Title: Don't cache page UNLESS..
Last modified: August 24, 2016

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# Don't cache page UNLESS..

 *  [AustinTBiggs](https://wordpress.org/support/users/austintbiggs/)
 * (@austintbiggs)
 * [11 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/dont-cache-page-unless/)
 * I have pages that aren’t completely loading (missing sidebar and footer), I’m
   trying to find a way to only create a cached version if the page completely loads.
   I’m just not sure what the best approach is; a few ideas..
 * – Disable page cache unless something in the footer is triggered?
    – Cache page,
   but remove if page doesn’t completely load? – Create a script that removes pages
   from the cache if they don’t have a footer? – Use JS to check the page once it
   finishes loading and see if there is a footer or a specific tag. If not use Ajax
   to call:
 * `Purge a single post / page by passing it's ID: if (function_exists('w3tc_pgcache_flush_post')){
   w3tc_pgcache_flush_post($post_id); }`
 * Any help would be appreciated!
    Thanks!
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/w3-total-cache/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/w3-total-cache/)

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 *  Thread Starter [AustinTBiggs](https://wordpress.org/support/users/austintbiggs/)
 * (@austintbiggs)
 * [11 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/dont-cache-page-unless/#post-6012138)
 * I was able to solve my problem with a little bit of jquery. In case any needs
   this in the future, here’s the JS I put in the head of my pages.
 *     ```
       <script>
       	jQuery(window).load(function(){
       		if ( jQuery( 'footer' ).length ) {
   
       		} else {
       			$.get( '<?php echo 'http://'.$_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'].$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']; ?>?w3tc_note=pgcache_purge_page' );
       		}
       	});
       </script>
       ```
   
 * I’m checking to see if ‘footer’ exists, if not it will purge the page from the
   cache to ensure that the next time the page is viewed a newly cached version 
   is available.

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 * [cache](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/cache/)
 * [exclude](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/exclude/)
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 * Last reply from: [AustinTBiggs](https://wordpress.org/support/users/austintbiggs/)
 * Last activity: [11 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/dont-cache-page-unless/#post-6012138)
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