Feature Request: Add regex URI's to purge when new posts are published/modified

  • Resolved Paul Thomson

    (@pthomson87)


    10 years ago

    Hello,

    I was wondering how easy it would be to add a text box in a settings page that would allow users to add custom URI’s to the purge request when new posts/pages are published?

    It would be great if there was an option to add regex/wildcard support for these URI’s too.

    To further clarify. Currently when a new post is being published, among with numerous other pages, only the front-page is purged and not ‘Page 2, Page 3’ etc. If you’re running a blog style homepage this is important as otherwise the same posts are shown on subsequent pages. You run into similar problems on other pages of your site depending on how it’s laid out.

    It would be great if a rule could be added that says:

    Manually Purged Pages (regex supported), 1 per line:
http://www.examplesite.com/page-[0-9]

    I’m not sure how easy this would be to do or even if it’s at all possible but think it would be a great feature,

    Kind Regards,
    Paul

    https://wordpress.org/plugins/varnish-http-purge/

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  • Plugin Contributor Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

    🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist

    10 years ago

    The first draft of the code did that, however it got really messy really fast, since not every iteration of Varnish supports regex. It’s not hard to put back in, but it’s a little fraught with complications.

    The more you flush when you post, the less effective the site becomes.

    https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/varnish-http-purge/trunk/varnish-http-purge.php#L179

    That’s the section where it actually does purge the categories and tags. The more you add in there, the slower the site gets because it has to iterate and rebuild all those pages.

    Also, W3TC actually handles that aspect a heck of a lot better. Right now, this plugin is meant to be as brainlessly simple as possible for the user after all.

    I’ll put it on the possibility list for the next version, but it’ll come down to cache rebuild performance.

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