Title: Cache Pages Users Link To?
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Cache Pages Users Link To?

 *  Resolved [questions4wp](https://wordpress.org/support/users/questions4wordpress/)
 * (@questions4wordpress)
 * [13 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cache-pages-users-link-to/)
 * This is kind of a weird request of the forum because of the technical issues 
   involved, but it occurred to me that when hunting down answers to various WordPress
   questions, one is likely to stumble upon this forum. Generally when people post
   questions that are specific to their site, they provide a link. However, if the
   question is about an issue or error message or something, the goal of the forum
   is to help to correct that issue or error. Thus, after a few days, hopefully 
   the problem is solved.
 * The problem with this is that someone searching for a similar issue, let’s say
   a similar error message, would not be able to find the post, unless the user 
   copied and pasted as well as provided a link. Another example of this problem
   is if someone said “My navigation bar is all messed up, see it here: -link-“.
   If the forum is successful, that link will be worthless shortly, as the answers
   on the forum should help the user correct the navigation bar problem. There’d
   be no reason for anyone who stumbled upon the post to click on that link.
 * Is it in any way feasible, or even possible, to make some kind of cache on the
   wordpress.org side of the pages that forum users link to? A before/after would
   be extremely helpful in trying to determine if a user’s problem is similar to
   mine. It would be a static cache and thus not PHP, but I think it’d still be 
   useful. Thoughts?

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 *  Moderator [Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/)
 * (@ipstenu)
 * 🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist
 * [13 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cache-pages-users-link-to/#post-2820818)
 * Huh. That’s an interesting thought.
 * I think the problem is that the phrasing of the question would always be really
   subjective, and not as worthwhile as we’d think.
 * “My navigation bar is all messed up, see it here: -link-” is, let’s admit it,
   a pretty common sort of problem, and a pretty terrible way to describe it 😉 
   If I was googling and saw that, I’d never know what they were on about. Basically
   I don’t think the folks we’d get from the search would be as valuable to justify
   the effort right now.
 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [13 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cache-pages-users-link-to/#post-2820819)
 * Cache external pages? On forums that average 2 or 3 _new_ users per minute? That
   hardly seems feasible. And what would be the use – given that (despite what people
   think) the root causes of issues with similar symptoms could be very different?
 * I really don’t see the benefit for all that effort.
 * Plus some posters get really upset when they find out that, no, we will not remove
   their site’s link from their posts after their problem has been solved. Can you
   imagine what they’d do if we started caching pages from their sites? If that 
   ever happens, I’ll be taking a _very_ long holiday. 😉
 *  Moderator [Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/)
 * (@ipstenu)
 * 🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist
 * [13 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cache-pages-users-link-to/#post-2820824)
 * I’d drink more. Oy, hadn’t gotten that far in my thinking yet. Ouch.
 *  Thread Starter [questions4wp](https://wordpress.org/support/users/questions4wordpress/)
 * (@questions4wordpress)
 * [13 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cache-pages-users-link-to/#post-2820917)
 * Heh didn’t think about that part, great point!

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 * Last activity: [13 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cache-pages-users-link-to/#post-2820917)
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