Title: Ignore url string – cache base url
Last modified: October 27, 2021

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# Ignore url string – cache base url

 *  Resolved [joejamin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/joejamin/)
 * (@joejamin)
 * [4 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/ignore-url-string-cache-base-url/)
 * I’m wanting to cache the base URL (www.example.com/page/) and serve that to people
   who visit (www.example.com/page/?s=1) as well. Is this possible? Don’t see how
   that’s achieved with the exclusions setting. Any ideas? Thanks!

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 *  Plugin Support [Patrick – WPMU DEV Support](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpmudevsupport12/)
 * (@wpmudevsupport12)
 * [4 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/ignore-url-string-cache-base-url/#post-15016342)
 * Hi [@joejamin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/joejamin/)
 * I hope you are doing well
 * Hummingbird will ignore the Query String by default, so any string will not be
   cached, if you would like to cache it in the future you can enable the Caching
   > “Cache URL queries”
 * More information on:
 * [https://wpmudev.com/docs/wpmu-dev-plugins/hummingbird/#caching](https://wpmudev.com/docs/wpmu-dev-plugins/hummingbird/#caching)
 * Best Regards
    Patrick Freitas
 *  Thread Starter [joejamin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/joejamin/)
 * (@joejamin)
 * [4 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/ignore-url-string-cache-base-url/#post-15016363)
 * Hi Patrick – What I’m trying to achieve is to actually ignore the string and 
   serve the base URL. Does that make sense? They visit “/page/?s=1” and they get
   the cached page for “/page/” rather than needing the URL with the unique parameter
   cached individually each time.
 * Thank you!
 *  Plugin Support [Imran – WPMU DEV Support](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpmudev-support9/)
 * (@wpmudev-support9)
 * [4 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/ignore-url-string-cache-base-url/#post-15019637)
 * Hello [@joejamin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/joejamin/) !
 * Hope you’re having a good day!
 * This is unfortunately not possible due to the fact that those URLs are actually
   different ones when it comes to how HTTP requests are handled. I don’t think 
   there’s any caching plugin that would support this scenario because of this.
 * As Patrick mentioned, URLs with query parameters aren’t cached by default because
   they are considered to have dynamic content which is accessed using the query
   parameter. Hummingbird does support caching those as well, but still /page/ and/
   page/?s=1 are two different URLs.
 * I don’t think that it would be possible to workaround that by defining redirects
   on the server’s side as well.
 * The only possibility in this case that comes to my mind is to use anchors instead
   as /page/ and /page/#s1 will in fact be the same thing (anchors are browser-side),
   but you can still read the anchor and have dynamic content by using JS code and
   Ajax requests.
 * Kind regards,
    Pawel
 *  Thread Starter [joejamin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/joejamin/)
 * (@joejamin)
 * [4 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/ignore-url-string-cache-base-url/#post-15021723)
 * Thanks for the replies! With Cloudflare APO for example it ignores utm parameters
   in the url and caches base url. Also Nginx server level caching often does this
   as well I’ve seen. Will have to try another solution. Appreciate the help 🙂

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