Title: [Plugin: W3 Total Cache] Problem with pagination plugins? Last modified: August 19, 2016 --- # [Plugin: W3 Total Cache] Problem with pagination plugins? * [dbasulto](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dbasulto/) * (@dbasulto) * [16 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-w3-total-cache-problem-with-pagination-plugins/) * First, I have to say that this is an amazing plugin. * Second, I´d like to point out a problem I have been having today: I started to receive emails from my readers saying that the paged navigation disappeared. This pagination was created by the WP Page Navi plugin by Lesterchan, a renowned plugin developer. At first, I thought there could be a plugin problem, but the plugin was actually loaded and configured, and when checking the header of the generated pages I could see the .css file the plugin loads. So, the plugin was working and adding content to the header trough a hook. But where the wp_pagenavi function was called, before calling get_sidebar, there was nothing there… * The thing is that it only happened to the 1 site I was testing W3TC on… * So I decided to try another plugin, WP Paginate… and the same happened: css loaded( hook) but the plugin didn’t output any results at all, as it outputs the holder(
) but with no results… * But then I noticed that it was displaying on another browser instance (on which I was logged)… and then I noticed that sometimes it appeared on some category or tag views, and sometimes it didn´t. * I don´t know how to debug this. Any ideas? * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/w3-total-cache/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/w3-total-cache/) Viewing 15 replies - 1 through 15 (of 15 total) * [senator94](https://wordpress.org/support/users/senator94/) * (@senator94) * [16 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-w3-total-cache-problem-with-pagination-plugins/#post-1301231) * Same problem here…. * I had to hard code my navigation at the bottom of my template. * Temp fix until there is a cure. * [Frederick Townes](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fredericktownes/) * (@fredericktownes) * [16 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-w3-total-cache-problem-with-pagination-plugins/#post-1301256) * [@senator94](https://wordpress.org/support/users/senator94/) + [@dbasulto](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dbasulto/), go ahead and backup your settings file, deactivate and uninstall the plugin, re-download activate and restore your settings and all will be ok. Sorry for the inconvenience. * [litemotiv](https://wordpress.org/support/users/litemotiv/) * (@litemotiv) * [16 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-w3-total-cache-problem-with-pagination-plugins/#post-1301309) * frederick, we are running w3tc on a mu-install here, deactivating / removing / reinstalling doesn’t seem to work; i can’t delete the w3tc directory in wp-content since it was made by apache, is the 0.8.5. supposed to remove this for me (it doesn’t)? * [Frederick Townes](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fredericktownes/) * (@fredericktownes) * [16 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-w3-total-cache-problem-with-pagination-plugins/#post-1301350) * You cannot manually remove it or change the permissions so that you can remove it? * [litemotiv](https://wordpress.org/support/users/litemotiv/) * (@litemotiv) * [16 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-w3-total-cache-problem-with-pagination-plugins/#post-1301361) * hmm no, i guess i will have to ask the hosting provider to do this for me then.. * [Frederick Townes](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fredericktownes/) * (@fredericktownes) * [16 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-w3-total-cache-problem-with-pagination-plugins/#post-1301379) * Ok. * [webadictos](https://wordpress.org/support/users/webadictos/) * (@webadictos) * [16 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-w3-total-cache-problem-with-pagination-plugins/#post-1301393) * Hi, i got the same issue but i don’t understand the solution. Did you mean remove WP Page Nave plugin?? or W3 Total cache? * Thanks * [Frederick Townes](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fredericktownes/) * (@fredericktownes) * [16 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-w3-total-cache-problem-with-pagination-plugins/#post-1301407) * I meant to re-install W3TC, make sure you have the latest copy. * [litemotiv](https://wordpress.org/support/users/litemotiv/) * (@litemotiv) * [16 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-w3-total-cache-problem-with-pagination-plugins/#post-1301414) * so… * i asked my hosting provider to make all w3tc files 777 so i could delete them. i also deleted advanced-cache.php and db.php as w3tc requested. * i then made wp-content 777, copied over a new 0.8.5 install to /wp-content/plugins and activated w3tc. * the w3tc settings page now says: “_Page caching is not available: advanced-cache. php is not installed. Either the /var/www/web-docs/wp-content directory is not write-able or you have another caching plugin installed. This error message will automatically disappear once the change is successfully made._“ * while lower on the page it says: “_/var/www/web-docs/wp-content is write-able. If you’ve finished installing the plugin, change the permissions back _“ * w3tc was the only installed caching plugin, obviously. * what to do? * [webadictos](https://wordpress.org/support/users/webadictos/) * (@webadictos) * [16 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-w3-total-cache-problem-with-pagination-plugins/#post-1301415) * Hi, i delete all W3TC files and reinstall the plugin and still doesn’t work…. * My Pagination still doesn’t work for my cached pages. * [Frederick Townes](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fredericktownes/) * (@fredericktownes) * [16 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-w3-total-cache-problem-with-pagination-plugins/#post-1301424) * [@litemotiv](https://wordpress.org/support/users/litemotiv/), * > the w3tc settings page now says: “Page caching is not available: advanced-cache. > php is not installed. Either the /var/www/web-docs/wp-content directory is > not write-able or you have another caching plugin installed. This error message > will automatically disappear once the change is successfully made.” * Then advanced-cache.php wasn’t copied. Copy or FTP it yourself from `wp-content/ plugins/w3-tatal-cache/wp-content/advanced-cache.php` to `wp-content/advanced- cache.php` * [@webadictos](https://wordpress.org/support/users/webadictos/), * > My Pagination still doesn’t work for my cached pages. * Then try disabling database cache, empty your page cache and see if the problem persists. * [litemotiv](https://wordpress.org/support/users/litemotiv/) * (@litemotiv) * [16 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-w3-total-cache-problem-with-pagination-plugins/#post-1301426) * [@frederick](https://wordpress.org/support/users/frederick/), something is definitely not right with the writing of files/directories. i copied advanced-cache.php and db.php and caching works again now, but the w3tc directory and it’s contents are also not created, so minifying doesn’t work. * could there be a problem with determining server paths? * [Frederick Townes](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fredericktownes/) * (@fredericktownes) * [16 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-w3-total-cache-problem-with-pagination-plugins/#post-1301428) * [@litemotiv](https://wordpress.org/support/users/litemotiv/), Only if there are permission issues. Can you submit a bug submission via the support tab in the plugin so I can get basic details on your server configuration? * [litemotiv](https://wordpress.org/support/users/litemotiv/) * (@litemotiv) * [16 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-w3-total-cache-problem-with-pagination-plugins/#post-1301436) * done, thanks for looking into this frederick. * [Frederick Townes](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fredericktownes/) * (@fredericktownes) * [16 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-w3-total-cache-problem-with-pagination-plugins/#post-1301437) * No problem. Viewing 15 replies - 1 through 15 (of 15 total) The topic ‘[Plugin: W3 Total Cache] Problem with pagination plugins?’ is closed to new replies. * 15 replies * 5 participants * Last reply from: [Frederick Townes](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fredericktownes/) * Last activity: [16 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-w3-total-cache-problem-with-pagination-plugins/#post-1301437) * Status: not resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics