Title: Question – Standalone?
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Question – Standalone?

 *  Resolved [Leosk8ter](https://wordpress.org/support/users/leosk8ter/)
 * (@leosk8ter)
 * [12 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/question-standalone/)
 * I guess I’m just a bit confused about this plugin – does it work as a standalone
   plugin that also caches, or does it work alongside a cache plugin?
 * Thanks,
    David
 * [http://wordpress.org/plugins/busted/](http://wordpress.org/plugins/busted/)

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 *  Plugin Author [pdclark](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pdclark/)
 * (@pdclark)
 * [12 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/question-standalone/#post-4346688)
 * It’s a standalone plugin that fixes caching issues in browsers, like Chrome, 
   Firefox, and Internet Explorer.
 * Caching plugins do something very different — they essentially turn PHP-generated
   pages into much faster static HTML.
 * Busted solves a problem not with PHP pages, but with Javascript and CSS. These
   files have a tendency to not get updated by local browsers at the time you change
   them. Instead, browsers will continue showing the “old” version of the site, 
   because it doesn’t know that the version on your server has been updated.
 * Busted solves that problem by adding a small flag to Javascript and CSS files
   that notes the time that they were last updated. This way, browsers notice that
   date, and if it’s newer than the version it currently has, it requests it immediately.
 * Busted is most useful in situations where you’re working with a client and updating
   a site frequently, but it can also be run on production sites if you want to 
   keep things fresh for intermittent changes.
 *  Plugin Author [pdclark](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pdclark/)
 * (@pdclark)
 * [12 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/question-standalone/#post-4346689)
 * Or, to put it another way, most caching plugins solve a server-side cache problem—
   that WordPress does not cache at all.
 * Busted solves a client-side cache problem — that browsers often don’t release
   cache at the correct time.
 *  Thread Starter [Leosk8ter](https://wordpress.org/support/users/leosk8ter/)
 * (@leosk8ter)
 * [12 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/question-standalone/#post-4346696)
 * Brilliant!
 * Thanks for the clear and detailed explanation!!

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 * Last reply from: [Leosk8ter](https://wordpress.org/support/users/leosk8ter/)
 * Last activity: [12 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/question-standalone/#post-4346696)
 * Status: resolved