHE', true);