Naibabiji Cache Purger for EdgeOne vs WP Super Cache

A powerful WordPress plugin that automatically purges Tencent Cloud EdgeOne cache when your posts, pages, or custom post types are published, updated, or deleted. External services This plugin connects to the Tencent Cloud EdgeOne API (https://teo.tencentcloudapi.com) to provide cache purging and prefetching functionality. It sends the Following information to Tencent Cloud when a purge or prefetch operation is triggered (e.g., when a post is updated, or when manual purge is used): * Tencent Cloud API Credentials (SecretId): Used for request authentication and signing. * EdgeOne Zone ID: Used to identify the specific site/zone in EdgeOne. * Target URLs or Paths: The specific resources that need to be cleared or prefetched from the CDN nodes. This service is provided by “Tencent Cloud”: Terms of Service, Privacy Policy. Features Automatic Cache Purge Automatically purges cache when posts are published, updated, or deleted Supports all public post types (posts, pages, and custom post types) Smart purge: automatically refreshes post pages, homepage, category archives, tag archives, author archives, and date archives Comment Integration Automatically purges related post cache when new comments are approved Manual Purge Support for manual purge of specific posts or entire site Quick purge buttons in admin panel for recent posts Flexible Configuration Choose purge method: delete cache (delete) or mark as expired (invalidate) Optional logging of purge operations Secure key configuration via wp-config.php constants Cache Plugin Integration Automatically purges EdgeOne cache when popular WordPress cache plugins clear their cache Supports WP Super Cache, W3 Total Cache, WP Rocket, and LiteSpeed Cache Force mode ensures cache plugin integrations work even when auto purge is disabled Proper timing control ensures compatibility with all cache plugin loading sequences Cache Prefetching Optional cache prefetching after purging (disabled by default) Only prefetches post URLs, not archive pages to conserve EdgeOne prefetch quota Ensures first visitor gets cached content immediately Prefetch results are displayed in the purge logs for easy monitoring Enhanced Logging Detailed logging of all purge operations with success/failure status Manual log clearing functionality for easier debugging Prefetch operation results displayed alongside purge results Job IDs and error messages for easy troubleshooting Advanced Manual Purge Optimized host-specific “Purge All” using the purge_host method Manual purge operations are not affected by auto purge settings Force mode support for cache plugin integrations Comprehensive URL coverage for post-related purges Custom URL Purge Purge cache for specific URLs (CSS, JS, images, etc.) Support for directory prefix purge using trailing slash (/) Batch processing: enter multiple URLs, one per line Automatic URL validation and filtering Smart type detection: files use purge_url, directories use purge_prefix Nginx Cache Integration Optionally clear Nginx server-side page cache (FastCGI cache or Proxy cache) alongside EdgeOne CDN cache Configured separately — most sites using only WordPress cache plugins do not need this Nginx cache and EdgeOne cache are cleared independently; either can succeed even if the other fails Includes path validation with real-time feedback in the settings page Uses ngx_cache_purge module for precise URL-based cache clearing (faster and more efficient) Added “Purge Endpoint Path” option for customizable Nginx purge URL path (e.g., use a random string like /xK9mPurge_q7z for better security) Uses HTTPS requests to your site’s own domain for purge, avoiding HTTP-to-HTTPS redirect issues Friendly error messages in purge logs: clearly explains why a URL wasn’t cached (e.g., “Not cached — the page was returned instead of a purge response”) instead of showing raw HTML Fallback to file deletion for full-site purge operations Detailed per-URL purge logging for Nginx cache operations No SDK Required Direct API calls, no need to install Tencent Cloud SDK Compatible with all WordPress versions 5.5+ Configuration Get Tencent Cloud API Keys Visit Tencent Cloud Console Create or get your SecretId and SecretKey Get EdgeOne Zone ID Visit EdgeOne Console Select your site and find the Zone ID (format: zone-xxxxxx) Configure Plugin There are two configuration methods: Method 1: Using wp-config.php (Recommended) Add these constants to your WordPress wp-config.php file: define( 'NB_CACHE_PURGER_SECRET_ID', 'your-secret-id' ); define( 'NB_CACHE_PURGER_SECRET_KEY', 'your-secret-key' ); Then in WordPress admin: 1. Go to “Settings” → “Naibabiji Cache Purger” 2. Fill in the Zone ID (Secret ID and Secret Key will be automatically loaded from constants) 3. Choose other options and save Method 2: Direct Configuration in Admin Log in to WordPress admin Go to “Settings” → “Naibabiji Cache Purger” Fill in the following information: Secret ID: Tencent Cloud API Secret ID Secret Key: Tencent Cloud API Secret Key Zone ID: EdgeOne Zone ID Choose other options: Enable Auto Purge: Whether to automatically purge cache when posts are updated Purge Method: delete: Directly delete node cache invalidate: Mark as expired, revalidate from origin Enable Logging: Whether to log purge operations Nginx Cache Integration (Optional) Only needed if your server uses Nginx FastCGI cache or Proxy cache (configured via fastcgi_cache_path or proxy_cache_path in nginx.conf). Most sites using WordPress cache plugins do not need this. In “Settings” → “Naibabiji Cache Purger” → scroll to the Nginx Cache Integration section at the bottom Check Enable Nginx Cache Purge Set a Purge Endpoint Path — we recommend using a random string (e.g., /xK9mPurge_q7z) for security, so you can use allow all; in Nginx without exposing the endpoint to attackers Enter the absolute filesystem path to your Nginx cache zone directory (e.g. /var/run/nginx-cache) — this is only used as fallback when purging the entire site The web server process (e.g. www-data) must have write permission to this directory The settings page will validate the path and show whether it is writable Save settings — Nginx cache will now be cleared automatically every time EdgeOne cache is purged Nginx Purge Configuration To use the ngx_cache_purge module integration, you need to configure your Nginx server block with the appropriate purge rules. Replace /xK9mPurge_q7z with your custom purge path: nginx location ~ /xK9mPurge_q7z(/.*) { allow all; deny none; fastcgi_cache_purge YOUR_CACHE_ZONE "https$request_method$host$1"; # Or for proxy cache: # proxy_cache_purge YOUR_CACHE_ZONE "https$request_method$host$1"; } Replace YOUR_CACHE_ZONE with the name of your Nginx cache zone (e.g., wordpress). Important notes: * The fastcgi_cache_purge key ("https$request_method$host$1") must match your fastcgi_cache_key directive exactly, including the https prefix * If you are using BT Panel (宝塔) with an HTTP-to-HTTPS redirect rule, the plugin sends HTTPS requests to your own domain, so no additional exclusion rules are needed * For detailed configuration instructions, see the configuration tutorial

This plugin generates static html files from your dynamic WordPress blog. After a html file is generated your webserver will serve that file instead of processing the comparatively heavier and more expensive WordPress PHP scripts. The static html files will be served to the vast majority of your users: Users who are not logged in. Users who have not left a comment on your blog. Or users who have not viewed a password protected post. 99% of your visitors will be served static html files. One cached file can be served thousands of times. Other visitors will be served custom cached files tailored to their visit. If they are logged in, or have left comments those details will be displayed and cached for them. The plugin serves cached files in 3 ways (ranked by speed): Expert. The fastest method is by using Apache mod_rewrite (or whatever similar module your web server supports) to serve “supercached” static html files. This completely bypasses PHP and is extremely quick. If your server is hit by a deluge of traffic it is more likely to cope as the requests are “lighter”. This does require the Apache mod_rewrite module (which is probably installed if you have custom permalinks) and a modification of your .htaccess file which is risky and may take down your site if modified incorrectly. Simple. Supercached static files can be served by PHP and this is the recommended way of using the plugin. The plugin will serve a “supercached” file if it exists and it’s almost as fast as the mod_rewrite method. It’s easier to configure as the .htaccess file doesn’t need to be changed. You still need a custom permalink. You can keep portions of your page dynamic in this caching mode. WP-Cache caching. This is mainly used to cache pages for known users, URLs with parameters and feeds. Known users are logged in users, visitors who leave comments or those who should be shown custom per-user data. It’s the most flexible caching method and slightly slower. WP-Cache caching will also cache visits by unknown users if supercaching is disabled. You can have dynamic parts to your page in this mode too. This mode is always enabled but you can disable caching for known users, URLs with parameters, or feeds separately. Set the constant “DISABLE_SUPERCACHE” to 1 in your wp-config.php if you want to only use WP-Cache caching. If you’re not comfortable with editing PHP files then use simple mode. It’s easy to set up and very fast. Recommended Settings Simple caching. Compress pages. Don’t cache pages for known users. Cache rebuild. CDN support. Extra homepage checks. Garbage collection is the act of cleaning up cache files that are out of date and stale. There’s no correct value for the expiry time but a good starting point is 1800 seconds. Consider deleting the contents of the “Rejected User Agents” text box and allow search engines to cache files for you. Preload as many posts as you can and enable “Preload Mode”. Garbage collection of old cached files will be disabled. If you don’t care about sidebar widgets updating often set the preload interval to 2880 minutes (2 days) so all your posts aren’t recached very often. When the preload occurs the cache files for the post being refreshed is deleted and then regenerated. Afterwards a garbage collection of all old files is performed to clean out stale cache files. Even with preload mode enabled cached files will still be deleted when posts are modified or comments made. Development Active development of this plugin is handled on GitHub. Translation of the plugin into different languages is on the translation page. Documentation If you need more information than the following, you can have a look at the wiki or the Developer documentation. Preloading You can generate cached files for the posts, categories and tags of your site by preloading. Preloading will visit each page of your site generating a cached page as it goes along, just like any other visitor to the site. Due to the sequential nature of this function, it can take some time to preload a complete site if there are many posts. To make preloading more effective it can be useful to disable garbage collection so that older cache files are not deleted. This is done by enabling “Preload Mode” in the settings. Be aware however, that pages will go out of date eventually but that updates by submitting comments or editing posts will clear portions of the cache. Garbage Collection Your cache directory fills up over time, which takes up space on your server. If space is limited or billed by capacity, or if you worry that the cached pages of your site will go stale then garbage collection has to be done. Garbage collection happens on a regular basis and deletes old files in the cache directory. On the advanced settings page you can specify: 1. Cache timeout. How long cache files are considered fresh for. After this time they are stale and can be deleted. 2. Scheduler. Setup how often garbage collection should be done. 3. Notification emails. You can be informed on garbage collection job progress. There’s no right or wrong settings for garbage collection. It depends on your own site. If your site gets regular updates, or comments then set the timeout to 1800 seconds, and set the timer to 600 seconds. If your site is mostly static you can disable garbage collection by entering 0 as the timeout, or use a really large timeout value. The cache directory, usually wp-content/cache/ is only for temporary files. Do not ever put important files or symlinks to important files or directories in that directory. They will be deleted if the plugin has write access to them. CDN A Content Delivery Network (CDN) is usually a network of computers situated around the world that will serve the content of your website faster by using servers close to you. Static files like images, Javascript and CSS files can be served through these networks to speed up how fast your site loads. You can also create a “poor man’s CDN” by using a sub domain of your domain to serve static files too. OSSDL CDN off-linker has been integrated into WP Super Cache to provide basic CDN support. It works by rewriting the URLs of files (excluding .php files) in wp-content and wp-includes on your server so they point at a different hostname. Many CDNs support origin pull. This means the CDN will download the file automatically from your server when it’s first requested, and will continue to serve it for a configurable length of time before downloading it again from your server. Configure this on the “CDN” tab of the plugin settings page. This is an advanced technique and requires a basic understanding of how your webserver or CDNs work. Please be sure to clear the file cache after you configure the CDN. REST API There are now REST API endpoints for accessing the settings of this plugin. You’ll need to be authenticated as an admin user with permission to view the settings page to use it. This has not been documented yet but you can find all the code that deals with this in the “rest” directory. Custom Caching It is now possible to hook into the caching process using the add_cacheaction() function. Three hooks are available: ‘wp_cache_get_cookies_values’ – modify the key used by WP Cache. ‘add_cacheaction’ – runs in phase2. Allows a plugin to add WordPress hooks. ‘cache_admin_page’ – runs in the admin page. Use it to modify that page, perhaps by adding new configuration options. There is one regular WordPress filter too. Use the “do_createsupercache” filter to customize the checks made before caching. The filter accepts one parameter. The output of WP-Cache’s wp_cache_get_cookies_values() function. WP Super Cache has its own plugin system, loaded before most of WordPress. Add your own plugin either by putting it in the wp-content/plugins/wp-super-cache-plugins directory, or by calling wpsc_add_plugin( $name ) with the full path to the plugin. The cookies used to identify “known users” can be modified with wpsc_add_cookie( $name ) and wpsc_delete_cookie( $name ). See plugins/searchengine.php as an example. Troubleshooting If things don’t work when you installed the plugin here are a few things to check: Is wp-content writable by the web server? Is there a wp-content/wp-cache-config.php ? If not, copy the file wp-super-cache/wp-cache-config-sample.php to wp-content/wp-cache-config.php and make sure WPCACHEHOME points at the right place. Is there a wp-content/advanced-cache.php ? If not, then you must copy wp-super-cache/advanced-cache.php into wp-content/. You must edit the file and change the path so it points at the wp-super-cache folder. If pages are not cached at all, remove wp-content/advanced-cache.php and recreate it, following the advice above. Make sure the following line is in wp-config.php and it is ABOVE the “require_once(ABSPATH.’wp-settings.php’);” line: define( 'WP_CACHE', true ); Try the Settings->WP Super Cache page again and enable cache. Look in wp-content/cache/supercache/. Are there directories and files there? Anything in your php error_log? If your browser keeps asking you to save the file after the super cache is installed you must disable Super Cache compression. Go to the Settings->WP Super Cache page and disable it there. File locking errors such as “failed to acquire key 0x152b: Permission denied in…” or “Page not cached by WP Super Cache. Could not get mutex lock.” are a sign that you may have to use file locking. Edit wp-content/wp-cache-config.php and uncomment “$use_flock = true” or set $sem_id to a different value. You can also disable file locking from the Admin screen as a last resort. Make sure cache/wp_cache_mutex.lock is writable by the web server if using coarse file locking. The cache folder cannot be put on an NFS or Samba or NAS share. It has to be on a local disk. File locking and deleting expired files will not work properly unless the cache folder is on the local machine. Garbage collection of old cache files won’t work if WordPress can’t find wp-cron.php. Check your access_logs for wp-cron.php entries and that your hostname resolves to the external IP address other servers on the network/Internet use. If old pages are being served to your visitors via the supercache, you may be missing Apache modules (or their equivalents if you don’t use Apache). 3 modules are required: mod_mime, mod_headers and mod_expires. The last two are especially important for making sure browsers load new versions of existing pages on your site. The error message, “WP Super Cache is installed but broken. The path to wp-cache-phase1.php in wp-content/advanced-cache.php must be fixed!” appears at the end of every page. Open the file wp-content/advanced-cache.php in your favourite editor. Is the path to wp-cache-phase1.php correct? This file will normally be in wp-content/plugins/wp-super-cache/. If it is not correct the caching engine will not load. Caching doesn’t work. The timestamp on my blog keeps changing when I reload. Check that the path in your .htaccess rules matches where the supercache directory is. You may have to hardcode it. Try disabling supercache mode. If supercache cache files are generated but not served, check the permissions on all your wp-content/cache/supercache folders (and each of wp-content cache and supercache folders) and wp-content/cache/.htaccess. If your PHP runs as a different user to Apache and permissions are strict Apache may not be able to read the PHP generated cache files. To fix you must add the following line to your wp-config.php (Add it above the WP_CACHE define.) Then clear your cache. umask( 0022 ); If you see garbage in your browser after enabling compression in the plugin, compression may already be enabled in your web server. In Apache you must disable mod_deflate, or in PHP zlib compression may be enabled. You can disable that in three ways. If you have root access, edit your php.ini and find the zlib.output_compression setting and make sure it’s “Off” or add this line to your .htaccess: php_flag zlib.output_compression off If that doesn’t work, add this line to your wp-config.php: ini_set('zlib.output_compression', 0); After uninstalling, your permalinks may break if you remove the WordPress mod_rewrite rules too. Regenerate those rules by visiting the Settings->Permalink page and saving that form again. If your blog refuses to load make sure your wp-config.php is correct. Are you missing an opening or closing PHP tag? Your front page is ok but posts and pages give a 404? Go to Settings->permalinks and click “Save” once you’ve selected a custom permalink structure. You may need to manually update your .htaccess file. If certain characters do not appear correctly on your website your server may not be configured correctly. You need to tell visitors what character set is used. Go to Settings->Reading and copy the ‘Encoding for pages and feeds’ value. Edit the .htaccess file with all your Supercache and WordPress rewrite rules and add this at the top, replacing CHARSET with the copied value. (for example, ‘UTF-8’) AddDefaultCharset CHARSET The error message, “WP Super Cache is installed but broken. The constant WPCACHEHOME must be set in the file wp-config.php and point at the WP Super Cache plugin directory.” appears at the end of every page. You can delete wp-content/advanced-cache.php and reload the plugin settings page or edit wp-config.php and look for WPCACHEHOME and make sure it points at the wp-super-cache folder. This will normally be wp-content/plugins/wp-super-cache/ but you’ll likely need the full path to that file (so it’s easier to let the settings page fix it). If it is not correct the caching engine will not load. If your server is running into trouble because of the number of semaphores used by the plugin it’s because your users are using file locking which is not recommended (but is needed by a small number of users). You can globally disable file locking by defining the constant WPSC_DISABLE_LOCKING, or defining the constant WPSC_REMOVE_SEMAPHORE so that sem_remove() is called after every page is cached but that seems to cause problems for other processes requesting the same semaphore. Best to disable it. Set the variable $htaccess_path in wp-config.php or wp-cache-config.php to the path of your global .htaccess if the plugin is looking for that file in the wrong directory. This might happen if you have WordPress installed in an unusual way.