Next Page Caching vs Transient Cleaner

Your website visitors usually jump from page to page, or read your blog posts one after the other. Current caching plugins perform caching on the current page you are on. This plugin caches the next page your visitor will go to. This means your visitors can navigate your website faster. How Does This Work? Next Page Caching implements awesome “next page” caching to your site – this is different from your typical caching plugins like WP Rocket and W3 Total Cache. Instead of only trying to serve the current page faster to your visitors, this plugin lets your browser load parts of the next page while the visitor is busy reading the current page he/she is on. It does this with your help. We ask you two things in every post/page: First is what you think the next webpage your visitor will most likely go to afterwards, and second is a short list of critical files that you think should be loaded first in your page to make the top part of the page become visible quickly. With those two items, the plugin can now preload the important parts of the next page he’ll go to. The plugin also prioritizes the loading of the chosen critical files to ensure that the next page is visible as soon as possible. For example, if you find that a majority of your visitors in your front page check out the pricing page, then pick your pricing page as the “next page”. The visitors who navigate from your front page to your pricing page should see some speed benefits. This is not meant to replace your current caching plugin, but instead, this is meant to be used alongside it. What Caching Does This Do? The plugin prefetches the main HTML of the chosen next page, as well as the critical files specified. Prefetches the first post when viewing a blog list or archive page. Preloads the post’s chosen critical files to prioritize them. Preloads the theme stylesheet so that it gets loaded first. Preloads the featured image of a blog post or page when needed (and if it’s large) so that it shows up faster. Preconnects to the Google Fonts domain for faster font downloading when needed. Important Notice Do not replace your current caching plugin with this one, use this one together with your existing one. This plugin does not predict / analyze where your visitors will go next This plugin only has benefits in Modern Browsers

Clean expired transients from your options table. The original and best! Transient housekeeping was added to the core of WordPress after version 5.8. However, I have decided to open up this plugin to all versions to allow for manual transient cleaning. Longer term I am working on a new version of the plugin, designed specifically for all WordPress releases. Tested up to PHP 8.2 Fully complies with WordPress coding standards Compliant with the stronger WordPress VIP coding standards, as well as compatibility with their platform Community plugin – visit the Github page to get involved with the latest code development, request enhancements and report issues “Transients are a simple and standardized way of storing cached data in the WordPress database temporarily by giving it a custom name and a timeframe after which it will expire and be deleted.” Unfortunately, expired transients only get deleted when you attempt to access them. If you don’t access the transient then, even though it’s expired, WordPress will not remove it. This is a known “issue” but due to reasons, which are explained in the FAQ, this has not been adequately resolved. Why is this a problem? Transients are often used by plugins to “cache” data (my own plugins included). Because of this it means that expired data can be left and build up, resulting in a bloated database table. Meantime, this plugin is the hero that you’ve been waiting for. Simply activate the plugin, sit back and enjoy a much cleaner, smaller options table. It also adds the additional recommendation that after a database upgrade all transients will be cleared down. The Settings Screen Within Administration -> Tools -> Transients an options screen exists allowing you to tweak when you’d like cleaning to happen, including the ability to perform an ad-hoc run, and when you’d like the to be automatically scheduled. You can even request an optimization of the options table to give your system a real “pep”! Running in Lite mode A “lite” mode is available. By activating this the options screen will no longer appear and default settings will be used. The advantage? Improved performance to Admin and, especially if you’re running multi-site, no chance of anybody “tinkering” with the settings. To activate, use the following… define( 'TC_LITE', true ); This should be added to your wp-config.php file. Using hooks If you’re the type of odd person who likes to code for WordPress (really?) then I’ve added a couple of hooks so you can call our rather neat cleaning functions… housekeep_transients – this will clear down any expired transients clear_all_transients – this will remove any and all transients, expired or otherwise Acknowledgements I’d like to thank WordPress Developer Andrew Nacin for his early discussion on this. Also, I’d like to acknowledge the useful article at Everybody Staze for ensuring the proposed solution made sense, and W-Shadow.com for the cleaning code. Iconography is courtesy of the very talented Janki Rathod.